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Readership : Now lower than ever!
posted 2010.08.01 at 04:08 | 9 comments
I know regular updates matter quite a bit, but damn. Averaging thirty hits a day for ATC and eighteen or so for DCR, with almost all of DCR's traffic coming from google image search.
Anayltics numbers don't go back to The Beginning - back then I used Webalizer - but they do go back far enough to see a definite dip.
That's what happens when you don't advertise, don't interact with the community, and don't update. Or so I've been told. Updates are the only thing I really have to go on, and there haven't been many of those over the past couple of years - moreso over the past couple of months, if you want to count the Rewriting Rampage as updating. Which, if the numbers are anything to go by, nobody did.
Not really sure what to do about that, really - marketing has never been one of the legs this thing stands on. I'd like the site to be in better shape, but I've been using that as an excuse for years. I'd like to be updating regularly again, but my workload presently prohibits that... which, as a starting point, is something I can eventually fix.
I'd also like to get to a point where I can write outside of a bar or coffee shop. That will probably take longer.
Or, perhaps, it'll happen concurrently.
Maybe it'll all happen concurrently.
Things usually do.
Comments re-enabled, CAPTCHA'd.
posted 2010.03.12 at 22:51 | comment
Also turned off for all entries prior to the previous blog post. I would have preferred to leave 'em on, but I Hate Spam, and killing the ability to spam my old blog entries should go a long way towards turning the tide.
Comments are CAPTCHA'd and currently post straight to the site without email authentication. If the CAPTCHA proves an ineffective spam deterrent, I'll re-mandate the moderation queue.
Also, a Twitter feed has replaced the old progress box. I don't think I'll be using it much, but who knows? I thought the same about Facebook.
I do believe that's it for site mechanics. Maybe some formatting stuff for the First Edition metadata of The Dualist - I'll poke at that in a few minutes.
In the meantime, VICTORY!
Oh, and - if you feel like beating on the comments thinger, go for it. Feedback appreciated, etc.
Website v2010.1 Release Notes
posted 2010.03.11 at 18:35 | comment
ATC site version 2010.1, code name "Furnace."
Participants
dmh - Aesthetic, slicing, initial assembly (html/javascript), font formatting and text-container CSS. Application of final template to MT plumbing.
vai - Created a partial "alternative" build that proved useful in finally freeing the site from tables.
ejp - Finalized the left-hand menu and FPNC, made things work for IE7+, stepped up as CSS mentat for several stages and essentially finished the base template. The man is a God.
Fun fact : the CSS file for the site has mutated quite a bit over the years. I got the original document from bda for use with my first MT blog. He got it from Dan Engler. I'd adapted it over the years to various site layouts, set it up for this one, and then pasted in a bunch of stuff from vai. Eric then hacked at it quite a bit.
GO TEAM CSS!
Build log
Q4 2009 and Q1 2010 - Paper design, with extensive thinking on how to add the content lost in the current build back into the site.
20100306 - Started on UI graphics. Realize some bits of the paper design are going to be a huge pain in the ass no matter how the site is implemented and streamline the proposed look to something closer to the previous version.
20100307 - Aesthetics "testing." xeno approves, and I start hating the previous build. Impatient to get the new UI up and running.
20100308 - UI graphics completed, sliced, optimized. Base tables-and-javascript template assembled and basic CSS formatting. Vai takes a poke. IE6 hates it.
20100309 - Further work done on CSS. Some formatting taken from vai's work of the previous day. Eric takes over as CSS go-to guy. IE6 continues to be a pain in the ass, everything works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari/Mac and Safari/iPhone. Most of the IE issues are resolved simply by switching to 7. Link buttons created.
20100310 - Fine-tuning of CSS by Eric with input from vai. Rollover images for all comic books and chapters created.
Major changes from the previous release
1. It's a lot darker, obviously. And prettier. The pretty isn't just my opinion - that's been the consensus of those who've volunteered opinions. It won't win any awards (the flavor is intentionally "web 1.0"), but it's certainly nicer than the previous release. It's also a lot more expressive - each section has its own header, and the space between the comic navigation buttons is finally being used for something.
2. Tables are GONE. Giggedy GONE. Yes.
3. While this thing is still image-heavy, all the text formatting and - more importantly - all the boxes that words reside in have been moved out of table cells and into CSS. This means the launch UI might get tweaked a bit after I see how it looks With A Variety Of Content.
