I also wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be posting up some Chinese work later on.

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I decided to split my blog (PrimeScape) up into two smaller blogs (PrimeScape and DP’s Gaming Blog) in order to make each one more clearly defined and not so muddled. So what you are reading now is my personal blog at http://primescape.danielprimed.com

Now because of how I have the RSS feeds set up I’ve had to redirect all previous RSS subscribers to this site’s feed. Now I do realize that a lot of you guys only want to read about video gaming, which is totally cool. So if this is the case(and you’re an RSS subscriber) then just click on the image below and you’ll be subscribed to game only content.

Now if you are an email subscriber then click here.

Thanks for your co-operation, I seriously appreciate it. Unfortunately I was locked into this decision. Which is so frustrating. If you recieved 20 or so new feeds from various past dates then know that they’d be the last 20 or so posts on this site. Once again, despite my efforts this so unpreventable.

Why 2 Blogs and Not Just One?

If you are a long time reader then you’d know that back around June I was having some identity woes with the blog. I’d been writing about myself for about 2 years and decided that I wanted to change my perspective and write about my life long hobby; video games. After sometime tossing up between the two, I decided to write just about games. Which meant that I had a video game blog with 2 years of posts about myself. Furthermore my personal blog was full of design tutorials from a previous site I worked for.

I should also mention that in the last few months I discovered that I really wanted to write about myself again but in doing so I didn’t want to alienate the video game based audience that I had then formed.

So here we are, almost half a year later I have finally sorted this out. Originally I wanted to solve this whole problem by having 3 blogs (one more which is the now defunct: Success in the Digital Life) but this was too much to manage.

So What Can We Expect From This Blog?

The thing is I really have been itching to do some more personal writing. Back when I started focusing solely on video games my personal life became a lot better (all in the space of a week too). Since then I’ve been so chuffed, although I said the same thing, this time last year. I feel dead on track and I feel happier than I ever have before.

So, what I’ll be doing is filling in the blanks for the last few months as well as continuing the trend at my own pace. I don’t think that I’ll post as much as previously did with the personal posts nor will they be such account of what I’ve been doing.

I also plan on bringing all of the Success in the Digital Life posts over here in due time. So I’ll have my personal posts, old tutorials and SDL stuff. Along with this I plan on writing up some posts in Chinese, I’ll probably just have a category for this. I’ll be using this as a hub for my Chinese friends to check out my work and provide some critique.

Conclusion

Alright, everything is back on track. I am so relieved. I’ll be spending some time to fix a few problems, rewrite some pages, tagging etc. If there are any major changes I’ll let you guys know. If you do spot any site issues or have any concerns then let me know via the comment box or contact form.

Thanks heaps for your continued interest.

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The modification list is as follows:

-reworking of the header: new photo, Dr Yang and ‘Revised Edition’ added. Text also changed to ‘The Gaming Blog of Daniel Johnson’
-All segments on the side panel are broken up with bolded text and a different backdrop
-Archives has now moved to its own page
-Categories have been split up into 3 main groups; General, Gaming and Regular Features
-Search is now in the left hand side
-Content Spotlight images and segment added in navigation
-flickr feed and Tag Cloud added to navigation
-Subscribe relocated to top of navigation
-Technorati button added to header
-More bookmarking options added to each post
-Related entries added to every post, in post view page
-Comments are now clearly sorted and include Bloglog avatars
-Blog CMS has been upgraded to WordPress 2.2
-no more outline problem with PNG images viewed in IE and FF
-a few admin plugins and WordPress fixes

Over the next few days I shall add:

-rewrite the About page
-a new page featuring links to my favourite posts
-tags to each post, hence getting the tag cloud working

These changes have been made to ensure that it is easier to access the site’s content and browse the site. I used the bolded text to separate the eyesore that was the mass of text in the navigation.

Ok, so now that that is all done. Thanks for bearing with me through these changes. If you are experiencing any difficulties with the new changes then please email me via the contact form to let me know. It should be noted that a flash player is required for the flickr slideshow. With that it’s time for me to get back to the regular content.

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What I wanted to say is that PrimeScape is currently switching servers, which means that some strange things have been going on with the site. You may have noticed images not loading, that is now fixed. The only problem left(no big deal) is some non alphabetic characters don’t show correctly. This is a problem with the new WordPress.

