Over the past few days I’ve been hard at work at my eldest web child.. “animesynergy“. It has evolved to version 3.0.. Well actually version 3.2 to be correct.. but who’s counting decimals. Anyway along with the help of 1080eye The forum has been re-skined and now uses complete proprietory software.. from the vbulletin / photobust / vbgeek lot (ALL PAID FOR). I spent so much on web applications out of my last salary i’m wondering if i’m crazing seeing that i’m a huge opensource advocate. however vbulletin rocks. integration rocks. user based web software rocks and to get everyting exactly how i wanted it to function.. it had to come with a price.. so i did what was needed.

the first launch of version 3 was met by glum remarks.. “where is the black and gold look, we want it back”. The name of this game is try to make the end user smile while not running your entity into the ground. So after about a week. We decided new theme. I mapped out the logic of what i wanted, dished it to the local forum gfx Guru and tada i woke up int he morning to see a pimping naruto / sasuke shipuuden theme ont he forum. all was great everybody loved it. Night two i went to bed saying wow this is great. woke up in the morning BAM a new theme again with the same color scheme that they love so much. Death Note. after seeing this i got to work immediately on getting the images to rotate in sets for after mapping out the logic to do this.. i tried and failed. till i started talking to my self.. and cussing out vbulletin about how they got me doing somethign thats soo simple in a super difficult way.. anyway the logn and short is i had to write my own custom plugin for vbulletin to get what i wanted. and now all is well with the forum. the users are happy. the designer is satisfied with his work. the coder is satisfied with his rotation plugin. Morale is up. Registration is up, form activity is up.. and I really hope we can keep it this way.