4. Comments are OFF for the time being. You can thank the spam bots for that one - they'll come back later. Since commenting is its own mess of formatting it hasn't been a launch priority.
5. Transitional Voices has an icon.
6. The wiki is gone. It's been replaced with "universe," which is a self-contained blog similar to the old-old Lexicon. It's a bit sparse at the moment, but there's plenty of content from the old-old site that I can copy, revise, and paste back in, so it won't stay that way for long. Point of fact, "universe" is something of a priority. It should update to the front page along with the blog - if it doesn't, it just means I haven't gotten to it yet. Or I've been blogging more than I've been documenting. The major upside for me is that it handles like the rest of MT, which means I don't have to noodle with formatting for Yet Another Web Thing.
7. Old.atc is still around, if only for archival purposes. All of the old "hard to find" content that never made it over here in the previous release - all the stuff I'd intended to dump into a wiki at some point - will be integrated into the current website over the next...
Oh, fuck it. I'm not going to lie. I think it's a priority now but I will probably get distracted. There will be bits - Cast, at least. How quickly the rest of it makes it over is anybody's guess.
Testing
The development template was tested in the current build of Chrome, Firefox 3.5.x, Safari 4, IE6 (for laughs), and IE7 (for real, unfortunately). All issues worked out apply to the initial template only - some kinks may crop up when the template gets applied to the website. IE6 was given up on, and a redirect has been created. Think of it as an easter egg.
Wonkiness
1. Aside from flat-out abandoning IE6 and ignoring Netscape (Communicator 4.7 was a favored target of mine for awhile, and was the first browser I stopped giving a shit about), there's one display difference in IE7 that I haven't tested in IE8. It's not a deal-breaker, so I'm not worried about it.
2. I have no idea what this thing looks like in Opera, on the PSP, or anything other than the test platforms listed above. There may be wonkiness. As Google Analytics has indicated that some of you use these platforms to read ATC, any input would be appreciated.
Remaining
1. The one major issue on the backend to-do list is comment capability. For the time being that's been stripped out - I'll add it back in at some point in the near future. With any luck, the planned work will solve the comment spam problem that's been plaguing the site for the past few months.
2. Along with that, probably, some kind of twitter integration. I've been thinking on it for awhile, and I consider it a viable alternative to the old progress bar. Logging of material is something of an issue for me in other respects - it's the one area that's always been "fire and forget."
3. Oh, and. Uh... uhm. Content, obviously. But that's not a backend thing. Further CSS refinement will follow, along with the usual tweaks and broader testing and debugging that'll occur after the new site goes live.
4. Ads. That's what I was thinking of. The Wall Of Spam seems to be standard-issue for all other comics, so I suppose I should get around to slipping some of it in somewhere. As the site has run ad-free since inception, I can promise you this - any implemented ad thing will be either Below The Fold or respectfully unobtrusive.
5. Highest priority of the "remaining" TDL - CSS for Universe logos, images, notes, etc.
Bird is the word.
posted 2010.03.11 at 13:32
Everybody's heard.
The head-desking issue from early this morning has been resolved. Using MT against itself to apply a CSS tweak that gets the job done and BLAM! - the comic nav bars display correctly, and comic navigation flows between books correctly.
Break, then finalize templates, then finalize formatting.
Update : Templates work. Had to step back to the heady days of Mercury and the old-old ATC website to get the Universe section functioning more or less as intended. Will work out the bugs when I have more content to put in place... and I'm going to need to insert some before I start finalizing the formatting.
Update 2 : Some Universe content has been seeded, and its CSS debugged. Assembly is down to Final Cleanup of formatting.
AUGH
posted 2010.03.11 at 01:44
Working on this thing for 14 hours straight and there are still massive, massive issues. Issues I'm too fried to fix tonight.
Update : Guess what? The shit what's been griefing me a BUG. IN FIREFOX. (works fine in Safari, Chrome, and IE, etc)
Holy shit, etc.
Hopefully it can be fixed with CSS - it's that or re-name over 400 CMS entries.
Long story short : Apparently Firefox takes any two hyphens followed by an > as the end of a <!--. It's taking, for example, -4-.html"> as the --> to close out a comment - leaving the real --> hanging free, totally breaking the shit out of comic archives.
Bastards.
Porno Holocaust
posted 2010.03.10 at 20:27
After some debugging, and "revise the CSS" added to the to-do list, the bulk of the site content has been converted to the new templates. Huzzah.
Snack break.
Then. THEN! Comic root pages, seed content for Universe, and CSS fixes.
