Would anybody be interested in a Young Sin mini series? A series of one-shot stories about his past? I kind of have been kicking the idea around and can't figure out if I really want to do it or not...
On the one hand i think it would be interesting and I would start from as early as when his parents first met but on the other, i dont know if anyone cares.
-Sonny
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Validated \\ Ais
Bwahaha... I have almost the entire site validated right now, including (what I think is the most amazing part) the index page, with all the forms from other places for our free stuff like the mailing list. Of course, I could've fucked the forms up and they may be unusable now -_- So if people notice issues with trying to sign up for stuff, lemme know! There are about a million ways to contact us if you check the contact page listed on the left.
I'm happy because I think I even caught the majority of the foreign languages and have them properly coded. I like to code it so it's not just <i> or <em> but the full explanation of what language it is and which way it should be read, so it's better for all the browsers + programs that read the stuff aloud.
So, instead of 'lo más chingón' it's coded as <em lang="es" xml:lang="es" dir="ltr">lo más chingón</em>.
I wonder if that will even show up... hmm. [Edit: Hoho, I r smart. It worked.]
Anyway, it gives me some bizarre sense of pleasure to get things validated, to know I have it set up right. I want the site to be accessible to different capabilities so if I have all these problems everywhere that sort of defeats the purpose. I mean, eventually it'll look better (after the redesign like I keep talking about) but yeah. For now, at least most of the pages should be working now.
And I got the blog listed on every page! Go me?
Ok, I'm done with the website ramblings since I'm pretty sure no one cares about these things *cough*
I'm happy because I think I even caught the majority of the foreign languages and have them properly coded. I like to code it so it's not just <i> or <em> but the full explanation of what language it is and which way it should be read, so it's better for all the browsers + programs that read the stuff aloud.
So, instead of 'lo más chingón' it's coded as <em lang="es" xml:lang="es" dir="ltr">lo más chingón</em>.
I wonder if that will even show up... hmm. [Edit: Hoho, I r smart. It worked.]
Anyway, it gives me some bizarre sense of pleasure to get things validated, to know I have it set up right. I want the site to be accessible to different capabilities so if I have all these problems everywhere that sort of defeats the purpose. I mean, eventually it'll look better (after the redesign like I keep talking about) but yeah. For now, at least most of the pages should be working now.
And I got the blog listed on every page! Go me?
Ok, I'm done with the website ramblings since I'm pretty sure no one cares about these things *cough*
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Deja wtf + I resist your conformity! \\ Ais
lolz, I actually would have forgotten about posting the chapter today if Sonny hadn't mentioned it *cough*
It's so weird because we're currently writing chapter 17-- which, when you get to it, you will see it's a pretty important chapter-- so when I go back to the early chapters I keep having this moment of confusion in which I'm going, "Wait, what? Why is __ happening? Why does the narration say __? Why are __ talking about __ when it's way past that now?"
So confusing for poor little Ais.
By the way, in relation to Sonny's side stories entry... wtf XD If we had a contest between us about who could write more side stories in a set period of time, I would FAIL. EPIC FAIL. *looks around shiftily and leans in conspiratorially* Sonny just has to be better than me. Don't tell him I told you.
XD Kidding, of course. I wish I were that bad ass but idk, too hard for me to write side stories. I get all distracted. The fucking Owen one has been Almost Done for months now. I decided I hated the only one I had up previously so I removed it. Now the only one I have up is one that's all sadface.
So XD I'm not really adding to the lighthearted, humorous side of the story right now...
--
I am so obsessed with Metallica's newest album Death Magnetic. It's pretty out of control... I love The Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II, and at first didn't think I was a huge fan of The Unforgiven III, but now I'm friggin' obsessed with it and listen to it over and over and over... Considering it's a 7 minute song, that pretty quickly gets up to half an hour of Ais rocking to:
How can I be lost,
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
There are a few songs on it that I think are pretty pertinent to Afterimage, too.
PS: It cracks me up when I mishear lyrics. For instance, I thought James was saying, "How could he know this new dog's life would change his life forever?" but really it's "How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever?" which, not only a lot more poetic, makes a hell of a lot more sense. Unless, you know, he got a hellian dog he needs to send Cesar's way XD
PPS: I also really like Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight and am a definite fan of Little Things Give You Away.
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you...
---
Dude, I am so ADD sometimes. I started working on replacing the navigation to include the blog/remove the chat. SIMPLE, RIGHT? Except then I decide to fix the header issues that were going on, and then I decide to validate a page, then fix all those errors, and get it down to the same issues I've been having -- no allowtransparency attribute in iframes, and no "name" attribute in headers, which is lame? Because in my web design class recently, we purposefully did id and name so it would be cross-compatible with Macs, PCs, etc.
I decided to look into the allowtransparency dilemma again and GUESS WHAT I FOUND? Apparently W3C decided a few years ago it was no longer kosher just because, although one person said they thought it may be because HTML isn't supposed to be a visual language so you should be doing that shit with CSS.
