Blog & Updates

Thursday 29 July
Completly redone the links section:
-Removed all broken links
-Checked all sites for "moved" and "hiatus" splash pages and updated if they had moved
-Moved all sites that didn't update in 2004 to the "not updated anymore" section
-Moved the character sections into the main CCS sites section
-Contest winners 'artictic plugs' moved to to best CCS sites
-Added a bunch of new links
-Reorganized the link me bit


Monday 26 July
-Rebuilt the shadow-wings forums (all data erased T_T ... so go fill it up!!! ^^)
-Created a new theme for shadow-wings: "Evening" (go to admin>profile>change template to make it your default) It's blue and cool and glow wormy ^^; Click the link at the top of the page (see s-w oekaki boards up there?) to go visit it!
Apart from that we have visitors over at the moment so my energies are going on that ^_^
Huggles to anyone reading... anyone online ? (Note to self:must get counter)


Saturday 24 July
-Added items from the Sakura festival contest to fan and info sections (3 fics, 6 fanart, 23 wallpapers and 2 essays)
-Added a little profiles for neopoints or avatars note to the info index ^_^;
-Managed to completly wreck the forums over at shadow-wings *cries* and when I tried to reimport the users list, I get the same $¤*@!& Mysql #1135 error. I spent four hours trying to fix it last night and researching over the web. I might just have to reset it all and have people sign up afresh if I don't find the answer within 48 hours.I'm so sorry. That'll teach me to try and add extra features in a hardly known programming language when I'm dropping off with tiredness.I just don't know when to stop and I've been fairly agitated these past few days/weeks (offline stuffs) and I tend to throw myself into work to forget my worries =p. Still no news about paintchat from the pp.org support. I'll probably be installing a blog system for users to have their own shadow-wings blog in the next few weeks too which will be nice ^_^. I'm gonna try and get pp support to install b2 for me as I feel a real phpklutz at the moment *grins*.
I'm also starting to think about a new layout for SLG (with a different site presentation from usual) but don't expect anything soon as these things take me ages and ages ^^; *wink*
Might add those contest suppi blends to the fansection too as I simply adore them ^_^
Ok nuff rambling, huggles to all
ps: Chibi are you back? Mazzie did you get a good role? Kira: Thankyou for the bishness!


Thursday 22 July
I have been online just forgot to update *gomen ne*
-New layout to purchase at the webshop (see the orange btn above) it's called Whirlpool of words
-Added the new member interview (Mint) and latest challenge stuffs
-Anti-Hentai has a new layout and should be approved soon to be the official Hentai hatelisting. I couldn't sleep last night and threw together that layout in 1 hour ^^; the image of the little girl was just perfect and represented exactly what I was trying to express. I came back and tweaked it this monring to tidy up a few details. The quote comes from Forrest Gump. Those who saw and understood the film will know why it applies.
-I got paid 2$ after two weeks with real-cashs.com (i've tried a few of these paid to read/click/search thingies and they are not great- too much work and so little reward but i like this one... I guess after three months of clicking 20 links a day you have enough (12$) to go cute stuff shopping online without using your parents credit cards ^_^) If you do sign up with them remember to use a throwaway email address (hotmail/yahoo) not your main one and credit me as your referrer!

Got to go sleep some more, I'm exhausted. I managed to get down all 6 flights of stairs yesterday and touch the earth outside for the first time in three years!...I stayed outdoors for about 1 minute because any longer and I would not have been able to get back up again without being carried (and that is so embarrassing). Anyhow i'm really happy about that but my body is really making me pay for the energy used *kicks body..ouch...that was dumb* I've been hungry ever since...it's like i could eat three meals and still be hungry so i eat normally and try and not listen to my body (it's more diffused than just your tummy rumbling- its the whole body asking for SUGAAAAR!)
Joanna is starting to learn HTML ^_^ she's doing up her neopet pages so I've oohed and aaahhed a lot these past few days. One day I'm going to ask/persuade/bribe/blackmail her to do designs for the webshop as she draws cute little doodles (50/50 share on any earnings of course!)

