What is community?

Karl and Hannah came to visit us in the Summer. During their visit, I said to Karl that I've not taken an active role in promoting Random Fury for a long time, to which he replied "Maybe you should". This is me taking an active hand again. The website, randomfury.co.uk, will soon be transformed. Our existing phpBB forum will be…

Taking stock

After the madness of my cousins wedding and the holiday with the boys, I feel I need to streamline my existence, have a good sort out and tidy everything up. I started today (whilst catching up on Peep Show - the tail end of series 6 and start of series 7), just general organisational things really, and I have next…

New PC is epic

It's just so fast and lovely and Windows 7 is amazing. All I needed to do was plug things into it and it'd go "Alright then, start using the thing you just plugged in". A far cry from the old PC which needed to be configured here, there and everywhere, and have it's hand held all along the way. I've…

New forum style – re-done!

So yeah, it's been changed twice in less than a week now. The prosilverSE style wasn't suitable, so we went with something a bit more like the old style in terms of layout. Overall, it's much better, and apart from the code behind the banner being much stranger than I'm used to (and thus proving to be a bitch to…

Cowboy boots

This week I have been mostly writing about Halo 2 and doing up the forum. It's been a mixed bag in terms of feedback on it - some like the bold new colours, some prefer the muted tones of yesterday. You can't please all of the people all of the time though. It'll work out in the end, whether it…

New forum style – done!

Please note, none of the websites mentioned in this post are still active. It didn't take too long from me deciding enough was enough and it had to be changed to it being pretty much finished. As much as I love Mike Lothar's phpBB2 styles, they just weren't cutting it in phpBB3. Optimization was an issue, and we were missing…