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Devious Journal Entry

spent the better part of the day cleaning up the HTML and optimizing the speed of the site. got the size of the site down from 80k to 43k for the main page. there are now a very low number of actual database calls on the main page. the majority of the content, which would appear dynamic, actually comes from HTML files that are included on the fly. this is part of the modularization as well as an idea to remove slow, and really unecessary, database calls for each load. we’ll see how it works out.

during the optimizations slightly redid some of the HTML, specifically on the header. i think it turned out rather nice, dont you?

going over a friends house for a christmas party tomorrow, as it is christmas eve. gonna drink some beer, some frozen strawberry daquiris and who knows what else. main thing is the food - plan to eat alot and get fat and have fun!

well, last but not least, happy holidays to all. thanks for making deviant art the kick ass site that it is blossoming into. i certainly love you, and know that the rest of the staff does as well….

Devious Journal Entry

Slowly started to modularize Deviant Art. This will allow for an easy way to make the site skinnable. Once that is complete then we will work on adding new features.

Started fixing up some of the administrative areas of Deviant Art that my good buddy matteo started to make. Things are slowly coming together and looking nice.

Need to redesign the user pages so that they make a little more sense. Right now they are freaking mess! Someone wanna give it a shot?

Hopefully the site loads a little better for many people. Removed some of the dynamic stuff which did not need to be dynamic, such as the popup definitions, the partners and the daily deviation. that stuff does not change enough to warrant being dynamic like that. All editing remains done via our administration section, which is slowly coming together as previously mentioned.

work tomorrow…freaking weekends seem to some and go too darn fast! at least i get to wear my elite new leather jacket and be that sexy bastard that i like to think i am!…