Which, ok, would be a valid point except as far as I can tell there is no other way to get the same result.
Brilliant.
Not that it's a huge deal, I mean it's just on the shoutbox. But this irritates me, damnit! I WANT TO BE VALIDATED *criez* My life is meaningless without that green checkbox saying I'm a-ok and not worthy of death! DRAMA DRAMA.
Ok not really XD But it does piss me off XD I should just remove the fucking attribute and be done with it XD But I'm all stubborn and resistant, like, "Fuck you, W3C, what do you know anyway?"
So anyway. Ranting aside, I guess I should actually finish changing the navigation on every page, huh? *cough*
-Ais FTL
It's so weird because we're currently writing chapter 17-- which, when you get to it, you will see it's a pretty important chapter-- so when I go back to the early chapters I keep having this moment of confusion in which I'm going, "Wait, what? Why is __ happening? Why does the narration say __? Why are __ talking about __ when it's way past that now?"
So confusing for poor little Ais.
By the way, in relation to Sonny's side stories entry... wtf XD If we had a contest between us about who could write more side stories in a set period of time, I would FAIL. EPIC FAIL. *looks around shiftily and leans in conspiratorially* Sonny just has to be better than me. Don't tell him I told you.
XD Kidding, of course. I wish I were that bad ass but idk, too hard for me to write side stories. I get all distracted. The fucking Owen one has been Almost Done for months now. I decided I hated the only one I had up previously so I removed it. Now the only one I have up is one that's all sadface.
So XD I'm not really adding to the lighthearted, humorous side of the story right now...
--
I am so obsessed with Metallica's newest album Death Magnetic. It's pretty out of control... I love The Unforgiven and The Unforgiven II, and at first didn't think I was a huge fan of The Unforgiven III, but now I'm friggin' obsessed with it and listen to it over and over and over... Considering it's a 7 minute song, that pretty quickly gets up to half an hour of Ais rocking to:
How can I be lost,
If I've got nowhere to go?
Search for seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
There are a few songs on it that I think are pretty pertinent to Afterimage, too.
PS: It cracks me up when I mishear lyrics. For instance, I thought James was saying, "How could he know this new dog's life would change his life forever?" but really it's "How could he know this new dawn's light would change his life forever?" which, not only a lot more poetic, makes a hell of a lot more sense. Unless, you know, he got a hellian dog he needs to send Cesar's way XD
PPS: I also really like Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight and am a definite fan of Little Things Give You Away.
All you've ever wanted was someone to truly look up to you...
---
Dude, I am so ADD sometimes. I started working on replacing the navigation to include the blog/remove the chat. SIMPLE, RIGHT? Except then I decide to fix the header issues that were going on, and then I decide to validate a page, then fix all those errors, and get it down to the same issues I've been having -- no allowtransparency attribute in iframes, and no "name" attribute in headers, which is lame? Because in my web design class recently, we purposefully did id and name so it would be cross-compatible with Macs, PCs, etc.
I decided to look into the allowtransparency dilemma again and GUESS WHAT I FOUND? Apparently W3C decided a few years ago it was no longer kosher just because, although one person said they thought it may be because HTML isn't supposed to be a visual language so you should be doing that shit with CSS.
Which, ok, would be a valid point except as far as I can tell there is no other way to get the same result.
Brilliant.
Not that it's a huge deal, I mean it's just on the shoutbox. But this irritates me, damnit! I WANT TO BE VALIDATED *criez* My life is meaningless without that green checkbox saying I'm a-ok and not worthy of death! DRAMA DRAMA.
Ok not really XD But it does piss me off XD I should just remove the fucking attribute and be done with it XD But I'm all stubborn and resistant, like, "Fuck you, W3C, what do you know anyway?"
So anyway. Ranting aside, I guess I should actually finish changing the navigation on every page, huh? *cough*
-Ais FTL
Side Story Mania//\\Sonny
I can't get enough of writing Emilio and Zach and it saddens me because their fun time backstory days will never happen again in the present story. :( I keep trying to limit myself to "okay this will be a three story back arc" and then "okay four", but then I get more ideas and want to write even more. So I decided to map it out for myself. Two stories for the very beginning (which means I have to go back and add one *wince*), three in between stories, and two that occur at the very end before Emilio disappears.
I doubt I'll ever follow that but I'll try. Also I want to write out the entirety of their multiple month undercover mission but I don't know if anyone would be interested/if its a good idea. Right now I'm just writing brief excerpts from it.
Anyway, I rambled about that too much.
Other stuff I have planned is a multi story Ryan arc but I have to figure out the timing of when that would happen and when I should post. I only have a page of it written so there's no rush on that.
There's not enough time in my day to do all I want to do. =/
I doubt I'll ever follow that but I'll try. Also I want to write out the entirety of their multiple month undercover mission but I don't know if anyone would be interested/if its a good idea. Right now I'm just writing brief excerpts from it.
Anyway, I rambled about that too much.