Wow, I wasn't kidding.
posted 2010.03.10 at 18:20
The site is busted - turns out the new CSS isn't as thorough as the old.
I'm going to finish template implementation before I fix that - it beats doing incremental updates as I find new and exciting bits of bustedness.
Speaking of - the blog has been re-templated, though Comments are disabled for the time being.
Breakin' the Site, Breakin' the Site
posted 2010.03.10 at 16:37
All the necessary bits are in place.
Eric says the site validates (something I've never cared about), and vai says it looks good in Opera.
Build to commence shortly.
Order of operations:
1. Site root.
2. Blog.
3. Other existing site root-relevant bits.
4. Comic pages. This bit will be easy.
5. Comic subdomains. This bit will be trickier.
6. Make sure it all works.
7. Release notes and "final" CMS rebuild.
8. CSS revision and new site content.
Preflight.
posted 2010.03.10 at 14:50
The list of Stuff What Needs Doing To The Template is shrinking rapidly. Things seem to be down to fine-tuning, followed by a couple of section-specific bits of CSS that won't be truly necessary until there's some content to work with.
Eric and vai have been kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. I should be in a position to start rolling out the base template later today, and hope to have the current website converted to the new look and feel tonight.
Re-implementation is going to involve tuning the CMS entries for book chapters - that'll be the only major change and challenge. Everything else will be cleanup, followed by New Stuff over time.
Website v.2010.1 development : Thunderdome!
posted 2010.03.09 at 18:45
The development template is now table-free. TABLE. FREE!
For the first time in, well... ever.
Working slowly on debugging in IE. After that, moving on to cleaning up the steaming mess of javascript. Vai's CSS work from last night has proven invaluable, and I'm now pow-wowing with ejp. There are still a lot of little things to figure out, but it looks like development is on track to finish tonight, which means implementation will begin late tonight or early tomorrow.
This is just the template - there's a host of other problems I'll need to work out after things get working properly... but comments and an improved update box can wait until later.
Website v.2010.1 development continues
posted 2010.03.09 at 13:59
Graphics and basic formatting are done, and the base template is in the same state that the previous template was in when I "committed" it to the site. Since that was a huge pile of work - and since it uses tables - today's major task will be doing what I can to transfer any or all of the old table layout into CSS.
I've made a bit of progress on that front myself, and vai took a crack at parts of it last night. The objective - for me, anyway - is to get this thing out the door at some point on Wednesday, so I'll have Thursday afternoon and evening to work the bugs out, Thursday night to bask in my victory, and Friday and the weekend to start seeding new content (and further refining the CSS).
So depending on how smoothly things go, this thing could be either Very CSS, or some combination of CSS, tables, and javascript, with an eventual CSS implementation following.
The horror, etc.
Website v.2010.1 development
posted 2010.03.07 at 15:56
Sitrep -
The graphics framework has been created and is pretty much finalized. I've been bouncing this one off of IRC and the informed opinion is that it's a big improvement over the previous site version (v.7 or 2008.1). It is - I can't wait to get it implemented.
What needs doing-
1. Title graphics for major website sections and comic chapters. For this version they're now separate graphics, which will slightly lighten the load while navigating the comic chapters.
2. "Backfill" for title graphics. For the current version that's the bit with Thad and Val up top site-wide, or Whitehouse and Yang in DCR. While it's an aesthetically minor thing, I'm still in the process of narrowing it down to a selection of graphics that I like.
3. Chapter selection bits. The formatting thing I had in mind when I redid all of the covers for The Dualist. Still incompatible with the DCR covers and the current TV cover - something I'll need to figure out over the next few days.
How this thing's going to roll out-
1. Major UI graphics will be completed over the next day or two. Work will then begin on the javascript/CSS template.
2. That will then be uploaded and implemented, making the site "live."
3. Bugs will be worked out and additional changes/tweaks made as needed.
4. I'll get the damned commenting thing fixed, hopefully to my satisfaction.
5. With the base graphics and formatting rolled out, the focus will shift to adding (and re-adding) content to the site.
Last time around, I spent at least a week tormented by layout, before finally coming up with something that did the job, albeit not to my aesthetic satisfaction. The new look assembled itself in a few hours and is basically the same information layout as the old, only this time... I like it. It may still use tables - it ultimately depends on how easily the UI can be assembled with CSS.
Optimally, I expect the main UI to be rolled out by the end of the week, and enough content in the CMS to flesh out the new components by the end of the month. New content will be an ongoing process, which I don't expect to be finished for some time.
