[Mkguild] Archive Update -- Plus resignation announcement

[Virmir]

Thanks Andrew!

No worries about navigating the site code. I'll help you through that.

As I mentioned to Andrew privately, he seems fairly qualified for the task.
Community thoughts? I figure I'll leave this open for a few days for
community discussion and give a chance for anyone else who may be
interested to speak up, then start talking with interested parties.


On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Vineyard
<dimensional42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I can help out. I'm fluent in html, css, and php, taking classes in web
> design non-stop since junior year of high school in 06-07. It was my 1st
> year in College, 08-09, where I learned how to use MySQL and then PHP to
> bridge the two. Now 2014, and I have an associates in programming, should
> be getting my bachelors in a few days in general IT, with enough experience
> in web design to know what I'm do<afred //"ing"</>. :P
>
> It may be difficult to find my way through the site, but that doesn't mean
> I won't be able to handle myself. Like all programmers, it just takes a
> while to learn the coding styles of others and understand what each block
> of code does. Hopefully you have comments on your pages that could help.
>
> I've been helping friends out with their sites and stuff, like someone on
> deviantart is getting my help with customizing their journal backgrounds,
> gallery, and profile page. Another friend, whom many of you probably know
> of, is Cervelet <https://cervelet.deviantart.com/>, who does the hit TF
> web comic Addictive Science <http://addictivescience.smackjeeves.com/>.
> Hint: I helped him set up that smackjeeves page and customize the template,
> which was after I discovered him on deviantart and brought him to the
> Lapinia IRC to hang out and chat with other Mad Scientist TFers.
>
> Again, I can help out. Right now I'm a fresh college graduate searching
> for a job while working with people to help them with their own sites and
> pages. I doubt even with a job I'll be too busy with the archive. Just
> might mean I would have to work on it in later hours when I'm free from the
> earthly shackles known as a J.O.Double-B.
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Virmir <kendo at virmir.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm please to announce another update to the Metamor Keep Story Archives.
>>
>> http://metamorkeep.com
>>
>> This week's update is the Hawl's latest story. Enjoy!
>>
>>
>> As some of you have surely noticed, I've been less and less involved with
>> the MK community following the completion of my MK arc some years ago. My
>> situation has changed significantly since I first started taking care of
>> the archives in 2007-- namely I have a lot more websites I'm managing, a
>> weekly webcomic, a second sporadic comic I'd like to update more often,
>> plus many weekly commissions and other fun projects going on.  I believe
>> it's time for me to step down from my role of archivist and pass the torch
>> to someone more involved and active as Thaeus had done before me.
>>
>> That said-- ARCHIVIST WANTED. INQUIRE WITHIN.
>>
>> Maintaining the archives is not that huge of a deal. You should have
>> basic HTML knowledge and be comfortable converting large stories to this
>> format. There is PHP code in the header of each story that also needs to be
>> added, but it is extremely simplistic and you don't really need to be
>> familiar with the language at all. Some MySQL familiarity would be helpful.
>> I have programed some extremely crude admin panel pages which insert the
>> stories, pictures, etc into the database, but there a few things you need
>> to go into the database directly for (using Xepher.net's PHPmyAdmin panel).
>> I can put together a guide how to do this stuff. Also, you should have a
>> method for resizing images and making thumbnails, as the gallery needs
>> these uploaded manually.
>>
>> Also, fair warning-- 2008-era Virmir-code is terrifying. I mean, the site
>> is pretty simplistic, but I haven't looked at the code in many years and am
>> afraid of what I might find if I do. ;)
>>
>> I figure it would be best for interested parties to publicly post to the
>> list so the whole community can share their input. It's not a dire
>> emergency that I step down today, so feel free to send stories to me until
>> we figure out who's going to be doing this for sure. I also don't intend to
>> disappear for good-- I'll be around for guidance and questions!
>>
>> Thanks, folks. It's been fun!
>>
>> --
>> -  Virmir | http://virmir.com
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