Peachy Project Updates

Now that we are quickly approaching our second Will, Strife and Ayu-Vogue discography update deadline, I figure it's time for an explanation as to what I've been up to.

After spending the better part of six months on a thesis, I graduated last June and thought I'd have a couple of months off to leisurely make updates here. That has obviously not been the case. At this time, I do not foresee any significant content updates being made until September at the earliest. Will will take the backseat to Strife.

I appreciate your patience and hope to have a better game plan (and something to show for it) later this year.

Strife, Will, and the Peachy Projects list have been updated to reflect this prolonged informational hiatus. Fanlistings will continue to be updated regularly.

I have three more weeks of classes. Given the sheer volume of work I have to wrap up in this time, I'm going to unofficially add a month to all ACC and Ayu-Vogue Discography revamp projects.

After graduation in June, the content revamp schedule will be as follows (in order of priority)

1. 7th Heaven
2. Will
3. Strife
4. Ayu-Vogue merchandise and analog discography

I don't foresee Sunshine being significantly edited after ACC, so it may have its update earlier than 7th Heaven or Will, and NEVER EVER will most likely remain AC-only until I feel like changing it. Grace is also scheduled to have a navigational revamp which will probably occur earlier than the projected content revamps, and the Super Secret Project will also likely be treated as a priority. 

Gloriosa Galleries have officially migrated to the new MR! Museum, though the content links are kind of a mess. I'm really okay with that for now.

In conclusion: I'm going to stay in lurker mode for awhile still. Fanlisting members will still be added, and only big Ayu news will be reported.

Some of you may have noticed the new privacy policy popping up at certain Peach-Arrow Network sites. This is because all Peach-Arrow Network domains and some of the bigger sub-domains are now using Google Analytics to better cater to its user base. Right now this only affects Peach-Arrow.net, Ayu-Vogue.net, and Strife.

As of April 2009, the Peach-Arrow Network uses Google Analytics to gather information from users with javascript-enabled browsers. This information includes:

• Types of Internet browsers used to access the site and the browser version number (example: Internet Explorer 7, etc)
• Type of operating system
• Screen resolution
• IP address
• What Peach-Arrow Network pages are accessed, etc.

This information is collected to better optimize the Peach-Arrow Network for its users. It will not be sold or otherwise used for monetary profit. Peach-Arrow does not collect any personal information like visitor legal names, mailing addresses, etc.

To clarify, Peach-Arrow will be using general information -- primarily what browsers are used -- to better optimize the viewing experience and make its sites more accessible. The Peach-Arrow Network will remain personally financed/ad-free.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow Network
  • Minor link update

Ayu-Vogue Network

• Gallery @ Ayu-Vogue
  • Uploaded scans from the January issue of ViVi

Classes begin again today and the Peach-Arrow Network will again enter it's semi-comatose state (not that it was updated much over the break). Fanlistings and Ayu news will continue to be updated regularly, and I'll continue to chip away at the new content at Strife until I have time to really invest in my projects.

Ayu-Vogue has been the only site consistently updated through the break with news updates, including one today.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Forget Me Not
  • Dissidia trailer screens added; Dissidia section has been slightly updated.

Strife, Midgar-Rock, and Ayu-Vogue updates are on their way.

Yeah, nothing's going to get done this quarter. I'll do my best to get the first phase of the Ayu-Vogue revamp (new discography and layout) up by next week Friday, and there will be a few housekeeping issues addressed later today, but no other major projects will receive significant attention until December.

The autumn quarter begins tomorrow, bringing the Peach-Arrow Network's Summer Progress to an end.  I will be busy with an independent study on top of my usually classes, but I will spend my extra time on the following network projects:

1. The Ayu-Vogue Network Discography is currently under-going a major overhaul. This will hopefully be uploaded in October. Other sections will follow (time allowing).
2. The Midgar-Rock Organization revamp will continue. All artwork and screen captures (+new ones) have been moved to the new database, and the scope of the informational sections is in the processes of being refined to contextualize shrines rather than compete with them.
3. Any leftover energy will be alloted to Melody

My host has officially gotten back to me to verify that all the database issues have been sorted out. Thanks everyone!

Peach-Arrow Network database is totally broken, so all fanlistings, galleries, and the Ayu-Vogue news blog are all down.

Host has been notified and hopefully everything will be straightened up soon. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Edit: Haven't heard back from our host, but they seem to have worked their magic anyway. Please reply here or contact me if you have trouble with the fanlistings or news blog.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • updated Instinct's listing and a few housekeeping proble
• Instinct
  • Complete identity overhaul
  • Removed the media and discography after official site revamp rendered them irrelevant

Also, now that it's been up for a few years, the Affiliate Request Post has been cleaned out so as to keep replies relevant and uncluttered. If you'd like to affiliate with any of the Peach-Arrow Network fanlistings, please comment on that post. You do not need a LiveJournal account to comment.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • Most (all JPEGs) of the layout archive has been re-sized to make it slightly more uniform
• Forget Me Not
  • had some IE7 compatibility issues resolved

Midgar-Rock Organization

• Gospel Decay
  • Fixed more IE7 problems

New Instinct layout coming through the pipes...

