05 December 2005
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Hishgraphics.com
Not much sales happening at
Hishgraphics Publications, so I'm currently trying out by using another internet marketing tool, a webring. More precisely, the
eBooks 4 Kids webring. You can check out the link at the bottom of the index page of Hishgraphics.com, although our status with the webring is still pending. I'll update this post when the ringmaster's reviewed Hishgraphics and approved us.
UPDATE (5 pm, Dec 6): We've been approved! Our link is in the Webring hub at the link above.
Earlier today, I finally succeeded registering with
eBay to see if I can sell other stuff there while passively marketing Hishgraphics Publications there... unfortunately to register as a Seller I need a credit card.
Now I have to look into getting one, for the sole purpose of being an online merchant.
Ugh.
02 October 2005
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Hishgraphics.com, Recent News
The entire week was crazy as far as this blog was concerned.
First I couldn't log onto the backend admin section with my correct password. (Even Sila couldn't do it with her user account.) And after 10 tries my own blog banned my IP. Brilliant, eh? I went to the
Pivot Support Forums for help. Griswald there,
told me to download the pv_cfg_settings.php file from the server, remove the 2 IP addresses in the php code and change the installed variable to "0". That done, I had to register myself as the Superadmin first, then try to sort out the rest later.
Later, it seemed that the database files of each blog entries weren't being detected by the
index.php file. The center column was empty. The Recent Entries block was empty. The Last Comments block was empty. What was wrong?
Checking the admin section, I found out that the Categories had reverted back to 'default' and 'linkdump'... the others such as 'family pics', 'friends' and 'misc sci-fi' were gone. I tried recreating them, but they wouldn't appear, even after chmodding related files to 777.
I tried the solution prescribed in the Pivot forums earlier, with several variations, but it was all for naught.
So I contacted the forums again for help, and again Griswald gave a simple solution to the problem. Just re-upload the backup pv_cfg_settings.php file.
I followed his suggestion, using the raw untouched file, which put me back to square one. I registered our user accounts, and then I found out I could finally recreate the blog categories. I did so, one by one, and allowed the 'Hishgraphics' blog to access all the categories.
*Click* Recreate all files
*Click* Recreate index file
*Click* Recreate frontpage
And everything was fine! It seemed like the glitches never happen. Many thanks to Griswald of the Pivot Support Forums. And if any of my 3 regular readers discover any errors in any of the pages which might have slipped under my radar, please e-mail me.
23 September 2005
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Artwork, Hishgraphics.com, Recent News, Role Playing Games
Apart from
Future Player's Companion: Tomorrow's Hero, the second of three books released by
The Game Mechanics, being released and on sale at RPGnow.com, I've also took my old gallery at Geocities, modified it, gave it a proper banner, updated some details and relocated it here at Hishgraphics.com.
The Hishgraphics Gallery can be found at
http://www.hishgraphics.com/gallery.
In the meantime, here are
three four of the artwork from Future Players' Companion, Volume 2. Click on... to view them.
09 September 2005
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Hishgraphics.com
I wouldn't have thought it possible a year ago, but here we are with our first e-book product on sale as of today. It's a nice little tale with full colour illustrations throughout, where a young boy who just happens to have the same name as my son, discovers a wonderful library through a doorway in the cellar of his parents' new house.
I hope the public likes it well enough to purchase it. There is a black and white version in the Free Downloads page for a preview. If you know someone who might like it please spread the word.
Thanks to everyone who helped me get the site up, especially my family, and all my friends who gave me moral support. In the meantime, I'll be working on more new e-books.