Other stuff I have planned is a multi story Ryan arc but I have to figure out the timing of when that would happen and when I should post. I only have a page of it written so there's no rush on that.
There's not enough time in my day to do all I want to do. =/
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
damn you, errors!
Sometimes being a perfectionist + knowing at least a bit of web design information is annoying as hell. For instance, when I created this site off a css template, I didn't know anything about W3C validation, etc, so it didn't occur to me that if the website looked all pretty and worked in front of my eyes that there could be evil, insidious creatures in the background, unraveling all my hard work, fucking the site up for people from different browsers, etc, and making it look like I don't know wtf I'm doing.
Which, ok, granted-- would be true.
Point being, when I went to create this blog.html I decided to take the plunge and check the W3C validation. WTF ERRORS. Then I realized I didn't have it set to Transitional, and then there were all these other little errors that no one really cares about BUT THE POINT IS IT'S NOW CLEAN. Except for some mumbo jumbo about an iframe issue and allowTransparency not existing and Microsoft says you lie, bitches, so there. (This is probably the one time I'll side with Microsoft instead of W3C and that's only 'cause they're not telling me I suck ^_~)
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I now know enough to know when I suck at coding, but I don't usually want to take the time to fix stuff. I actually love web design/coding, but when it's working on this site, I get so unenthused. I supposed because if it's a choice of working on ICoS-related stuff, and it's "writing" or "coding," coding always fails the popularity contest. Not even Miss Congeniality in my mind, it's way off stage in the Ais Is Too Lazy To Consider wing.
EVENTUALLY, there will be exciting things on this site. I'll finally get the thing redesigned according to the designs I made in Photoshop, I'll make sure all the coding is correct/validated, I'll get the external navigation files going, and comments on the chapters... all these stupid little projects in the waiting, which are going to stay that way indefinitely because I'm the one in charge of it and I am really not so great with follow-through.
But for now, the newest exciting thing on the site is this blog, courtesy of Sonny's idea.
Later will come Operation Make This Site Efficient And Pretty. Or MTSEAP, as we call it for short. Uh. Yeah, witty comments elude me right now.
-Ais
Which, ok, granted-- would be true.
Point being, when I went to create this blog.html I decided to take the plunge and check the W3C validation. WTF ERRORS. Then I realized I didn't have it set to Transitional, and then there were all these other little errors that no one really cares about BUT THE POINT IS IT'S NOW CLEAN. Except for some mumbo jumbo about an iframe issue and allowTransparency not existing and Microsoft says you lie, bitches, so there. (This is probably the one time I'll side with Microsoft instead of W3C and that's only 'cause they're not telling me I suck ^_~)
Anyway, guess I'm just saying I now know enough to know when I suck at coding, but I don't usually want to take the time to fix stuff. I actually love web design/coding, but when it's working on this site, I get so unenthused. I supposed because if it's a choice of working on ICoS-related stuff, and it's "writing" or "coding," coding always fails the popularity contest. Not even Miss Congeniality in my mind, it's way off stage in the Ais Is Too Lazy To Consider wing.
EVENTUALLY, there will be exciting things on this site. I'll finally get the thing redesigned according to the designs I made in Photoshop, I'll make sure all the coding is correct/validated, I'll get the external navigation files going, and comments on the chapters... all these stupid little projects in the waiting, which are going to stay that way indefinitely because I'm the one in charge of it and I am really not so great with follow-through.
But for now, the newest exciting thing on the site is this blog, courtesy of Sonny's idea.
Later will come Operation Make This Site Efficient And Pretty. Or MTSEAP, as we call it for short. Uh. Yeah, witty comments elude me right now.
-Ais
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
First post, test post, stuff.
Hi, welcome to our blog. I'm not really sure I suggested having this but it seemed like a neat idea at the time + it could be interesting and/or useful for a couple of things. For example we can feel free to bitch about how difficult a chapter is, real life getting in the way of writing, editing being a pain or whatever. It's our little soapbox.
We could also bitch about RL stuff if we feel so inclined and people who are actually interested in that could be amused and/or annoyed by whatever they read. Who knows. The possibilities are endless.
I don't have anything to blog about right now atm, but maybe I'll think of something clever. That may be a problem. This may turn into Sonny Trying To Look Clever instead of Sonny Blogging, which will become a huge pain in the ass for me because I am very rarely clever. I'm usually just high and dumb. Ais is the brains behind this operation.
Okay dudes, peace out for now.
Sonny.
We could also bitch about RL stuff if we feel so inclined and people who are actually interested in that could be amused and/or annoyed by whatever they read. Who knows. The possibilities are endless.
I don't have anything to blog about right now atm, but maybe I'll think of something clever. That may be a problem. This may turn into Sonny Trying To Look Clever instead of Sonny Blogging, which will become a huge pain in the ass for me because I am very rarely clever. I'm usually just high and dumb. Ais is the brains behind this operation.
Okay dudes, peace out for now.
Sonny.
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