Site launch is planned for November 18, 2008 at 12:00PM EST, 9:00PM PST (November 17, 2008)
You’ll know it when the layout goes up…punch and pie.
This is going to be Will’s update log to keep you all updated as I go along.
11/13
11:30 pm – Set up site, upload files from previous site to MV, so far so good…
11/14
9:30 am – Moving all posts into the new site in the afternoon
5:45 pm – Half of our content didn’t make the transition, figuring out a solution at the moment.
10:30 pm – Completed moving all of the old content back to the site. What a tiring process.
11/15
10:50 am – Waiting for our editors to register into the site… Going to tweak the layout this afternoon.
12:00 pm – Hey did you see our new comment system, that ish is sick yo. Register on IntenseDebate to get the full effect w/ avatars and friends list!
1:30 pm – Caffinee is not good for the intense coding sessions, but managed to get an awesome feature for the site. You’ll see. 😉
9:30 pm – A feature was scrapped because it caused slowdown for the system, damn beta plugin, that blew.
11/16
5:30 pm – Hey my internet couldn’t connect to monstervine.com pretty much for the entire day so I didn’t have time to work on the site today. Rest assured though, the site is ready for launch, like 95% ready. But Zack and I managed to work out our ad campaign pretty smoothly, so expect alot of visitors on the first day if all goes as planned!
11/17
7:40 am – I’m effin tired from pulling an all-nighter last night but pending any immediate delay or obstruction to my internet, I will be here to launch the site. T-minus less than 12 hours!
3:50 pm – So when I got the message this morning that my site didn’t work in IE, despite my lack of sleep, I managed to pinpoint what was wrong and fixed the problem. Now if you excuse me, I need rest. 🙁 See you at launch!
6:30 pm – Less than 3 hours away, lets do this!
8:00 pm – Less than an hour to go, I’m ready to go…are you ready for the Monster?
shadowjak
November 15, 2008 at 9:18 am
I like the intensedebate thing, works nicely. When is layout going up?
William
November 15, 2008 at 9:39 am
layout is going up Monday night, and hopefully the site won't crash on itself with the load of tweaking I've been putting on it.
ProjectSora
November 15, 2008 at 10:36 am
Another feature? Uber suspense kills me.
Mark
November 16, 2008 at 3:45 am
Looking forward to the new layout 😀
William
November 16, 2008 at 5:36 am
oh I have plenty up my sleeve just you wait :p
shadowjak
November 16, 2008 at 12:03 pm
lol yeah same here. I'm loving all the new features, can't wait to see what other tricks Will is going to pull off, especially tricks involving the layout.
MarkMV
November 17, 2008 at 4:16 am
What time is the launch in UK time? Is that like 3 in the morning?
William
November 17, 2008 at 4:32 am
should be like 5AM where you live.
MarkMV
November 17, 2008 at 6:06 am
Ah well, looks like I'll have to wait untill tomorrow
shadowjak
November 17, 2008 at 8:57 am
WILL!!! I know you want relxation but check your messgaer we have an emergency. The layout DOES NOT work with IE, nor do I have a working capture card.
William
November 17, 2008 at 11:41 am
thanks for letting me know, it is fixed for IE and ready to go.
shadowjak
November 18, 2008 at 4:59 am
2 minutes! And woooot I got a solution to the capture card! THIS IS GOING TO GO WELL!!!!! =D