[Dargon-writers-list] Status-VMC

[C.E. Ryan]

Busy, busy, busy!
I got tired just reading all you have gotten done.  How about giving me a transfusion? LOL
Claudia



----- Original Message ----
From: Victor Cardoso <godot10012 at gmail.com>
To: Dargon Project writers' list <Dargon-writers-list at dargonzine.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2008 1:53:25 PM
Subject: [Dargon-writers-list] Status-VMC

Suppose I should put out a status report!

Biggest news was that I've got 99% of the redesign done. We should be good to switch the site over to Redesign-A in a couple of weeks. This will open the door to establishing more links with other sites via a blogroll, and I'll start implementing monthly recruitment posts in Craigslist and other venues to try and get some new writers interested. I'm excited!

Following that, I'll start converting the archive of our old stories over to the redesign. I've created a number of scripts that can convert the issue and story pages fairly quickly. I imagine I'll start having more problems the further back I go since I have no doubt that the formatting will change, but now that I've got the hang of regular expressions (more or less) it seems to be easier. I've already converted volumes 21, 20, and 19 but I have to work with Liam and Orn on how we want to deal with them. I'd like to move issues out of the main DZ directory and into a subdirectory, but we have links to those stories in the database and out on the web. Moving them into a subdirectory will probably mean writing some redirects and updating the database. I'll think more about that later.

I set-up a Google Group and Yahoo Group, neither of which seem to get much traffic. I was hoping that listing the site in the group's directories might get us a little bit of action, but nothing so far.

Facebook has gotten us 24 referral visits. I'm going to do some Facebook advertising to see if I can get our fan count out.

I've investigated advertising in some program books at local sci-fi conventions in Michigan. Could also host some events or sponsor something. I'm thinking about it.

I have a programmer making a mod for the SMF forums so that every post can be e-mailed to a list server address. The current set-up only notifies you of the first new post but no subsequent posts. That should be done in two weeks.

I've been working on my Nar-Enthruen stories (there will be two at this point). Hopefully I can get a draft out in the next 30 days.

And that's about it. I think. If there's anything else, I'll let you guys know!

-v


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Victor Cardoso
 Ann Arbor, MI
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