With any luck, the next major blog update will be 2010 release notes!
v.2010.1 IRC preview
posted 2010.03.07 at 15:48
11:08 <@_Lasar> That 's not color, that's monochrome. Imagine a world where people never figured out that you could have computers display color images. Instead that universe went on to produce high-res amber monochrome screens.
11:08 <@_Lasar> That's your layout.
11:08 < solios> yes.
11:09 < solios> yes, it is.
11:09 < solios> you got a problem with that?
11:09 <@_Lasar> Nope.
11:09 < solios> \o/
Marching on March
posted 2010.03.04 at 17:46
So much for February. What did I accomplish, ATC-wise? A bit of DCR script development, an initial draft of the first part of TV2 that has a viable shape but is going to require extensive rewriting and retooling to become useable, some deliberation on the shape of the website, a lot of bitching about CSS on IRC, and my first full UVW unwrap and texturing of a vehicle.
I've unwrapped bits before - notably the more difficult parts of the Aeon - but until this past weekend, I'd never done an entire ship by myself. It was more of a confidence building experiment than anything else - the ship in question has been rusting along with a few others (The Banshee, the Astra, as well as a tanker, cargo ship, corvette, passenger liner and cruiser all slated for appearance in TV.3) for quite awhile now. It feels good to have something done, even if it isn't the website, even if it's only going to show up in a few panels at most. Money shots after it shows up in-comic. We've already seen the passenger cabin in DCR.1, and the first external appearance will be a few pages from now in DCR.2.
So there's that, which doesn't have much to do with the website. It is an eyedropper expunged from the vast ocean that is the CG Backlog, so while nothing much happened on the web front in February, I did make a tiny bit of progress on CG assets. Combine that with the one-night crash modeling of Whitehouse's megaphone in January and I've managed a whopping two objects in two months.
I'm going to need to improve on that, obviously.
Which means I'm going to have to get to grips with things what have been dragging me down or otherwise sucking up my time lately, which also means getting realistic about the Order Of Operations, which means I really need to upgrade the website before I start waterboarding myself with 3d Studio MAX again.
Fortunately it's been sorted out on paper fairly extensively - and with some help from a couple of friends on IRC (who will get plenty of credit in the build notes), I'll be able to get over my Fear of CSS. Which puts "make the interface" next on the TDL.
It's been "next" on the TDL for a couple of weeks.
Fortunately, March is still Q1, and I set "ATC Website" as one of my major goals for Q1. I should be able to hit that for graphics and CSS - new content, well... that's another matter!
An upcoming unwanted "feature"...
posted 2009.12.07 at 02:15
... will be either comment authentication/authorization or a CAPTCHA. I hate the piss out of those things but I hate the steadily growing volume of perversely "natural"-looking comment spam I've been getting of late a lot more.
At present, it seems the options are to make commenting a bit more difficult, keep weeding spam on a daily basis, or turn commenting off altogether.
If I've deleted a real comment in error (and at present I have no reason to think that I have), email me.
Domain Renewal Weirdness
posted 2009.06.16 at 11:18
Apparently the ATC domain expired around 9am UTC today. I discovered this when I loaded the front page and noticed that all dualist.atc content was [?]. All subdomains unreachable but root works? Oh yeah - I'd stuck the server IP in my hosts file awhile back to work around a DNS issue and forgot about it.
I've hacked things on my end - I'll be able to update the site (not that any updates are pending) until the domain issue is resolved.
Bryan paid for renewal before the domain expired (we're good till 2011 according to WHOIS), so the lock and the nserver redirect to the provider's not-renewed subdomain is an anomaly that'll hopefully be sorted shortly.
If you've tried to load ATC recently and received a "Server not found" error or its equivalent instead, that's the cause.
Update, 2009.06.18 - Everything's back to normal. It was back to normal in most places yesterday afternoon, but my home DNS just recently got the memo.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Blog comment preview fixed (?)
posted 2009.02.20 at 16:30 | 8 comments
Thanks to ATC reader bounce for putting me on the debug trail.
Long story short - the preview form was missing the contents of the mt.js file, whereas the entry pages weren't. So hitting "comment" instead of "preview" would work just fine, whereas hitting "preview" and then "post" would throw an error message, as the page was trying to pass a bunch of variables that it knew nothing about.
