Heh, yay for alliteration.

Owwie, I really don’t think I’ve done good on my finals. I really don’t. These classes have no been anyway in the same zipcode as fun.

One teacher really never gave me much in the way of feedback, so I never knew what I was doing right or wrong. I’m not even sure if she actually even looked at my homework. I turned in incomplete assignments and still got 100% on them.

Then, for my other class, I had to write a paper on a fictional business and create a whole model for improving it over the next 12 to 24 months. I may be a lot of things, but I’m not business minded. ^^;;

At any rate, this semester may be my off one. So long as I do good in my Spring classes, I think I’ll be okay.

The site is back up and everythings transferred over. I canceled my account with the other webhost and still haven’t gotten back to them about why. (Not all that interested, to tell you the truth.)

The forums… wow. What to say? It took Jasson and I two days to install the subcategories modification; it was that involved. Several thousand lines of code that had to be added to that damned script. I think that’s the hardest thing we’ve ever attempted, I really do. But it was sooo worth it. ^__^ It definately looks better than the default stuff phpBB comes with. I think I’m actually starting to get excited about forums again!

But…. after Arise/RL, I’m not all that interested in leaving things to the rules. I don’t want to scream at people all the time. I just want them to act like civilized human beings and not a gaggle of preschoolers I have to watch every second. In lieu of this, I’m to put security measures into the actual script so they can’t pull some of the bull-plucky they did there.

Anyone know a good Web design community? And I mean a good one?

I tried joining DayDreamGraphics.com again earlier this week by submitting my Poison Paradise layout. They rejected it, saying that the admin “wasn’t fond of it” and that it didn’t work in Opera. Funny… I checked it! They also said that all it looked like was a picture on the side of an I-frame.

This is my third and final try to join that place. My first few posts on their MB were ignored, save for my intro. I want to improve my design and coding skills, not be ignored until I create something l33t enough to join their little clique. I tell when I’ve done that either. DDG has such strict anti-advertising rules that I can’t tell when I’m advertising or asking for help. One of those posts I made I was asking for help and was told I was advertising. *sigh* They say genuine posts asking for help are tolerated, but obviously they have a different definition of “genuine.”

I’ve deleted my account and I’m on a hunt to find another Web design community I can join. I simply don’t have the time or tolerance to fight to join a community clique anymore. I’ve never had that kind of energy in the first place.

Well, for the first time in months, I started my own topic on Gaia. Makes me a bit nervous, seems somehow I always end up with a fair number of people mad at me because they think I’ve posted in the wrote place.

I decided to ask the writer’s forum about my archive’s rules. *sigh*

Here’s hoping…

Taking a cue from Jasson, I decided to make a mirror site for my blog here. ^_^ Pretty quick I’ll link it up to my Bio page or something; since I really should fix all the links to my friends pages and well, stuff.

And in other news, back to work on the site redesign. I’m beginning to plan out the new look for the Library. Actually, I’m contemplating my rules again.

I’ve been spending quite a large amount of time trying to advertise Lunaescence, and I am getting more traffic. However, the Library has pretty much ground to a halt.

I’m honestly wondering if my rules are simply too strict for my audience. On the flip side, I really don’t want my page becoming a haven for garbage and ego stroking - plus, from feedback from some of my authors, they want my rules to remain in place or else they’d stop posting. I feel like I’m stuck between Scylla and Charybdis, in some ways.

I know I should be patient, but - seriously - I am not a good one to wait. What patience I had evaporated waiting for the house to sell. Despite the fact that I’m moved (and have been for almost 2 months now) I’m finding myself stuck in high gear.

Urg. Life has been interesting lately. I need to hurry up and get that Lounge challenge going. No the house hasn’t sold yet. -_-;; I’ll write more tomorrow when I have half a brain.