Much love to you all *huggles*
Kira, I don't have a DA account so i wasn't able to comment but your nekkie bishies are awesomely droolworthy!!! Mazzie, how did the auditions go? Hope you are well and genki.
more hugs,

Sunday 18 July
Messing around in paintshop pro: [bauble]
I havn't quite got the shadow right but I'll try again at another time, at least the rounded effect is more or less there. I used Circle select, a round paintbrush, the blur tool and overlay (no gradients or curves- i'll try with those tools next time). I made a brush with it: this is what it can create. [brush bauble]
Email me or comment to request it (PSP, GIMP or PS)


Saturday 17 July
Added gimp versions of my brushes over at webbie.suppi.net
It was really hard to find out and work out but it's done and all 56 brushes can be downloaded now. For those of you who don't know: The gimp (wingimp.com) is a free program very much like paintshop pro which also has layers, tubes, masks, brushes, filters and all that but free =p.
Tweaked some of the tutorials a bit and added a donate button in case anyone was feeling extremely generous (I doubt it - Webbie deals mainly in freeware, the basics in CCS/HTML and MSpaint) on that note thankyou to Mazzie for her donation *glomps* Plug Plug Plug check out her new pretty ARIA fanlisting!
Currently listening to: "The Outlaws: Green Grass and High Tides" (as introduced to me by my excellent air-guitarist of a Dad)
Currently working on: a new layout "word swhirlpool" and shadow-wings.net
This weeks Oekaki Challenge is STUDY OF LIGHT: (reproduce a photo of a glass of water), it's a tough one but the occasion to test your shading skills!
Huggles


Thursday 15 July
Created an awesome new premade layout for the webshop (though I say it myself ^_^;;) I'm so pleased with the way it has come out. (click btn above to see it under "premade")
I'm studying CSS again at the moment, re-learning the essentials and trying a few things out.
All the stylesheets on suppi.net now validate by W3C standards except for colored scrollbars which they don't recognize *rant rant*. But I'm going to have to find a css hack to make the sites look optimal in firefox because the padding value (which I use a lot) does not display the same *rips hair out*. Basically in Firefox, Webshop and Suppi Fl look bad and Webbie looks squewif.
Example: a div of width:300 and padding:5 makes:
*div of _300px_ with text indented by 5px all around in internet explorer
*div of _310px_ with text indented by 5px all around in firefox
I've also removed the internet explorer PRE tag hack from all my websites. They all use proper html now ^_^;;. I have this nifty little html page that converts text into html that I snipped and remodeled from the source of an online html editor. Email me or comment if you code by hand and are interested in a likle way of avoiding adding BRs and Ps all over manually.

I might be putting the John Bender Fl up for adoption (with member list as batchmembers.php and current layout) because I've got too just much on my plate at the moment. If you are interested (requires php/mysql/1.5 mo of space/be a true fan) just let me know!
Much love to everyone


Wednesday 14 July
Bank holiday here in france ^_^
Joined 40 new fanlistings *phew* and added new qbee patches
Shadow-wings.net is down for today and tomorrow since the server on which it is hosted 'kanye' is kaput (someone ran a risky script). They'll be moving all of us to the new 'dobby' server tomorrow. Gah i've had enough T_T.
On a lighter note: look who arrived yesterday ^_^: say hello to gizmo everyone *he blows you a kiss*
[gizmo]

Monday 12 July
Updates: Reworked the webshop (see link above). Layout tweaked (it was driving me nuts), New premade layouts to purchase at 9$, New easy order form and new link banner. Voilà
Started posting my CG collection to Usenet: alt.binaries.pictures.anime (300 images/1119) Personal: Joanna came home from holiday as she is tired so she's here again ^_^
Hugs to all


friday 9 July
New in depth character profile: Eriol (see info)
Reorganized the character profiles (see info)
SSShrine's Clow card contest has been extended (see splash page)
Special mega huggles to Kira *hugs you*


