In the first of 21 schedule updates to the Empire, I've gone through the trouble of trimming the fat around my forums. Here's what I've done:
hacking ART arabesque* Combined the "Forum FAQs," "Forum News," "evula.net news," "evula.org news," "Suggestions, Questions, and Complaints," and "Technical Difficulties" boards into the Imperial Lounge.
* Moved the Imperial Lounge into it's own category, "Imperial News & Discussion"
* Made a new Technical Difficulties board, for tech support types of things.
* Combined all the Rants, Reviews, and Stories posts into one board, "Lair Content Discussion"
* Ditched inactive evula.net and evula.org member boards. The stuff is still there, but I've hidden them (11 boards total)
* Ditched the "(Blank) of the Month Award" boards. They were dead, and I don't see them coming back right now. If in the future I decide to have those awards again, the boards will come back.
I would like to point out that in combining the Rant, Review, and Story boards, I had to edit every single topic. For those keeping score, that's 120 topics (plus the "About this board" topic at the top). Ugh.
Not ATMOS, the EV Nova developers, but Atmos, the gas people.
They keep sending bills to us at work under the suite's contractor's name. I've asked them a grand total of 5 times to change the name, using the normal methods (checking the stuff they said to on the sheet you send with payment). I've tried calling them, but each time I do, I've been unable to get a real person. Grr.
So anyway, today I wrote a nice little note on our note card stationary and stapled it to the check. Then I stapled both the note and the check to the sheet. I also checked all the info on the sheet, same as always. If those stupid shits don't get the point by now, I'm not sure what I'll do next...
Well, I had a few spare moments here and there at work today. In that time, I was able to plot out updates all around the Empire for the rest of the year. 26 weeks until the end of the year (as far as Imperial updates are concerned), and only on 5 of those will there be no updates (due to, in order, Macworld, a play I might be doing, and a week off to make sure I get a huge update done).
I'd post the schedule, but then that would ruin all the wonderful surprises...
Just a small cosmetic change, really, but I've updated evula.net. I ditched the frames, as well as the contact page (since it was fairly useless).
Yeah, so it isn't that big of a deal. However, it is one of many updates I'm doing around the place to tidy up the Empire. Right now, I'm working on significant updates for evula.com and the other day, I had a downright smart idea about a new way to handle the evula.org navigation tables (and, who knows, one of these days I might do something with the site...). Of course, I'm also working on a few new things, too, but I don't want to say too much about those...
I'm also trying to hurry to get some of this stuff done before MacWorld. The Empress and I will be in attendance, but aside from a few hours on the computer in the car on the way there, I'm not going to be getting too much work done for about a week.
Oh, and for those keeping track, this is the rather confusing update I was talking about here.
Yeah, so I'm still forgetting to update the damn blog on time. However, I still don't feel too bad about it, since I'm getting quite a bit of work done... expect to see an update to one of the sites in the next few days.
What's funny about this particular update is that I'd been meaning to do so for quite a while, but I never really had the interest in it. However, I was working on something today (one of the big <cryptic grin> type things I'm doing currently) and realized that I had to update the site before I could continue work on what I was working on... that's confusing to anyone but me because of the vagueness, but oh well.
Anyway, I'm averaging about 1 Imperial update a week now, so I think I'll "unveil" one on Monday, and then another the week after that (since I've got two to choose from that are done, more or less, right now).