I could have stripped out this functionality, but I'd prefer to keep as much of the base MT commenting logic in place, should I want to activate the Captcha system, require readers to register in order to comment, or any of the other forms of Spam Control. The kind of arsenal I wish I had for DCR, really.
So, that's been fixed.
I'll make some aesthetic modifications in a few weeks - after Convergence has been re-finished, after I have a few other things done.
Any other problems I should know about?
Website v2008.1 Release Notes
posted 2008.11.20 at 18:43 | 2 comments
1. This is a brand spanking new site, for the first time in... ever, really. Since launch, ATC has been hobbling along on an increasingly hacked-together pile of PHP includes expelled from a Movable Type v2.63 backend. The new site has a Movable Type 4.21 backend and is straight HTML and CSS. I'm sure a few of you web developer types have already noticed it's very 1990s HTML, what with the tables and whatnot. Very advanced, tables. Cutting edge.
2. The gui has been tested in IE 6, IE 7, Safari 3.something-that-isn't-3.2 and whatever the current Firefox build is. There's a display glitch in Firefox (the progress bar table) that I'll eventually get around to debugging.
3. Since everything is now MT-sourced HTML, bda's old perlscript isn't backending the progress bar anymore.
4. The first major structural change, reflected by the new interface - it's now a hell of a lot easier to get to a specific comic and chapter. Much easier than it was previously. This was (initially) the major reason for the aesthetics upgrade... the fact the new site does a whole bunch of things the old one didn't is icing on the cake.
5. Reflecting the change in the gui layout, each book in the series now inhabits its own subdomain. Adding RSS for each would be trivial, but for the time being anything worth keeping track of will be shooting through the site root, so I figure one RSS feed is enough.
6. The RSS feed location hasn't changed. Aside from the background color and most of the CSS, it's the only thing that hasn't.
7. Comments are enabled and more or less debugged for the blog. If there's interest, comment functions can be added to the comic pages with minimal effort. If there's too much spam, comment moderation will be turned on, which will probably open another round of debugging. For the time being I've tried to make comments behave as they did on the old site - it's easier for me and it's less hassle for you. MT4 has the option for captcha. I don't know about you, but I fail those fucking things about 97% of the time, so they'll only be showing up here as a very last resort.
8. Transitional Voices still needs an icon. Hence the placeholduhr in the navbar.*
9. The wiki is where all of the cast, lexicon, candy, etc. stuff from the previous editions of the site will live, whenever the wiki is installed. The plan for that is Q1 2009 - by which point the site should be seriously rockin'.
10. If you're hard up for anything that was on the old site, well... you're in luck. The old site is here.
11. Things still aren't completely finished yet, but all the major functionality is in place - hence the launch. This is the new face of ATC - a face you can read without scrolling in full-screen mode on a Windows box (assuming a vrez of 1050 or greater).
HELL YEAH.
* Icons are non-trivial things. Especially when we're talking about Major Project Icons, like the Heirotus ding, the ATC ligature, etc. The TV icon has been in the doodle phase for a couple of months. One of these days I'll get it right. And then you'll SEE.
Oh yes. You'll see.
The Barn Door's Open.
posted 2008.11.20 at 17:59
While the site's not completely finished yet. There's a lot of stuff missing - link buttons, some minor spit-shining, a lot of the about content, the wiki*, and most importantly, a good-sized stash of pages for The Dualist (Second Edition).
Least importantly, the site release notes. I'll get to those today or tomorrow and update the footer accordingly.
Everything critical is in place. All functionality is present.**
The rest is window dressing.
* Put off until 2009. Thank me later.
** Present but not necessarily working - the MultiBlog plugin that ships with MT4 has a funky habit of occasionally deciding it's not going to kick its update triggers. Fun!
Right.
posted 2008.11.17 at 22:00
Comments work the same way they worked under the old MT install - at least to you. To me, it was a whole different kettle of fish. Easier in some ways, a total asspain in others. The preview and error/confirmation pages have been hacked out.
About has been fleshed out a bit, the wiki placeholder page has been created and uploaded.
Graphics still need doing. They'll probably need doing for the next couple of days - I'd rather do covers and think-through on covers and intro bits for The Dualist than stick up graphical placeholders.
All of the Big-Big work has been done. The site can technically launch whenever.
Realistically, I'm shooting for another day or two of polishing, hacking on graphics, etceteras. Maybe throw the switch Thursday or Friday.
Minor update, 20081117.11:37 : I've added Google Analytics doohickies for each of the subdomains, as well as the site root. Tracking data should start flowing shortly.