Thursday 8 July
Neopets:Tamara won a puppyblew and Felicia won some cute plushies.
I've also reenabled neomails and neofriends on my account
Fia left some cool information in the comments which has been added to the fun facts page. I love spinels as gemstones too...they are so pretty... *twitch* must make psp tubes with the ten or so piccies on my computer =p. Fia email me or comment again to leave your contact information or a website to credit and so i can send you some thankyou awards.
It's probably time for me to go trhough that information section and sort it out real good...off I go *(^_^)* ...
Updates: corrected errors and added titbits to various information pages.
Over at webbie: 2 new lilac and spring green retro rounded layouts for download because I finally hit 30$ (well 27 to be precise) over at the webshop. They were supposed to be panda layouts, they started off as a vector panda then it turned into a layout thingy ^_^.
To do list: Character profiles for Eriol, Touya, Kaho and Fujitaka
This weeks Shadow-wings challenge winner is Cristalrayn. The new challenge is "study of autoportrait"
Hugs to all


Tuesday 6 July
Added a ton of new CCS links
New funny links
New cliques, adoptions and fanlistings (also pruned for broken links)
Added a new site to the bad blinkiemakers links
Created the butterfly forum theme (see butterflycash.com/forum) and matching colorized smileys
I still havn't got feedback about paintchat from the pinchpenny.org staff but they've been busy dealing with a script that messed up the whole server so i doubt examining risky scripts is top priority at the moment. ^^;
Current project: The Rose Tube and Brush set.
Mom + Joanna are going on holiday tomorrow for ten days which is nice for them ^_^
I'll be around all summer but i hope to take a day or two off to watch some movies and definitly catch up on pen-friends ^_^ *glomps you all*
PS: I have a puppyblew for the first visitor to post their Neopets screenname in the comments ^_^ and plushies to all runners up in honor of winning 2500np on the fruit machine today.

Friday 2nd July
Archived June's updates
Added chapter 5 to "Working with you" by Dina aka Angelheaven272003! (see fans)
I took out only my favorite wallpapers from the wp section and moved them over to suppi.net...you can now find them under the fan section.
I hope to make some more sometime this summer (<3 making wallpapers)
Updated the portfolio (moved some things to their proper places and added some new items)

Currently working on: PHPBB theme for butterflyadvertising.com (my biggest contract yet- 15$ !) It's a color scheme I love so it's a pleasure to create. Well I'm 1/4 through (all the icons are done) and I'll continue tomorrow with the stylesheets

I really wish to earn some serious dinero this summer (goal: 90 dollars. To pay off my last shopping spree: Fansubs for Joanna and I, Gizmo furby (waii) + 3 furbies, Necklace, Prezzie for Aurelie... You see i discovered Ebay last month and went a wee bit wild! ^^;; not that i'm endebted to anyone - it came out of my pocket money but if I earn it back, I'll have a lighter concience when buying CDs and clothes this autumn... bwhahaha =p =p In the meantime I stay away from Ebay and it's alluring charms. *twitch twitch* =p If you wish to conrtibute to the "Shopping Rehab" fund, just purchase something from the webshop: I can't wash cars or do you washing up for you but I can code, design and install. plug plug plug blah blah blah me me me...

Currently listening to: Goldtrix feat. Andrea Brown (Trippin'-It's love). I adore this track, it's groovy, funky, deep, impossible to stay still to, audio E... Also digging Lynryd Skynryd: Freebird for the 3 minute awesome air guitar bit at the end ^____^.
Much love to all, sorry for not being around and updating as often as I should. I've been rather selfishly and (almost) shamelessly trying to earn some pocketmoney (and watching some good Tv too: 24, Law and Order, Millenium and ER). I'll make it up to you guys with some freebies later this year. *Glomps you and does puppy eyes*
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