Hello and Welcome to..Melon's Blog :D Which is formally known as Melon's Personal Site or MPS for short. Now it has a new name :3 I decided to make a blog, plus make a home for most of my stories that where on Melon's Stories, the mini site that used to connect with MPS. Not only is this site a place to make my stories still read-able but I decided to make a blog in the first place is so that I can add any announcements that I'd like to make or need to make (when a problem happens) since Legendary Birds had an issue recently, one that makes it hard to announce to the visitors (especially when there's more than a little to explain). Instead of announcing upcoming site updates in a blog, the Updated Site Status will say 'Update Coming Soon' instead by which site will have one. This started to take effect on 6/1/21 as an edit in the 'LB, MI & SHH are Down.. (Fixed)' blog entry. Because of this, like MPS, MB will also be connecting to my active sites.Note that some of the updates on MB's account include work that may not involve the site. Which involves work with my other sites and other things. Though with every edit that I make, Neocities counts it as updating the site but that only has to do with the account being involved.
Updated Site Status
What is this? This little list tells the viewers on which site/s have been updated recently and if they aren't, tells when the site was last updated. And when an update is coming soon.
Spat and Harmony Heartbreak: Updated on April 2023 |
Blog EntriesEdit 8/15/24: Some entries (the first five) have been moved to another page. Click the page for more details.Quick Links: EDIT: Another Update for MB< l Melon's Island is on Hold & MB Update l What Happened to Ham-Ham Heartbreak? l MB Gets an Update! l Announcements l Guide to Byehost (Updated) The Penny Layout!day - Aug 1?, 2024
I didn't mean to make the hiatus that long o-o but at least I got to open the site back up before it became a year since it's hiatus ^^; But.. yay a new layout that isn't eye hurting! :D At least I don't see why this one would be since I think at least the content part on the previous layout was. I decided to go with the same theme that the hiatus page was using. I happily got my desktop back with all of my stuff intact; documents, pictures, etc.! I really thought I was going to lose at least some of it.. and it actually got an upgrade from Windows 7 to 10. It took months to get used to 10 since I've been with 7 for many years. First on my 2nd laptop and then on the desktop until that blue screen error happened and it took time for it to get fixed. Even though I had a hopefully non eye hurting version of the previous layout, I decided to use this one. Why? Well, using the red and orange theme for the first three layouts was like a Melon (my story character that is from Melon's Adventures and Melon's Island is it's site) thing as I did that on a "Melon's Personal Site" layout back in the day but I wanted to go with the blue and white theme since it's based on Penny and Melon already stars on MI so I thought Penny can be the star of Melon's Blog or just having a big focus on her. Her story; Penny: The Winged Hamster is on MB after all so it makes sense. Note that the following pages have already been updated for months as I worked on this update here and there but it didn't get announced until today.
EDIT: Another Update for MBTuesday - Nov 8, 2022
Monday - April 24, 2023: I decided to try editing this entry in order to add an update for today. Though a few updates that weren't announced where added back in February, I think o.o since I thought I was gonna add more later on but I forgot about it ^^; so even though it's April now and I made more updates (including a big amount that was hidden for months) today it's time to announce the ones that were added to Melon's Blog and the ones that didn't get added to MB.
-------------------------------------------------------- Which is the last one for this year. I actually added most of the updates 4 days ago (the 5th) and the rest where added today. Didn't want to make an annoucement on the 5th since I wasn't done with this update until today.
