Victory…at last

Oh my lord…I’m posting something here. Who would’ve thought that, huh? ;)
No, seriously now. There hasn’t been much going on at T-V.net for quite a while now. I know, I’m the only one to blame, but I just didn’t have the time.
Unfortunately, about two months ago things at twilight-visions.net got even worse because they updated the server to PHP5. As some visitors might have realised some sites weren’t accessible anymore. I however didn’t realise that until about a month ago. But when I finally realised what the problem was I decided that as soon as I have some free time, I’m going to bring everything back to life.

Well, last week I finally got my desired free time to fix TV and not only that…no, I wanted to improve it a little bit. Well, and here it is, the all new and (in my opinion improved) Twilight-Visions.Net. :D
But I’m going to be honest…I’m not done yet. The last 6 days were a struggle…
First, the new layout. This time my inspiration just wouldn’t come to me…it took me ages to come up with what you see now…and it wasn’t really a satisfying result. :? However, now I somehow start liking it more and more. If you’re interested you can read about the layout as always here.
Furthermore, I updated and reorganized the content and finally wrote everything (more or less) in English(which I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while). I also updated the links and threw out the inactive websites.
Anyway, when I was working my way through the graphics section, I realised that the brush and layout databases don’t work anymore either. I guess that’s also due to the server update :? Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to fix this yet but I’m working on it :)

Another big challenge when ‘resurrecting’ TV was the blog your reading right now. The old Cute News weren’t good anymore, I couldn’t get rid of the spam and it was just annoying me. So I thought it’s time for a new blogging system. First thing I thought of was WordPress, because it’s a good blogging system :) The thing is, WP is actually foolproof and really easy to use, as long as you don’t want to include it into your existing design I thought it wouldn’t be a problem with the help of tutorials, but as much as I like tuts, in this case they were totally useless, way too complicated… So I went for different blogging systems which I thought would be easier to integrate (since they said so in their descritption) but fact is, they weren’t :? It might have worked if I would have put more effort into it, but I just didn’t like them. I’m so used to WordPress (the control panel is so neat and clean :P ) so I thought I’ll give it another try. “Screw the tutorials, I’ll do it myself!” And look, it worked!! :)
I have never been taught HTML, PHP or anything like that. All I know about these things I taught myself. I’m certainly not an expert and it might not have been the professional way to do it, but as long as it works, I don’t care :P
So much for my victory over WordPress.

That’s pretty much what I did last week. Doesn’t sound like much, I know, but the WordPress thing(and the two other blogging systems) took up quite a lot of time. Anyway, next up is the fixing of the databases, which will hopefully not take too long.
There might also be some updates for the graphics sections, which I already have in store for you. So you might want to stop by again in a couple of days. :)
So long for now, and stay tuned

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