Finally, after about 2.5 years of delay… I updated Conundrum tonight.

Chapter 16: Illuminating Darkness is up and available for your reading pleasure.

View it on our site or on FanFiction.net
BWL Version
fanfiction.net Version

I delayed posting this chapter due to the work needed in rebuilding this site after I took over.  I then had to make some new content which included HL2 stories and Disorientation.  Finally, I have updated and hope to make the next update much sooner this time.

Also, I am planning to make all of these chapters available as text files soon.  I will likely include them in a zip file and update it as new chapters are added.  This way, when someone wants to print off the story, they can have a nice clean text document.

Finally, the new WordPress blog, the new forums, and the matching skins are done.  Welcome to the latest version of our site.

EDIT:
Just a few details here…

The new site design is editable by those I choose to promote.  VIP’s and Team members need to sign up so I can make you Authors or Editors.  Also, due to spam bot activity which is still suprisingly heavy here… you must be a blog subscriber to post comments.

Registration for the main site is completely independent from your forum account.

If you were a forum member before the change, you do not need to re-register.  Your old account was preserved as I converted our old database to the new version.  Your account, posts, and all the existing forum activities are in the phpBB3 forum… that includes the Cataclysm and Downfall RP threads.

The old forum is gone now.  I deleted both the software and the old database.  You will get a page not found error if you follow an old link or bookmark.  The forum address is now bwl.hl2files.com/phpbb3

Also, due to the spam bot activity…  new user regestrations require activation.  You should get an email asking you to click a link to activate your account.  If you don’t recieve said email… contact me so I can activate your account.

Sorry for the cheesy title, but I’m tired and in a funny mood.

My conversion of the site is progressing nicely now.  I have finished making the new skin and setting up the old links and affiliates and such.  And now I have finished converting the template for the various forms of the slide-show on the story pages too.

The HL, HL2, Other Stories, and Comic Strips pages are complete and back up.

I hope to get much more done tonight and maybe get into the forum change-over this evening or at least this weekend.  But first, I’m going to finish the content pages (Videos, Images, and Text Fiction… which will include re-creating those pages entirely).

The hosted sites are not going to be upgraded and the mod pages will also remain seperate from this site design.

I’m not going to re-create the featured item box from our old skin.  Instead, I am going to make the featured items a seperate blog entry when I choose a new one.  This will help make being featured a little nicer and also give us more updates.

Well, that’s all for now.  See you soon.

Tonight, being my night off, I have started the site change over.  I will be installing and configuring WordPress to serve as our main site template.  Expect a new look.

I’m not sure how long the full conversion will take, especially since some pages will still be used seperate form WordPress.  But expect to see the main list pages ready tonight.

Our shout box is still up and running and we will be upgrading to phpBB3 next… but for now, the phpBB2 forum is still up and running.  And hey, some of the nice side-effects of this may include VIP and Team Members being able to join the blog and being granted Author status (meaning they could write blog posts and such).

I do hope you all enjoy this easier to maintain new page design.