Status Report

Some more new things for today. The Audio Clips section in Downloads has been fixed. I know some people were having problems with it when I first released it, so I re-encoded everything so that it would work well no matter what browser you used now (IE, Firefox, etc). If something is still off or not working on that page, then please let me know by emailing me or by posting below.

Also, we’ve got a bunch of new items today for the Fan Projects section:

Fan Art: Check out some awesome drawings from Monster Man, with a total of 8 pieces. Visser Three is known for many vicious and unusual morphs for hunting down the Animorphs in the series, and Monster Man has gone through and drawn most of them in here. Go ahead and take a look. I think you’ll like ’em.

Video: Visser2Azula has another great video for us: Jake’s Tribute.

Multimedia: Two new interesting things here. Both of these are from RAF, and once I saw them, I just had to ask the creators to see if they would want to share it with us. I’m glad they agreed.

Check out a Yeerk Online Host Compatibility Dating mock webpage called InfestRight made by Pez001, and an Animorphs Phone Answering Machine sound clip by Toominator (It has been posted in the audio clips page as well).

I personally think both of these are absolutely hilarious and creative. Hopefully you all enjoy them as much as I did.

Lastly, we’ve got a bunch of great new Quotes added in from you guys, so check those out, and be sure to send more of your favourites our way.

That about covers it for now. Until next time!

Thanks to Raevyn, we now have the last missing inside cover: #42! I have reflected this change onto the Support page, and am now working on arranging for all of covers to viewed in the gallery section for a future update. At the same time, I’m also still working on the book section so that they have their rightful place on the site.

However, saying this, I’m still looking for a better picture of the inside covers #40, 42, and 43. The reason behind this is that these were all taken with a digital camera, so the quality is decent, but not on par with the rest of the covers. If you can provide me direct scans, then this would be much appreciated.

Please contact me as usual (email, form, or reply right below to this post, remembering to a leave a way for me to contact you back.)

Michael Grant & K.A. Applegate (co-authors of Animorphs) have their own new blog up now called “Stupid Blog Name”.

Check it out at: www.stupidblogname.com

Update: I’ve added links for K.A, Michael, and everyone else onto the right side of this blog. All future links will be updated on there.

Hirac Delest now has an icon on the address bar! Isn’t that AMAZING?!

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Okay, it’s a lame update, but I needed to clear my guilt with a quick update for not adding anything new for a while now. I’ve been working on your submissions here and there, so I’ll definitely have something real up after my exams are finished in a week or so.

This is an unrelated post to the archive, but I thought I’d update you all on Michael Grant’s (Animorphs co-author) new series “GONE”. The website TheFayz.com has now been launched with a new blog related to the series. I believe Mr. Grant wrote this blog himself, but I’m not completely sure. Either way, it’s supposed to introduce a new character named “Sinder” that has been unheard of until now, so check it out:

THEFAYZ.COM

Also, if you haven’t read his new book yet, then what are you waiting for?! I finished it a few weeks back, and I couldn’t put it down! It’s very, very cool, and I’m really looking forward to the sequel (which I believe is set to be released sometime on June 2009).

On a personal note, it’s too bad that the name TheFayz.com was already taken. All throughout the book I was like “Oh man, this is awesome, I gotta start a website or something. I know! I’ll name it THE FAYZ”. I know, I know, I’m just so original. Picture me scene framing that name with my hands and you’ve got an inside peek at my thinking process, lol.

It’s too bad I was beaten to it, but oh well, maybe I’ll come up with something else? Something original. I’ll have to think it through and see if I even have enough time to consider it as a project with my last year of college coming up. Maybe I’ll use it as cover for one of my projects? Hm.. who knows. *grin*

Until next time!

Hello and welcome! There were some new changes made to the site today. If you take a look up, you’ll notice that the menu has gotten a bit bigger. That’s because there are two new sections: Downloads and Support. (If you don’t see them, then that’s most likely because your browser hasn’t updated yet. Hit refresh or reload, or just restart the browser altogether.)

I spent much of my time reorganizing the site today and yesterday. It has been a slow frustrating process, but I think it’s going to work out for the best for the archive. Hirac Delest is growing more and more, so it’s only natural to keep up with the changes and expand further so that everything doesn’t get completely lost in the shuffle, which is why I felt we needed to add a new Downloads section, rather than keeping it squeezed in the Database.