Left.
posted 2008.11.16 at 20:34 | 3 comments
Blog needs comments. That'll be fun.
Link buttons / bars (recycle the old stuff or make new; integrate accordingly)
Cover / placeholder graphics (and synopsis text) for td2e overview and Incursion.
About needs to be fleshed out.
Go live.
Then after chapter one is up (more content to work with) start mucking around with more extensive debugging / feature adding, wiki, updating external directory listings, the dcr symlink, etc.
2008.1 Templated!
posted 2008.11.14 at 20:49
... and it tests successfully in Safari, Firefox 3, and (after the usual smacking around) in IE 6 and IE 7. The last version didn't work in Netscape 4.x, so I'm not really worried about this one. Using the same old CSS with a few tweaks.
Right.
Will be implementing said templates Sunday through whenever. Saturday is other business.
Oh. Started working on this Thursday afternoon. Spent about 10-12 hours on it today, about half of which was slicing images and beating on dreamweaver.
Whee!
Having sat on it for a few days...
posted 2008.10.28 at 12:12
... it's now a question of "how much bling in the gui."
By which I mean, how graphically intense do I want to make the site?
It's one thing to be serving up around 400+ 600x900 jpegs; another to blam an additional ream of smaller files - most of which would stay cached with every page load. Obviously, the more graphically intense the site the longer it'll take to produce and the longer it'll take to debug. That isn't the big issue here - the big issue is just how much space do I want to give over to Stuff What Isn't Actually Content (meaning words, navigation, comic pages, etc).
Space is something web developers don't seem to give a ghost of a shit about these days. Me, I hate scrolling through a pile of whatever to get to a strip or article or comic page or whatever - and I've tried to implement accordingly. Not that there aren't certain insurmountables, but back when ATC was just The Dualist, navigation worked pretty damned reasonably and, in my opinion, was a hell of a lot cleaner and easier to use than most other webcomics.
Then DCR and TV got loaded in and blew that all to hell.
Read the rest of Having sat on it for a few days....
Is a title field even necessary?
posted 2008.10.25 at 17:05
Sometimes that's the hardest part of the post - the title. And on long endurance development burns, not even necessary.
Points:
1. DCR.1 has been loaded in. We knew this.
2. TV.1 has also been loaded in. A bit more tedium than the DCR loadin, but it's done.
3. I've done some preliminary beating-on of MultiBlog. Posts from any of the comic blogs will now show up on the front page as intended. No screwing around with php includes or a comic-specific index writeout. The "blog" blog is now the ATC front, period.
4. For the moment, I have enough content to get started on the stuff that goes into the Utility blog - namely the book/chapter summaries for each of the comics. After that, it'll be time to get serious about brewing a gui and solving whatever other problems happen to pop up.
5. At present, the plan is a simple one. Add some nuts and bolts to the Utility blog, then brew up the gui and implement it. Then get rolling on The Dualist (second edition). Then the wiki. I don't expect progress on any of these fronts to be speedy, so this could be it for major web development for the foreseeable future.
Still hating CSS.
posted 2008.10.24 at 23:35
But we knew that.
DCR.1 has been loaded in, and the MultiBlog thinger looks to be behaving as expected, so far.
There's the expected glitches, but it's pretty much the MT default behaving to spec.
Beer O'Clock, gentlemen. More Love And Hate on the morrow.
The next big decision...
posted 2008.10.24 at 21:22
... after creating blogs, of course - which one to use for seed content.
DCR seems like the best candidate, since Whitehouse is complete and not going anywhere. The main point of this whole thing is the second edition of The Dualist, so I'll need to finalize the new intro pages before I start with that. TV : Earth could work just as well as DCR, but TV : Earth needs some more editorial cleanup before I canonize it.
So DCR gets to be my Work Bitch.
Hopefully the auto-rebuild function works - the intent is to create the blogs, seed DCR, and see how well that works in terms of display and updates... if it works how I'm thinking it oughtta, then I won't need to lug around a top-level index writeout or dick with index templates for the individual comic blogs - the root news template should just grab whatever's available from what should be blogs 3, 4, and 5.
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The blogs are created and more-or-less configured. Loadin is on hold until Eric changes permissions on a couple of the subdomains. dualist.atc is fine, but dcr.atc and tv.atc are both currently owned by root, which makes MT sad.
The Generic Install Entry
posted 2008.10.24 at 16:43 | 3 comments
Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!
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You just gotta love the canned text.