Saturday, February 26, 2005

It smells like... new layout.

As much as I adored and absolutely loved my "Hatake Kakashi Version 2" layout, I felt it was time for a change... Well, I didn't exactly feel as much as I had a huge urge to create a Gaara theme after reading chapters 213-218 in the Naruto manga. My urge was wholly increased by the fact that a lot of the recent chapters have included some special pages of the manga that were created by the wonderful people at PaintPixel. *thumbs up to them* I've seen a lot of their work and I think that most of them are really good. But, back to the layout: there were about three or four different PaintPixel created pictures of Gaara included throughout various chapters and I've used two of these four I believe. There might have only been three, actually. Yeah, only three and I've used two(the introduction banner and the picture are the two I used). For the post background, I used a picture of Gaara that Mr. Kishimoto drew and colored for part of it. (You'll find that one on the far left side, the largest picture of all the ones in the background) Originally, that was the only one I was going to use for the background, but I decided against it and picked out a few shots of Gaara that I liked from the other pages in the manga(those are a bit harder to make out because they're not in color and they're a tad more faded than the picture of Gaara that was in color). After all that was done and created, I opened up the introduction banner in Paint and got the Red, Green and Blue codes from a few colors I wanted to use in the rest of the layout(the link color and text on the sidebar are both from Gaara's eyes and the text color in the introduction, this table, and the sidebar are from Gaara's hair). I played around with the colors for a little bit before I stuck with what you see now. Nice isn't it? The new MP3 is in the process of being uploaded. T_T this is another one of those times when I hate dial-up. I'm going to be here for awhile... but I wont go to bed until its all uploaded and put up onto the site! I've got plans for the "v1" part of "Gaara of the Desert v1" in the introduction. I plan on heading over to Cut and Paste scripts and using their random link generator to have random links of people on my friends list rotate around. Since I have quite a few friends, I'm sorry to say, I can't put you all in there. Please, don't kill me if your link doesn't end up in there, as the other links in "Gaara of the Desert v1" are all Naruto orientated, the "v1" will be mostly reserved for fans of the Naruto series(though a few other may slip in there, all depends... *pulls up a shield to block any incoming tomatoes or rocks*). I also don't have the time to add all of those links, I mean, I'd like to go to bed sometime before 5 AM. I'm going to create a banner for OtakuBoards tomorrow. Can you guess who'll be on it? Kudos to anyone who can. And not just kudos as in praise and whatnot, I mean, the actual cookie bar "Kudos." Those things are damn good. Damn good I say. I've still got a few other pictures of Gaara I'd like to use in the banner. Do they have any Gaara avatars at OtakuBoards? Hmm... I'll have to check. If not I guess I'll either stick with Kakashi or create my own avatar, though I don't exactly enjoy making avatars. But, if worst comes to worse, I'll do it. Damn. Somehow I knew my webhost was going to tell me there was a "bad character" in the filename of the song. Well, better rename that right now and hope it doesn't take as long to upload this second time around >.> Short, simple file names are great. None of this "18 - Alone" just leave it at "Alone" and bam! perfect. Its not like I have a ton of music hosted or anything. At the moment its only "Kakashi's Theme." Earlier I was thinking about a layout change. I was originally going to try and think of another MGS oriented one, but I couldn't find the kinds of images I wanted so I gave up and decided to give another few hours for myself to think in. And throughout those few hours I downloaded from chapter 210-218 in Naruto. And that's when I finally started making my new layout(I'd decided on making it around chapter 216-217ish). And now I'm here. Writing this post. At 3:50 AM in the morning to inform you all of my wonderful layout change. I think I need another damn blank disc again. Computer's telling me "Please insert a writable CD in the drive or a writable CD with enough space on it to accomadate the file(s)." Well, a variation of that anyway. That was sort of like a synopsis or summary really. Maybe I'll use the disc I was saving for Saiyuki and download Naruto onto it. I mean, I can always buy more and anyway, I'm not even going to download Saiyuki: I'm just going to copy all of the Saiyuki files on Xio's computer and save them to a disc. And plus, I'll only be able to put Saiyuki Gaiden and Reloaded, as the site where Xio has been reading the regular series is a "manga viewer," so you view the files on the site. Or maybe I'll use the reserved Ranma 1/2 CD. I really don't think I'm going to use that one anytime soon anyway, so why reserve it when I may need a CD right now, at this very moment? Currently I've got chapter 118 saved to the actual computer and its just... killing me to have it there. I mean, for some reason, space seems to be precious enough on the computer(still can't seem to find the reason of why its so damn slow yet... wondering if maybe all those Naruto chapter ZIP files were never deleted(I just figured they were in temporary file folders and would get deleted soon afterwards) and are still lurking in the computer somewhere, cluttering it up with atleast over 200 MB(maybe less, who knows. If they weren't in ZIP form it'd be over 400 MB, so, yeah, I dunno) of file space. And everytime I attempt to find one of the folders they were downloaded into, a search into the computers(including every single place that could be searched in) comes up with nothing. Damn computers. They're all a conspiracy...) even though I have very little "large files" that could be causing any problems. Conserving space is also a reason why I'm constantly deleting things(mostly pictures) I don't use anymore, even if I liked them(such as pictures). Also why it's horrible when I lose files on my webhost because most of the time they've already been deleted from my computer by then *has happened a lot* *still waiting for MP3 to upload* Well, in the meantime I'm going to go do elsewise somewhere else. I was reading "Bikini Bandits" earlier and I didn't get to finish it so I'll go finish that up. By the way, awesome story Annie! Great job! I love it, it just so... so... damn hilarious. You know what, if I were to choose one swear word that I really liked, it would be: damn. I'm sure even if I hadn't of said which one I'd choose, you could have guessed(if only after a little while or investigation, maybe you should use "Find" (CTRL+F) in my Archives and find out how many times I use damn on each page, then average it out compared to other swear words). -DDG

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