News / Additions
Thursday, 14th March
Wow o_o;;. I hadn't checked up on this site in quite literally months until I
received an e-mail from Geocities yesterday informing me of the site going over
its limit. For now I'm presuming that it was the background that was causing
such trouble, but I hope to change a whole load of stuff now that the site is
apparently more popular than it was (between 50 and 100 hits daily most of the
time now). Seeing as I seem to have an actual audience for the information on
the site, I'm considering putting a lot of work into it in the near future. Make
things more user friendly, fix the many glitches, actually type up my
annotations and the like. We'll have to see. I'll certainly make sure that I
upload all of the pages again within the next 24 hours so the old background is
wiped though.
That bitch Hutton wouldn't even make a new background for the site though =P.
Thursday, 27th December
A lot of minor additions have been made in the last 5 days, but I can't remember
what's so new and what isn't. Suffice to say that most sections will have had
some sort of change. I'm settling more into doing the full
text stuff. Just adding the symbols for the chapters and stuff right now
(they're generally much more bare than chapters 16 and 17, but they'll do for
now) to set up for the analysis, which I'll continue when I get the time. When
that'll be I have no idea, but still.
Saturday, 22nd December
Not much been changed as yet. Edited the timeline
a bit to be more accurate and less of a summary. Still huge holes and
controversies in it, but that can wait till later. I'm going to tidy this page
up a bit tomorrow if possible. After that there's a whole bundle of various
tasks that could be performed, which will be ordered in whatever order happens
at the spur of the moment. This site was finally added to the Yahoo! listings a
couple of days ago as well. No replies from the other search engines as yet
though. No matter, that is but a small thing.
Wednesday, 19th December
Aidan - This will most likely be the last update with a name to begin with, on the count
that the chances of Hutton doing a thing are incredibly low. Chapter 16 and its notes have been
completed to show just how things should be when they're all done (information anyhow, the
design will most likely change).
On the design front, I'm getting some hired help to actually get some decent coding into
the website. I have no idea how much and to what magnitude this help will be, but she
knows more coding than anyone else that I know, so any help at all is going to be greatly
appreciated.
Fortunately, being on the verge of two weeks with relatively little to do I should be able
to get a shit load of content done in the near future, and possibly a complete redesign
one way or another. I guess that we'll just have to see.
Friday, 14th December
Aidan - Timeline page
inserted in its beta version. Ultra condensed summaries for all of the chapters added to
the notes section. A
few small errors fixed here and there. Otherwise nothing much else to report.
Thursday, 13th December
Aidan - It's starting to seem that announcing myself at the start of these updates is a
bit pointless. Anyhow, huge task completed. The full text section of
the full annotated text now
has all of the text in place. Took ages to convert it over (and to find an 1818
version of the text for that matter) and the such, but now that that has been done, This
gives me two main things to choose from to do next. Either I can set up the characters page as I had
planned, or write the summaries and possibly start up proper notes now in the notes section. At this
point in time, it seems more likely to be the latter, though the former would make the
latter a lot easier (So I can link over and the such).
However, one smaller task that I'm going to do before going onto whichever of them is to
create a timeline for within the novel. I have one all ready constructed, if not as
thorough as it could be and slightly inaccurate in a few instances. It'll more than do for
now though, and corrections and additions will be easy to do as I eventually get around to
annotating the novel. I'll most likely try to complete this minor ambition later today.
Wednesday, 12th December
Aidan - Well, out of random news, I'm now 16 1/2. That qualifies for nothing at all, but
whatever. I set up the structure for the full annotated text at last. 62
new pages in one shot is a pretty tedious task at best, but whatever, it was necessary and
it's done now. By the looks of things, Hutton's totally abandoned me now. I'll wait to see
if anything happens, but it looks far more than likely that I'll be running this place by
myself from hereon. Ah well, it was pretty much expected, I guess.
My next two tasks are going to be to copy over one of the various online texts of the
novel to put into the newly made chapter pages and to create the character pages so I can
actually start putting some content into that section. At least things are starting to
come together now, though there's still been no word back from any of the Search Engines.
Tuesday, 11th December
Aidan - Quote from here:
"...it is a little less accurate and less user friendly; worth a peruse though."
XD Worth a peruse? And I can understand the user friendly comment, but less accurate? Ah
well, can't blame Walton for trying. Not as if he'll be able to make their site seem
better than ours without such things =P. But WATCH OUT, their relevance % must be
higher than ours! Holy shit, now we're in trouble. But no, being serious and all, I just
find all of that funny for various reasons, despite holding no malicious feelings towards
them at all. I can't help it if our site just happens to be superior =P.
But please, don't take these jokes set up anything competitive.
Only a few small updates have been made around the site to my knowledge, but nothing major
as yet. I want to start out on the characters soon though.
Saturday, 8th December
Aidan - Completed the Life
page a whole load of time ahead of whatever schedule it may have been on. I'll probably
add shorter biographies for the lesser relatives and friends and such, but not until the
rest of the major stuff is finished. A couple of added Links (still waiting for
Hutton's). Pretty much nothing else other than that.
Friday, 7th December
Aidan - Updated the Life
page quite a bit. At least we have Mary Shelley out of the way
for it now. Also added pictures for the rest of the Allusions and Analogies
page. Well, allusions page anyhow, on the count of there being no analogies. Other random
tasks as well, but I can't remember what, so they can't have been so important. Currently
waiting for Steven to send me his list of selected links and crap for that page. There's
no plan for who's going to do what, in what order and to what degree, but something
will hopefully be done.
Thursday, 6th December
Aidan - Well, whatever. This site was 'officially' completed this afternoon at about
3:15pm when we had to present it. Since then I've been fiddling around with little pieces
of code here and there to make the site a bit easier to surf. Maybe I'll eventually get
around to giving the place Frames, but I doubt it. I doubt that the site will be updated
any better than occasionally, but still, better than nothing. After sorting out whatever
glitches in the site there may be, my first task will be to set up the normal frilly
things like a guestbook and a hit counter. After that I'll be off to mercilessly rip into
a couple of sites to get this up to scratch.