*Even though I called it Symbol Guide, it actually used to be called Symbol Menu but guide sounds better. This entry is very small so I might add more updates here as an edit when MB gets updated again. Melon's Island is on Hold & MB UpdateMonday - June 6, 2022
Melon's Island is on Hold, MI is sadly on hold at the moment with updates since I'm planning to add a new layout on the next update and in order to add it I need to draw a banner and a splash image for it but when Adobe Flash Player went down last year (2021), my ability to use my scanner to scan drawings and then color them in Photoshop went down with it. You see my scanner is old and needs Flash Player and then I found out from someone that I know that tried helping me with this problem is the fact that my old laptop is holding me back from using Flash Player in a sneaky way. At first I thought that I needed to buy a new scanner but then there's the fact that what if the scanners that around today are too improved for an old computer.. According to him the only way to solve this is to buy a desktop. I have everything that I need to have one except for a screen. This is actually going to be a desktop that is built buy that someone, he can make computers by using tvs as screens, it's amazing *o* I'm having trouble getting a tv size that I'm good with and it's going to be at least a while until I find the right one. Until that problem is solved For more news on MI, I actually got back into working on Ch 14 after much time of having writer's block since I realized that I ended up having many characters in one chapter and typed about their movements and added their lines in, instead of having that for some of the characters but I'm happily making progress with it and as I type this in (5/31) I may even be done with it since it's getting too big and might have it as big as Ch 10 or less. At this time, I'm not sure. Other than writer's block I've also been having a big or almost big life issues that are personal and rather not discuss online. Along with Ch 14, a new page is going to appear that is about those unknown characters with glowing green eyes in the current chapter (Ch 13) and there's more updates that I can add as well and I'd like to improve the tables that make up the list of characters and maybe even the page of each char since the coding is old compared to what I used on LB's picture galleries that at least might be good enough, if I don't get that worked on for the next update then it'll be at some point. I didn't want this entry to be short so I ended up typing in more XD Well for those who have been read this far will know more upcoming stuff for the site and the story that's focused on a colorful heroic birdy :D
MB UpdateNow for the update since this isn't as big as the last one. I added five pages to the navigation; My Sites, MB's History, Random Stuff, Extras and Neko. Though before I found a way to update the navi by just updating one page I was going to combine My Sites and MB's History, this came before the other three pages where created but thanks to that easy way I was able to separate them into two pages. Check out these pages for more info. As a hidden bonus for Icy's Nightmare, I added a small prologue that explains a character that never got to appear in the fan-fic; Zack. I added more of Wolf Hamster's creation on Wolf Hamster that's in the original area but has to do with both the original and the remake. That's all of the updates for now.What Happened to Ham-Ham Heartbreak?Friday - Feb 4, 2022
Since I recently added this site to SHH's Site Status in the one navigation with a note for any news to a problem or problems incase I ever have more than one but it has only been one at a time so far but if I don't know what I already know about Byehost with the issues I already went through with my sites then an unknown problem occurs. This addition was added so the visitors aren't left in the dark about any problems with SHH in the future (can't say that it'll be problem free) and I'm also gonna do this same navigation update with my other sites as well. Secretly Ham-Ham Heartbreak went offline because it had to be removed because of a certain word or words being on the page which are bad for Bye so the whole page just has to leave, having a big issue with those words or that word which isn't easy to explain on SHH since if I type in cuties for example since I know that's one of those certain words the account gets suspended and the site goes offline until the problem is fixed. So, Ham-Ham Heartbreak has been down since June of last year.. Why has it been down for that long? Because of how I don't know what the bad word is but I'm guessing it's chat because of a chatbox image header having an error and when I renamed it to cbox the error was solved. Then I decided to make a test account on Bye to see what the word/s is/are along with testing out another site of mine but because of the lack of visitors in the last 30 days or so it went down so I brought it up again but it might've went down again since the same thing occured which I couldn't help it since it's just a way to test stuff so that plan went down the drain, I tried to get it suspended but it never worked.. It's easy to get suspended by accident but on purpose it's hard. Now I'm stuck to having to actually see what the problem is on SHH itself wether it goes offline or not.. While working on the upcoming update, I'll be slowly bringing the page back by adding it part by part so expect some downtime and know that if it does go offline it's not my fault. And for secruity reasons Bye is not going to tell me what word/s caused the page to go down in the first place.. so I'm on my own with this which is why I have to test stuff. Edit 2/5/22: Since Bye has no problem with the website section in Ham-Ham Heartbreak, and I already know that there's no problem with the first section, Storyline, & Places so it has to be one of the Ham-Chats in the big list but since it'll take a long time to pin down which word is 'bad' and to not get SHH suspended accidentally I added the list to this host on a page which is shown in an i-frame on SHH, I think it'll go well since the list is somewhere outside of Byehost. Edit 2/9/22: It did go well :D MB Gets an Update!Tuesday - Nov 16, 2021
Other than getting a new layout or having to move hosts. Apparently it wasn't a big deal that I had to move MB from Webs to Neocities.. since Webs never upgraded to Vista Print and was going to stop being a free host. It's still up as the same old Webs lol. Though I had an uneasy time with updating on there. Even though Neocities doesn't have SSI either, I do have an easy time with updating. SSI would make updating MB better when making changes to the navigation and when I get a banner on here instead of having that big Melon's Blog title. Now MB gets a better update, though that new layout had to come, it was really needed. Here is a list of what I updated..
Layout: I improved the layout by making the content width bigger and making the content font bigger. Added a code that can take you to the top of the page by clicking 'Top' that is on the right side. This has been added to all pages for quick access to the top.
