I confess that this blog is getting further and further away from forum/er dedication. I guess the original reason why I made it in the first place was because we usually have pictures or drawings we want to present on certain forumer birthdays, and because FF.net is ghey and doesn't allow piccies, I thought why not make a blog where we could post the pictures for everyone to enjoy?
But of course, if all we're going to blog about is pictures, updates would be few and far in between.
So I expanded my ideas and did stuff not directly related to the forum - the anime/manga/drama review being the most recent one of them. I also did the polls and Rain came up with an idea of the music playlist. Of course, I've tried my hardest to make sure they're related back to the forum in some tiny way.
Then, I got more lousy ideas, but at the same time, I realized that it wasn't workable in a blog, because all we can do in a blog is, well, post. It doesn't have links to different pages and everything where we can keep everything separate - a profile of forumers (and a special one for Dudly because she created the cracktastic forum XD), the music playlist, the anime/manga/drama reviews, etc.
So..........................
I'm thinking to moving this blog to a website.
We'll still have a blog (the services I'm looking at right now include a blog) but we might just lose everything else we've posted, unless I bother to manually transfer 50 posts to the new blog. The music playlist might have to be moved. Everything else goes on the new website. I'm still not sure if I can get the website idea to work, but so far, it's a definite and major change.
Also, the website's new template isn't unique and something to scream over.
But it's so much better if we want to have separate pages for Anime Reviews, blog, Who ARE we anyway?, links, Snapshots, and Mishmash (as I've named them currently XD). And yes, I'm already in the process of making it, even without consulting you guys, so I'm horrible. ;_; But I haven't put it up on the web yet...not really, anyway. XD
Right now, what I'm thinking about is - the website/blog (if you want to keep it strictly a blog) will be more a place where forumers can go and have fun with the crappy ideas I have XD instead of dedicating itself to the forum. Still, forumers have the first priority - birthdays and celebrations will be, well, celebrated with much fanfare and old me will still attempt to keep up on the current 'gossip' in the forum, and we'll try to blend as much of the forumers in as usual. After all, even if we lose the forum (by a fluke that FF.net erases all forums for some explicable reason) we'll still BE the forumers and we'll still be, well, connected? Friends?
*shot*
ANYONE GOING TO WRITE A SAPPY SHOJO STORY OUTTA THIS??
(O_o it's raining funnily. Funny.)
So yeah, that's my musing right now - website, instead of blog, and who's up for it?
I would also like to request someone who can draw and manipulate - oops. That's going to be in the website, if I ever get the chance to release it. *wicked grin*
For now, even if I DO release the website, keep in mind it's going to take a lot of tweaking (from all of us? XD) to get it happy. I know I won't be able to please everyone - someone might want black backgrounds while another....well...maybe she wants to stick JE boys all over it? XDD But, well. You get the idea.
That brings me to another difference I dislike about websites and blogs. Blogs can have different authors. Websites can't, not the one I'm using to design the site anyway. :( So that's really annoying, because then I can't ask anyone to maintain the webby if I'm away/sick/lazy. Unless I give out the account name and password. What do you guys think?
Am I insane? *shot*
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