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| Finals are over and big updates are here! |
Well, finals finally ended on Tuesday and I officially made it through my first year at USC. To celebrate the fact that I'm back to just working full time, I spent this weekend updating the site. Now all artists have been moved to the new layout. The next step is to set the database up the way I want it, and then I can start moving artists over, cleaning up bad listings and adding new ones as I go!
I've also added a new featured artist, Symphony X, along with some big news they just announced today! Now that classes are over I plan to get back to updating the news regularly. I also added a new poll so you can decide who the next featured artist will be. Keep in mind that I'm limited by artists that either I or someone I know photographed, but I'm open to photo submissions for the future as long as you yourself took the picture or it's a publicity photo that's free to use, since I don't want to get into any problems over copyright.
I was hoping to finish my half-written review of the Europe show I went to a couple of weeks ago and post that, but updating all the artists took a while. Hopefully I'll get that done and posted in a few days.
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 23:43
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| More big updates! |
You may have noticed some major changes around here this week! I spent all last weekend working on the site, and Sunday night over 80 artists went live in the new layoutt! I added a few more tonight (it's close to 100 now), and slowly but surely I plan on moving everyone into the new layout. This is a transitional stage, so I am copying the html as is into the database (in case you were wondering why this site wasn't getting updated too often, part of the problem is it was never database driven. I had to maintain over 200 individual HTML pages!). Once everything has been moved over I will start setting up everything in the database for real, and when I enter the data then I will be checking for bad links and trying to add more.
Bear with me for the next 2-3 weeks, though. Next week is the last week of classes at USC and finals week starts the week after that, so I'm not going to have much time to work on things until that is over with! After that I suspect "just" working full time is going to seem easy in comparison to going to school full time and working part time, so I expect to have a lot more time to work on the site!
I will be going to see Europe this Sunday night at the House of Blues Sunset Strip, so if I get a chance I'll try to post a review of the show!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Friday, April 22, 2005 at 00:23
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| Update after a week, and a couple of quick reviews |
Well, the new site has been live for almost a week now, and I hope you like it! We also now have an RSS feed for music news syndicated on LiveJournal. I've been trying to spend a little time every day adding music news, although it hasn't been easy since I had 3 midterms this week (I'm just glad that's over with!).
Rockers Online was entered into the USC Webfest, but it unfortunately didn't win (although I noticed a heavy bias toward USC-related or educational sites among the winners). Oh, well. It was still the incentive I needed to finally get this site moving again!
To celebrate surviving the week I just added a quick new feature: you can now browse the complete list of artists (there are over 200 of them so it's a LOOONG page). Just scroll to the bottom of the alphabet on the dropdown menu, or there's a new "Browse All Artists" link on the bottom of every page!
Also, since I want to start posting more music-related news I just thought I'd post a few quick comments on a couple of the cds I've been listening to lately:
AdrianGale - Crunch
This is one of the ones I find myself listening to the most. These guys sound so familiar I found myself trying to figure out who they remind me of, but I can't quite place them as any one band. It's 80's-style melodic rock/metal, very similar to Def Leppard at times. they also remind me of Nelson, Warrant, Bryan Adams (think Cuts Like A Knife, not Heaven), and other similar bands all rolled up in one. There are some really catchy songs in there. I picked them up when I saw them listed on MelodicRock.com's best of 2004 list and I'm glad I did.
Crystal Blue - Detour
After seeing this one compared to Europe I took the chance and ordered the Japanese version with 1 bonus track on Ebay, and it looks like I got a good deal since I've been listening to this one a lot too! It definitely does remind me a lot of Europe, especially since the singer sounds a lot like Joey Tempest. I might post more on these guys later after I've had a chance to listen to this cd some more. But it's definitely good if you like melodic rock/metal.
I don't know how this compares to the actual new Europe CD Start From The Dark since the copy I ordered isn't here yet (I just hope it makes it before their House of Blues - Sunset Strip show 4/24!). Once it gets here and I've had a chance to listen to it maybe I'll review them both.