Wow, I needed to list more updates than I thought o.o Every page got updated! :O As I said in the little paragraph about how I came back to working on Wolf Hamster as a remake, I said that "I'll add more to this section as I get close to adding it" but it's best to start adding it instead. I wasn't sure about adding it at first since I have no profile images for it. I would rather add the images and the chapters but since it's a remake of an old story, it's not that bad. Only a few things would be missing; an image of Miles, an image of Skyler that's colored, including The Hunter who also isn't colored but I made a few changes to him. Those changes are added on the description part of his profile. Since I decided to start with the first three chapters, I'm planning on adding three more at some point but that may change. Chapter 4 and 5 are done but 6 isn't.My Collections: New page for MB that's a page that was on MPS. I also had to add a scroll bar to the navi when adding this page. Wolf Hamster: Added more info for Wolf Hamster: The Remake. Added it's own Character and Chapter sections. In the Remake's chapter section is a page link that has the first 3 chapters. Added a quick link to the original since the remake stuff is added. Added a small list of info that has the added dates, genres, and the rating, which is added to both versions. Added a header to 'Remake' that shows when the remake content is added. WHR Chapters: Another new page is added, this time one that wasn't on MPS. This page has Chapter 1 - 3 of Wolf Hamster: The Remake. More info on these chapters is on Wolf Hamster. WH Chapters: Added a new header for the chapter titles. Removed the - symbol from the sides of each chapter (Ch 1 - 9) since it doesn't look good with the new header. WH Chapters: Page 2; Added a new header for the chapter titles. Removed the - symbol from the sides of Ch 10 since it doesn't look good with the new header. Penny: Winged Hamster: Added a small list of info that has the added date, genres, and the rating. P Chapters: New header added for chapter titles. Removed the * symbol from the sides of each chapter (Ch 1 - 10) since it doesn't look good with the new header. P Chapters: Page 2; New header added for chapter titles. Removed the * symbol from the sides of each chapter (Ch 11 - 16) since it doesn't look good with the new header. Icy's Nightmare: Added a small list of info that has the added date, genres, and the rating. Added a header to 'Trailer' that shows when the trailer is added. IN Chapters: New header for chapter titles. Removed the ~ symbol from all chapter titles. Navigation: Since MB has been online since 2020 I added 'Online from 2020 - 2021'. Added second chapter page for Wolf Hamster and Penny: The Winged Hamster to the navi for quick navigation.
Since I updated the layout and ended up adding a scroll bar by making the navi a div instead of a table, the layout has some new info on how to works on browsers. There are now more than a few changes in Firefox; The navigation is bigger in height. The content is pushed down futher than the navi. There's some space that's above the layout, to be more specific, above the site's title. This time there isn't a colored scroll bar (it's the same thing with the navi's scroll bar). At least it's like this from my end. The content's text looks better too, it's kind of blocky looking on Google Chrome. For Internet Explorer, the only bad thing about it is that all of the text in the content area is messed up, the headers aren't as bad but it's a little bad. Which is a minor problem. So it almost works good. Other than what I said earlier about Chrome, it still works best. On mobile the layout still isn't recommended as the navi still overlaps the conent, with the navi having a scroll bar now it does scroll by using a finger but below the top part of the border there's a thin line of transparency, even though it's suppose to be orange.. might be caused by the scroll bar since it wasn't there before. It's hard to make many layouts look good on mobile and I don't know how to use 'mobile css' (I don't know what it's real title is so I'm making something up) like other people. AnnouncementsMonday - Nov 8, 2021
In the entry Accounts Suspended Again D: (Fixed) I said that I made a test account.. and apprently it's not working out well. Trying to get an account suspended on purpose is hard D: What could be stuff that might look as a bad thing with Byehost looks like there's no problem at all with the four different things that I added.. Then there's the fact that I found out through an e-mail that if I have less than five visitors in 30 days then the account gets removed within two days unless I click a link that re-activates it. I got this e-mail twice already.. I changed LB's e-mail to the same one that the test account has so MI and SHH won't get suspended as well because of LB. I don't have a third e-mail so MI and SHH will have to share and end up going down if either one has a problem that Bye just cannot get over. With what could be good news, on LB I was nervous about editing Moltres Merch since I wanted to make a few edits and editing it, I thought it would suspended LB's account but it luckly didn't :O Apparently what I did when editing it last time by typing in SittingCuties allows the plush to sneak onto the page without being banned by a small word. Now I know why they didn't have a problem with Moltres Merch last time. I'll have to add the Zapdos one like that at some point and see if I can sneak it in without being detected. Articuno also has a plush like that too x.x At least if Zappy's plush can get through, I don't see why Arti's can't too (when I add it). When cuties can be used in a innoncent way and in a naughty way.. when I say naughty I mean cuties is banned because Bye most likely looks at as a word that is used in porn.. At least that's my guess and I'm guessing adding that word makes my sites look like that. They most likely do not want to host any porn sites. But it's like they think that cuties is always used in a naughty way -.