Great changes at Entrecard make changes for Sygnus sites!
Posted by 
Aywren on May 20, 2008 in Blogging, Web Comic
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The newest changes in Entrecard have really done a lot to help bolster site development around the Sygnus network. This was part of the reason for the big Wayrift makeover that’s been in progress over the past weekend.
I’ve been working on moving Wayrift back to a Wordpress layout — something I’ve been going back and forth on for a while. There are a lot of positive reasons to make the switch:
- Updates are easier
- RSS feed is automatic (I’ve been hand coding the RSS feed and often forget to update it due to this!)
- Site layout, while a little more limited, is cleaner (IMHO)
- It opens up the ability to track visitors, install stats and all the nice features that Wordpress offers… which a regular HTML site lacks
- Makes it easier to get the content out there to Google and other media sources
Just a slew of reasons… things I’ve learned are perks to using a Wordpress layout for any site. I’ve made the switch for Darkstar… and I’m working on making the switch with the revision of Dreigiau as well. I’m hoping most of my site will eventually go the way of PHP and Wordpress by the end of this year.
Now… the great changes that Entrecard brought. First, they added a Web Comic section! This was something that totally thrilled me — rather than having my comic tucked away in the Graphic Arts area, where it technically didn’t quite fit, Entrecard has actually gone as far as aknowledge the Web Comic niche. I haven’t used Entrecard as much as I should have for Wayrift since I discovered this. But I will be working on my drops soon. Shimmer has been a part of Entrecard for a while… but I’ve decided that right now, I really would like to focus on moving things forward for Wayrift in particular.
Secondly… Entrecard now allows the merging of multiple accounts! This has been a majorly big help for me as I’ve owned 3 different accounts on Entrecard and it’s been quite frustrating to maintain them all. I do approve of the manor that they’ve approached this as I know that due to the structure of accounts, this wasn’t an easy task to undertake. I’m especially glad that they allowed us to link accounts that already existed as that means we could keep our credits, comments and everything else in tact.
I look forward to working on moving things along for the revised Wayrift Wordpress site. I have a lot of comments to restore and a few tweaks to make… but once that’s done, hopefully the site will be whole and in a format I won’t need to change again for a long time.
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Posted by Aywren on May 12, 2008 in Writing
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Posted by Aywren on May 1, 2008 in Blogging, Internet & Website, Web Comic
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Posted by Aywren on April 30, 2008 in Character Development
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One is silver, the other is gold.
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Posted by Aywren on April 25, 2008 in Web Comic
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