Integrating Websites & Other Great Godly Goings-On

Remind me never to do this again.

The PHANTACEA Mythos online has been on the worldwide web in one form or another since 1996. At first I hand-coded everything, then I switched to a succession of programs, not all of which I can remember let alone still have. Finally, circa 2002, I settled on Macromedia's Dreamweaver, which is now owned by Adobe. (I recently bought the CS4 version of it to go along with a brand spanking new computer that's no doubt already obsolete.)

The point being, yawn, the coding's become an unsightly, but still surprisingly functional, mess.

So, after setting up jmcptimps and then www.phantacea.com over the course of the last year and more, I finally got around to returning here to my flagship website, pH-Webworld. My goal was to integrate the three sites.

Which is all well and fine, not to mention overdue. Except I made the mistake of trying to upgrade pH-Webworld such that it's more compliant with all this CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) stuff that's come into play since 2002, the last year I took an html (hyper-text markup language) course.

Put it this way, other than for Serendipity Now I haven't written anything new for over a month and, as below, I'm supposed to be working on prepping both "The War of the Apocalyptics" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief" for print-publication ('War-Pox' this year {2009} and '1000 Daze' for early in the year thereafter.)

As for why I even started the process, well, I've only got so much space on this server so it makes sense to spread the wealth around, so to speak. By wealth I'm mostly referring to graphics. There's a great many of them and they take up most of my territorial allotment within this portion of Cyberia.

Plus, once they're up, I'm loathe to take any down. Since most are also my own shots, and this is my website, I don't see why I should either. (BTW, I particularly like this one. Ask me it's eminently worth a double-click. I like it so much, I did it twice.)

That said, I have to admit that 3 of the four graphics below aren't my shots and that parts of the fourth, the one I like so much, aren't either. However, such is the nature of the webpage to which they belong, the aforementioned Serendipity Now, that I don't really feel guilty about scanning them in or copying them off the Web.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due so, as much as possible, I acknowledge where I got the images in the mouse-overs. Since a couple of browsers I could name don't provide mouse-overs any more, I also try to link notes re them to the graphics I put online.

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Even though, being devils, there's something decidedly ungodly about them, in terms of great godly goings-on there's been a fair amount of that as well. Not all of it's taken place in my head either.

Thrygragos Mithras, the Great God of Stacks of Stuff, is the focus of "Feeling Theocidal". With Devil Wind (Vayu Maelstrom) leading the way as per here, Bodiless Byron and his Primary Nucleoids occupy a ton of space in "The War of the Apocalyptics" whereas Thrygragos Lazareme, his Unities more so than him, dominate proceedings in "The 1000 Days of Disbelief".

Appearances proving deceptive, the Moloch Sedon doesn't have much to do in 'Feel Theo' except wait in bed for Pyrame Silverstar to show up in Grand Elysium along with her latest shell (who might be Ute Tethys, as also per here). He's more conspicuous, albeit most often by his absence, in '1000 Daze', though, but makes only a token appearance in 'War-Pox' and then only in a brief flashback foreboding section re the 4th generation Thanatoids of Lathakra.

As for the Dual Entities (Helios called Sophos the Wise and his Milady Memory), well, um, hey, they're definitely not in 'War-Pox', though they are on the moon. (With respect to either "Feeling Theocidal" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", definitely don't look here for any clarification of the well, um, hey, waffling in the previous sentence.)

At any rate, among the many sites I've spruced up include the section on PHANTACEA's Cornerstone Characters. You might want to avoid it, though, unless you're in the mood for spoilers.

If you've been scrolling through this page then you've already noticed another section I've not only spruced up but expanded mightily. That'd be the Essentials area of pHpubs. It's where the real work of website integration takes place and it's only going to get larger as time races by, as per usual much too fast.

As for the thumbnails, they're double-clickable, if that's a word. Except they don't open up a window containing a larger image of same; they open up a window containing a larger image of similar but different. Good clicking.

That'll do for now. Until the next time, be pHantacizing you. Oh, and in case you haven't done so already, here's a friendly reminder:

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