So I was showing a friend of mine the site only to have him tell me, “a lot of your images aren’t showing up!”. At first he meant images here, so I went through all the entries and everything checked out. But when I went to the site’s gallery section…well it wasn’t pretty. So heading over to the pc where the site root folder is, I had to upload EVERYTHING again. Kept getting a weird message about needing to synchronize everything because there have been site changes since my last FTP uploading session. I don’t remember making any changes, but always good to synch, just in case, so I did. And it’s all better now…I hope. If not, please let me know right away! So I can save myself from embarassment!

So help me God! I will finish this…hey why not try tomorrow? I just can’t wait for the summer, lots of time to draw, post sketches, complete things and just relax…dammit why can’t it be June already?!? Oh and another things, according to statcounter, the site has over 1300 hits, so to all the people who visit, a big thank you! And bring along a few friends the next time you visit! It’ll be fun, we’ll have a few snacks, couple of drinks…okay so you can’t have food on the internet. But either way, thank you!

Goodness, I really do need to pay a little more attention to this blog. I can’t want more people to notice it when it’s barely updated now, can I?

As much as the internet enables people to share things, such as art(after all this is an artsite) with hundreds, thousands and even millions of people around, there is a slight downside to sharing your works with others online, and that downside is, of course, art theft.

Never could understand why people feel the need to steal someone’s work. To me, it seems a lot more rewarding to try and learn how to make things on your own and pick up a few tips and tricks from artists that you admire. But to blatantly steal it? Just doesn’t seem worth it to me. So with that in mind, I just spent a good hour looking through tutorials to disable right clicking on website’s and stopping people from viewing your site directory folders.

First I came up with this but figured it was too easy, so my brain said “Look for a HARDER tutorial!”…this is one of the many moments when I really shouldn’t listen to the ideas in my head…they aren’t productive ones. Then I tried following another tuorial and for a while, half of the site just wouldn’t work. Remember kids, read tutorial instructions carefully, it really does help. So after 20 minutes of googling more tutorials to fix my half broken site, finally went back to the easy way, put a lovely little index file into each folder that contains images, just that simple. And now a test….

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All of the images for the site’s gallery are located in an art folder. Can you see it’s contents?

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Now can you see that? If you said yes, then I did this right and I can be proud. Such a shame we live in a world where you have to worry about people stealing art and other things though…

First of all, welcome! More than likely(almost 100% I’d say) you came across this blog from my homepage, tranquil solace(which I’m still trying to get over the shock of FINALLY launching the site) and if you did, thank you for visiting. If not, what are you waiting for! There’s tons of more interesting things there, get to it :P!

Anywhoo I guess I’ll use this blog to list any potential plans for site updates, layout changes, works in progress, all the good stuff. If you want to see a more frequently updated blog, head over to livejournal. In the mean time…have a screenshot.

Clicky!! A little something I’ve been working on for a little while, but because of a horrid job, I never seem to have a moment to finish. But hopefully this weekend will change that.

Well that’s all for now, more random, art filled entries to come soon!

-Leah

EDIT-Decided to use a text link for the screenie, since it’s too wide for the layout :P!