Name: 10 Most Popular Categories Panel

Description: Returns the top ten most popular categories on your eFiction site along with a count to show how many stories each category has.

Requirements: eFiction 3.2 or later

Mod History:
- 27 February, 2007 — Converted to eFiction 3.0
- 03 March, 2007 — Released to the public
- 03 March, 2007 — Fixed category links

Demo: http://test.lunaescence.com/toplists.php?list=popularcats

Download Link: popularcat.zip

Okay, since I *think* I’ll have Christmas break to get some things done, here’s my tentative to-do list.

1. Finish eFiction Skinning Tutorial.
2. Finish Luna’s copy of Shuriken
3. Help Jass fix the Pink skin
4. Help Jasson program the new features.
5. I’d like to do something with my blog here.
6. Maybe do another new skin for Luna if I have time.

I’m just not sure how much I’m going to get done. Some of these projects are going to take a while. eFiction 3.0 is still awful buggy, though. We might push the upgrade and programming back a while to give the live version a chance to settle down. I don’t think Jass or I have the time anymore to redo our mods a million times like we did for 2.0 when it came out.

Since I’m directing more and more people here to pick up eFiction stuff, I really should redo the blog with my career in mind too. I’m going to have my resume and portfolio here, so I need to redo. Even though I made this layout for my final, I never quite finished it.

Jasson, though, has started to redo the Pink skin to address all the graphical bugs. If he and I worked diligently together like we did on Shuriken, we could have it done in a day. Ah, decisions, decisions.

Description: This will display a “View Profile” link to the account menu in user.php, which will take your users to their author profile page.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0

Difficulty: Easy

Modification History:
June 23, 2006 — Released Modification
November 30, 2006 — Updated, forgot a step

Files Involved:

• user.php
• languages/en.php

Instructions:

I’ve been making layouts for eFiction for a couple years, but it suddenly occured to me just how many fanfiction sites there are that look exactly like Luna because I’m using the same layouts I’ve released. XD

We need a fresh, creative, and distinctive look that strictly belongs to Lunaescence. No release or sharing, it’s ours in the biggest sense of the word. Pink really doesn’t count, because it’s too girly (and glitchy, sorry Jass) to be a primary design.

Sure, I’ll keep my other skins available, but there’s several hundred sites now that have some combination or derivation of Shinigami Blues, Marauders, and/or Zenlike. Shuriken is starting to make the rounds too. Don’t get me wrong, it’s thrilling seeing so many people using my designs and seeing them translated into so many different languages.

I just suddenly realized we don’t have a look of our own. And that bothers me.

Even though I probably can’t claim it on a resume, this site has been a huge education for me. I want it to succeed and thus, I’m going out of my way to learn things they aren’t teaching me in college.

I guess the problem is, I’ve started researching area companies and realized that I’m about to enter the big picture. Some of these design firms and agencies I’m looking at blow my mind by how cutting-edge they look, especially compared to my sites. I know I simply have a bad case of artist’s vision and inferiority complex, but I really need to up the ante.

I’m just not sure where I’m going to find the time to do that! XD

Additional Files for Shuriken

Raw Graphic Files: shuriken_raw_graphics.zip

Readme File: SHURIKEN_READ_ME.txt

Description: When you’re logged in, it returns “Welcome back, Username.” and then a list of quick account links below that. I usually put it beside the login tag so they switch places depending on the user’s login status.

This is actually the first mod I made for eFiction 2.0 and it originally went with the Marauders layout. However, when I discovered blocks weren’t considered part of the skins, I ended up keeping it for myself. ^_^

Marohi rewrote this entire block for me so it can now be customized. You can either choose to use the default version or customize the welcome message and links displayed to fit your site using variables.php. Our idea was to eventually try to include a DHTML drop down menu like DeviantArt or simply making account links appear in the regular menu area like LiveJournal.

Requirements: eFiction 2.0, with all current patches

Download Links: loggedin_v2_5.zip

Extra Files: Read Me.txt

To use, simply add {loggedin_content} to your tpls. Default CSS is .login and .quicklinks.

Please refer to the readme file for full instructions on how to use this block.

Modification History:

December 14, 2005: Mod Released

EDIT: I’m currently moving my domain, so the current link could be broken at any time now. I’ll edit this post once I’m done to give the new location.

EDIT #2: Fixed the download link.

June 23, 2006: I finally figured out how to make a link to the logged in user’s profile. Rather than update the original, I simply made a second version. What this second version will do is link the $username part of the welcome message with that person’s profile. You might have to alter some file names if you want to run both versions on your site.

July 08, 2006: Moved the download location slightly to make room for 3.0 stuff a little later.

November 28, 2006: Released version 2.5

Modification & Support Link: eFiction.org