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Sunday, December 7, 2003

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Sunday, December 7, 2003

Work on the new site is rapidly progressing. I am still testing some options for online surveys, polling, and an online petition. I also hope to add another option for chat in the next few days.

In the meantime please take advantage of two new features that I have been able to add to the site thanks to my new host.

I have added a fanfic archive similar to the one offered on the fanfiction.net website (except that it does not have as many bells and whistles as their site). Give the developer time. I check her site for updates and will update the script as she posts updates. If you write AWTR fanfic, please submit the story to the archive. Just go to the archive home page, register as an author, and follow the simple instructions.

Another new feature that I have added is a new method of joining mailing lists connected to this site. Thanks to a script called MailGust I am now able to offer several lists through a Yahoogroups style mailing list system. There are several lists to choose from. This is experemental for the time being. If all goes well, I will ditch the old lists on Yahoo! all together. This server is more secure and since I don’t work for some big corporation I won’t sell your personal information like they do (unless you specify not to).

I do ask that when you register for these components that you use the same user information (user name, email, etc) for all of the interactive parts of the site (message boards, email lists, fanfic archive) because at some point I will be looking into consolidating all of these into one membership database and that would be easier if all three had the same info 🙂

I think that’s all for now. Check the site often for more updates.

EDIT: Most of these services are no longer around so I need to recreate them the best I can. Please be patient!

Friday, November 28, 2003

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Friday, November 28, 2003

As you can see, the site seems to be up and running with the exception of the aforementioned petition, polls and surveys. I hope to be able to find a way to bring those back soon.

Check out the new chat options and web forum in addition to the old content. You should find a web forum for anything you could possibly think of related to “A  Walk To Remember.” In addition, Mandy Moore and Nicholas Sparks have their own areas. Why not take the opportunity to discuss her movie “How To Deal” (released on DVD this coming week, if I recall) or his new book The Wedding.

Please keep checking the site for enhancements and updates. If you haven’t already, bookmark this page and recommend the site to your friends!

Saturday, November 22, 2003

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Saturday, November 22, 2003

Those of you who have seen the site before have no doubt noticed a significant change in the site layout. This was caused, to a large part, but my choice to move hosts.

Softcom, my old host, has served me faithfully for over five years now for my other projects, but simply didn’t provide the services I needed to make this site what I wanted it to be. I thought that the SharePoint Team Services option that they offered was the answer. I was wrong. It didn’t do what I wanted and wasn’t stable enough to handle the traffic. To top it off, it was too expensive. Webmasters offers everything I wanted at a fraction of the cost.

I am still working on re-creating the options that SharePoint offered with other scripts provided by Webmasters, but thus far the only thing I can’t find a way to reproduce are the polls and petitions. I hope to come up with something soon.

Please be patient with me through the next few days of broken links and other errors. I hope this to be the final move for the site and am looking for tremendous site growth in the next few months. If you’re reading this then the domain name(s) now point to this new location, which will steer all of the traffic here as well.

11/8/03: “Have A Little Faith In Me” VIDEO

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This is the first single from “Coverage” Follow the link to see the video. It’s AWESOME!

http://www.mandymoore.com/video/havealittlefaithvidfull_100.asx

Also, don’t forget to pick up the CD, tell your friends, and request the song on the radio. Mandy needs this album to go well if we want any more.

Link:: http://www.mandymoore.com/video/havealittlefaithvidfull_100.asx

10/21/03 — SPECIAL EDITION “A Walk To Remember” Soundtrack

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I hold in my handa a “Special Edition” of the “A Walk To Remember” Soundtrack released simotaniously with “Coverage.” The special edition contains all of the original tracks from the first CD PLUS:

* Cannonball by The Breeders
* Only Hope (Movie Dialog Version)
* Friday On My Mind by Noogie
* Empty Spaces by Fuel

Order yours today from the “A Walk To Remember” Online Store (in Association with Amazon.com) and while you’re there, don’t forget to pick up a copy of “Coverage”

Link:: http://www.awalktorememberonline.org/store.htm

10/5/03: New Domains!!!

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In an effort to increase site traffic I have purchased the domains awalktorememberonline.com and .net !!!

While the official name of the site will stay .ORG (for non profit) the two other domains wll now forward users to the site. With any luck, we’ll have a dramatic increase in readership.

Thanks again for your patience while I get the site running smootely.

9/25/03: Thanks for your patience!

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Thank you to all of you for being so patient with me while I complete the integration of the two old sites “A Walk TO Remember” Online and “A Walk TO Remember” Shrine into the single site “A Walk To Remember” ONLINE.

Some notes:

* The only email address you should use is the <webmaster@awalktorememberonline> address. The <fanfic@transwarp2000.net> address is not checked regularly. I am in the process of pergint these refferences from the old pages.

* Duplicate content from the two sites are being merged or recreated in a new form. For example: The page awtr-home.htm will be eliminated. The links from that page are now on the awtr-main.htm page. The content from that page will be appearing on a new page awtr-why.htm in a slightly modified form. When this is complete the old page will be removed.

* Some of the interactive content (message boards, etc.) are generating errors. When that happens, please hit the reload button on the browser. This usually fixes the problem, but may take two or three pages.

* I am having major problems on the “Store” pages. I am working on this. For some reason many of my links are not appearing on the downloaded pages even thouth the server copies have them.

* Some of the interactive pages do not display the site theme. I am working on this. I have to edit the pages that I am able to, but the server will not give me write access to everything so some pages may have to stay as they are.

* The top link bar has disappeared from most of the interactive pages. I am working on this.

* Please feel free to send me comments and bug reports to the “Webmaster” address. Thanks again for your patience.

9/7/03: Still working on it!

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Thus far the integration seems to have gone fairly smoothly. None of my content was deleted and the theme from the “Shrine” was deployed over almost all pages of the new site with little or no effort from me. The biggest problem thus far has been the destruction of the link bar on many of the pages. I have had to re-create it in some places but I think I have it working on the most important pages. This will be an ongoing process.

I have been getting a few server errors and pages that do not load quite right. If this happens to you try hitting the “refresh” button on your browser or go back and try the link again. If this continues I will take it up with the host.

I appreciate your patience. I am working to get the site at 100% as soon as possible in between my other responsibilities.