Everything Louder's Layout

I can't remember whether this was on the old blog but following Everything Louder's honour of winning Celebrity Site of The Day for 8th June 2011, I looked at some of the other recipients of the award. Some of the other sites were really pretty so that got me thinking about how I can improve Everything Louder. As much as I wanted a pretty site at the time, it wasn't going to work for the subject matter so I experimented a bit and came up with a new idea.

With the old layout, it was only the galleries that got updated regularly and there was no news or anything like that on the site. A lot of these other sites had news and after trying to find ways to encorporate it into the current site layout, I decided to try another system altogether. I decided to experiment with Wordpress which was used on a lot of the other fansites and came up with a layout which I put out to a few friends to evaluate. Overall the response was good and so on Monday 13th June, the new layout was launched on the domain. It was easier to transfer it over than I thought it would be and the beauty of this system is that I don't have to be tied to the one computer to do site updates.

The end of an era for DavidStiersFan

DavidStiersFan was first established in July 2005 and was a website dedicated to the American actor David Ogden Stiers. The site remained reasonably popular until 2009 and whilst several alternatives were thought of to regenerate the site, lack of work from David Ogden Stiers made things difficult. For the last year the site's future has been uncertain and now the site has come offline for the final time. The DavidStiersFan name, for the remainder of it's registration will link to the Facebook Page.

Like Major Winchester's Website, that came offline in January, I had felt a sentimentality towards it as it was one of my first websites but there was little point in keeping it for the sake of sentimentality.

Moving From Wordpress

BatAngel's Blog used to be a WordPress thing but to tell thr truth I wasn't very happy with it being there as I seemed to end up with no end of spam as comments and other than disabling comments altogether, there was no way of stopping this. Not only that but I was always having to update the software and that got boring. I already knew Blogger was relatively easy to use as Everything Louder's Blog uses Blogger.
Originally BatAngel's blog was going to be about website updates but I thought that was boring so some other relevant stuff might get posted here too.