We’ve been working on updating the website for a while now and we’re on the verge of releasing a new version of the website within the next week, complete with a new layout and rewritten pages. It’s not that major website upgrade that we had announced earlier, but it’s something. In terms of updates to the websites though, it has never been this much overhauled. Looking through the code for the website, you can see that a lot of stuff dates back to 2004.
However, as large as the update is, there’s nothing especially exciting in this release, but we’ve fixed up bugs here and there. Our track name cleanup algorithm (we get the name of each track from the file’s filename, but obviously the files are named differently) is now better, no longer corrupting the names of track entries that only have their track number. There should be less broken links with the anime music archive after this update as well. Some pages were removed because they no longer worked (notably the anime captioner).
Preview of the new website
The look of the website is still under some consideration. The sidebar feels like a bunch of things thrown together, as it does now on the current website. We are currently brainstorming what to do about that.
Before we can release the site, we need to re-integrate the search engine, create a useful front page, figure what to do with the sidebar, and update the “download” part of the anime OSTs to be in tune with the site’s new changes. We will also need to do some QA testing to make sure everything still works and and that it hasn’t gotten confusing to navigate.
On another note, we had a report of the Contribute-an-Album website having an issue with accepting uploads with the Java uploader. We plan to look into this within the coming days.
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Where did KAF (keiichi anime forever) go?!?!?
The domain registration for keiichianimeforever.com expired, and so we needed to renew it. There’s someone that is responsible for renewing the domain registration, but he was a bit busy and it slipped his mind.
keiichianimeforever.com is up already. I like the list of OSTs you have. Good job.