Wow, look at all that dust. I haven't posted here for months, not that I have an avid readership dying for my next piece of prose...

I think it is time to revamp the whole site, and I'll try to get it done before the year is over. I've been playing with WordPress and ZenPhoto on a couple of projects, so I'll probably ditch b2evolution and Gallery for those. Nothing wrong with b2evo or Gallery, I still love them, but I love even more the beautiful simplicity of WP and ZP.

I also want to make new character illustrations to go with the new design, and I know that's what will consume the greatest part of my time. It should be fun, though.

Well, since Stephanie from Obsidian Dawn asked me to update the link to her site, I decided to be thorough and see if there was anything else to fix in the links section. Wow, several sites bit the dust, while others made slight changes to their URLs. Edited everything, checked the links, so now the list is again useful.

Which reminds me (again) that I should give the whole site a facelift, maybe even dropping b2evolution and use WordPress instead (which I've found easier to deal with). Now if I could find the time to sit down and plan the redesign. :-P

I've taken the general gallery offline while I update it. For some reason, the upgrade didn't go that well, so I'll have to wait until I get the time to fix it.

Update: The gallery is online once more. It turns out the problem was was with ver. 1.1.4. of ZenPhoto. The most recent nightly build installed without a problem. I still have to fix the custom theme I'm using, though, since the captcha text in the comment form is missing. OK that's fixed too .

Well, the pictures are the same, but the engine that runs the general gallery is different now.

I switched from the Menalto.com Gallery to the much lighter and far simpler ZenPhoto. Don't misunderstand me, I love the Gallery project a lot, but I always felt it was overkill for my insignificantly small gallery.

ZenPhoto was a breeze to install, mere minutes. Integrating the gallery with my site, well, that's another matter. It wasn't overly complex, but it took hours of trial and error to get it all done. My previous experience integrating both Gallery and b2evo helped me a lot with that. I still have to tweak a few things, but I like the results... it even loads faster than Gallery.

I considered using it for my personal portfolio to simplify things even more, but I think I'll leave it as it is for the time being.

Once I finish tinkering with ZenPhoto, I should work on the Links section to make the PVII tab script blend better with the page. I never liked leaving it so blindingly white against the dark blue background.

I had to ask my web host to rollback my site to an earlier version.

Therefore, many customizations I've done through the months were gone. It took me some time to put everything back the way it was... but at least the site is functional again.

I also lost some blog posts but, like they say, Google is your friend. I found a cached Google page of my blogs and restored them from it. Then I will do what I should do more often: backup my databases.

My thanks to Ian at Arvixe for all the help.