- or are being very cautious of it, too cautious if you ask me.. For SHH with how Ham-Ham Heartbreak is down, I'm guessing that the ban word is chat because of using Ham-Chat/s many times or Passchat, a Ham-Chat. Why? Cause I would have trouble when adding old image headers that say Chat-Box, I used these image headers for two of the Past Layouts and I was redoing the ones on one of those layouts and when trying to view the image it brings me to a 404 Access denied page and while viewing it on the layout that has the image added, it appears as a broken image, though renaming it or hosting it somewhere else fixes the problem. For other news I've been working on an update for MB. Wolf Hamster: The Remake is finally going to be added, well the start of it (three chapters). But there's bad news to it and that's a lack of profile images. The first three chapters doesn't involve any characters that weren't in the original, well besides Miles (who is like the 'new Mike') and The Hunter has changed since I'm not pleased with everything that I added when I drew him. I have some characters that are drawn already but I don't have a working scanner to be able to color them in Adobe Photoshop. When Adobe Flash Player went down last year in December, so did my HP Printer, Scanner, Copier.. It seems that only flash player going on made it work the entire time (which has been years), ever since I bought it and I never realized it until after the flash player shut down when I tried to scan something D: Can't scan, can't print, and can't copy (not like I ever copied anything). Until that problem is done, I can color them in. Of course I could try taking photos of the drawings with my phone.. but it'll probably show up better if it could be scanned and they won't be in color. I'm going to be adding other stuff to this upcoming update as well but that's all I'm gonna say until it comes. Guide to Byehost (Updated)Friday - Oct 1, 2021
Byehost.. is it good or bad?
Edit 5/1/22: I made these updates to this entry; Crossed out It's actually neutral and added Now it is sadly bad D:. A little edit as been added afterwords. Added three more cons, since there's more cons than pros it's considered as being bad. Since there's more cons now I added numbers that connect to either a solution for each one or/and a note, depending on which one. Added numbers to the Solutions and Notes sections as well. I sadly ran into another big problem with Bye since I stopped being able to upload images, which started while I was working on an update for SHH, then LB, and then I tested out MI's account and when one uploads even one image no matter how small it is, the image loading pop up keeping acting like it's going to load but.. it stays like that for minutes, maybe even hours if I left it like that and that isn't normal. Because of this I made a note/rant about my experience with it. The Pros of Byehost
The Cons of Byehost
Solutions +2 The page or pages would have to have replacements by going to the page/s and viewing it's source in order to get everything that's needed for the page/s. Copy and paste this and then delete the page/s and add new page/s with the same name/s as the previous one/s. Note that I did not do this but the page/s can still be viewed outside of the page editor so I'm sure it's info can still be viewed. If not, one would have to copy and paste the page/s as they look outside of the editor and needing to add spaces, bold words, etc. +3 Two words; Back Ups. Ever since that episode with LB's big problem, I've been making and updating it's pages. Every page that's on Byehost. It's too late to revive the originals but the next time that problem hits (if there actually will be a next time) then I'll be ready for it, cause I have back ups that are updated every time a page is updated. +4 For link back buttons that I link from one Bye account to another, I upload the button that I want to link back to the account where I want to use it. Another solution can be hosting it on an image host or another method that I use is hosting it on MB's account account, which is what I sometimes use. +5 Since login info can be saved in order to get into the account without having to type in the username and password. Though this saved info is erased when the cookies are removed. +6 One can use FTP but it's not easy to use (and there's a trail and money has to be spent when the trail is over), I recommend uploading your images somewhere else like an image host if one wants to. For me I started uploading them to Neocities on this account. I read on how they don't want people to make an account in order to upload images but at least I have a site on here.
