If you went to my RACC fiction subsite, you would have seen that it had a haphazard, half-finished appearance. Though I poked and prodded it several times over its existence, it never really benefited from the attention it wanted. This had a lot to do with the site's lack of focus; it started out as one thing, but as ambition overcame commitment, it became a much bigger job than the work I put into it.
Just when I thought I was on top of all these RACC covers, the newsgroup launches the brand new LNH20 imprint, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Legion Of Net.Heroes... d'oh :)
After a frustrating evening trying to come up with a site design, I decided to switch gears and make a few RACC covers.
I recently discovered that Pages for Mac can export documents as ePub files, the ebook format that iBooks uses. I'm a big fan of reading on my iPad and have been curious about easy ways to bring some RACC publishing onto the tablet.
Added four new covers to site; Captain Sestina, Dev Tripwire Report, Superhuman World 2011, Slim's Scythe. You can enjoy them on the main page or, if no recent issues have been released for the series, the cover gallery. Enjoy!
Added three new covers to site; Men's Course Will Foreshadow, Mordecai, and Sonnet Null. You can enjoy them on the main page or, if no recent issues have been released for the series, the cover gallery. Enjoy!
I have been a little lax in adding covers to the RACC site recently, but my focus on rebuilding the site has spurred me to whip up a batch. You should be able to see them all in the recent issues page or, if new posts arrive by the time you read this, in the cover gallery. Enjoy!
This weekend, I pushed forward with the RACC rebuild I was thinking about when I sketched out couple rough layout thumbnails. Specifically, I focused on the MySQL datatable structure used to store the issues and posts once I parse them out of the Google Groups rss feed.
Still unhappy with my RACC site design, I try a more basic approach, sketching out thumbnails of possible layouts.
I had a thought inspired by next month's NaNoWriMo: a thirty issue challenge for RACC authors, an issue a day.
I've managed to make more progress on my always-in-progress RACC site, reducing the number of pages, but using the remaining space more effectively (hopefully).
So, in my ongoing attempt to make headway in my personal projects, I'm nearing the finish line with my RACC subsite. I'm experimenting with HTML5 and CSS3, and developing with Mac browsers in mind foremost, so those of you sporting Internet Explorer machines will probably see gibberish. Until I do some proper cross-browser fixes, here's a screenshot of how it's coming along.
I switched gears and made a couple cover images, a habit I want to get back into.
Over the long weekend, I found some time to keep working on the redesign/update of my website, including the Rec Arts Comics Creative area. I've had a clear picture of how I wanted it to work for a while now, but I kept getting stumped when I tried to apply a design to it... it just wouldn't come together.
I am working behind the scenes to rebuild my RACC front-end. It's been a long-time coming, and I not only hope to fix a couple functional annoyances, but maybe streamline some usage issues.
Marlo's job was shit. Marlo's apartment was shit. Marlo's life was shit. And the straight and narrow path only promised more of the same. Then someone came along with a promise of some easy loot and a chance to run along the wrong side of the fence again... what could possibly go wrong?
She used to be a super-villian named Zip, the "lickety split". She had a gas, but she got caught and she paid the piper for it. Fast forward to today, and she's tried to stay on the straight and narrow, but it isn't working out for her. Crummy job, harrassed by cops, and just under the poverty line... the hell with it, stick with what you know!
Seasons greetings to all RACC writers, readers, and enthusiasts! Enjoy a free Flash-based music player with Christmas music :)
Added an imprint tag and link to Superguy, as it seems to be back and running!
A gentle reminder to RACC authors to format their subject lines.
Mid-October, and Wil is trying to catch up on a couple more RACC covers. :)
Three new covers. Some troubles getting Google's new Group search working properly. Playing with ads.
New cover images created for LNH series "58.8".
Racc covers created and uploaded for September and October posts.
The Google Groups team has spun off an alternate beta version of their newsgroup web reader.
Racc covers created and uploaded for August posts, plus a couple other shoutouts.
Replaced the original black and white LNH cover with a more colourful one.
Racc covers created and uploaded for June posts.
RACC covers created and uploaded for May posts.
RACC covers created and uploaded for April posts.
Wil makes some updates to one of his RACC mirror admin tools
RACC covers created and uploaded for March posts.
RACC at Wil's Ego wins "Spider Spins!" Little Lulu Webpage RACC Award for fourth year in a row!
The adventures continues past issues three!
RACC covers created and uploaded for February posts.
Out of beta pan and into the fire... just a little further to go!
Get your ballot, and vote for the best original comic book fiction of the year.
Godling, Speak!, and The Goddess And The Bomb.
Wil launches his personal website, and with it, the beta version of his RACC mirror...
Just a reminder, RACCers and RACCettes-- in three short days, the month of January will be upon us, and with it, Apes Month...
Tom Russell and Saxon Brenton declare January to be Apes Month! RACC shall be deluged with talking gorillas, orangatuns, chimps...