RandomFandom Forum updated and MOVED!

The forum that was located at:

http://www.randomfandom.com/phpBB2/

Has been updated and moved to forum.randomfandom.com

I had planned to move it next week, but a test run I did this weekend came out perfect so I decided to move up the date. (Also I was afraid I wouldn't be able to do it again. ^^; )

The forum software changed so much that required a new install, and then conversion. The good news is that means that if something went wrong, the old forum is there with no changes. The bad news is that the new install, even though all the users, posts, topics and pms have been copied over, had to be moved to a new location.

I'd actually wanted to do that anyway because the old location was spambait. Now the forum has it's very own spiffy subdomain. Old links to the forum are semi-broken, as any link will take you to the message that the domain has moved. I hope to find a solution to that soon (I've heard you can do something with your .htaccess file, but it sounds all very complicated...I will have to do some more studying.)

Feelin' All Kinds of Accomplished!

I've switched over from using Blogger to maintain my blog to Wordpress. Blogger is great...easy to use, but not very flexible. Or rather, not easily flexible if you host it yourself. I've seen people do amazing things on Blogger, but I could never get my blog looking and acting the way I wanted and have it hosted on my domain, Randomfandom.com.

In less than one week I managed to import all my posts from blogger, got everything organized into categories, gave every post a title, made it searchable, subscribe-able and with a simple downloaded theme, pretty. I wasn't able to do that in years on Blogger! My site was always functional, but not very attractive and finding past posts on a topic you might be interested was more or less impossible. (If you're reading this post through my livejournal or facebook mirror, take a glance at the website version of my blog @ blog.randomfandom.com)

Of course, there is still room for improvement. I want to make it look more like the rest of my site. More and more bits of my site don't have the same look, or even connected. But before I work on image I think I need to focus on posting more, and more good content. Did you know I've been posting in my blog since 2002? You know what I learned as I went through each post, marking categories and adding titles? Over half my posts mention I wish I was posting more. That's six years of regret!

I know I can do it. Take a look at my "Manga-A-Day" posts. I did a month's worth of posts. I need to decide on a goal and keep it. Right now I've got a list of notes about what I liked about my past posts, and what I disliked. I think I know what I want to do more of, and am working on a plan. I'm always interested in feedback. So if there is something you'd like to see more posts on, feel free to chime in.

Among other tasks that I've accomplished are boxing up all my VHS tapes and clearing off two bookcases for more manga. Yay! This also lead me to finishing up getting all my VHS and DVDs into my Movie Collector database. I also updated my manga collection in Book Collector, so now:

anime.randomfandom.com
manga.randomfandom.com

are both completely up-to-date. You can also see that they also don't look anything like the rest of the website, or each other. Oh, well, it's mostly used by friends so they can send in request for what to borrow. And if I can figure out to make a template for one, I should be able to use it for both.

Next is to focus on fic.randomfandom.com. I realized I never uploaded some of my chapter updates, and there are other things I wanted to add.

Is there anything I'm forgetting in my update roundup?