Well, that's enough for now. I'll try to post more soon!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Saturday, April 02, 2005 at 01:45
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| The big day! |
Well, I apologize for the delay but I got hit by a ton of homework all due this week. The site is still not fully done. The artist pages are not database driven yet, so I'm leaving the HTML pages for now and will be gradually transferring them all over to the new format and brand new asp urls, so if you have any links to the current site you will need to change those eventually. I will try to put up redirect pages to help with the transition. There are also several other parts that are still under construction (particularly search) so please bear with me.
I've also renamed this section to "Rocker's Ramblings" since I'm going to use it not only to post site updates, but to post random commentary on music-related issues (like I recently picked up a bunch of melodic rock/aor cds and hope to eventually post commentary on them). There's some great music out there, and this is a good way to let you know about it! I'll also probably post concert reviews (I missed the Naked Eyes show, but I already got tickets to see Europe at House of Blues next month).
Well, I hope you all like the new site design! I have 3 midterms this coming week so there may not be any updates for a few days, but after I get through that I'll get back to working on cleaning up the rest of the site and posting regular updates!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Saturday, March 26, 2005 at 22:52
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| Almost there... |
| Well, the big redesign is taking a little longer than expected (and I did have to do homework at some point) but it's going well and I expect to have the main design up within the next couple of days (the 23rd at the latest). Meanwhile, I've added several new news items and made updates/additions to several artist pages (and changed the featured artists to a few of them) when I found broken links or new official sites while hunting for news items. So have fun searching the site!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 23:16
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| Site redesign |
| I just wanted to let people know the big redesign is underway, and the new design is looking great! I'm hoping to get the site uploaded with the new design and at least partially database driven by sometime this weekend, so make sure to check back soon! I've also posted a couple of news items to this site I thought people might be interested in.
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 22:16
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| Big Changes Coming |
I just wanted to let people know that there are big changes in store for Rockers Online. I've decided I really need to start making updating Rockers Online a bigger priority. Rockers Online has a new logo, and a new web design is in the process of being chosen. At the same time, I plan on finally making Rockers Online database driven, so the site will finally be easier to update!.
Please bear with me, though, since in September I went back to school full time at USC for a second bachelors in Computer Science, and I am still working part time at the same place as a web developer. So as you can imagine, my life is insanely busy and updating the site will take a while. I am hoping to spend an hour a week on this, though, so keep checking in over the next few months for a brand new Rockers Online!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 13:41
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| Problem Fixed |
| Well, I finally managed to find a fix for the problem, no thanks to my web hosts utterly useless tech support who insisted it was because I was using global variables. So the links above are working again!
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 00:52
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| PHP Problem |
| Unfortunately something seems to have changed with the php on my server which completely broke things so the alphabetical links above aren't working. I'm really sorry about that, but I have a tech support ticket in to my web host to find out what they changed that broke things, and if I can't get that fixed I may just have to switch over to ASP sooner than I'd planned on. Meanwhile, you can still use the search page, since those links DO work fine.
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 00:52
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| Earth. Face. Vanish. |
I apologize for once again vanishing off the face of the earth, but first I had a Deadline from Hell at work, then the end of my car lease, and now I'm once again taking classes, this time Computer Science classes at West Los Angeles College. I'm posting now because my web host pulled a disappearing act and I'm currently transferring over to new web space. Hopefully this will go smoothly and there won't be any down time in between, but if you see this the transfer went through and you're on the new site!
In other news, due to getting way too much spam (and no legitimate e-mail to speak of) I'm not recreating any of the old contact addresses listed on the site, and will be creating new ones. You will need Javascript enabled to see the new links, though, since I'm trying to keep spammer scum from harvesting my e-mail addresses again.
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| Posted by Sharan Volin on Monday, October 27, 2003 at 00:53
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