SithNet: Site News & Updates
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Styling & Organisation
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I am currently in process of completing a series of formatting changes to make the information provided on site easier to read, as well as reorganising portions
of the site with the aim of keeping specific areas more closely defined, and as such, easier to work on individual parts of the site.
Please be aware that the url's (addresses) of some areas are likely to change to reflect this.
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News & Information:
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Slight styling changes, nothing major just yet, some of the new content, specifically acnient history-related is almost ready for publishing, ETA is within the next few days.
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Site Update:
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So that took longer than planned...
more updates on the SWDB dection coded and committed, no new content yet however. Not sure on the current figure of conversions percentage-wise,
but I believe the majority of it is converted and viewable through the existing links. the Imperial Navy sections are all that I am certain are left to
be completed. Stay tuned
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Site & Content changes
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More conversion/update work completed on the SWDB areas, most of the first level pages have been recoded, but not yet uploaded. I might upload the completed ones tonight, or I might wait until I have more of the site converted. At the moment it stands at roughly ~10% of the site has been recoded.
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Site & Styling modifications:
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The first pages on the .UK arm of the site have been updated and had the styling updated to match the basics of the forum as it was before the vb4 upgrade. More to come as it's coded.
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Sitewide Recode:
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Just a minor update - the HTML5 rewrite looks like it is going to work very well.. A 'few' hours work has resulted in [this] which for some unknown reason stopped working a long time ago, and until now I have not been able to get it to play.. Judging by this I may be able to restore the intro music that used to play on the forum as well as the various pieces that played on other pages.. Current task is to rewrite pretty much the whole site in HTML5/CSS as the current version is dated and may end up obsolete code wise.
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Minor Updates & Planning:
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Nothing major yet, just reordering the SW/Sith oriented parts of the site and given said areas a re-branding. I decided to change from "Sith Religion" to simply SWDB, as I feel it fits better with the majority of the site's content... and sounds a bit more 'professional'. more coming slowly every day, even if I don't advertise changes here, they are happening. Final point for the day; I am in process of rewriting the site to use html5, which does not support the traditional frameset in use here. If something breaks because of my playing I apologise in advance. Please understand this is not a small undertaking, the whole SithNet site(s) consists of over a hundred PHP & HTML pages.
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SithNet Forum:
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I am pleased to announce the return of our forums to a working state. There are still a few minor issues with some images but as of now they are perectly usable again. I will be working on a theme for them, most likely similar to the previous one - unfortunately that particular theme doesn't work with the new software version due to a myriad of changes.
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Site Updates: Navigation
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Another problem (partially..) solved... As you will have noticed, large areas of the navigation through the right/left hand side menu's hasn't been functioning properly in some time. Unfortunately it wasn't the quick fix i thought it would be - the only solution that seems to have had any effect was to strip out the majority of the PHP code that runs the site and redo as much as possible in plain HTML, which is so far taking most of my limited free time. That being said however, the initial entry parts (with menu's on left hand side only) now appear to be working as they once did. Once I have progressed more with this (which i intend to complete ASAP), the next task is to get the forum running as normal again. I apologise for the rediculous length of this ongoing inconvenience and will do everything i can over the next few weeks to return to normal operations, including as much of the apparently corrupted image files as I am able to squeeze in.
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Forum Problems:
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Another long period with little or no visible updates, so again to all who visit I apologise for this. We are having an extended login related issue with our current forums, rest assured I have been aware of this for a long time and have been attempting to fix it. So far however there hasn't been much success with it. Rest assured I am actively working on the issue and will do everything I can to restore normal operation, it may just take a while longer than intended.
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Site Downtime:
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Well after a long absence we are finally back! Apologies for the enormous amount of downtime but our previous host ceased operating and the registrar detagged all domains registered through our previous host.. bit of a pain to sort it all out but it's finally done! there have been no updates made to the site as yet, been concentrating on restoring everything from outdated backups. That said however, If anyone is interested in helping/volunteering with creating new content, or just updating what we have, feel free to get in touch with us. :)
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Site Optimisation
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Im aware that nothing has been posted for a while, but that doesnt mean that nothing has been happening :) there has been a lot of work relating to SEO Optimizations recently, sorting through missing or broken links, and an awful lot of other behind the scenes optimizations. These optimisations are taking longer than expected, so very little content is being dealt with currently. Hopefully soon we'll be able to start rolling out the newer content for various areas.
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Site Loading Issues:
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Thanks to all those who have informed me of this.. Apparently large sections of the site were forwarding to an Error 404 Document, including some that should have been up, and some that have yet to be completed. Ths has now been fixed, the "DataBase Sections" now list next to the link if that particular page is not yet available. Sections linked from the right-hand menu frame that are not yet complete now have their own, individual placeholder pages.
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Content Update:
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I have found a copy of the previous Characters Index page on an old host, and as such, Characters has been reverted to the old format, and now works. The Updated character section will take quite a while to be completed, but as it is, you will be informed :)
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Minor Downtime & Updates:
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After a short period of unavailability, the site is now back in full. In other news, a few minor changes have been made globally to the site, mainly making everything easier to read :S Regarding other Updates: As you may have noticed, the characters section no longer works. I have only just become aware of this, which is unfortunate, as everything character related is being reworked, and i dont believe i have a copy of the previous characters index file. If i can find a copy, ill revert to that one until the new Characters section is unvelied.
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Restoration & Content Updates:
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Everything has now been restored and should be working properly. All character areas are being reorganised and separated into various groups. One for Imperial Characters, one for Sith, and one for Krath. For now the current ones will stay up, as I havent obtained all the necessary material for all the characters & additions yet, and the indexes for each section are still under development
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Fixes:
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Every area ive checked is now back up and all apears to be working, all was caused by a single, duplicate line of code. If any page that was working isn't now, it will all be back up by monday evening..
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Styling Changes:
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All minor cosmetic changes appear to be complete, and uploaded. Havent had the time to test them yet however, so if something seems seriously wrong (especially in the SW section) dont panic! Just let me know which page the error was encountered on. Signing off for the night..
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Styling Changes & Minor Fixes:
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Currently working through a series of minor 'cosmetic' fixes, most of which most probably wont be noticeable to most people, but are long overdue. Finally I'm starting to seriously work on this site again, so stay tuned, as all major updates will be announced here :)
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