Detail work...

I've been working to make minor corrections to the site, but nothing too new is out. The summaries for the musicals have been updated with corrections for the titles of the songs used. I've also fixed some broken links and made some minor corrections on profiles (for a while Diana's information said 'Artemis' for some reason... -_-; probably just over-looked, I guess).

I'm tentative to choose a major project that I am working on specficially on the site. After busting so hard for over six months on the layouts and content update that we last had, I'm afraid to label anything specific as something I'm planning on getting done in X amount of time.

Things I'm hoping to accomplish, however, at some point:
1- Update the links out. Delete obsolete websites and add in some new ones. (For example, we don't even have a link to the Oracle on there yet, and that site is certainly the biggest Sailormoon-related website around today.)

2- Update animated GIF files in the magic section. This project is about 1/3 complete. I'm trying viciously to get all of them made by me so I can ensure the quality of the images and the length of animation. As a result, there are several new ones that have been updated that I created that are different and higher quality than previous ones. This project is tedious, however, because attention is paid to individual frames of the animation and I have to get screen caps myself. Some things aren't too bad (the inner senshi's attacks from the SuperS season, for instance, all were on average 6 seconds long.) but others are significantly longer (most of Sailormoon's attacks and transformations verge on almost 1 minute of length!) and just take a bit more time. An example would be these two recently updated GIFs - Mars Flame Sniper took about 15-20 minutes to complete, including screen cap time while Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss took about 2 hours. The length is just that much different. I'm trying to get a bit done with this every day (I promised myself one a day at least, but lately it's been more like 4-8 done a day) so this should be done relatively quickly, unless I completely burn out on it (which is totally possible.)

3- I want to create new individual layouts for the for the shrines. The layouts that are out now aren't compatible with all browsers, so I want to make sure to fix that preferably sooner than later. However, since they also tend to be a bit stagnant this isn't a major priority to me yet. Eventually, the whole of the site should be bustling and awesome.

4- Places guide. This is something that we are, believe it or not, working on. The thing is that most of this is occurring behind the scenes in the form of snapping up images and filing them away. Eventually, information will be available for all locations and images to support them. This will include not just places as seen in the anime, but also in the manga as well.

And that's about it. Sorry about the long-winded posting with no real meat for updates. I just wanted to let you know that I'm working, at least on my end, to ensure that this site is shaping into the best that it can be. In the mean time, hopefully Hitsuji will be writing articles in bare-bones HTML and sending them to me via email. I figure that I don't mind doing the leg-work to find the images, etc, to back it up. That is my job, after all, to deal with the visuals of this site.

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Frivolous Updates

I'm supposed to be doing info... right? Umm... Well I did make 4 new Sailor Moon tarot cards.

In truth I'm gearing up for the huge update for Takeuchi-sensei's B-day. As a tradition this website updates around March 15th... so I usually prepare her gift this far in advance...

Sailor Moon Manga Tarot Cards
The cards are:
- The Knight of Swords (Professor Tomoe)
- The Page of Swords (Sailor Lethe)
- The Knight of Cups (Pegasus)
- The Six of Cups (Vega) (Was hard to do)

Once I have the royalty up, you can cast such fortunes as when is Hitsuji going to update the website.

I'll add other stuff... I took a few screen shots of SMR that are critical to the series, such as Usagi with the wrong hair color and hair style, the '93 sign on the bridge, the final poses of attacks, the transformation pens, and locations, such as the Tsukino House, Tsukino Neighborhood, the top of Crystal Tower where Serenity Palace is. I'm hoping Mako-chan will "discover" them under captures in the picture section. I really do want to be one of the only websites that has pictures of all of the places in SM. But such things take lots of time to do.

I also have lots of personal crap this year that I need to get rid of.... so I may do more or less than expected, depends on how I decide how to deal with it.

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