I've done a bit of a CSSing and re-layouting and reconfiguring and tooling and, in general, largely Messing Up the Avarthrel website.

Over the past... bit of time, I've not really written new stuff. This is bad. Really bad. The bad thing is, the moment I start really paying attention to the tech and the look of the website I usually stop caring about the content. My stories are all about... content. I don't want to have a really nice-looking website with no content at all!

After I've somewhat made sure this new website layout is more or less problem-free, I'll not touch it again for a while. Perhaps add some little bits.

Anyway, the big overhaul of the Messy Code is just about over. I think I won't need to touch the documents after this! It's all about little tweaks afterwards. Yay.

Wow! It's been a while since I posted anything, so I guess it'd be a good time to post something.

Basically, the situation is this:

• I have good plans for some of the stories. I guess I may have a ready-made story up in a week or two if I really want to.
• The novel project is actually progressing a little bit. Surprising, huh?
• I used to have a second MediaWiki install for organising my stories. Regrettably, MediaWiki is not really the best choice if you want multiple wikis and some of them don't need the complexity or performance. I now use MoinMoin for my notes.
• Maybe wiki isn't the best way to organise this stuff after all? Maybe the mythical outliner software sucks too? Maybe word processors just suck unconditionally? I have little ideas on still where to get a word processor that's not meant for TPS reports.
• I have to rethink my translation strategy. I think it shows that the stories I've translated from Finnish to English or English to Finnish are translations. Clumsy ones too.
• The website has been Severely Updated - at least under the hood! I decided I won't move away from Smarty after all - the code may be surprisingly crappy, but at least it does exactly what I think it does. It's not pretty but it works. I can make it prettier. I swear.
• I still haven't got around to putting the Finnish editions of the stories to the website. Now, the two stories in Aukea are still pretty much dead. Hmm...