I really feel like I’m on the edge of something big with this new plan for the Daily Prophet. I sent out a notice to the staff of the DP today, explaining the plan in full, and so far I’ve gotten nothing but supportive messages in return. Just this evening alone four staff members have already volunteered to transfer to the Lord of the Rings section. It’s going to be fantastic, I can’t wait to get it done. I just seriously need programmers. I’ve got webhosting covered, I just need to keep working on my parents to convince them to “donate” some money to it. It won’t be cheap, but a friend sent me a link to a great webhoster that’s only $7.77 a month. It won’t work for all of my projects, but it’ll work for the DP. But still, it’s a matter of money. For two years it’ll be $170.94 (if you order service for two years they give you two months free). Not much money comparatively, but still. It’s a chunk of change. If my parents can contribute half I think I can cover the rest. And then the expansion should be set to go, as far as I know. I might have to do some double-checking, but 250mb of webspace should do it.
If you want to know the whole plan you can read the letter I sent out to the staff by going here. I’m going to make a graph of it eventually along with a better explanation, but as of right now I want to get to changing the colors and setting up the basic templates for the sites. 🙂 I’m really psyched about it. The main focus of the site will be the same, it will just expand and flourish a bit more. I think it’ll be fun, provided there are people out there like the ones in my staff who enjoy learning about such things.
Now all I have to do is stare down the mighty tasks of finding good Section Editors and learning PHP and SQL. It’s daunting. Oh how I wish I had my own private programmer who would do this for me, but it looks like it’s down to me. Or, at least some kind of port at the back of my neck so I could just download the appropriate information. That’d make things so much easier. 🙂