Jan, Feb

13/February/2011: (WEBSITE) JOURNEYS END Well as far as I can tell the site should be completed within the next couple of hours, last night it felt as though I had finally gotten toward the end of a long journey. Which as you can imagine is fairly strange because all i've been doing is sitting here coding. Just have to finish the "who are we?" page, finish up a couple more comic pages for the comics page and upload my showreel to youtube. I think I also have to fix a few pictures in the gallery page. Things get pushed and moved with the wider images... however if I fix that later I can live with that. It's functional just a little ugly. So without further ago I need to get on these things. LATER ON... I have now reached the point where things are pretty much as done as they're gonna be for the moment. Later I will add more people to the "who are we?" page, and i'll get a better version of my showreel online. Then more pictures and other stuff, but from here on out it's just additions and improvements. Now I get to start work on one of the other 7 things on my to-do list. Hopefully the next thing won't take 4 months out of my precious little life. 09/February/2011 Realised I spelt Steven Grays name as Stephen Grey in the galleries. Embarassing, but thankfully there will be no record of this slight mistake... Yes I know there's this. 08/February/2011 I still have work to do in all the galleries and the links page. There are a couple of images here and there that i'll maybe change up. But one good evening and for sure this website redesign will be over and done with. Also fix the films on 2010 and put ANYTHING in 2011. You gotta wonder if i'm going to be keeping up these updates once i'm done with the overhaul. I would like to think yes, and I have also installed this twitter thing so that I don't have to go through the rigmarole of having to code entries... plus I can update WITH BREAKING NEWS from my phone if I wanted too. But things don't happen that fast around here so I wouldn't really worry about checking more than once a week. In other news i'm a couple of pages into drawing a new comic story. I'm still only at the pencils stage (plus i'm making it up as I go along) so it may be a while until it's online. BUT HEY THAT'S SOME NON WEBSITE RELATED NEWS FOR YOU! 07/February/2011: PUPPY SQUASHING I have almost lost track with what i'm doing on the website. As far as I can tell I just need to do the gallery pages, the synopsis and venues for the Lana the Goth festival section. Also I have to do the links and contact pages, though in fairness they both should be horribly straight forward. I need to fix the film pages in 2010 and create a 2011 film page (although I have nothing to put on it yet). Then after that I just have to upload my showreel to youtube and link it in on the films page, then standardize most of the pages so that they all have the same looking bottom parts to the page. But that shouldn't take too too long. I guess I probably have an ETA of maybe 5 or 6 more hours of work and this place will be all done. However I have to pick up my girlfriend from work in a little over 2 hours and I should probably eat some dinner before that happens. But um... I think I will standardize the page bottoms and then start looking at what images I will include in the gallery and junk. I am also (after this first re-itteration of the site hits the internet) going to begin putting up other films and junk I have done that aren't already here. Perhaps this is oversaturation. I would like to think that there could be someone who will get something out of this place, though inevitably that may just wind up being my ego. Perhaps it's a little foolish to expect that I can send my business card out to a few places to see if I can get them to watch my showreel and get some kind of attention. Maybe I would be better served if I treated this place strictly as a business thing, BUT DAMNIT I CARE TOO MUCH! If this website was a puppy I would have squashed it to death by now. 03/February/2011: NO GOOD NEWS, JUST COMPLAINING Believe it or not it's not like I spend ALL my time working on this website. Sometimes I work outside the house doing menial labour so that I can have the money to live in a nice place and keep a keyboard at my finger tips. Unfortuneatly sometimes those bill paying chores take up far to much of the time I should be spending getting everything in order. Although the website is still currently unfinished right now, within the next week or so it will be done and it will be glorious. The only downside is that I finished doing the films pages when I realised that I... A. forgot to include 2011 B. should have made the years fade out like the rest of the links, and C. probably have a whole bunch of other things i'm going to add on. This unfortuneatly means that I will have to go through every film page over again, updating code and making things smell like fresh baked cookies. Likewise now that I am working on the galleries page I realise that I don't have quite as much complete content as I thought. Which means at some point I need to finish doing what I have left half done before. But whatever, I guess this website will become some kind of living document that I will continue to update and reference and expand. I was thinking about adding a documentary page for all them documentaries I made, but... that can wait. Documentaries are films, they can go on the films page. 02/January/2011 I won't lie this paticuarly site overhaul is taking alot longer than i'd previously anticipated. I could have taken the easy way out again and just done everything in frames, but because of my ongoing search for spiritual enlightenment I have to take the long handed course to doing this thing. As much as anything else I have gotten out of the habit of spending long suathes of my life infront of the computer, so today's return (and subsequent coding) have felt kind of alien. There is also the unfortuneate side effect that the better part of the day can just up and disapear on you. So anyways the website is about 3/5ths of the way done. The design is pretty much there but I still have to link up all the video's in the video's section, I need to create my contact and links page. I also have to finish off the "Lana the Goth" festival page. Also I haven't even started on the new images section. Part of me is tempted to do away with all the galleries and bollocks. It seems like so much hard work for something that I can't imagine anyone caring about. But for some reason i'll feel the need to persevere and in the end I will hunt down all the pictures that I feel need inclusion, create thumbnails and then all the other work. At this point I would give the website an E.T.A. of June, but if I keep going with this thing it may only be a few more weeks (let's see how far away in the future my next entry is made...)

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