Kjorteo's Domain - News Archives: 2007

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News Archives: 2007

December 29, 2007
Added a picture by SnowRose Rivenstar to the guest art gallery.

November 26, 2007
Added new pictures to the guest art galleries: one by Jacel in Adult, and one by Likeshine and one by Zhivago D. in Mild.

August 4, 2007
Removed the "About Me" discourse from the Discourses section, because it was incredibly out of date. I realize that one of the main points behind that section is that I put dates on everything and make it clear when they are written, so that even if my opinions or writing styles change or the piece becomes out of date, it can be seen for historical purposes. However, when a piece mostly contains personal information, then containing claims that are very very much not true now becomes a very a different matter.

June 18, 2007
The Guest Writings sections have been dealt with.

The Unlocked Guest Writings section has been completely closed, and all links to it on other sections of the site have been removed.
The Mild and Adult Guest Writings sections have been redesigned and had their HTML cleaned up. The descriptions of all stories in the Adult section have been rephrased. The Mild section is still empty.
No new or moved content.
Deleted content: The entire MST section in the Adult section.

In other news, I found yet another old Jawzie sketch I had somehow overlooked before, and added it to the Mild Guest Art gallery. Other than that, I think that's it for this phase of the site revamp. The non-Art and Writings sections are still dusty and badly in need of updating--I just realized how bad the Arcade section is, for example--but revamping and updating the other sections is a project for another day. I did flat-out remove the Links, Guestbook, and Tail End sections, though, because they were lame. Overall, there is still work to do in the little nooks and crannies of this site when I can get around to it, but most of the important sections have been made more or less presentable.

June 14, 2007
My Writing sections have been completed. Results:

As usual, My Unlocked Writings has been completely closed, and all links to it on other sections of the site have been removed.
My Mild and Adult writings have been redesigned and had their HTML cleaned up, and every single description has been rewritten.
New content: A new story called "Seduction" in My Adult Writings. I'm actually pretty proud of it, so you might want to check it out.
Moved content: All the video game MSTs that were in My Unlocked Writings are now in My Mild Writings.
Deleted content: The poetry has been removed from Mild, and the MST of "A Mother's Loving" has been removed from Adult.

Also, there's a new picture in the Mild version of the Guest Art Gallery. It's a cute picture of Kjorteo drawn by Jawzie. The picture itself isn't new, but it was apparently overlooked, as I hadn't uploaded it before. It's up now, though. And, again, I've been continuing to tidy up rogue HTML as I encounter it.

June 12, 2007
The Guest art galleries have received the treatment My art galleries received in the last update:

The Unlocked gallery has been completely closed, and all links to it on other sections of the site have been removed.
the Mild and Adult galleries have been slightly redesigned and had their HTML somewhat cleaned up, and every single picture description has been rewritten.
New content: one new picture from Vera in the Mild gallery, and one each from Ash Bearfox, Irene, Lafitte (formerly Salali,) and SkyShadow in the Adult gallery.
Deleted content: Only the three pictures from Nemos Ochon in the Unlocked gallery, which I decided to take down instead of working into either of the other galleries.

In less important news, I cleaned up my Contact page a little, and decided to stop using font face tags for news updates. (Old updates and archived news are unchanged, but this marks the first entry where I only used the font tag to change the color.) Next up will be to tackle the remaining two Unlocked galleries, clean up the links on that big table on the Spicy main page once there are no more Unlocked galleries, and try to continue to tidy up questionable HTML as I come across it. It's all part of a slow, gradual effort to clean this site up.

June 4, 2007
Not only am I actually still alive, but I'm considering somewhat of a site overhaul. This site hasn't aged particularly well, you see, in that pages I was proud of X years ago look terrible to me now. I have several big changes planned, but sadly, there's just too much to do to fit it all in one update. To get the cleaning out started, though, here's what I did today:

Closed the Unlocked level of My Art Gallery. Yep, it's gone. I was growing increasingly unsatisfied with the idea of the Unlocked level as a whole, especially since there are only three pieces at most in any given Unlocked page. So, I decided to shut them down completely, and move the content in them to either Mild or Adult, depending on how blatant each piece is. My Unlocked Gallery is the first one down. Expect the other Unlocked pages to follow shortly. Of the three pieces that were in My Unlocked Gallery, two were moved to My Mild Gallery and one was flat-out deleted, which brings us to the next point.
Flat-out deleted some pieces here and there. No, I'm not going to remove every old piece I don't like anymore, but I am going to remove the particularly shameful ones. How bad is too bad is somewhat arbitrary, I'll admit, but I'm generally trying to stay on the side of keeping most things and only removing the absolute worst of the worst. If you count all versions of the same picture as only one picture, then between My Mild, Unlocked, and Adult galleries, I removed a total of nine whole works and two rough versions of works where the full version is still here.
I redid all the descriptions for all works in My Mild and Adult Galleries. All of them. I completely rewrote every single description of every single picture in both galleries. The new writeups are somewhat more minimalist than before, but they're less embarrassing.
Cleaned up the HTML for My Adult Gallery. Most of it is invisible changes that would only affect you if you care what the source code for the page looks like. However, as far as visible changes go, I did change it so the keyword/species information and actual description of each piece are in the same cell, rather than splitting them up into separate rows.
Minor changes in all the other pages to keep up with the consequences of the major changes. Removed links to My Unlocked Gallery, made a 2007 page in the news archives for this update, etc.
To top it off, I added one all-new picture each to My Mild and Adult Galleries.

This is what I consider a good start. The next step is to give all the other gallery and writing sections the same treatment that My Art just received.

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