Ultra Violet

Well my Spikefiles site has begun to take on a whole new look. Hopefully I'll like it for longer this time. I think I will as I put a lot of thought into what I wanted it to look like. I did a lot of surfing to other sites, and not just buffy ones, and I bookmarked the ones that had layouts that I adored. I then went back decided exactly what It was that I loved and then tried to incorporate that into my design. the three biggest were - the Judgement Awards, Restless Slayer and Dusk Til Dawn. It probably looks most like dusk til dawn, but elements from each went into my finished design.

If I Get bored with the header image, it can be easily changed. I was thinking of going with a red layout, but apart from it being a little too cliche'd for my liking, it wouldve looked too much like a rip off of dusk til dawn.

Man that is one well built, planned and thought out site. Tons of content. Hopefully in a year or two mine will look like that too. I'll try and stick to this layout and follow the mantra of 'A Page a Day' - and this time page means page with some content!!! (I'll at least add 3 pages a week I think!! lol)

Anyways My other resolution is to write more, and read more. I have to do something to stop the grey matter from turniong to mush as it has been lately ... not as spry as it once was unfortunately.

ENough said, back to the code... SO many directories to get listed in so little time

I've been a very busy little bee of late.

I have created a Fanlisting for the Vampires of Angel. SImply called VOA. It resides @ my SPikefiles DOmain The exact adress is
www.spikefiles.com/vamps

I'm pretty happy with myself, Although I didn't write the scripts myself, I did configure and fiddle with them to get them to my liking. It is my first real delve into the world of php and My SQL. The scripts came from
www.CodeGrrl.com I also got a whole bunch of advice from that sites helpful message boards.

I would also like to take this opportunity to give my wonderful new hosting company a plug

www.IcdSoft.com
Not only are they amazing for the simple fact that I only pay $5 a month for hosting, and that includes a MySql database, Php, and a hundred other amazing features, But their customer service is out of this world.
Silly old me first time user of php came up against a few brick walls - silly errors, configuration problems, and other errors that I caused (like typos etc.) I simply emailed customer support and had my queries answered within 5 minutes each and every time. Even when it was an error I had made customer service took a look at the code and helped me fix it. Its absolutely amazing. I'd expect this kind of customer service if i was paying around $100 a month, But for the customer service alone icdSofts hosting is amazing value for money.

Also they will register you a new domain name when you join for just $5 more. - I don't get anything if you sign up - I just wanted to share as they are amazing. (the only downfall is you have to pay a year at a time $60us!!!)

Anyway back to me and my world. I've decided I'm going to attempt to revive my flailing Being-Violet.com domain. Next week when I'm flush with cash I'm going to transfer it over to icdsoft and get it going again. I want it to become my creative site, for my brushes, fonts that kind of bizzo. It will also become home to my Ultra Violet blog and the VIOLET fanlisting for the song Violet by HOLE>

Have to run, hubby is sick with migrane and needs to go to hospital

Take care
byeee.....

PS sory for any errors no time to edit now!@

Not sure if I told you all that I set up my ivf blog the other day.. anyway I did that!!!

Ive added yet more content pages and some not so content pages to my spike files site. I also signed up for a new host @ Icd soft.com I'll let you know how that all works out.
It will be a week or two before I move my current domain over and park it on one of their servers. The reason that I'm swappin is that they offer so much more than yahoo, and their cheaper too. Although having to pay a years hosting in one go is a drawback - but its ok.

Nothing much else to report. Hope to spend the weekend creating graphics and such - so look out for a new look for my blog. I don't actually know what it looks like at the moment, but ULTRA Violet and my ivf, and the Spike Files blog are all going to get a makeover. Plus I'm going to put together some other blog templates and graphics for others to use on their spike blogs. I think that will be pretty cool.

Thats it for today. Yet another day fades into oblivvion.

PS Pissed that ANgel wasn't on last night!!!

I've finally got most of my sites pages tranferred over to Version 2.0. I'm so happy that I have even applied for an award at the Judgement Awards

Nominated for... - check out our nominated page

I'm also working on a lot of new graphic type things such as buttons, banners, that kind of thing.

