The Weirding - Site Updates, Changes

I both love and hate the "W.I.P." (Work In Progress) aspect of websites: on the one hand, it perfectly fits the medium; on the other, it can be a serious pain in the ass. The Internet blends all mediums into one media, so melding the "performance" aspect with what were once set works to create living documents says so much about the Web media and medium that one could base entire theses on this idea, alone. But waking-up to find you have to completely change your entire site's approach, design, etc. - which happens literally once or twice a year - can be so disheartening... All too often, you feel the whole thing is a Sisyphean feat no reward - regardless of its nature or size - can compensate.

But the Web - well, the Internet in all its forms - is the printing press of our, and future, generations. I know that whatever I accomplish will be around for years to come, even if eventually only as a curiosity, and I take that fairly seriously. Fairly so - I mean, I write about roleplaying games and slasher flicks - I don't have my entire head up my ass!

Anyway, I added some new pages and content to the Champions section. While this is previously-published material, it has been edited, rewritten, and reformatted and includes new artwork. I should be able to get even more up next week, as SiteSpinner released the most complete version of their software to-date, which has made my life literally 85-95% easier!

I also made some structural changes which affect the entire site. This may result in some technical errors, particularly along the lines of missing images and similar formatting issues. I will try to correct these as soon as possible, but we are talking site-wide changes - i.e., every page on the site. Technically speaking, the site was originally laid-out to handle such changes without me having to edit every page on the site to make them, but SiteSpinner has had numerous "quirks" and a handful of bugs in every release which had to be accounted for and may still impede progress. A lot of these sitewide changes are meant to correct such shortcomings for future updates.

Also, I am probably going to discontinue The Wording as the siteblog and move all of that kind of stuff to the Facebook page. I don't know yet, but it makes more sense to do it that way. The major problem I have with that is being limited as to what I can say or present, due to TOS; it's far too easy for some jackass to decide s/he is offended by something - like "Satanic" D&D games, for example - and get the whole suspended or even deleted. I dealt with that back on the GeoCities site until I was able to prove that it was, literally, about three people from AOL who were consistently "flagging" the site as "inappropriate." One of them went to prison for selling pills - true story - and I only ever "knew" these assholes from online chatrooms and so forth!

ANYwho, enjoy the new Champions content - as always, there's more to come - and I'd love to hear any suggestions or criticisms you have, especially if you are having problems viewing the site! Also be sure to add The Weirding @ Facebook page (link above) to your favorites, or "Become a Fan," or however that works. I will be announcing updates, et.al., there more after today.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010