Posted by Red | May 8, 2010, 20:01 (EST) | 10 Comments
Category: Website

Most of you may have noticed that the site has been pretty unstable for the past few days with a few instances of downtime (for which we apologise). It seems that you all are so enthusiastic about the show that you’ve broken the site a couple of times. ;)

Because of this, our hosts are going to be making some adjustments to the server the site is on in the hopes of making it more stable. With any luck, this should help solve the problems with downtime and help the site run more smoothly.

The website is scheduled to go down at sometime around 4am ET (1am PT, 9am BST), but the maintenance could start earlier or later than that. Given the time, hopefully most of you won’t be inconvenienced by this, and when you visit again in the morning, it’ll be up and running again.

We unfortunately lost the blog post about the live-tweet of “Isobel” from Thursday, and are also sitting on a few little bits of news until we’ve got the website stable again. We also lost a chunk of forum posts yesterday, and if you signed up for the forums yesterday you may find you need to sign up again because your membership was lost when a backup was installed. Sorry about that.

Thank you to EVERYONE for your patience and show of support over the past few days. The Vampire Diaries fandom rocks.

Posted by Red | July 4, 2009, 11:46 (EST) | 17 Comments
Category: Website

As you can probably tell, we’ve given the layout a complete overhaul along with the reinstallation of WordPress. There were a lot of little things that kept niggling at us, and it’s often very difficult to try and modify other people’s code to get it to do what you want it to. So, the solution was for me to build the layout up from scratch so we can do with it what we want to with much more ease.

Both Vee and I have been really taken with what we’ve seen of Stefan’s bedroom in the trailers and promo shots, and so we decided to use that as a base for inspiration for the layout, and went with a journal-esque theme because, well, it’s the Vampire Diaries after all. ;)

The biggest reason for the change was that the site has grown so much bigger than we ever expected it to (which is in no small part down to all you awesome people who send us information, visit the site, comment on articles, and link to our content – thank you!), and because of that we needed a layout that would better suit what we need from it for adding content in a sensible manner. In the near future we’re planning to expand on the information we already have up for both the books and the TV series, as well as add new sections to the site for when the TV series airs: episode guides, music from the series, more in-depth character pages, and other things of that nature.

So those are our plans for the near future. In the immediate future there may be the odd glitch from time to time as we tweak bits here and there, or modifications to plugins might cause random tweets or email notifications to go out. So, apologies in advance, and thanks for your patience. :)

Posted by Red | July 3, 2009, 20:00 (EST) | 2 Comments
Category: Website

Just a heads-up to let you all know that the site will be going down at some point tomorrow (4th July), likely between 5am and 7am EST. The recent upgrade from WordPress 2.7 to 2.8 has left a few things behind the scenes of the site a little wonky, so I’d decided to save the last few shreds of my sanity and solve it with a fresh install. The site shouldn’t be down for more than 30 minutes, and likely won’t affect most of you. I don’t foresee any problems, but I have the requisite goat on standby. Just in case. ;)

Update: Reinstall seems to have gone relatively smoothly, just tweaking bits now.