So I finally have a real community project to get my little hands into. Even though I already had plenty of tasks I need to finish, I am ever so excited about this one! I’m not saying I hate this website, but as a personal blogging/graphics website, it is nowhere near as interesting to me as making a website for a community of people! Knowing that I’m not just making a website for myself makes me feel great! Plus I need the experience!

So what is it? It is a World of Warcraft guild website! Two guilds on the Firetree server are about to make a merge! Being the sister and friend of the current leaders, I wanted to help out. I want to make a guild website with all the basics and more. I don’t only want raid schedules and character information, I want a website that will bring the guild members close together. I want to make the members feel like family!

So I’ll probably use Nuoriffic for the domain, since really nuoriffic is doing nothing but hosting little things at the moment. Plus the name would go with our guild name, Narcoleptic Unicorns, which came from the initials “NUO”.

Nuoriffic MB will still be around for awhile, but might end up merging with in the new website.

Anyways, I’m trying to make a decision: Drupal or Joomla? Both look really nice and have plenty of nifty extensions, but I can’t decide which would be right for the new website!

Now that ljxp has been updated to work with WordPress version 2.5, I have reinstalled it! Hurrah!

I’ve also added some other plugins. One of my favorites being Lighter Menus. It makes navigating the Wordpress administration area 200 times faster!

I also wanted to try SimpleLife, but I kept getting errors on the plugin menu. It looks like a wonderful plugin if you get it to work though!

I worked a little bit on a layout for Zombify as well. I changed the look once again. I’ll probably stick with the idea, since it’ll be a lot more flexible than the last idea.

I should have a lot more done on this website this week. I have become super motivated once again.

I finally sat down and decided to make some PS brushes. I find it so interesting how really anything can turn into a brush! Anyways, I made two today. One is just a textual brush with lyrics from Blink182’s I Miss You. The second one is a grungey type brush made from pictures I took when a tree fell on my boyfriend’s car. They’ll be up and ready to download, along with some more brushes, hopefully this week.

Of course it still needs a lot of work. I might not even end up using it. Not sure I like the roundness of it. But it was an idea that was stuck in my head for quite awhile. First I want to work on the more important stuff, like a little more content on the site, then I shall focus more on the layout. Should be up by some time this month though.

Well I managed to save all of my content. It was almost a disaster and I almost lost everything I worked on. I still have a lot to fix, but at least I don’t have to start completely over.

What am I talking about? I almost nuked my website during upgrading to the new Wordpress. I think I’ll stay way from automatic updaters for awhile. It’s not as nice as having full control if you know what I mean.

I have a lot of catching up to do on the internet. I’ve been working on material for this website though. I’ve been working on two freeware web layouts. Sorry about the inactivity, I’ve just been a little bit busy. (Not to mention all of my free time has been going to World of Warcraft)

Anyways, I have plans to work on NMB this weekend! I also plan to work with some other little projects.

I made a new LiveJournal and a new Deviantart. Check them out.

DA: zombie-sugar
LJ: zombiesugar

I hope everyone had a nice, safe New Years Eve! I know I did. I watched Dead and Deader and drank sparkling apple cider with Bradley.

Dead and Deader was a pretty good movie. Even if the graphics were not the greatest, it was interesting and it had some likable characters. It also had a good amount of humor in it, but not too much to where it is completely ridiculous.

My New Year’s resolutions?

1. Work on my websites more
2. Improve in my art
3. Spend time wisely
4. Try my best in college
5. Try not to get mad easily

What are your resolutions?

I just wanted to make myself a list of projects I want to complete:

INTERNET GOALS
>> Finish avi art for a Gaiaonline member
>> Add more content to Zombify
>> Finish a WordPress theme for Bradley
>> Make myself a Myspace profile layout
>> Make a layout for Zombify
>> Make a layout for my DeadJournal
>> Make a layout for my Xanga
>> Make a layout for my Gaiaonline profile
>> Work on my Vox account
>> Make a new DeviantArt account

OFFLINE GOALS
>> Clean my room and bathroom
>> Finish reading Seventh Son
>> Test out a trial of CoffeeCup
>> Figure out Anime Studio
>> Make a short manga
>> Finish Persona 3
>> Hang out with C-chan

Okay, I was hoping to get most of this done by January 7th, but that sounds impossible. January 7th is when my next semester starts, which means less time to play around.