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • updated Forget Me Not's description and layout archive
  • Changed some horribly outdated FAQ stuff; 'could stand for a re-write.
  • Edit: Mega-Oops Index Overwrite has been fixed
• Forget Me Not
  • First phase of the revamp online
  • All informational content has been re-written. Brand new sections include: Timeline, Brother, Childhood, etc
  • New 50x50 fanlisting codes
  • New 100x100 icons (now under the "Fanworks" subheading)
  • Official artwork and screen captures moved under "All About Zidane" subheading; new Dissidia art and screens posted
  • New doujinshi section in "Fanworks"
  • Wallpapers and 48x48 icons remain ugly and un-updated. Oh, well.

To re-iterate what I've been whining about in friend's only posts, this is not a long-term solution for fanwork and media archiving between Forget Me Not and Melody. You'll also notice the section on Dagger is fairly light (no more mention of the play or song). I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to handle the crossover content yet, but those details will be addressed more in-depth on Melody.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • Revamped the Quick Contact Form to match the current layout and have more comprehensive contact options.
  • Fixed some truly unfortunate typos in the site descriptions
• Hosted Fanlistings
  • ANGEL'S SONG hit its 250 milestone earlier this month, most of which joined while it was under Veronica's care.

Midgar-Rock Organization

• Strife
  • Re-did the back-end to make the navigation more dynamic. I'm more excited about this than you are, I think.
  • Cloud Cake 2008 now has its own section

I spent the last few days sort of in a state of perpetual exhaustion, but I was able to finally get back on the ball last night. The new Forget Me Not will be uploaded tomorrow or Tuesday. Or tonight if I'm feeling particularly ambitious. Probably Tuesday.

The profile here has been updated to be less cluttered/sorta-kinda go with the domain color scheme. Coding LJ profiles makes me die inside.

DONE. \0/

Until autumn classes begin in September and this starts all over again.

Forget Me Not marathoning after I recover from essay marathoning into the wee hours of the morning.

In the meantime, check out Ayu's new song. I already love it.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • Added two new 50x50 buttons to replace the haphazard old ones (one is a semi-transparent PNG, the other is a GIF. We're flexible here at Peach-ArrowNET).

Midgar-Rock Organization

• Strife
  • Finally worked in a mention of the whole Mimic thing into the Jenova page (Clumsy, but there).
  • penumbra  brought affiliate Fated back. Rejoice!
  • Affiliation is now by invitation and/or bribery only.
• NEVER EVER
  • Added a link to the new NEVER EVER iMix (US iTunes)

Forget Me Not revamp is stumbling along. I make no promises other than I will have something live by the end of September.

After going a couple weeks with little more than a few public Peachy Service Announcements and some OMFGPSPPE, I think it's about time for another State of the Peach:

I am in my last leg of the academic quarter that's boiling down to two term papers due in mid-August, so there won't be any more substantial updates for the next week or so.

The current focus at Peach-ArrowNET is FFIX. I have a new layout for Forget Me Not coded (get a preview), but it won't be uploaded until the new informational content is written/re-written. I'm currently doing another play-through and will hopefully be able to have Melody and Forget Me Not in good -- if not less embarrassing -- shape before classes start again in late September.

Although Strife and Midgar-RockORG are still being edited, the next major project will be to get a new layout up at Ayu-VogueNET.

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-Arrow
  • Fixed the Fanlistings @ Ayu-Vogue thumbnails

Ayu-Vogue Network

• and then
  • Received a news update earlier in the week

Midgar-Rock Organization

• Strife
  • Uploaded the preliminary, post-CC and 10th Anniversary updates
  • New Section: Buster Sword
  • Several notable revised sections: Zack, Aeris, Sephiroth, Jenova, Tifa, Children and Family. The latter two annexed the "Parenting" section. "Jenova" and "Children" especially still need a lot of work. Other sections have been cleaned up but not fully revised. I haven't decided what all will be added to the "archive" section yet.

I think I'm going to re-arrange the tags again to be organized by domain instead of type (fanlisting, shrine, etc) in order to stay consistent with the domain organization.

(happy super-belated birthday lorien!)

Peach-Arrow Network

• Partners in Crime
  • Re-did the Revenant Wings introduction. I haven't decided if I want to go into it more than that since I really didn't like that game
  • Added manga scans to "loot"
• Insintict
  • updated with 『私と放電」first week chart position

Ayu-Vogue Network

• and then received a news update
• The discography was updated with sales stats for Mirrorcle World

Peach-Arrow Network

• Peach-ArrowNET
  • After an epic battle with IE7 and months of input from my amazing friends list, the latest iteration of Peach-ArrowNET is finally live! There are still a few things left to tweak (mainly re-directing links), but it's navigable.
  • Links page has been cleaned out
• Hosted Fanlistings
  • removed both Naughty Dog fanlistings because I didn't feel like I would be able to devote proper time developing content.

As promised, all affiliates on all networks have had their affiliate pages cleaned out. If you believe the removal of your site was a mistake, please respond to the Fanlisting Affiliate post (you do not need a livejournal account to comment)

Part one of the Strife revamp will hopefully be uploaded later this week.