Looking back over the development process it sometimes becomes difficult to gauge success. We're so engrossed in making things happen, we forget to take stock of what we actually created. The sheer amount of work, and the speed at which things happen, doesn't leave for much time to pat ourselves on the back. The success we experienced was part of a combined effort to create sites that reached our goals, both marketing and technical.
Success is also a relative term that comes to mean different things to different people.
All philosophy aside, for this piece we'll look at some concrete, measurable results. Make the sites fun and entertaining Quirky rollovers, movie style transitions, and free stuff is what we offered visitors. Depends on who you ask. We received lots of e-mail on elements like these unique rollovers and Colony Wars outside frame antics. Many developers also emailed us asking us how we did them.