This problem will be fixed with the new facelift to the site. The same great Scrap Book design is staying for the long haul but with some edits. This development is ready to launch any time, I just need to start posting my new features to get it kicked off. So expect this change to occur in the next few days.

As for the new Web Success blog, that is also ready to go. We’ve just been having a few issues with the domain, that’s all. I’ll let you know when these things are all done. I’m looking forward to show off some new content to you guys. Well that’s enough from me. Watch this space!

Also my blogging mate from The Fun Bucket is in the process of reviewing his site like I was a month back. So give him a look and help him out

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Prologue

It all started about 2 weeks ago, I had decided to conduct a survey for PrimeScape in order to get some solid feedback for site and content improvements. Overall the feedback was very useful. It reconfirmed my thoughts about the site; being that I write some good stuff which is worth a few visits but I am still a long way off of writing some major gold.

Something that really stood out in the survey responses was that one person said that there was too much variety in the site’s content. This has been a problem that I have been weary of for some time now. So after a few hours dwelling on how I could constructively use the feedback to improve the site, I came out with the following outcome.

Outcome

To create an additional 2 blogs to support my growing hunger towards a large variety of content. This would then make each blog more specified and hence address a number of slight directional issues with PrimeScape.

Once I had finalised the conclusion I decided to pour all of my resources into this adventurous new project. Within a few days I had finalised all of the designs and written up a healthy does of content. I’d also spent ample time researching which has also been an excellent benefit.

Only a few days ago I stepped back and put this idea into perspective. After going to the drawing board(once again). I concluded that 3 sites would be too much to handle with my timetable. So I decided to bin one of the blogs. Well thats enough of me talking around these new sites, here’s the run down:

PrimeScape(revised edition)

2-3 months ago I decided to turn the focus of PrimeScape away from being a personal blog and into a gaming blog. This has been a great success but I still feel a bit locked into the clockwork of posting about my personal life. Thankfully I am falling out of this swing and beggining to develop a much better rythm for writing about VG.

Web Success

This new blog is about…well the title will say it all. But to break it down for you; I’ll be writing about web marketing, motivation, lifestyle and success. I am definetly not an expert in these fields but I cannot help but be overwhelmed by the post ideas that I have brainstormed for these topics. I must have a strange insaitiability spread the knowledge that I have on these topics. Hence the blog was created.

Expectations

So you’ve read all of that hoo-ha which you probably won’t find useful. What you want to know is, what are the benefits. Basically I have invested a lot of my holiday time blogging and my writing skills have definetly improved because of it. I am now also rereading every post that I did to wipe out mistakes. So expect much better quality content all around.

For PrimeScape, I have been spending my time researching/devising topics that are overall more specified and also much more interesting. I have a number of feature segments on the way as well. Probably a maximum of about 7, but I am likely to start off with 3 or so. Also I’ve been banking some articles to ensure that when I do get busy, there will still be a consistent line up of content. PrimeScape is also seeing(another redesign) this time much greater, the redesign addresses the few remaining design flaws.

For Web Success I currently have around 15 finished articles. There’s a number of almost finished ones as well which aren’t included. So once it releases I am expecting about 20 new articles in the bank. Awesomeness. The site(as well as PS) will also have a bunch of new plugins.

All of this shall happen fairly soon, starting in the next few days for the new blog and then moving onto PrimeScape. So I hope that you look forward to the new changes. I apologise for the lack of content coming in recently. As you have just read, I am doing plenty of writing recently. Now that most of the foundation work is finished I am already preparing more content with great haste.

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What I have realised through trying to attract a larger readership is that people won’t stick unless there is something in it for them. And I don’t blame them, I’d do the same thing. This is where I am failing. I need to post better articles more often to have a better appeal. Sure I do post some great stuff when I have the time but I normally don’t(have the time) and only post 1-2 articles a week. That number isn’t sufficient and neither is the quality of my posts.

So in order for PrimeScape to make a name for itself I’m going to have to start improving my blogging skills. So from this entry onwards I am going to do my best to post 3-4 entries a week.

