Yamada Hikaru Network

I’ve started college now, and obviously have more work to do than I did over the summer holiday. I (hopefully) won’t follow my usual trend of no updates for long periods of time, and will continue to work on the content ideas that I have right now, and mainly the ones that are needing completion. A few new Japanese lessons should be up within the next few weeks, and I’ll be trying to make some more progress with my FFXI blog.

I’ll post up an update when I add something.

I’ve added some of my content ideas to the “Content” page. I’ve added information and detailed status information for the projects that I’m working on.

The two ‘finalised’ ideas that I’ve got so far are a FINAL FANTASY XI blog, for my character Akiyama, and a Japanese Language Learning section on this website. Both of these are still currently in the planning stages, but I’ll be working on them now that I’ve sorted out the content and theme currently on the site.

I’ve put the pages about me and the site back up with some revisions. You can find them under “Akiyama” and “Site” at the top of the page.

I’ll most likely add/modify them soon, as they are still quite dated.

I’ve added to the links page with a small list, I’ll update it as I come across any more.

I’ve also added numerous pages under the “Akiyama” page to go with the content on it, mostly lists of odd things like my Anime, Manga, and Game collections.

I’ve just finished and tested my new theme, Grayscale. It’s a little boring, I know, but I did say it would be simple. I’ll most likely keep adding to it and might even end up adding colour anyway. Well, I just wanted a starter for replacing Typography and something I can work with as well as new content. Hopefully making this new content should help me find any errors in the theme and fix them up, or just find things that don’t work very well and modify them.

Well, that’s the new theme. Working on the content now. I’ll update again once I have some finalised ideas of what content I’m planning on.

Note: I’ve only really tested the site on Mozilla Firefox. I’ve taken a look at it on Internet Explorer, and seen a few minor changes. I most likely won’t bother to test the site in IE after today, so if you do spot any errors whilst using IE, then there is a simple way to fix all of those problems (probably for a lot of other websites with the same problems too), and that’d be to download Mozilla Firefox.

Hey, this is just a small notice to say that I’m working on a design for the new theme, and I’m thinking up of some new content that I can work on too. Hopefully this stuff should start appearing around the middle of August, but I can’t promise any exact dates.

I have some ideas on the new theme sorted, and will be working on that straight away. It’ll be another simple looking design, but it’ll be easy to navigate around and should hopefully work for the site. I can keep adding to it once it’s finished anyway.

I have some new content ideas, but most are just rough ideas at the moment, and I currently don’t have any content started on them. I’ll start planning these soon once I’ve got a good start on the new theme. I also want to try get back onto plans which I’ve had for a long time to having a few separate sub-domains, like a FINAL FANTASY XI blog, and a few other things that might come up involving some friends.

I’ll update on the progress, and if any ideas come to be finalised or I think of any more.

Well, I’ve been looking over my original ideas for a new layout. I really want to start making my own layouts again, before I got too lazy and started downloading some that I liked and used those instead.. But, I can’t get any good ideas anymore. Not that the ones I had long ago were any good anyway, just nothing that I feel would work comes up anymore. I had an idea all mapped out for a simple minimalistic design, to get back into it. But now I’m not so sure with what I have. I’m not really sure what I’d like.. there are little bits that I’ve never done before and would like to include in a layout, but they’re mainly just small things that can be added to most layouts.

I’m going to come up with some more ideas, look around to get some inspiration. Once I’ve made something half-decent, I’ll post a preview. Until then, I guess it’s staying as Typography.

Well, with exams coming up in the next few weeks, I’ll be pretty busy. Not that I update often, having my last entry in January (whoops..). After my exam period (which is until 15th June), I’ll be updating the layout with something I had been working on a bit ago, but never got a chance to make it all after planning due to school work, and I’ll try think of some new content. I think I’m most likely going to end up having some sort of FFXI blog on here, and maybe something else if I can think of anything I’ll be able to do.

Anyway, after the exams, I’ll have a large period of time where I can do pretty much anything I haven’t had time to do for the past two years. So I’ll be updating more often (not exactly a promise, though), and will have more to talk about! Since I’ll be working on completing various games (namely ‘Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’, ‘Final Fantasy XII’, ‘Final Fantasy III’, and some other Wii games plus some new ones I’ll be getting when they come out in June) , playing FFXI, and many other things that I’ve left for so long. So, expect more after June 15th!

I’ve added the FFXI page, and I’ll be working on the content during the next few weeks. At first, I’ll only be putting together some basic guides more for beginners to understand the various parts of Final Fantasy XI, but some of them might be helpful for more intermediate players.

Anyway, this is what I’ve got planned so far:

• Menu Guide - A guide to help navigate the menu, and understand what everything does in it. (Very basic)
• Text Commands - A guide to the various text commands in the game, what they are, and what they do. (Basic)
• Jobs Guide - A basic description of the role of the different jobs, with some stuff on forming parties, and party formation. (Basic)
• Terms - A basic run through of some frequently used terms in Final Fantasy XI. (Basic)
• Macro Guide - A basic/intermediate guide on creating macros. (Basic/Intermediate)
• Quests Guide - A walkthrough of some of the basic quests found around the starting nations [Mainly San d'Orian based].
• Missions Guide - A walkthrough of the rank 1-2 missions for San d’Oria [Possibly Windurst and Bastok too].
• Areas Guide - A small description of the starting areas, with some information of party camps.

I’ll most likely add some more once I’ve finished off all of these, but until then I’ll just work on making some good guides for the basic stuff. Also, right now all of these guides will be put onto this domain, in the FFXI page.

Hey again. I’ve made some changes to the site, and there are a few more to come. The most noticable change is the new theme, which I have named ‘Yamada Hikaru Network ²’. I’ll most likely be keeping with this theme for a while, so I can work on more content. I’m also sorting things out so I can try and get a range on different content on the site. Keep checking back for more.

I know it has been a while since I did anything here, since the last post was in April, I thought I should actually get down on doing something to the site. As you will of noticed, we are back to the Wordpress default theme until I sort out otherwise. Sometime I’ll make my own theme, as a said long long ago, but not right now. I’ll be introducting a few new things in the next few days, which I’ve been planning for some time. So, expect some new stuff to be on shortly.

In other news, I just finished my work experience and will be back at school on monday, and then finishing for the summer holidays on thursday. I’ll be on holiday in Florida for the first two weeks of the holiday, so I doubt any changes to the site will happen for some time after I go. I’ll try get as many things done before I go, so the site gets a little more interesting to visit, and hopefully get a few more visitors when I get back.