Post by Souldrake on Apr 15, 2008 8:30:27 GMT -5
So... what's going on with Manga-Heaven lately, you ask?
General News
Due to me losing my internet connection for the better part of two weeks, work in general has slowed down a bit. In fact, not much at all was done during my absence. -.-;;
The forums are going to be receiving a facelift. Instead of breaking this forum, I signed up for a test board to play with. Since there has not been a lot of activities on the polls I made in the official announcements board (http://mangaheavenscan.proboards51.com/v45index.cgi?board=announcements),
I have, for the most part, been working on these left to my own devices.
My goal is to create a nice looking forum that is fairly customizable. There are a few problems involved with this, however, that I need to get coding help for.
--- Detecting a skin.
Currently, our forums allow skins. I have not been very good at updating the skins so... they are basically Forum version 1 where as the current skin is more like version 1.5. The problem is I want to use gradients on the forum itself and I can only do that with imaged backgrounds. If I allow people to use skins, these gradients may be on a background that looks god awful. (dark purple on black, for example)
If I can find code for this, I will release 2-3 skins when the new forum is launched with potential other skins to be added in the near future. Each skin will be associated with a character or series from Manga-Heaven. My current ideas for these skins are:
Himari A: (currently in development): A dark bkg with light text forum. The colors are mostly purple with a bit of blue, gold and white/silver.
Himari B: Will be a light bkg with dark text forum. I haven't decided the overall color for this forum yet.
Mirim: This will be a red/crimson colored forum.
Messiah: White with bits of purple. Perhaps some brown and a book/papyrus theme for the forum itself.
Akuma Jiten: Orange or green. I haven't decided yet.
Artery: I don't know why, but the thought of an Artery skin appealed to me. The color would be... pink >.> and... it will likely never be used. But oh well. lol
Ash? Villans?: Either a forum dedicated to Ash from Crimson Grave or villans from various series we do. The color? Black mostly.
D.H.A: A DHA based theme. Color? Hmmm... Yellow? Undecided at this point.
New additions that will be available to everyone:
-- The new forum will have an improved color selector. You will be able to post in up to 32,000 different colors.
-- The new forum will allow special rank icons. These will mostly be only available for Admins, but... we can give them to others.
-- A level up bar. I've been thinking of adding this to the forum. It is basically a bar that will tell you how far away you are from the next posting rank. Nothing too cool, but hey for those who care lol.
-- Anything else I stumble upon that may seem worth while.
Project/Release based Info
As I mentioned before, we had some... slacking off when I wasn't around. When I came back, a few chapters from Messiah hit QC... but... not 19 >.>; DHA chapter 6 is currently awaiting QC note fixes. Crimson Grave chapter 3 is... in progress. Last I heard a chapter of Love Junkies was in the editing phase as well.
General News
Due to me losing my internet connection for the better part of two weeks, work in general has slowed down a bit. In fact, not much at all was done during my absence. -.-;;
The forums are going to be receiving a facelift. Instead of breaking this forum, I signed up for a test board to play with. Since there has not been a lot of activities on the polls I made in the official announcements board (http://mangaheavenscan.proboards51.com/v45index.cgi?board=announcements),
I have, for the most part, been working on these left to my own devices.
My goal is to create a nice looking forum that is fairly customizable. There are a few problems involved with this, however, that I need to get coding help for.
--- Detecting a skin.
Currently, our forums allow skins. I have not been very good at updating the skins so... they are basically Forum version 1 where as the current skin is more like version 1.5. The problem is I want to use gradients on the forum itself and I can only do that with imaged backgrounds. If I allow people to use skins, these gradients may be on a background that looks god awful. (dark purple on black, for example)
If I can find code for this, I will release 2-3 skins when the new forum is launched with potential other skins to be added in the near future. Each skin will be associated with a character or series from Manga-Heaven. My current ideas for these skins are:
Himari A: (currently in development): A dark bkg with light text forum. The colors are mostly purple with a bit of blue, gold and white/silver.
Himari B: Will be a light bkg with dark text forum. I haven't decided the overall color for this forum yet.
Mirim: This will be a red/crimson colored forum.
Messiah: White with bits of purple. Perhaps some brown and a book/papyrus theme for the forum itself.
Akuma Jiten: Orange or green. I haven't decided yet.
Artery: I don't know why, but the thought of an Artery skin appealed to me. The color would be... pink >.> and... it will likely never be used. But oh well. lol
Ash? Villans?: Either a forum dedicated to Ash from Crimson Grave or villans from various series we do. The color? Black mostly.
D.H.A: A DHA based theme. Color? Hmmm... Yellow? Undecided at this point.
New additions that will be available to everyone:
-- The new forum will have an improved color selector. You will be able to post in up to 32,000 different colors.
-- The new forum will allow special rank icons. These will mostly be only available for Admins, but... we can give them to others.
-- A level up bar. I've been thinking of adding this to the forum. It is basically a bar that will tell you how far away you are from the next posting rank. Nothing too cool, but hey for those who care lol.
-- Anything else I stumble upon that may seem worth while.
Project/Release based Info
As I mentioned before, we had some... slacking off when I wasn't around. When I came back, a few chapters from Messiah hit QC... but... not 19 >.>; DHA chapter 6 is currently awaiting QC note fixes. Crimson Grave chapter 3 is... in progress. Last I heard a chapter of Love Junkies was in the editing phase as well.