Just finished adding all of the Les Lumens news to the blog. All I have to do now is finish the entries for Darkniciad, and I can link this up from the temporary index page.
At that point, this will keep track of what I’m up to. With any luck, the ease of making new entries will mean that it will get updated freqently.
Just didn’t have enough time to write earlier, so I did something that didn’t require such complete attention — added more old news entries.
I cranked in a bunch more Darkniciad updates, and the whole of the LST3K News page. I’ll probably go ahead and add the Les Lumens News next, just to get everything other than my entries as Dark out of the way.
Once I finish that, I’ll link this up from the main site, and it will actually be a functional feed of what’s going on.
I’m leaning toward making the whole site PHP now. Reason #1: Ease of updating. Reason #2: I can set it up to allow you to create a username, and set preferences.
One important preference that I’ve always thought was a good idea was SFW (Safe For Work) versions of the pages. What I would do is set it up so that if you have that setting on, the pages wouldn’t display any of the nude/risky images. You’ll still have to deal with hiding the text from your co-workers, but at least there wouldn’t be easily seen from the next cubicle pictures.
Also good for straight women who don’t really want to see pics of naked women adorning every page. There may end up being some pics of guys on the page eventually in that state of undress, so there may be a setting for “Censor Male” and “Censor Female” nekkidness as well. That way, you could ogle whichever tickles your fancy without getting creeped out by the other.
I could also set it up to deactivate links and add a “SFW MODE” notation in place of links that lead to things like the cover images that contain nudity. That way you don’t accidently click on one of those from the office and have to panic as you try to close it before anybody sees it.
Once I get rolling on things again, I might start adding new categories to the blog for specific long stories. SOTM is the obvious one. That would allow you to subscribe to that story category and have what is essentially a notification of new stories in that category.
I’ll probably create a New Stories category too. Then you could set it up to know whenever I have anything new coming out from across my pen names.
At least I think that’s how it works. I’m new to this whole blog thing.
This is certainly a hella lot easier than screwing with the HTML, so I might just feel like updating this a lot more often. That will mean that you’ll be subject to more of my rambling, but you’ll get more frequent news, too.
My writing enthusiasm is still there, but the energy is waning. My job has transformed into something much more fast-paced and draining. It used to be laid back, but they’ve added some new security practices a couple of weeks ago. The only way I could work around those new security practices and still accomplish my job was to take on a new duty on top of it.
What that results in is me running back and forth from a computer to different places in the warehouse all day long, keeping every department informed and prodded as to exactly what’s going on at any moment.
Taking a little bit to get adjusted to, but I think I’ve got it worked out into a routine, now. This is why I’m in the position I’m in. They know damn good and well that I’m the only one who could figure out how to deal with the impossible stupidity that they throw at us sometimes.
With the routine down, it will get easier, and I won’t be so worn out when I get home. It’s been as much mental exhaustion as physical up until this point, because I was still working the kinks out of the new process.
That’s enough for now. I’m going to give writing a try again for a little bit, until I need to crash out for the night.
Two more months worth of old news added to the blog. Here’s hoping that nobody set up subscriptions, or that it doesn’t publish every one of those old updates as a new post :p
I have a little bit of time and quiet, so I’m going to work on Barren Harvest. Maybe I’ll have that one ready to post by the weekend. Once my tornado boy starts his evening wind-down, I’ll probably work on digging through my brain for forgotten PHP knowledge again. I’m beginning to think that I can remember enough to do the simple forms myself. Once I finish one of them, the rest will come easily, because they’ll all be similar.
Time to see if I can’t wrap up this Danica history tale.
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.
