Sunday, February 5, 2006
10 new books were just added to the listings, including four children's books. It's amazing how many children's books there are out there that have dragons! I apologize that the Dragon Bookstore search is not yet working; Google has not yet indexed this site. However, it will likely happen soon!
Friday, February 3, 2006
Three weeks after the launch of The Dragon Bookstore, its listing has reached 150 items! That means an average of 50 items are added each week, and I don't see that slowing down anytime soon. thirteen items were just added, all books.
Thursday, February 2, 2006
I just added another twelve books, including the entire Dragonsword trilogy. I'm up to C on my huge list of books to add! Also, I'm adding links to the book listings you can use get more information. Don't worry if you don't see them everywhere; it will take a few days to add them all, and you can get the same information by clicking on the titles.
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Today, I posted a form that visitors can use to submit their own reviews to this website! I also finished adding all of the items that I know by memory, and have started adding items from a long list of dragon books I have, some of them rare and relatively unknown. As a result, I added 12 new items today, all of them books and most of them having authors whose last names start with A.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
After taking a day off (Thanks Baela, you know who you are), I added another 10 items. These include 7 books, 2 movies, and 1 game, including the entire Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Enjoy!
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Yep, I added 10 items today, which put me over 100! I added the rest of the Breath of Fire game series, along with the Dragonlance Legends trilogy. And what was the 100th item? The console version of the Reign of Fire game. And for those of you who are counting, the 50th was Spyro the Dragon! Is there a trend here? Anyway, the current total of 105 consists of 79 books, 7 movies, and 19 games (including sets and collections, but not including alternate formats).
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Well, I was hoping to hit 100 items today, but I decided to add the series page for Dragonlance and some of its books. I didn't realize, of course, that the Dragonlance series has over a hundred books (I've only read the first three). Well, after I finally got the book lists up (which still have flaws, but I'll deal with it), I only had time to add 7 items today. But maybe tomorrow!
Friday, January 27, 2006
Today, I got a huge amount done! I added 15 new items, including Discovery's Dragon's World movie and the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies! I also added VHS options where available for all of the movies. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
I may have only added four new items today (all movies), but I got a lot of other work done. I have decided to switch all of my item descriptions to use descriptions from their Wikipedia articles, liscenced under the GNU documentation lisence. This is much less legally dubious than what I was using (I am convinced that what I was doing was legal, but now there is no question). That change will be happening over the next few days. Also, I am preparing to add forms that visitors can use to submit requests for new items, or their own reviews of items already present.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Well, the long and short of it is that I got 15 items added today! I finished off the Spyro series of games, and added the entire Dragon and the George series of books by Gordon Dickson. I also added a featured items section to the front page. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Today, I added 10 new items! The first five finish off the Pern series (yay)! Now I only have to add all the book sets and compilations, and all the companion books, and all the books that contain short stories, etc., but these will come more gradually. I also decided to fill out the games section a little, so I added Breath of Fire III along with the first three games of the Spyro series (which I intend to finish tomorrow). However, with those additions, The main Recommendations page is now complete! Oh, and it's official; I passed the 50 item mark! The Dragon Bookstore now offers 54 items.
Monday, January 23, 2006
After yesterday's minor disaster, I drank a lot of caffiene this morning and bounced right back! I added 14 new books today: the Irene Radford books I lost yesterday, The Hobbit (why I hadn't added this before I will never know), and four of the remaining Pern books! I will likely finish adding the main books of the series tomorrow.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Well, this morning, I had done a lot of reorganizing of the website files and added all ten of Irene Radford's wonderful dragon books when I lost all my work. I managed to fix most of the reorganizing of the website, but unfortunately, I was only able to add the first of the ten books. The rest will probably go back up tomorrow.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Today, I added another ten items, including the movie Reign of Fire and the Winterlands series of books. I also added my first requested books today. If you have any requests, go ahead and e-mail me!
Thursday, January 19, 2006
The slogging continues! Today, I created the series pages for the Dragonriders of Pern and Inheritance. I also added ten new items: six Pern books, one Pern set, one Inheritance set, the movie Dragonheart, and the game Horizons, which you can download for free! I'm getting faster and faster at this; I'm down to about 10-15 minutes per item. I'll probably take tomorrow off. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Well, here I go! I'm beginning to slog away at adding the massive amounts of dragon items that are available, but it's going to take a while! I'm getting faster now, but the first few items took about a half hour each. It takes me a bit longer when I need to add items to the recommended sections, though, and writing reviews holds me uptoo. Things should go much faster when I get into more unfamiliar territory, but I added eight items today! Most of those are Anne McCaffrey/Todd McCaffrey books, including Dragon's Fire, which (for those of you who are counting) won't be released for a few months!
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
It's official.. The initial layout and formatting of this website is now complete! I have also added (gasp) advertisements, but they're unobtrusive and only found at the bottom of every page, so they shouldn't cause any inconvenience. Tomorrow, I start adding loads of books! Maybe even a game.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Unfortunately, I haven't found time to add any new items yet, but the initial design of the website is almost done! The books section is (hopefully) completely done, including the horrid, horrid A-Z pages. I intend to finish the movies and games sections tomorrow, and *then* maybe I'll have a chance to start adding items by the dozens!
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Well, it took a couple of days, but the first book has been posted! I intend to spend the following week adding my favorite books and perfecting the layout of the website. And the first book? Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey, of course!
Friday, January 13, 2006
Yes, yes, I launched the website on Friday the 13th. There's not much here yet, but I intend to get the first products up and tinker with the initial layout today. So soon, there will be much more here to see! Stay tuned!
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