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Welcome To The New Scryptic! |
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Written by Jeffery Stevenson
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Saturday, 28 October 2006 |
And change is upon us...
If you're seeing this announcement, it means everything is finally
forwarding over to this new site. I had planned on spending Saturday
night and Sunday morning trying to get as much of the articles,
scripts, and resource links migrated to our new site here, but just
four hours after I had transferred a copy of the previous Scryptic's
files to a backup location, I received notification from the old
hosting company that there was a problem with the server hosting our
site and needed to restore everything from a backup (which could take
up to 6-8 hours). Since we were going to be down that long anyways, I
decided to go ahead and kick off the process to have
scrypticstudios.com point over to this new site. I've been working on
this new site for a number of months now in my spare time with the
major goals being 1) easier to navigate and find helpful information
and 2) easier for columnists to get their columns up (the new editor
makes it so they don't need to know HTML to format their articles).
Here are some other niceties you'll see:
- Single login for website and forums.
- Profile page
that allows each member of the Scryptic community to create a nice
bio. Columnists will have links to all their articles appear in their
profile, and all members will have links to their latest forum posts
available in their profile as well.
- Frustrated whenever you
clicked on a link to a useful research link only to have it invalid?
Now, our research/resource link database has automatic URL validation
to let you know when a link's up or down (still running some tests on
it, but so far, so good).
- Read some cool piece of advice at
Scryptic and couldn't remember if it was in an article or in the
forums? Well, I'm still working out some of the kinks, but the new
site search here will search through both (as well as the link
database... still working on getting it to search through script titles
as well).
- Easier for me to maintain. That's more for the
benefit of us behind-the-scenes people, but the less we have to spend
tracking down problems and tinkering with the site, the more time we
have for other things (like answering emails/questions... and writing
articles).
I hope everyone likes the new changes and the new site. You might
encounter some minor hiccups here-and-there as I continue migrating
articles/links over (and testing out some new features for the site),
but for the most part, we're ready to go. If you have any questions,
suggestions, or comments, feel free to drop me a line via my profile
here.
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