Posts Tagged with Fractured Mentality

Why, it’s at it’s new home, of course.

I was finally convinced that having a web comic as part of my blog wasn’t doing anyone any good. The blog has often been neglected while I work on the web comic, and the web comic ended up burried in my blog. So now Fractured Mentality has earned it’s own subdomain. Apologies to anyone that’s sick of the comic constantly jumping around; all I can say is that it won’t be moving again for a very, very long time. Or until I feel like it. Who knows?

Anyways, direct all future interest in the web comic towards http://fm.maikeruon.com/

One year ago today Maikeru On launched. In honor of this anniversary—and because I felt like it—I’ve updated the design. Hope you like. It’s about… 2:30AM at the moment, and I”m dead tired. I’ll be updating this post sometime tomorrow after I wake up with all the information about this redesign. A lot of things have changed… so many, in fact, that I couldn’t finish everything even though I’ve spent the last nine hours working on nothing else.

One new feature I’ll mention now, before collapsing: I’ve opened comments up to non-registered users. This is a test run; if I start seeing a bunch of spam comments I’ll lock things up pretty fast. In the meantime, do comment. Registered users still have some perks… which I’ll go into tomorrow. *collapses*

Update: You’d think I would’ve slept until noon or something, but I woke up at eight and have been working on stuff ever since. Most everything is in place now, so here’s a rundown.

• Access Panel: Non-registered or logged out users should notice a new link at the very top of the site, “access”. This activates the access panel, which lets you login, retrieve a lost password or register. I haven’t worked all of the kinks out of this yet, but it’s still using the WordPress backend so nothing is completely broken; it just doesn’t quite work the way I’d like. I’ll be trying to clean this up at some point but it’s functional enough for the moment.
• Customization Panel: Once logged in, registered users will notice the “access” link replaced with the “welcome user” message. Clicking this will activate the customization panel. This one is a little trickier… none of the account settings work just yet, and my brain is too fried to try and get it working right now. Site themes work perfectly fine, however, so have fun playing with those. Logging out removes the cookie that saves your theme option at the moment; I might try to make it a more permanent setting in the future.
• Open Comments: As I mentioned last night, commenting is now open to the general public. You still have to provide a name and a valid e-mail address (which will never be shared), but I hope this will get more people—perhaps those that didn’t like the idea of registering—to comment.
• The FM Archives: Coming soon. The Wayback Machine actually caught nearly every post I ever made on my old site, Fractured Mentality. I’ll be working on getting these posted back to Michael Online in the near future.

There are still tweaks and minor modifications to be made here and there, but for the most part I’m extremely happy with things now. Let me know what you think.

Just a heads up: I got all of zero hours of sleep last night, so I’ll be going home after work today and probably sleeping until tomorrow. For those unaware, this means that the web comic probably won’t show up until late tomorrow or possibly even Tuesday.

The comic made it today, if a little late. I’ve finally given up on TinyMCEComments as it refuses to work. In it’s place I’m trying Live Comment Preview, along with Smilies Themer + Smilies Themer Toolbar. Let me know what you think.

Just a heads up: next Monday’s comic might be delayed. I’ve been suddenly employed and will be working everyday until May 22nd, but I’ll do my best to keep the Monday update schedule going.

This post is vague, personal, and almost certainly of no interest to anyone but myself, but it’s my blog so I’m posting it. To save you all the torture, I’m hiding it under the “read more” tag. If you are interested, put forth some effort by clicking and read on. If you’re not, congratulations: you’ve already won. Go read the comic; I’m trying for weekly updates on Monday’s, so we’ll see how that goes. ^_^; (more…)