Consolidating Sites & RSS Feed
Since the archive doesn't have the heavy traffic it used to have, and since we are on a system that seems to be able to handle the load, I am going to be consolidating the two sites we have - inkstain.inkquill.net and inkstain.inkquill.com, so that the .net site will be the only accessible site. What this means for you, the viewing audience:

1) if you go to the .com site, you will automatically redirect to the .net site

2) if you post a story (which is on the .net site) it will immediately be found by everyone - right now, those who use the .com site have a monthly delay until I do the maintenance, i.e., FTP into the .net site, manually copy the new files, and then upload them to the .com site.

3) the .com site will still be there, just inaccessible. I will continue to do the maintenance on the site and, should the main site fail, the backup site will be there to take over. However, since they are both on Dreamhost, that would be an unlikely event.

This change will take place over the next week or so, and you shouldn't notice any interruption or problem since it's all taking place behind the curtain.


Another note: I am trying to set up an RSS feed, along the lines of what Yuletide Treasures has, so that people can subscribe to get notice of new stories on the archive. If there is anyone who has experience doing this with the AutomatedArchive software, let me know - my previous attempts to do this have been failures.

my $url = 
"http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/cgi-bin/search.cgi?ShortResults=0&Title=&Title_Range=0&Author=&Author_Range=0&Summary=&Date=1&SortBy=3&SortOrder=1&NumToList=0&FastSearch=0";

my $archive_name = "Ink Stained Fingers";

my $archive_url = "http://inkstain.inkquill.net/hparchive/";

my $archive_desc = "The newest stories at $archive_name.  Updated whenever stories are added!";

my $archive_banner = "http://inkstain.inkquill.net/images/logo.gif";

my $height = 228;

my $width = 400;

my $rss_loc = "/home/myusername/public_html/inkstain.rss";