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14. Bring all personal websites up-to-date
This took me a month of hard work, but I'm so excited to finally finish it!
I updated 6 different websites and one of my blogs as well.
Kintailscape: Gave the front page a new design, turning it into a list of links. I actually went through several different redesigns until I settled on one I liked the most.
KateKintail's Crossing Zone: My BookCrossing site hadn't been properly updated since around 2009. I brought most of the pages up-to-date and redesigned the entire site.
KateKintail's Travel Blog: I hadn't been planning on updating this, but I noticed the theme I was using for it didn't work any more with a recent WordPress update. So I ended up installing a new skin, tagging every article, selecting featured photos for each article, and building a slideshow for the main page. The last entry is in 2014, so it could definitely stand to be updated again.
Personal story archive site: The last time i'd updated this was 4/29/12. So I ended up adding over 4 years' worth of stories I'd written. That amounted to coding and adding 344 stories and more than a dozen new pages for new fandoms or new projects I'd done. This is an update that I'd been putting off for so long, and it feels amazing to have finally done it!
My Birthday Challenge of 2004: Some friends got together and created a whole website full of stories and graphics for me on my birthday in 2004. Unfortunately, it got eaten by Geocities a few years back. Using the only page that the Wayback Machine managed to archive and the stories in the Yahoo Group, I managed to reconstruct the website entirely, coding all the stories and creating various category pages. I'm hosting it on my site now, so I know it won't vanish again.
Prompt Generator: Years ago, I created a form so people could submit writing prompts. I hadn't updated the site since 2010. So I posted the last of the un-posted prompts, added listings & links for several stories that had been written for prompts, and changed the site into archive mode.
Moods Challenge: I put together a challenge to encourage people to write stories based on the LJ list of moods. It was inspired by a bunch of other similar mood challenges. I had not touched the site since 2009, even though one member has been writing amazing stories starting again in 2013. So I erased all outdated claims, coded and added all fills, and updated the community in multiple places to abide by new rules.
I am THRILLED to have finished this project. It's like a weight has been lifted. I'm all caught up and ready to move forward on my current blogs and sites without worrying about the ones I've let slip for so long.
This took me a month of hard work, but I'm so excited to finally finish it!
I updated 6 different websites and one of my blogs as well.
Kintailscape: Gave the front page a new design, turning it into a list of links. I actually went through several different redesigns until I settled on one I liked the most. KateKintail's Crossing Zone: My BookCrossing site hadn't been properly updated since around 2009. I brought most of the pages up-to-date and redesigned the entire site.
KateKintail's Travel Blog: I hadn't been planning on updating this, but I noticed the theme I was using for it didn't work any more with a recent WordPress update. So I ended up installing a new skin, tagging every article, selecting featured photos for each article, and building a slideshow for the main page. The last entry is in 2014, so it could definitely stand to be updated again.
Personal story archive site: The last time i'd updated this was 4/29/12. So I ended up adding over 4 years' worth of stories I'd written. That amounted to coding and adding 344 stories and more than a dozen new pages for new fandoms or new projects I'd done. This is an update that I'd been putting off for so long, and it feels amazing to have finally done it!
My Birthday Challenge of 2004: Some friends got together and created a whole website full of stories and graphics for me on my birthday in 2004. Unfortunately, it got eaten by Geocities a few years back. Using the only page that the Wayback Machine managed to archive and the stories in the Yahoo Group, I managed to reconstruct the website entirely, coding all the stories and creating various category pages. I'm hosting it on my site now, so I know it won't vanish again.
Prompt Generator: Years ago, I created a form so people could submit writing prompts. I hadn't updated the site since 2010. So I posted the last of the un-posted prompts, added listings & links for several stories that had been written for prompts, and changed the site into archive mode.
Moods Challenge: I put together a challenge to encourage people to write stories based on the LJ list of moods. It was inspired by a bunch of other similar mood challenges. I had not touched the site since 2009, even though one member has been writing amazing stories starting again in 2013. So I erased all outdated claims, coded and added all fills, and updated the community in multiple places to abide by new rules.
I am THRILLED to have finished this project. It's like a weight has been lifted. I'm all caught up and ready to move forward on my current blogs and sites without worrying about the ones I've let slip for so long.