Also, you might notice some new things around here, such as: A word count. A new option to subscribe to the comments of a post. This means if you asked me a question in a comment or are curious to what others are saying you can be notified by email! There are some other new plugins too, but you can just look at my plugins used page to see what all I’m using.

On Christmas eve, I spent most of the morning baking cookies. At 5:30pm I went over to Bradley’s house to celebrate Christmas. Unfortunately, Bradley had to work until 8pm. At least he got to have break for dinner though. Dinner was good, there were all sorts of yummy foods. After he ate he pretty much had to go back to work for an hour. While I was waiting I started to play Portal until I got kicked off the computer. Then I went to go drink some delicious eggnog and eat some apple pie.

When Bradley returned everyone opened some presents. I got presents too, but I’ll talk more about presents in a bit. Then everyone pretty much just hung out. I started playing Portal again. I didn’t catch on to how the portals worked, but I eventually caught on. It seems like a pretty cool game. I’d like to play some more of it anyways.

Bradley and me eventually went over to Kyle’s house to exchange presents. Kyle got this extremely cute gray mini schnauzer! It came up to me and lied down on my lap, and quickly fell asleep there. It was so adorable!

When we got back to Bradley’s house we both had to go to bed so “Santa could come.”

On Christmas morning I was awaken to watch Bradley and his little sister open their Christmas presents. Watching his sister really made me miss when I use to believe in Santa Claus and play with toys. Being older is somewhat boring compared to the childhood days.

After that Bradley took me back to my house to open presents there. I also gave Bradley his presents, which made me happy because I think he was somewhat surprised at what I bought him. I love it when I do things right. Then my mom cook breakfast: biscuits and gravy and eggs. After eating Bradley and I went back to his house. We just showered and hung out. Afterwards we picked up Crystal and went back to my house for dinner.

Later that night I went to go see Alien vs Predator 2 with Bradley, C-chan, and Dominique. It wasn’t really a great movie. I think I’m going to make a parody comic of it.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Today I worked on this site. I added the WordBook and the Xanga Crosspost plugin!

I also messed around on my Xanga! If you don’t have an Xanga, you should make one and become my friend. If you already have one, add me!

Crystal also convinced me to make a Vox account. This is going to be a doodle log! I’ll post some pictures I doodle in it! Feel free to add me!Check it out.

Anyways, what did I get for Christmas? (more…)

I finally got my R4 card! I’m quite excited about it. I got 14 new games to play today! I’m going to have so much to play!! Also now I can try those Japanese games that I have no idea what the instructions are. I can’t wanted to customize my R4’s look too. I have a pretty good idea for a theme for it. It’s going to be all pixelly and stuff.

Today I hung around in GameStop for a few hours while Jill was working. I got to try Super Mario Galaxy. It was, like pretty much all Mario games, enjoyable. I just picked it up and started playing; I didn’t even have to try to figure out the controls. If you like Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine, you’d like Galaxy. You probably already knew that though.

I also played a Guitar Hero III demo. The new guitar, I have to admit, is quite comfortable. I wasn’t expecting to feel much difference, but it is there.

I know what I want to do now. I want to have a review section, or possibly even a review website if Bradley is interested.

Tomorrow, or later today rather, I’m going to help set up Bradley’s Halloween party. I was going to go to the fair, but I forgot I said I’d help with the party. Jill is suppose to pick me up a costume after she goes to the fair. I’m either gonna be Alice from Alice in Wonderland, an Amy Brown fairy, a Geisha girl, or a kitty girl. I guess I’ll have to wait to see what I’m gonna be tomorrow.