Rev. Voodoo

Rev. Voodoo continues to work hard at recovering from the latest hacks.  The front end of all the websites look and feel fine once again.  This website, along with Ankhjii’s Fitness Site, AngelaandJamie.com, and The Voodoo Empire main page are fully recovered.  That still leaves the wedding services site, DJ Odawa’s page, the forums, and the wiki.

With these problems, and especially with the restoration we continually have to go through, we are considering paring down our sites once again.  Mainly, the forums.  It looks like sometime over the next few months, there will be a major new release of WordPress 3.0.  Perhaps after that happens, we may try to merge in a WP based forum, instead of the SMF forum we use now.  The more consolidated things are, the easier it will be to recover. 

Until then though, you can continue to count on us fighting the good fight to keep things running here, and all around the empire!

Over the past couple years, Rev. Voodoo has experimented with many different software packages for building websites.  And those website services have been left online and available for anyone to use.  Keeping an eye on traffic level and activity it is apparent that some of these sites are just not used.  Sites like the Voodoo Community, Club Voodoo, VoodooSpace, and the VoodooPic site haven’t really been maintained in some time, and they really don’t match up with, provide use for, or present The Voodoo Empire very well.  So over the next little while these little side-project websites will be deleted.  This will leave the core Voodoo Empire sites for people to enjoy.  Besides why have anything up that’s substandard?

These following sites are the ones we will keep online for The Voodoo Empire as they are continuously monitored and improved:

• The Voodoo Empire
• Rev. Voodoo’s Blog
• Voodoo Empire File Sharing Service
• The Voodoo Forums
• The Voodoo Empire Shop

If anyone actually likes any of the other sires, let us know before we delete them!

It’s the latest update in the overall overhaul of the Voodoo Empire’s online presence!  This time the Voodoo Forums have been done up!  The theme fits real nice with the look that is now present on the Voodoo Empire main site, the filesharing site, and the Blog!  All that’s left is an overhaul of the shop, and some minor details on the wiki!  Check em all out for yourself!

That’s right, we have successfully updated the Voodoo Forums software to v2RC1.  The update went smooth.  At first you may not notice much different, we tried to keep the look and feel the same.  Some updates that affect the user are a new and improved media gallery along with some other minor changes you may notice as you use the forum.  The rest of the changes are for Rev. Voodoo, the admin.  Why not take the opportunity now to head back over there and bring the community back to life.  It is, after all, your forum!

Rev. Voodoo decided to sit down and set up an install using the same software as Wikipedia, for learning experience.  But now that it’s up and functional, it’s kind of neat.  So we will leave it up as an experiment.  VoodooWiki will be left up as a repository of sorts.  A place for people to collect information and define whatever they want.  Define yourself, define music, define art, put up random articles, tell the world about DJs, DJ collectives, bands, absolutely anything.  With a bunch of people putting in just a bit of effort, it could become a very cool place to visit.

First the Voodoo Empire would like to announce that the www.RVoodoo.com to Voodoo Forums update is complete.  And now anyone who has ever registered on this site was automatically given an account on the forums.  Your password should be the same.  But what works better is when you are signed on here and you open the Forums page you should be already logged in.  Also, updates from the Forums are included in the sidebar on this page now, you can click any of them to go right to that topic.  And finally, all appears to be well on the Forums, everything is healthy and functioning! 

Just and update for anyone tring to access the Voodoo Forums.  Something seems to have gone wrong over there, although I’m not sure what.  I have made no changes in the past 24 hours and accessed it several times around 3am.  But since then it has started experiencing horrible performance problems.  I’ll be monitoring the situation and if it doesn’t improve within a day I will have to most likely reinstall the software.  Luckily this shouldn’t be too much trouble as I just ran a full backup at 8:30 last night.  Not too much will be lost.  See you all on the forums soon!

Well it’s been scary so far.  Rev. Voodoo has been trying to make www.RVoodoo.com and the Voodoo Forums play nice together.  As of now, if you sign up for an account here on www.RVoodoo.com you automatically get an account on the forums.  And when you sign in here, you are signed in there.  Neat eh?  That’s only for new sign-ups as of now.  I’ll need to be more brave before I try to import all users because I could lose everything.  The next project is the reverse of this.  I would also like it so that anyine who signs up at the Forums also gets an account here.  So that’s where it stands for now.  I’ll keep you posted!