Another Move?!

So Blossom Media Center has moved again! ^^” Please kindly change your blogroll links to http://blossommedia.net !

I apologize for a second move, but this move looks like it’ll last longer. Anyways, welcome! As many of you may have seen, my blog was down due to reaching my bandwidth. I couldn’t have that happen again, so with the help of my uncle, I decided that I had to move again. All in all, I think it was a good decision to make because I had tons of complaints about my previous hosting, especially since it wasn’t stable…at all. But besides moving, there are some fall changes that I was planning to do anyways, as you can see, a new theme and new banners!

Aghhh…..but it took longer than I thought. So lots of stuff are still messy because I tried bringing out the blog as soon as possible…

Moving

I started freaking out when I reached my bandwidth, and had to do something. I was going to do the post to host, but I was still worried about bandwidth. The best deal required paying, and it well….didn’t sound too bad. Now I’m not totally into paying for things like this, but that’s not the total story. I got an offer to join NotCliche, and well, that seemed like the perfect solution! I started phewing so much since I’ve always wanted to join on of those families. :D I was really happy, I guess you could say, and made the mistake of saying out loud, “Well everything is solved!”

My uncle…the only person besides my anime friends IRL, is someone who actually knows and is pretty content about me blogging. We’re like super close. Sure I get teased a lot, but he doesn’t really mind it. He’s into computers and knows most of the stuff I’m dealing with, and noticed the bandwidth issue. He knew that I needed to get it fixed as soon as I could or else my readers wouldn’t come back. And when I said, “Well everything is solved!” He began to inquire how. I told him of the offer, and he had that serious expression. He started having doubts like, “What if they close?”,”You don’t personally know them…”, etc. I really still thought it was okay, but he gave me this massive guilt trip and gah, I gave in. He was willing to pay for the hosting, since he did so in the past.

A little backstory. Before I started blogging, like, 3 years back or so, my uncle really did pay for hosting, since we were planning on making a website. Well due to my short attention span and confusion in everything in the past, I never went anywhere with it. I sort of abandoned it, but I didn’t know my uncle still was paying for it (that still makes me really sad). Yeah, I’m spoiled. Anyways, a couple days back, he finally confirmed the cancel we made a couple months back, and so he escaped having to pay for the hosting again. So on the same day, he decided to just pay for different hosting–hosting I’d actually use. So yeah, my uncle was involved a lot on moving. And he spends money on whatever he wants. Luckily to make feel less guilty (I was writing sorry all over his paper xDD) we decided it would be considered a birthday present, since my birthday is coming up very soon. :D And I get to still pay for the monthly fees, and he just pays the start up. I’m not really happy about moving twice, but I hope things will work out. It seems that having this host already fills in the gaps that the other host left with my issues and all. I still want to join NotCliche cause it’s free and economy sucks for our family.

Ahhh but even though we were able to get the host, it took a lot of time to transfer my post without using the quick way of doing it from wordpress blog to wordpress blog, since the dashboard is inaccessable. I had to end up transferring MySQL databases. I tried the whole database, which ended up leaving me with a totally blank page with the Bandwidth Exceeded page now on my new blog, so I had to import table by table. There may be some things left out regarding that. Also, because I can’t transfer it and the other blog is still not working, the images that are hosted in the old blog are not viewable. I’ll try to fix that as well.

Theme

I think the most fun thing about not being limited is the ability to surf for themes. So I found one really nice theme, tweaked it a bit, and it fit most of my needs. Also, it resolved some issues I had as well. It is part of the arialquatro theme set, which comes in 4 colors. I plan to use it until ThemeFrame, a theme I’m looking to use, is out. Scratch that. ThemeFrame is now announced to be premium, wtf. I think my favorite thing about the theme is the menu, and my least is the header. It looks so floaty, as if it doesn’t belong. Ugh. It originally had ads, so it was a hassle to take those out. xD I plan on using this theme set for several seasons as well! But I’m always surfing around, so I think I’ll be changing themes often.

For the things I changed, I just made the header bigger really. It required some work though because of the ad there and the background which goes with the size that was already there. I had to remake the background to fit the new size, haha. I was hoping to add a border or something, but it didn’t work out. I also had to cut out some text that looked like it linked to some phishing sites. I couldn’t find where they were coming from, and looked in my footers with nothing there, so I just cut them. xDD

Hmm….the last issue I had but can’t fix (so we have to live with it for now until I do fix it) is that there is no toolbar. The code clashes with the theme, and if the toolbar is there, the menu doesn’t do it’s gliding thing. xD I’m still also unsure about the background, so chances are that the background will change quite a few times before I find the right background to use.

