Archive for the ‘website’ Category
Announcing: The New StreamingColour.com
Friday, June 18th, 2010
If you’re reading this on the site (and not in an RSS reader), you’ll already see what this post is about: today I’m launching the new streamingcolour.com! As you can see, the site has been completely redesigned from the ground up.
I’d had the old site design up for two years now. While it has treated Streaming Colour well, I felt that it was time for something new. The new design also allows me to handle individual games pages in a nicer way, so it should be able to grow with the company’s game catalog over the coming years.
If you’re curious for more LandFormer tidbits, check out the LandFormer page for new screenshots of the game, as well as the official description of the game and its features.
Have a poke around, check things out, and let me know what you think.
Owen
Monkeys Reviews and Interview
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
I finally got around to updating my press page to include reviews and interviews for Monkeys in Space. If you want to read a review of the game, check out the press page:
And if you’re a member of the iPhone press or gaming press, the press page has a handy press kit containing everything you need relating to the game.
In other news, I’ve started working on a new level for Monkeys in Space. I’ll be releasing it via free update as soon as it’s ready. I’m also making a few other little improvements to the game for the next version.
Owen
New Store Page
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
I mentioned in a post last week that I now had a store available with Monkeys in Space T-shirts and coffee mugs. Today I launched a new page on the site that allows you to view those items in a handy-dandy Flash widget. Fear not, Flash-haters, for the page also contains a link to the non-Flash version of the store, should you wish to partake in the purchase of Streaming Colour products!
You can also find this page at the top of the screen in the site navigation.
Finally, a reminder that there’s less than a week to finish your entry for the Monkeys in Space Contest and your chance to win fabulous prizes! So get working on your Monkeys in Space craft if you want to win some great stuff!
Owen
Migration Complete
Friday, June 26th, 2009
I’ve completed the migration of the site over to my new server. Each time I move the site, it takes longer and longer. I guess it’s because I have more content each time I move my site.
I’m impressed with the new server so far. It’s so nice to have encrypted shell access to the server! I can’t believe I went so long without it!
The DNS servers should be propagating the address changes over the next 24-48 hrs. So if you hit the site and don’t see this post in the blog, it’s because your ISP is still pointing to the old server IP address. It should resolve itself in the next day or two.
One of the nice things that I get with this new server is a much better mailing list system. So if you want to be notified of Streaming Colour news, but not all the other stuff I post to the blog, hit up the mailing list page and sign up. If you already signed up for the old mailing list, I’ll be sending out an email tomorrow that will move you over to the new system.
Owen
Recent Site Problems
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
I’ve been having some problems with the site recently. The security of my site has been compromised several times over the last few weeks. The site has been the subject of repeated injection attacks that have injected malicious code into various pages. If you visited the site over the last day or two and saw a warning from Google, that’s why that came up. Each time I have removed the malicious code, and done everything I can to better secure the site.
At this point I have decided that my current web host can’t provide me with the level of security that I want and so I’m going to be moving the site over the next day or two. I’m going to do everything I can to make sure there’s as little downtime as possible. However, it is possible that the site may go down for an hour or two at some point. If that’s the case, I apologise in advance.
I did promise a post about WWDC this week, but the site being repeatedly hacked has taken up most of my time over the last 3 or 4 days. Once I’ve moved the site and determined that it’s stable, I’ll get back to my regular postings.
Owen