I'm very upset that I am not yet listed in google, despite being listed on DMOZ.org I wanted to use google as my site's search engine, but obviously thats just not going to happen. at least not yet.

I think I'm going to turn Being-Violet.com into both a creative site for all my brushes and other graphic type things I create, maybe even some cool blands and fonts even!. It will also become home to the ULTRA- Violet blog, as well as my new IVF journey blog. I haven't really started writing in my IVF journey blog, but I have created it and was lucky enough to get the free blogspot adress of myivf.blogspot.com ivf was already taken, but I was still pretty happy. Our first appointment isn't Untill the end of April, SO I will begin that project a week or so before the first appointment. Hopefully It will help to offer some insight for others who are contemplating the ivf journey.

ANyways, Tommorrow, or this weekend at least I am going to sign up for a new hosting account at ICDSoft, they offer some pretty cool things for a really cheap price, such as php, cgi-bin, custom 404 error pages, favourites icons and more , just $65us a year including domain registration. SO I'm going to move over to Spikefiles.net - and just park Spikefiles.com pointing to the .net name - kind of like a mirror site.

Anyway thats about it for now -
Graphic Goo is back online - yay for the creative types!!



And maybe check out
Moviemistakes.com - thats todays kind of cool link

Violet

Kind of a pain that you can't view the layout - as a kind of help when editing the layout .. that is until you have made at least one post in your Blog. What's the problem you ask??? Well I'm writing this on the fly , simply to fill up some space in the required first post, when I would have much prefered to have been able to take a little bit of time about it and written it with a fresh mind, that wasn't busy thinking about trying to re-organise the layout.

Also I wanted my first post to be kind of Special. I wanted to be able to link to it from the main page, using it for all its worth as a semi- kind of ABOUT me , and my blog type of thing. Oh well I guess that I will just be linking to the second blog post - unless I go back and delete this silly post.

Have you ever noticed that if you don't use your brain for acedemic pursuits it starts to shrivel and loose its finesse!. When I speak of 'acedemic purposes' i am referring to a whole lot of things that exsist somewhere within the scope between something as simple as reading a good novel regularly, to studying and writing essays and other intelligent pieces, to discovering some new physics breakthrough along the lines of the theory of relativity! If your not using your brain you kind of loose parts. I'm finding myself loosing words, my vocabulary is beginning to shrink, and the lights are going dim. My mind just isn't working as well as it used to. I'm sick of having words stuck to the tip of my tounge, when I really need them to be tapping out of the ends of my fingers. Its not that I am getting old or senile, I'm simply letting my brain turn to mush by being a bored housewife. I just can't really think clearly lately.. its been happening for a while now, and I'm fed up with it. I want to whip my mind into shape - ... Damn I lost a bloody word. ..wait I found it
I want to invigorate (sic.) my mind. If we don't excersize our body it goes fat and flabby, weighed down under its own excess weight. It gets sluggish and tired and the problem just builds upon itselsize , you will have more energy, but you don't have the energy to excersize.
This is the trap my mind is in. The less I use it the more weighed down it gets with grey fuzzballs, my mind is drowning in the lint trap!!!
I'm highly intelligent and have an IQ of 139, which is pretty darn good. I was always top of my class, and well within reach of the top of the school. I was still smart even though I left school before finishing yr 10. I did well with written compositions when I returned to study a couple of years later, often getting distinctions on my work - or A's.
But the last few years I have let my whoile life slide. My bodies fucked, my brain can't think and well I'm generally screweed up.

I want to be healthy, not thin - but definately not this fat. I want to get under a particular figure - similar to pre baby weight!, I want to feel smart again. I want to take part in intelligent conversations. I want to have a life and enjoy living it. And I really really want to move out of this shitty house, and have a baby. I'm going to go for a walk now, and make an appointment with the IVF clinic in the morning!

For more on my ivf journey - see my ivf blog linked somewhere on the main page of this blog.