Footloose and fancy free!  Pardon my Muppets.

Even though nobody can see this at the moment, I finished adding the first two pages of update archives to this blog.  No more editing three pages when I want to shunt something off the main news page!  WooT!

I’ll soon be hosting RejectReality, in exchange for the artwork that’s going onto the site to replace all the pics of my Babydoll.

Damn, but it’s hard to remember not to frikkin’ double space when writing in this blog.  I guess that if that’s the only pain in the ass, I’m doing pretty good.

Now that I feel like I’ve accomplished something, I just might be able to write again.  The sudden decision to take the pages down has been a bit nerve-wracking ( even though it’s been in the works for a while, and in my head for far longer than that )

Once I have a few critical pages finished (Author, Story Links, LST3K Info Site, Etc.) I’ll actually restore the site to functionality.   Once I have the archives of my news inserted into this blog, it will go live.  Not sure how anyone subscribing and setting the feeds would receive the old posts going in, so I don’t want to cause confusion with that.

I’m going to look into some other PHP solutions for updating certain pages such as Character Listings, Story Links, etc.  If I can find something close, I can use the experience from coding the Battle Mod for IPboards to modify it to suit my needs.

Yes, if you’ve seen my name on the Battle Mod pages of Invision boards, same critter here.  Kinda nice to see my name up in lights in so many places on the Internet.  Fear the DarkniciadBot!

If I can get a PHP solution going for that, it will increase the website updates dramatically without costing me writing/me time.

Enough babbling for now.  I have some emails to answer, and then it’s off to bed with me.

It will certainly be easier to update news with this method.  I’m still playing around with how well this will display my informational pages.  Seems like it will be workable, and it should be easier to get around.

Not sure yet, but I may need to reinstall WordPress in its own directory, eventually.  I need an index page for the warnings about the adult nature of the website — and perhaps a fork in the road to link to a simple archive of my old FAQs and midi files for which my pen name as Darkniciad is better known.

Just have to see how things go as I tweak and play around with this.  Odds are that it will be a long time before the full content of the orignal site is restored.  I might go through and do some quick, dirty edits of the old pages to remove my babydoll’s pictures (reason in previous post) and put that up in the meantime so the information is there.

One thing I hope to accomplish with this is an easy way to dramatically increase the amount of character information.  If I can point-n-click to create new entries and add pics, I might just be able to realize my goal of putting a lot of the characters on here, with links to stories where they appear, pics, etc.

I’ll play around with a few of the information pages to see how they look, and then make the determination about what I need to do with structuring the site/reinstalling wordpress.

One thing is certain, all three websites and subsites ( Danica’s World, Les Lumens, LST3K, Laresa’s World ) will be accessed from one link — darkniciad.com.  I should be able to categorize everything in the top links to have a single home page.

This might just provide a constructive distraction on those days when I’m not in a writing mood, too.  At least I’ll still be doing something with my writing then, and won’t get into the vicious circle of feeling bad because I’m not producing anything.

I’m having a few down days, though thankfully I do feel like writing.  I may actually do that after I finish this post.  I missed the deadline at Lit to put “Barren Harvest” into the Halloween Contest, but it will still probably go up soon.  Then, I’ll get back to “Lowborn” and trying to gear up for SOTM.

Part of the problem with keeping the website updated was that I simply didn’t have time to edit HTML any longer if I wanted to write.  I’m going to experiment with this and see if it might serve my needs.

I also thought that it was time to remove my babydoll’s pics from the site, because there are kids getting to an internet age that probably would be shocked to see them.

Here’s hoping this works out.  If not, I’ll just ditch it and work on the HTML the hard way again *laugh*

My stories as Darkniciad can be found here on Literotica and Storiesonline

As LesLumens, here’s the link to Literotica and Storiesonline

When I read the third chapter of Merchant Princess again, I decided it wasn’t moving along fast enough.  The result was cutting a series of scenes that I’ve now decided to post on my Cut Scenes page.  This is what happens when I have too little sleep – the story starts meandering.  There’s some good stuff in here, but it was just going too slowly with these scenes included.  Blink on to the “Misc. Titbits” page and then “Cut Scenes” to see it.