GregHowley.com

For those of you who haven't heard, I've been working my ass off on a new site: Lungfishopolis.com. It's still unfinished, but I'm hoping to have Lungfishopolis.com ready to launch by the end of the week. I used to write a lot about video games on this site until I realized that most of the people who read and comment here just aren't into them. So I'm offloading all my video game discussion to a specifically video game themed site.

I've finally got a header in place that I'm happy with, although the headers will be somewhat randomized when the site's complete. And I managed to con Brandon into co-authoring the site with me. Still don't know why he agreed, but he's a far better writer than I am, so I'm glad to have him aboard. So what's left on my to-do list? Let's see.

• Photoshop the author images and make them pretty. The author images are the Miis of the various authors. I've also got a group one, for when a story is written by multiple people. Too bad I suck at photoshop.
• Make a good footer. Also a photoshop job. Thinking about using the cityscape Linda drew for me.
• Finish up my "About" page. Need to remember to email Brandon and get a text blurb from him.
• Add a "home" link, and a link to the About page. I'd like to make pretty link graphics for these in photoshop.
• Fix up the ugly 404 page.
• Add code to my custom "Upcoming Games" Wordpress plugin to automatically delete games from the list after their date has passed. It'll be a pain to have to do it manually.
• Create at least a half dozen header graphics and have php serve them up randomly - each would be the same except for a different game screenshot.
• Locate more graphics for the bottom sidebar - currently I've got Jade from Beyond Good and Evil. I'd like to find a few more, but they'll need white or transparent backgrounds.

So these are the things I'm hoping to get done this week. Then I get to start writing up more articles for Lungfishopolis. I want the site to be different. There are a million review sites out there - I'm not interested in writing game reviews. I'm also not interested in competing with Destructoid, Kotaku and Joystiq for breaking game industry news. I want to write about game stuff that I find fun and interesting, and inject as much humor as possible. I've been taking notes from Lore Sjoberg, who's a great writer.

Wish me luck.