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Redesigned Novel Page! Go See It, It’s AWESOME :D

So, I’ve been racking my brain for a week trying to figure out how to redesign my novel page, and I finally did it!!!

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LOOK AT THIS AMAZINGNESS!!! I can’t believe that I made something so elegant!

Actually, I had a lot of help–I wanted an update-able progress bar (i.e., something I didn’t have to create new in Photoshop every time I updated my book), and after a few seconds of Google searching, I found HTML5Doctor’s writeup of the <progress> tag, which showed how to use and style a progress bar. Then I checked the W3Schools article for a little bit more help, and that’s all I needed!

Anyhow, now my novel page is happily in the 21st century and easy to update. *commence ridiculous amounts of celebrating*

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Novel Page Update!

I am definitely still writing my novel, and my novel page now reflects the most recent conditions! Can you believe I’ve got 168,000 words so far? 😀

(By the way, I’m not putting anything of my novel online to keep it from getting stolen, but you can keep up with how fast I’m writing it by looking at the novel page. ^_^)

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Skies Over Atlas Updated!

Woohoo! Finally got the new Skies Over Atlas look finished, and I added a SaveCoH (Save City of Heroes) page to it as well! Check out the screenshot below (and click it to open a bigger version in a new window):

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I will continue to do work behind the scenes, tidying up content, reformatting, etc., but for now, the site has a fresh design and a new page, and I am pleased with that. 😀 😀 😀 Take a look, browse around, and let me know what you think!

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Preparing Sites for Updates!

I’ve been doing quite a bit of work behind the scenes getting Skies Over Atlas and The Gamer’s Repose ready for updating. I’ve developed new layouts for both of them, and will launch them along with the new/improved content.

The Gamer’s Repose in particular will see heavy content editing, with some articles removed and others combined…I’m actually not sure how much will be jettisoned yet, but I do know I want the site to focus more on creative gaming than actually teaching about the games themselves. (On the other hand, I spent a lot of time writing these articles and am having a hard time deleting them…LOL, hoarder mentality strikes again!)

However, Skies Over Atlas will be getting mainly a facelift and a new content section on the SaveCoH movement…the new layout looks AWESOME, if I do say so myself. Plus, it’ll be nice to have a chance to comb back through the content and add/edit as I see fit!

Really excited about these updates–they have been delayed two years too long! Keep checking back here at WMWorg to see progress!

cleanup

Whole Lotta Tidyin’ Goin’ On

Now that version 14 is finally (FINALLY) live, I’ve been able to putter around fixing up how certain pages appear within the confines of this new layout. Mostly I’ve fixed design bugs and changed information formatting, like on the following pages:

I’ve also improved the design on this news blog for better readability–greater separation between posts, a solid color behind the posts (finally figured out how to do it without messing up the rest of the layout), and some extra padding and font enlarging both in the posts and comments sections. YAY!

announcements

VERSION 14 IS LIVE!!!

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*OVERJOYED FIST-PUMPING*

*ECSTATIC DANCING AROUND*

WOOT! Version 14 is FINALLY live–go check it out! I finally decided to not worry with an outside guestbook, and instead made a “guestbook” page on this news blog. (Hopefully it works well and doesn’t glitch up!) And, with that pesky project out of the way, I was able to upload all my Version 14 stuff at last. ABOUT TIME, RIGHT?? LOL

I did have to do quite a bit of debug after I loaded it, but everything looks fine now. Please let me know if you see a problem with anything! 😀

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Network Page Look Finished!

Go check out the new network look in all its lavender, font-crazed glory! YAY IT WORKS!

Now all that is left is to create my new guestbook’s template (a monumental task because it involves a pile of stinking PHP I don’t care to dig through right now) and to upload the main domain’s version 14 look (which I don’t want to do while the guestbook is still left looking all default and bleh). That, and I have to write up a bit about v14, but I’ll do that once v14 is actually, y’know, live and stuff. LOL

projects, upcoming

Remaining Projects Before v14 Goes Live

EDIT: FINALLY got this new “news blog” style put up–what do you think? It didn’t turn out exactly like I wanted (because CSS is apparently cranky about background colors on “height: 100%;” div layers that scroll…argh). But otherwise I like it! Let me know if the background image is too busy!

Here’s what remains to do at WMWorg before I can upload v14:

  • Finish and upload main domain layout
  • Finish and upload network layout
  • Code and upload guestbook design
  • Write up v14 blurb for layout archive
  • Finish and upload news blog layout
  • Rewrite domain info page
  • Get new guestbook since my old one has been closed
  • Make new admin logo for contact page
  • Link-check sitemap, add new links where necessary
  • Make new button for v14 layout