I have to say that I’ve made a lot of progress with Anime Bite. I must say, it is looking very cool! While I won’t comment on the design, features, or expected release date, I will say that it looks and feels nothing like a web site. However, because of this it will be much more intuitive than a typical web site. This is called a “web application”.
This is a perfect opportunity to explain the terminology of “web development” versus “web design”. The web designer has been around since the dawn of the web. They make pages look nice and fresh, but fundamentally they function the same: you look around the page and click a link to go to the next one. On the other hand, the web developer focuses more on functionality and make the website feel more like an application. These people add advanced functionality both behind the scenes and up front. They haven’t been around for more than a few years and are only now starting to come to the front of the web scene.
Still confused? There are good specific examples out there. For example, Facebook is a web application whereas Engadget is a website (though it is displaying content created in a web application – in this case, a CMS). Also, it isn’t as simple as that. Google Maps is a web applet (a small application) in a website.
Long story short, the web developer does added functionality but the web designer only makes it look “pretty” (not saying there is anything wrong with that though). I am proud to say that I’ve been a web developer since day one of my web design work, and Anime Bite will clearly reflect that.
The web designer is dead, long live the web developer!
I know you may have heard this one before, but Anime Bite is finally on track again! The reason it has taken so long is due to many reasons ranging from me not having enough time (school and my lady friend) to realizing most all of the ideas I had wouldn’t work. After re-arranging my thoughts and ideas, I think I finally have it all figured out.
Keep watching the blog here for more updates as they come. I may post some sketches and concepts as development goes on.
So, yeah. You might be wondering why the blog was reset, and the answer is that I changed hosts again. I had to do this because I found out that the host I was last using had some very shady business practices. Fortunately, I managed to get my money back and moved back to my previous provider. The only reason I left in the first place is that I didn’t know that they offered shared hosting. Their VPS hosting was excellent, but it wasn’t in my budget any longer.
Now that the server is settled, I can get back to work on the Anime Bite project and a few other goodies. I have taken down AnimeRev’s website for the time being as I wasn’t checking it any more and it was getting spammed.
Being a perfectionist, I won’t release anything short of “professional” quality, but sadly that requires money. While I can work for free, my artist doesn’t. Her rates recently shot up and I can no longer afford to pay for the artwork by myself. Donating is the best way to support Sugoida Designs’ projects, but signing up for service with Cirtex using the links below or on the navbar to the right can help a lot!
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