Saturday, November 30, 2013

SITE UPDATE-17.7.1771

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V.1.7.1771- It's that time of the year!!! IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!! So, just for fun and celebration, I put lights up on my sites and it snows! Well...only my Blogger sites. They are the only ones that are easy to edit and are right in front of me. I would do my membership site, but there's a problem. The reason way it's getting out of date is because Webs site editor won't load for me. I still could work on the pages and I will for 2014. But, I can't update the sidebar things, which is where I put the codes for the snow and lights. Sorry membership site. You can still go see the using the icons and the bottom of the site. You might have to maximize the window to get the best effect. 
I went with lights at the bottom of my sites. Last year, I had them all on the top except the main site. The floating things interfered with it. But now all the sites have floating things. The lights still worked at the top. They went behind everything. But, I liked them at the bottom. As for the snow, there wasn't anything changed. The color of the snow depends on what site, and the amount of snow too. I had to turn it down on my blog because it slowed the place down. That's why there is no snow on the main site again. I did add it, and it worked way better than last year. This shows that my refinements and load testing are working, but it still was a bit slow. So, I still cut it out. Sorry main site. Moving on, there is on big new thing this year. MUSIC!! CHRISTMAS TIME MUSIC!! The playlist of songs isn't that great. It was hard to find good ones. But the way I did it was new. I'm testing a new window...thing. It's not a normal new window. It's one that opens just on the site and inside the site itself. It's quite cool. The window is close-able and it can minimize. However, it is a bit buggy. It works on all sites, but on some, it has to go in the sidebar. Then, that makes the other problems. When the loader is in the top bar on sites that work, it loads in the middle of the screen. When it's in the sidebar, it loads in the middle of the sidebar. But, it's a good thing it's MOVABLE!! Also, when it minimized from the sidebar, it disappears. But, if you scroll down a bit, it's there. I'll work out the issues over time. In fact, right after I typed this...I found the solution... :-D But if you are having problems, I made a back up link for the music player that loads in just a new window. It uses the favicons window loading code. Another good thing, both work in other browsers. I tried it in Firefox and Internet Explorer 9 and they did load a bit slow, but they work.Well...this was a bigger update than I thought, but that's all. If you are looking around, you can see new things already being added or changed for the end of the year update. Things are coming into place. See you in a month.

    Wednesday, November 27, 2013

    Picture 262

    On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.

    Wednesday, November 20, 2013

    Picture 261

    On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.

    Sunday, November 17, 2013

    Update Blog...Update-11-17-13

    This is a post from my UPDATE BLOG.
    Sunday, November 17th, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.- Today is a big storm day. I woke up to a PDS Tornado watch being issued that ended just to our west. But now, as of an hour ago, we are in one too. There is a line of storms forming. The first storm that popped up had an instant warning and there a large rain wrapped tornado confirmed. I have everything ready for the worst. This is the real deal. I'm having flashbacks to Oct. 24th 2001. I'll continue this post later, but I made a document in Google Drive that you can go to. I'll type as things happen there and you can see it update live. I have wanted to do this and this is the test run. CLICK HERE to go to the doc.
    12:00 p.m.- This was a very interesting day. Go to the document for the full details.

    Saturday, November 16, 2013

    SITE UPDATE-17.5.1750

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    V.17.5.1750-This is a preparation update. I'm getting things ready for V.18 which is my new years update. I'm getting started early so that I get things done properly and not rush. You'll see things start to slowly change. Like my Facebook comments. I finally found a solution for the problem they had from the beginning. I'm still testing to see if everything works. That's why you see a change happen, but I don't immediately announce it. I put things though many tests to make sure they won't fail, or I want to make sure I'm getting the best out of the thing by adding more to the code and refining things. All this is to prevent a bunch of small updates for little things. I like my new bulk update style. Just put all the small ones into a big update. Anyways, expect one more update before V.18. That is for the return of the Christmas lights and snow effects. It snowed once so far. I like to break out the Christmas things on December 1st, so look for the update then. Finally after that, you'll see 2014 things appear in the menu and other places and then they'll slowly get filled in. See, you in two weeks.

      Wednesday, November 13, 2013

      Picture 260

      On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.

      Wednesday, November 6, 2013

      Picture 259

      On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.

      Monday, November 4, 2013

      Update Blog...Update-11-4-13

      This is a post from my UPDATE BLOG.
      Monday, November 4th, 2013- Today, my main site went over 10,000 views. And my blog went over 3,000. Of course, that's not a lot, and it has been four years. This is not including the old site though. When I made the new Main Site in 2010, I did it in a way that I lost all the views from the old Main Site. I learned a new way to update things and keep the views when I re-vamped my blog. Instead of creating a new site, building it, and then launch it by re-naming the old site URL to something else and then naming the new site to the old's, I just created a temp site with the old URL, named the old something else, and then re-built it. After all that, I name it back to the original URL and the temp site is deleted. That way, I keep my old views. But, I didn't think that through. So, I would have an extra 232 views....which isn't that much neither. Weird. I didn't know my old main didn't get that much. So...yeah, this was a crazy rabbit trail post. I just want to say thanks. Looking at where the view are coming from, I see they are from Stumble Upon or other places that you click a button and you get a random site. They aren't coming from my blog, or my YouTube channel. Hmmm...weird.

      Sunday, November 3, 2013

      Update Blog...Update-11-3-13

      This is a post from my UPDATE BLOG.
      Sunday, November 3rd, 2013- I have been so busy...eating candy. HALLOWEEN! Anyways, I uploaded this month update video. I have been just moving a long, doing nothing. I am prepare for 2014 in various way. Making plan for things I need to do and what-not. I also made a special video for my Boots again. I'm still feeling sad.