After 3 months of work in my free time, I am finally able to open up the 5th iteration of the BoogaTech websites and CMExpress system. The redesign appears only minor on the surface, but the control panel has been reworked from the ground-up, "pages" have been merged with "content items" for more flexibility (however, old external links to this site might 404) and everything works on a completely new template system that compiles files coded in a simplified template language into sets of PHP functions that should allow the site to load faster. The comment system has yet to be reworked and is missing for now, though it's not like anyone was using it before.

Right now it looks best in Google Chrome, and Firefox shows it mostly right. I don't know about Internet Explorer at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if it looks messed up.

In other news, school is back in. I wouldn't expect any major updates on my projects until mid-December, since as of the beginning of the semester, I am working on one of the senior animations at BYU. They plan to have it finished for post-production by Thanksgiving, and completed in time for the student Emmy's.

Update 10/22/2010: The comment system is back in, with added support of Gravatar avatars. I also modified the security image a little bit to make it more readable. The reply-notification-by-email feature doesn't work for now since I need to program CMExpress to handle multiple PHP email methods sooner than expected, as WebFaction doesn't support the one I've been using.

I've been quiet since returning from Comic Con late July, but that doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything. The last two weeks were spent working over the database and admin panel for the backend systems of this website. I managed to cut out over 1200 lines of old, redundant code. I also made it so that some pages will display any tags a content item has if I want them to (see bottom right of this post).

Also dependent on the updates to the site is "Bridges of the Mertynn." CMExpress, the system that keeps this site running, will be used to develop the website and database that will store the user-made levels and high scores. There's still a lot of work to be done, but for your benefit and my own, I am working on a list of things to be done and will be posting that shortly.