Banner

Fall banners!~ Actually, there are 3 banners that are not. But other than that, the banners are fall shows I’m looking forward to that have decent scans already.

11eyes!~ This was originally a totally different background, which I disliked terribly, but I was able to find a bigger version of this scan so voila! Ahh…I absolutely love this scan. It totally fits the Fall theme. It’s a rather plain banner, but I didn’t want to ruin the scan too much. There was originally a line in the middle of it for the magazine, so I had to fix that. Probably the first time I had the chance to do that kind of image editing. So yes, my skills are quite terrible. Overall though, I like this banner a whole lot than the other version of it. The black gradient was added to add some sort of decor on it, and also so it’s somewhat like the old 11eyes banner.

Well, this banner mainly came from the wallpaper I made awhile back for the character single. I was going to put it up before, but decided to put it up with these banners. I didn’t do much to alter it. I just raised the texted and added those vector circles. Since I was pretty fond of the wallpaper, I’m pretty content with the banner, even if it doesn’t totally fit. xD

Eden of the East banner!~ I’m soo excited for the movie, so I decided to make a banner for it~ I know I won’t get to see it in a while but it’s alright. ^^ It’s a pretty montoned banner except for Saki and Akira, who are color. <3 Because they are who you need to pay attention too! >:D Well, most of it was unintentional, actually. I just added lots of brushes I thought “looked” nice. I think my favorite effect was the crack, since I tried making it look sort of like the ED, and so the crack sort of adds to the paper feel to it.

The Fairy Tail banner~ In this banner, it features my terrible photo editing skills. I had to remove the background from the images, and so lots of it is really noticeable. Most of the background is based off of the manga covers, since they sort of remind me of maps. So I decided to add the script brush to resemble that map feel to it.

Haruka~ This banner is probably one of the better banners in the batch to me. It’s plain but sweet. I really wanted to have a Haruka banner, but I had trouble looking for a scan. When I found this banner though, I absolutely loved it. She just looks so cute in this, as well as cherry blossoms! *A* It’s not really noticeable in this picture though. I used the color off of the scan, and just started from there. Everything sort of just….came together for it? I just got random brushes I thought looked nice. The lace effect was added to close in the banner, but mainly because it fits Haruka, mainly her attire.

The first banner I made for the batch~ The Kimi ni Todoke banner is probably one of my favorites for the batch just for it’s simplicity. The colors match somewhat as well. I think my favorite part of the banner is the effects added the orange stripes and border. The smiley was actually pretty funny since Tall Paul, the font I used, has a pretty cute looking smiley when you type it out. So I simply typed it out, and rotated the smiley, haha. The smiley just fits the warm kind of feeling this series gives off to me.

Kobato banner~ It looks sort of plain on the pink side, even if I did add a background. Not much to add to this banner, except….Kobato’s so cute~ Ahhh I wish I did her picture justice. But alas, the banner is so boring. :/ So let’s just pay attention to Kobato, shall we~?

Utau!~ Why so awesome? *refers to the tagline* Utau’s just so awesome I just had to use that as the tagline~ Anyways, I’m pretty satsified with how this banner turned out. I was experimenting with some brushes when I used this, so yeah. Most of it just….happenned with no real goal in mind. Afterwards, I was pretty satisfied. xD Also, the vector I used was from the same website as the Amu vector, so the vector is not mine. :D

Yaya and Rima look so cute in the scan~ They kind of had that bubbly cute sort of posed, so I used brush vectors that fit them. I think it turned out pretty decent…:/

Yumeiro Patissiere!! I really wanted to have a Yume Pati banner, but I had a problem finding a scan. I searched around and found a really cute scan, so I decided to use it. You can really see my terrible photo editing skills in this banner, seriously…it FAILS. I thought it turned out…bubbly and happy, even though the color clashes terribly with the rest of the theme. I ended up adding some food brushes that I thought fit the cute thing to emphasize that the series has to do with food…even though she wants to be a patissiere and these are alnost all fruit so they’re barely related. x_x

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Overall, a pretty average set. I might add some more later when I find some cool scans. I already have a Letter Bee banner coming up, but it got deleted since my computer froze.

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Anyways, let’s hope for the best in this hosting since I have bad luck with it! :D Hope you enjoy the new BMC as well! :]