New website URL

[sholio]

Tonight I finally did something that I've been meaning to do for a while: got my fanfic on its own domain. :D The new URL is:

http://www.sholiofic.com/sga/

This may or may not work for you yet, depending on whether the domain name has propagated to your local DNS servers yet. (In case it's not working yet, it should be up within a day or two.) Right now, I have the main page redirecting automatically, but I'm still figuring out if it's possible to redirect the individual pages automatically (I think you can do that, but my tests don't seem to be working, so I'm still trying to figure out what's up with that). My main objective here is to get my fanfic disconnected from my real name a little more than is currently the case. However, I don't want to break all the existing links, and I know that my fic is linked in a bunch of places (as well as having a lot of images that are hosted on the friendshipper subdomain as well).

In any case, right now both pages have the exact same information with the exact same names for the pages, except that they start with www.sholiofic.com/sga/ instead of the friendshipper blah blah. In the future I'll be redirecting all traffic to the new site, automatically if possible but manually for the individual pages if it turns out I have to do it that way. The permanent URLs for fic will be at the new www.sholiofic.com/sga/ address.

Comments

[hollow-echos.livejournal.com]

It's working for me! I like the layout, it's very clean and well-laid out. The graphic at the top is also very cool.

[sholio]

Thank you very much! :) It's the same design (exact same html, actually) as my old site, but I just redesigned it recently, going for clean and quick-loading as my primary concern (plus ease of updating, that's an issue too!). So I'm very happy that it looks good. :D

You can't go wrong with wet team perched on gate. :D

[sheron]

Works for me, but I'm not seeing any graphics yet :)

[sholio]

Not even at the top?

[sheron]

Nope, it's totally black text, white background, blue links at the moment. I'm sure it'll come in time, since the other commenter sees something.

[sholio]

Hmm, that's really odd that you're getting *some* of it but not *all* of it! Like you said, it's probably just not all there yet. Kind of funny it's doing it at different rates, though...

Thanks for checking anyhoo. :)

[sheron]

Possibly the image files are on a different server :)

[sheron]

Still no pics this morning, I even ctrl+f5 ed just in case I was caching something. Odd. :)

[sholio]

You know, I wonder if the problem is not that the images haven't propagated over yet, but that my CSS is not working on your browser, so you're not getting the formatting? Can you tell me if

a) you see any text on the page at all that's red or pink (there should be some at the top), and

b) if the fonts appear as different sizes and shades of gray (this should be instantly evident when you look at the first page, if it's working).

Also, what browser are you using?

[sheron]

Huh.

I was using IE6, and there, nothing, no css at all.

I tried Firefox & Chrome, and both of them show up okay (with images!). Interesting.

Anyway, lovely picture at the top :) The four of them together, over the gate -- perfect!

[sholio]

Augh, I've run into this before; I don't know if it's all IE or just some IE, but there are definite issues with my CSS and IE. And I don't know what's causing it. :/ I might ask you again later today if I have time to do some tinkering with it! (But first, figuring out why my forwarding is only forwarding the main page, aargh.)

[sheron]

Oh absolutely :) I'm going to the swimming pool now and maybe for a walk for an hour or so, but later in the day I'm around :) I'm happy to help, can't resist tinkering!

[sheron]

since you are using @import, check this out:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningcss/f/css_import_link.htm

"hides the style sheet from Netscape 4, IE 6 and below
@import url(../style.css) screen;"

Also see #5 on this page, sounds similar:

http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/internet-explorer.shtml

[sholio]

Hmm! I wonder if it could be as simple as using the link text in addition to @import? I seem to recall that I had a reason for using @import instead (that the link text didn't work correctly in Safari at the time, or something), but I tried adding the link text to what I've already got - could you see if it loads for you now?

[sheron]

Nope :(

It's okay, the text is readable and that's what's important. ;-)

If you do want to trouble shoot this together, I'm up for that.

[sholio]

If you do want to trouble shoot this together, I'm up for that.

Thank you! That would be awesome ... although first I think I need to do some more reading on css. What's frustrating is that I can't duplicate it on my own computer - I have IE5 (Mac) and while things don't display perfectly (it doesn't get all the font formatting) it's got the images and overall page style. And my css page is incredibly basic; I can't imagine what I've done to make it fail to work! *pokes*

I'll shoot you a comment once I find something to try. :/

[sheron]

Tried it from work computer (also has IE6) and no dice.

Try including this:

[LINK href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"]

I tried it locally and adding rel="stylesheet" makes a difference. :)

[sholio]

Try it now! (I also took out the @import command totally, to see what happens.)

[sheron]

Works :D

*high-fives*

I think you can put the import back as it has no effect on IE6 at all (ie6 doesn't recognize it) and it will work for newer browsers!

[sholio]

eeee! *bounces*

I put the @import back in - could you check it and make sure that didn't change anything?

Thank you so much for helping me troubleshoot this!

[sheron]

Check! Works in IE6, firefox & chrome, at least :)

You're welcome; pretty picture is pretty!

[naye]

It all loads for me, and it looks really nice and clean and pretty. ♥

[sholio]

Yay! And thank you! ♥

[snazana.livejournal.com]

It loads for me, too. And now it's bookmarked.

Thank you so much for dividing up the fic by length and noting the word count. This makes it so much easier to decide what to read in the time allowed.

[sholio]

Thank you! I'm glad it's helpful. :) When I was trying to figure out how to organize the page, word count seemed to me the most useful thing - I know that it's incredibly important to me when I'm trying to prioritize my own reading!