The new Downloads section will have all of the original things (music, videos, screensavers, etc), except now they’re better organized in their subpages, rather than being shoved all into one page. Also, while moving the pages, I did add a few new things, such as new Music from the TV show. Four new songs to be exact.

These are the tunes and songs that you’d hear in the backgrounds of the episodes. It took me a while to find them for this site, so please do check it out (My favourite is probably “For You” and the Staredown tune from “Not My Problem”). The audio section got a new Brooke (Rachel) & Nadia (Cassie) interview, as well as some new sound clips from the tv show. Be sure to have a listen to them too.

Also, every music, audio, and video page will have streaming controls now, meaning that you can watch and listen to the file right then and there. Don’t worry though, you can still download them as usual by just following this icon:

Lastly, the new Support section is something I had to separate for itself as well, because it’s apparent how important that is to everyone who comes here. A lot of people are contributing a ton of things to this site all the time, so this is a better way to keep track of things specifically for that.

The Story part of the website merged with a few things from the previous About section, because it just made sense to put it there. I’m planning on adding other things like profiles for K.A. Applegate and David B. Mattingly on that part of the site soon. I’m surprised I didn’t do it sooner.

Anyways, that about covers it for now. The Header and Menu up there got a few design changes too, while I moved things around. Take a look around. Try out all the streaming features with the music and videos. Hopefully they’ll make things look better and give a much more enjoyable experience to you all now. Any feedback on this would be much appreciated.

Until next time!

All the forms on the website should now be working again (Trivia, Quotes, About us, etc). If you come across a form that I have accidentally forgotten or one that is still not working, then please let me know ASAP, and I’ll fix it. Remember that you can contact me directly through email or through the Hirac Delest Forum, or even by replying to this blog post.

The About Page has also been updated. Thanks to Raevyn and Foamy for providing me for the Ellimist Chronicles inside cover. All we have left to get now is #42! Please contact me if you can provide this!

The Animorphs 2008 Contest Page has also been updated with new details.

Now that that’s out of the way, expect an actual update on some new site content soon. I’ve got some cool stuff that I’ve been anxious to put up 🙂

I hadn’t noticed this before, but the comment and submission boxes on this website are currently not working. It has something to do with us moving to a new domain. I’m going to try and fix them all as soon as I get the time. In the mean while, if you have something important to send me, or need to get a hold me, please use the email hirac_delest@hotmail.com

Thanks to JRTCMA for pointing this out to me on the forum. I appreciate it.

Also, FYI, the rules for the Animorphs 2008 Music Video Contest have been altered to allow up to 4 video submissions from each person now. You still can’t submit more than one video to each category, but if you wish to submit 4 videos, each for a separate category, then that’s fine. The changes in the rules haven’t been reflected onto the actual page yet, but I’ll be updating with that as I fix the submission forms as soon as I can.

Does everyone here remember David B. Mattingly? He’s the artist who made all of those great morphing covers on the Animorph books. Anyway, he posted a video on Youtube showing off some of the morphs from the covers in animation! Some of them are newly animated and unseen before now! Check it out below!

Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoEABlcwDZ8

So I was looking through the website’s layout today and I realized that I had overlooked something incredibly simple: I hadn’t linked the forum directly through the Community tab up there. Instead, I had it lead to a separate page where you would have to click on another link for the forum again so that it would open up in another window or tab.

Why didn’t I change this to link directly to the forum when I changed the layout? I have no idea. But it’s fixed now. Click the Community tab and you’ll see it pop up right below as with every other page on the website. The reasoning behind this is that the header up there will always stay up there, and it will combine the entire site together. You can now easily jump to anywhere in Hirac Delest and back into the community forum without any sort of hassle of switching between windows.

I spent a few hours just trying to adjust the CSS coding for the Invision Free board to adjust it to the current site’s look, but eventually (after much frustration), I just gave up and returned back to its old style. Maybe once I figure out how to go about it, I’ll take another stab, but for now, the look will be staying. I created a new banner for the forum as well.

Also, for those that haven’t been visiting the website forum lately (or AT ALL! tsk tsk), you’ll notice that I’ve uploaded something very special for all of you in the Downloads section. What is it? Register and find out. It’s for members only 😉