I also want to take this time to say another 2 things. Firstly I’ve added a ‘blogging’ category to the side bar. Secondly I just want to say something so I won’t forget it. I want to present how I want the layout of PrimeScape’s content to run:

I want the blog to be based mainly on games as its a topic that I know a bit about. I still need to blog about my life as I will always want to blog about what’s going on with me. I think that its important that I do that as it adds more depth to my character. Then there’s a bit in there for my photography/design/other where I can talk about these other hobbies of mine.

In anycase the stage is now set. So stay tuned.

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Here’s a run down of what has changed:

-modified site header
-modified site title now: PrimeScape – Games, Design, Life
-Technorati +fav button in the right coloumn
-new contact page with a form
-new subscribe category with little RSS images
-Blogroll has gone underneath Subscribe
-Some stuff has been removed from Meta
-Search has been moved over to the archives area
-MyBlogLog widget has been added
-links are now easily distinguishable
-an Opera tag has been added to the bottom of the page
-Add RSS sentence added to each post
-huge RSS logo has been removed
-the gap between the title and the entry has been reduced
-the comment relish plugin has been installed, need to test that one

I’m very happy with this update as it should hopefully encourage a greater readership and it also makes the site look much more complete. Although Chris hasn’t gotten everything perfect, all shall be fixed in due time. But for the time being its a very welcomed update. In terms of future updates there isn’t really too much beyond admin and a few other plugins and tweaks that probably won’t be noticed.

The site is going well with hits this month, we are looking at being on track with last month. Which is good because most of the hits from last month were from tutorial indexers. I’d be interested in what you think of the changes, so drop us a comment or send me an email via the new Contact form.

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I’ve been spending a bit of my holiday time fine tunning PrimeScape. So let me run thru some changes that have occured recently. Some of this I might be repeating but anyways:

2 new categories have been added to the list, being Gaming and Tutorials. I’ve been adding tutorials into the tutorial category but it will take a while until all of them are in there. All of the gaming entries have been moved into gaming. I don’t want any categories crossing over so I have removed the game stuff out of Featured entries.

Chris has also fixed the side bar so that everything is correctly aligned and there are no dulicate names. Later today he’ll be adding an RSS link under meta and rearranging some things. Home has also been added under pages.

I’ve been advertising the site a bit to increase hits and it seems to have paid off. RSS subscribers are up and the hits are progressing steadily. I’ll try and keep this going as the content is great I just need more hits. So tell your friends!

I can’t really see any more major updates on the way as the site design is well on its feet. I’ll just be uploading more tutorials and advertising the site.

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-I’ve removed some photos from some older entries
-I’ve added a last.fm recently played box in the about page

I’ve decided to only post a few photos from now on as theres not much point in me going crazy with them.

I’ll should also have the Adobe Creative CS2 Suite soon, it should arrive in the next day or so. So I have the chance to work on some overall future tweaks. I’m considering uploading some other stuff to PrimeScape as well as adding some new categories. So that may also be on the way.

I’m also setting up a to do list for Chris. This includes the additions of a few plugins as well as some overall site tweaks. So hopefully they should be done in the near future.

I’ve got a massive new featured article on the way, so that may be up in the next 2 weeks. Thanks for staying tuned.

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Thats its really. I’ve made a few tweaks and additions to my deviantart and delicious acounts so I guess you can check them out. I’m gonna be busy over the next few days so I’d better get some sleep.

I also have another games write up which is on the way. Should be good.

Nighty Night ^_^

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The reasoning why it has taken 4 months to get the site up is purely due to my brother not caring enough to do anything about it. Yeah its disappointing I know.

What you see at the moment is a vanilla(default) version of WordPress. I finished the main template a while back now. It’ll be up in a day or so. Notably I’ve had a number of PrimeScape designs that I was going to use but I felt that this new one; Scrap book is the most appropriate one.

I’d better do a quick run thru of everything thats new as danieprimed.com has been dead since October/November and my NRX blog only went up to September..I think.

Whats new:

runs on WordPress
Featured Entries
all of my published entries
more media in my entries since October/September
RSS Feeds thru Feedburner

Once everything is finished I’ll start looking into further expansions to PrimeScape. Thanks for checking it out, hope you enjoy.

Update as of 17 January

All images have been uploaded except for Year in review.

Links have also been sorted out.

The new theme needs to be uploaded as well as a few more images. Thanks for being patient.

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