dragoness_e: (Echo Bazaar)
Thanks to a gentleman who inquired about a possible update to an 18-year-old weather generator program for D&D, I decided to find it and check on that. That led to realizing I'd never finished repairing my old website from the damage done by my web host's PHP upgrade (namely, all the old pages broke, because they used deprecated/removed functions), including the page with the download for the weather generator. That led to fixing as many broken links and malfunctioning pages as I could and recovering misplaced old sections of the website (I had links all over to old versions of the site, and wanted to move them and reconcile them), and now it's late afternoon, where did the day go?

I still haven't unpacked wthrmkr and checked if it still compiles yet. I think I'll do that next.
dragoness_e: (Raditz)
I've cleaned up the main writing page and the DBZ fanfiction section. Mostly; the Raditz Gallery is still at its old location, but it is, at least, accessible with broken navigation links. The really depressing part was cleaning up the DBZ related links page--so many dead fan sites, so many lost stories and artworks! Quite a bit was lost when Yahoo terminated Geocities; not all of it was archived. It looks like Vejitasei Ascendant was archived on oocities.org, at least. If anyone knows where to contact the original author, I'd like to ask her to archive VA on AO3, as it was such an important part of early DBZ fanfiction, and created much of the fanon that's still around today.

I also can't believe it's been 20 years since I started reading and writing DBZ fanfiction... and I never did see the end of the Buu saga.
dragoness_e: Ghost Duskwing with no text (TF_icon)
My web-hosting service upgraded the version of PHP they were using, and it broke all my ancient PHP scripts. I am now going through and fixing up and updating all the old pages. Slowly. One at a time. Right now, the front page works, as do the DBZ and Transformers fanfic pages. I've noticed I have lots of dead links, and I bet that Geocities-era webring is dead, too. I am also remembering to convert most links to https, as that seems to be the standard on the web now. I also realize that instead of linking to long-dead LiveJournal pages, or ancient imported posts far down in my DW archive, I should link to the AO3 versions of the various short-shorts. And/or provide links from my fanfic entries to the AO3 versions, for people who prefer to comment there or whatever.

On the other hand, Wayward's art pages haven't moved, so I can still link the original Duskwing fanart. :-)
Also, for a website that started back in the Geocities/Angelfire era, mine is still here, which isn't something you can say about most fansites from that era. Owning your own site does help with longevity, I must admit.
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I updated the home page of my umbrella site, The Republic of New Home, to actually point at live pages, instead of the same old dead links it has pointed to since 2002. No guarantees that the pages pointed to are current or anything radical like that, but at least they load instead of giving you a 404 error.
dragoness_e: Me in the pink straw cowboy hat (Pink Hat)
I have a Facebook account under my real name for sharing family interests. Facebook is appallingly nosy; I plan to keep it compartmentalized from my fandom & writing stuff here on Dreamwidth/LJ and on my website, so I'm not posting the name here, and I'm not posting anything about Dragoness Eclectic there. I'm also not posting anything about my current job here or there. I'm also disabling Facebook scripting/trackers when I'm not on Facebook.

What am I posting, one might ask? That's where pictures of family members, like the big family reunion picnic last weekend, will go. Stuff like recipes, etc that are of interest to both "worlds" will get reposted here and there. That's where I can connect with my in-laws and play Scrabble or whatever.

If you know my real name, I'm the one with the same icon as on this post.
dragoness_e: Living Dead Girl (Living Dead Girl)
Yes, I really do have a website and it's not utterly dead. Just woefully out-of-date.

One out-of-date page is my Palm E-docs page. Alas, the Palm is no longer the mainstream ebook reader, and the venerable Aportis-Doc format isn't exactly an industry standard anymore. As for the proprietary iSilo format--has anyone even heard of it anymore?

These days the most-used formats are MobiPocket, HTML, PDF, and EPub, as far as I can tell. I personally loathe PDFs for reading, so I'm not going to go to the trouble of making them or hosting them. HTML is not so much an E-book format as a standard markup format that can be easily converted to any format you want. Besides, it's handy for reading on your computer.

So, my thoughts are that my old Palm E-Docs page will turn into a new E-Books page, and Palm-DOC and iSilo versions of my fanfics will be replaced or updated with:

* zipped HTML for offline reading (already exist, but need updating)
* MobiPocket (useable on Kindle, and easily converted to other formats)
* EPUB (useable on Sony E-Reader and several others)

Have I missed any major formats that people need to read on the device of their choice? Please let me know.

Oops

Aug. 9th, 2007 08:28 am
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Oh, scrap. I just realized that 5 days ago I probably broke every external link on the internet to my stories. I'll fix that tonight, y'all. In the mean time, you can get to my stories from my website. The internal links are correct as of right now.

Update: links are fixed. Outside links to my stories should work properly again.
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I've moved my new, incomplete website to my main page, replacing the old, horribly out-of-date and unmaintained Lair. The new site still needs pages finished, and desperately needs to be attacked with a stylesheet; I find the old styles. I used for a decade look a bit clunky now. It's at the same location as ever... just look to the right at my sidebar for the link.

First priority is to get all the content back up, minus the old stuff I don't want, and then I can jazz it up. Sign-ups for mailing lists are going away; I won't bother with that any more, I've got an LJ for notifying people of developments. In fact, my LJ feed is featured on the front page of my website.

This version of my site does have one page the old site didn't: my Transformers fanfiction page.
dragoness_e: Living Dead Girl (Living Dead Girl)
The Dragonball Z Fanfiction page has been converted over to the new format. In the process, I learned the uses of multiple page caches in Smarty, which turns out to be necessary when you use the same master template for multiple named pages.

http://www.republicofnewhome.org/lair3/index.php
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I finally got back to overhauling my website--it's only been about 6-7 years since I touched it. For the interested, here's the temporary location of the new site: http://www.republicofnewhome.org/lair3/

The only new pages so far are the home page and the Transformers Fanfics page. The rest is "In Progress" and has links to the old versions of the pages so you can find the content.

After poking at Wordpress for a year or so, I decided that the blog/CMS was overkill for what I wanted to do. PHP templates, in the form of SMARTY, turned out to allow the right balance of "I want to hack HTML code" and "I want to automate the repetitive bits".

I got to hack PHP code, too, and that's all good clean fun.

Anyway, take a look, let me know what works and doesn't--keeping in mind that the above two pages are the only new ones. So far. Will be updating as I make progress.

My website

May. 20th, 2006 09:15 am
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I'm going to be overhauling my website over the next week, so don't be surprised if the links are a bit wonky, or if the site is missing completely. I'm going to a Wordpress-based blog architecture, with permanent pages superadded. (i.e., those stories everyone likes to read). There's a lot of ancient stuff that I don't look at, that no one else looks at that I will be weeding out. (Not stories, just link pages).

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