In the past year I made tons of changes to this site. Here is a list of some of them:
1. I added some missing blog posts dated as-of when they were supposed to be posted. This goes all the way back to the site’s 2008-ish reboot. There were some dated through 2007 but those were lost due to my failure to back them up correctly. In any case I recommend re-browsing through all of it. You might find something you missed!
2. One the blog side I finally removed the temporary main image for one more suited to the site. Eventually the main site image will feature both of the Brasscoe Co-Presidents. The Index site’s polaroid image was also updated.
3. The blog’s main menu was expanded to include some upcoming-posts-sections while removing the image of the month and featured galleries areas. Those were combined into a [LINK cat=”106″ ] page which now showcases all the image I liked amongst the hundreds I take each month. That can be found within the [LINK cat=”79″ ] area.
4. Speaking of new website areas I also added two new sections to the movie page. The tape logs were moved out of the archive section and now displays VHS and MiniDV [links removed] items separately. Also I created the Brasscoe: [LINK page=”8677″ ] which chronologically lists some of the movies we have worked on.
5. In the movies section I uploaded the video files used for each movie making the clips available for download. A few of the old videos are accompanied with their original renders. I hope to re-master them soon. Side Note: I posted actual blog updates only for the movies I re-mastered. Older items will be posted when they get re-done.
6. The [LINK cat=”55″ ] section was revamped to include items I created and how-to listings along with my usual artwork.
7. Among the plugins I use for the site I added Postviews by Lester Chan {LINK REMOVED} to help me see a visual count of how many visitors were seeing the various sections of the site. I also added Page Numbers by Jens Tornell {LINK REMOVED} which allowed me to modify how my various page counts are displayed rather than the next and previous default. Lastly I added the Search Highlight by Ryan Boren {LINK REMOVED} plugin in order to help identify the terms used when searching through the blog posts.
8. Since the Archive section was meant to hold the site’s misc items (moved to [LINK cat=”55″ ] section) I created [LINK cat=”150″ ] within it to showcase clips and shorts created in conjunction with Brasscoe and some others I just wanted to show off.
9. On the HTML and CSS side I moved most of the site’s clip art and .PHP files into one folder helping page load times by using the same items throughout (The site is actually made up of 9 individual blogs all tweaked in different ways). Also I learned how to use JavaScript in order to display any font on the website I wanted (whether the end-user had it installed on their computer or not).
As of right now my small list of items to finish includes these two huge tasks:
1. As I finish my catch-up with old [LINK url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/brasscoestudios” title=”Flickr” ] photos I realize the total count pending is over 90GB’s worth. That’s over 14,000 images and maybe 100 videos. Not too sure if I will ever be done.
2. I began a [LINK url=”https://www.flickr.com/photos/brasscoestudios/collections/72157622030910635/” title=”Scans – Photos & Items” ] project and hope to have all 1000+ photographs up by the end of the year. This includes pictures from my childhood and when I worked at Disneyland during its construction phase in 1999.
Now if I can only figure out solutions to my two current problems…
1. Why won’t WordPress {LINK REMOVED} let me upgrade the blog from 3.0 to 3.1 without problems.
2. Finding a stable hack for my Panasonic GF1 {LINK REMOVED}. So far I successfully completed a modification to the firmware with PTools changing the video recording size from 720p to 1080p but want it to maintain the HD MJPEG quality at a 50-80 MBps data rate without issue which is a big step up from the default 15 MBps setting. Probably need to get a Class 10 SDHC card.