WriMo Ireland

This post replaces one I wrote the other day which was almost immediately made obsolete by me picking an entirely different chat setup after all.

I’ve done some general tidying up around the site in preparation for November – specifically, we have a new chat room. Unlike the old one, this one doesn’t run on IRC; it also requires registration which is done through the provider Parachat – unfortunately, I wasn’t able to link it into our own users database so you’d only need to log in once (there is a way to do it, I just don’t have the coding skills – anyone want to help?).

The purpose of our chat room is to provide some instant interaction during NaNoWriMo (and outside), particularly for those people who don’t go to face-to-face meetings for whatever reason. One thing I’ve found we do a lot of in the chat room is have word-wars – one person sets the popup word sprint timer (to 10 minutes, for example), announces the start of the sprint, and everyone writes like mad until those 10 minutes are up. I personally find that a few of those will help me reach my daily target of 1,667 words without too much pain!
(I’ve added a link to the timer to the left-hand sidebar.)

I’ll be in the chat room most evenings when I’m not otherwise occupied – hope to see you there!

Well, the favourite logo was the one with the swans:

However, to be fair, I didn’t answer Cavantucky’s comment asking for more information about what our logo should be.  So. Erm. I hate taking design decisions (which is why I’m a writer not an artist, dammit).

But here goes anyway… (more…)

Here are the logos that have been submitted so far!  If anyone else has any, please upload and let me know; ones without text or with separate text that can be overlaid or put elsewhere as necessary would be good (if any of that made sense). (more…)

If you have any comments on the design of the webpage, please share.

Because we use WordPress, we can add plugins to the site to enhance it. Check out the WordPress plugin directory for a list, and let me know if there are any you’d like to see us using.

We need a logo! You can upload files like this:
1) start a new post
2) use the Upload facility to upload a file to the site
3) cancel out of the post by not publishing or saving, just going back to the dashboard

Email me (via the Get in Touch page) or comment here to let me know there’s a new file (and its name), and once we have a selection, I’ll post them up together for comments.

Note that the colouring of this website will probably change according to the logo colours.