Notes *+1 When a word that is used on a page is known to be a banned one from their point of view, the site goes offline because of it's account being suspended by that one word.. If one has more than one site that is hosted by them and is connected to the same e-mail, then that site goes down with it.. This is caused by their abuse filter detectors/anti fraud system. From what they told me, one cannot know which words they consider as being banned because of security reasons.. And you want to know what's worse? One banned word can delete the page.. For one of my sites; SHH with Ham-Ham Heartbreak, I wanted them to simply remove the banned word/s, which would let me gain access to that account but the whole page ended up falling down (aka deleted). Their abuse filter detectors/anti fraud system is really sensitive, even harmless words end up doing harm to them. I'm guessing that this is caused by people who might've made porn sites in the past or are still trying to make them. From a recent discovery I believe that chat is also a banned word because of what happened to Ham-Ham Heartbreak with the Ham-Chats word being used and being used more than a few times.. There's also cuties with calling the two winged hamsters that, it was my first time with a banned word. Then the issue with the Sitting Cuties plushies on LB.. then accidentally using cutiest and then getting suspended shortly afterwords. *+2 When editing a page, the editing version of the page can end up being blank. This happened twice for me on SHH with Ask Spat or Harmony and Credits. This might have happened due to words like don't with the ' symbol being replaced by a ? error like symbol or in Internet Explorer can be replaced with a rectangle one. Apparently Byehost did this at some point after adding that page. For Credits I might've added that same symbol; ' after a name. Trying to add one of those symbols that Spanish names have. *+3 I had this problem with 8 pages on LB.. and ended up having to recreate them all.. Back then I didn't think that I needed to make back ups of all of my pages. If I did this would've been very handy and I wouldn't have had to recreate them. I recreated them by using LB's old address since Webs is still going and went from there. Some things where also added by the memories of what they looked like before this problem happened with what LB on Webs didn't have. I made a blog entry of this as the first one on MB and there was a lot to explain but I'll try to shorten it here by typing in the basics of it. If one wants more detail on this then go to the entry, it's the last one in Quick Links. While working on a future layout for LB, I needed an image that is a part of Version 11 when it was the current layout and went to Home in order to get it, I viewed it's source to get the image address since I was coding a layout using Notepad in htm format. When I closed out of Home's source it ended up being replace by this crap instead. Yeah, it's sadly still around, I don't have the heart to delete this one or the other seven pages that are similar to this in case one day they actually can be resolved. Here is one that has an iframe and other crap. Since there's eight of them I'm gonna stop adding links as examples as to what I'm trying to say. This problem hit me hard mentally and I freaked out about it too. I'm guessing all of them have some kind of php error since one of the staff members on Byehost, which was my reply when I called out for help by sending a link to one of the pages so I got this Parse error that used to have the "This page cannot be displayed" error. I never used php before I found Byehost, my sites used to be in html format so I have no clue on what to do from there. When I moved my sites to Bye they started to be in php and I don't think I can change the format to something that doesn't screw with a page or pages but I'm not sure if my theory of it being a php error is right. Though through the chaos Legendary Birds Merch survived :O, though it could have been like that since I recently created that page back then and then worked on it so apparently this problem only happened with already existing pages that where recently updated. How strange.. This chaos started all because I was working on an update.. which ended up being postponed. When I tried to edit those pages when trying to fix the problem myself with a little bit of info by searching the problem, what was on there from when the page is viewed also happens to be there when in edit mode.. I tried asking for help again from the staff and I got bad news; I was told that my site was hacked and that I had to make back ups of everything (images and pages) and delete the.. pages.. that.. have been.. affected.. I researched what looks like hacking and apparently those pages don't look like that and I used this site called Sucuri that can scan pages and show if they have a problem or not but.. none of them do o.o Though the used to be "cannot be displayed" pages had a 500 Internal Server error on them. So, this looks like a complete Byehost problem with no hacking involved (even though I can see why they think so..) or at least no malware involved that connects to hacking. *+6 As of Jan or Feb of 2022 (when working on an update for SHH that was added on Feb 5th), I can't upload any images and it looks like it's loading it but it doesn't go anywhere. I waited a few minutes and usually it doesn't take that long so I lost that ability and I tried it out on SHH and LB so far but this most likely will end up having the 'same song and dance' for MI. I told Bye about it and they told me to try using the a FTP Client, I never heard of such a thing but found out that it's a software that somehow allows one to upload images to a Bye account. I downloaded it and I found out that it's only free by a 29 day trail, after the trail ends one must pay either 44.99 or 89.95 USD. There are other packages too and the prices just go higher than 89. I look at it like it's a money scam and Byehost recommends it for their users to use it D< For three years or more (for me) their ability to upload images WAS FINE and now this bull**** happens?!! WT*?! Wow, I'm actually swearing but I censored it for the young visitors. I can see why I would considering all the crap I had to go through and now this happens.. Later on I found out that this is a Bye thing.. T_T I tried doing everything that I could despite being new to the crappy FTP but no dice.. I found out what I need to do in order to get to Bye but I keep getting connection errors, most likely since I don't have the right info but how can I when nothing on my account that has to do with FTP failed. And when I asked Bye on how to use it, they talk about how the original way to upload images but how can I when it's not working?! I guess not all of their staff knows about the downfall of the original way, well they should get a heads up about it since they work with them. |