Post by R.andom on Jan 5, 2010 8:14:36 GMT
Ohaidere.
"I truly am really sorry I left you guys. Stuff at school and home got really frantic in the lead up to my exams, and I didn't have time to do anything on the site. EE wasn't a priority. Still, I know I should have told you all, so I have no excuse really. >.>
But anyway, all that is over now, and I know that at least one of you is passionate enough about the site for it to be continued. I'll be on as much as I can in the next week, and I'll try to do things up and finish what I started during the revamp. Contests, a crap load of advertising, and goodness knows what else await. I'll post this in the news to let everyone know."
That's an excerpt from an email I sent to Aspy maybe an hour ago now (Yeah, it took me an hour to write this. Shush, I was playing with the pretty colours. :3). She emailed me, hoping I still had an interest in managing this site for everyone, and the honest answer is yes. But of course, life got in the way, and I forgot you.
I suck, I know. :D
So this is my "I am a rubbish admin, but I'll try and see if I can't get this thing up and running again. Here's what to do" post. I imagine it'll be long (Which is what she said ;D) but just sit tight and I'll try to make sense. It's nearly 8am here. D: (You may have noticed too, that I have a somewhat greater love for smileys. They rock. <3 Smileys. :3)
FIRST THING'S FIRST !!
I am stripping everything down to the bear minimum again. No charries, no storybooks, no threads, nothing in the cbox, no news. You get the picture right? I am assuming any of our original players have long since moved on, so it'd be a waste of time sifting through all the posts, and we want to attract new people with a fresh look. I'm also resetting the forum age code, since we really haven't been active four months. It'd be silly to leave it like that. >.>
EE is also gonna' get a new look. Wewt!
Basically, I'll get a free skin until I find a graphics studio, who can then make us a much more epic skin. Custom. Won't that be awesome? :D I'll update you as we go with that, so be excited.
THEN WHAT ?!
Contests, contests, contests.
Seriously.
Advertising contest is a definite. Then we'll likely have a writing contest of some sort, and it won't be horse related. That'll give you practice thinking outside the box. Obviously, the MOTM and COTM will still run. And with that, uh, my mind's gone blank. Reply with other contests you guys might like to do! :D
Apart from that: post, post, post.
A lot.
Seriously.
<3 Random
