Category: Site

TAMARA OBSCURA || OBSCURE MEDIA DOWNTIME

I’ve been made aware by my media site host that OBSCURE MEDIA will be down for a bit, likely 48 hours due to some security issues. They’re in the process of moving to a new server and they’ve informed me that it will take that long to get everything done. Please keep checking back and I do apologize for the inconvenience.

Yours, Dianne

TAMARA OBSCURA || NEW LAYOUT

Well, here it is. Finally! TAMARA OBSCURA‘s new layout. A huge debt of gratitude to Christine @ PINKCHAOS.ORG for the lovely and stunning design. I’d struggled for months with various things that Christine brought together so effortlessly. If anyone needs a quality website designed for them, Christine’s your go-to gal. Thank you so very much Christine. No words can express how thrilled I am with the new design.

One thing though, with Christmas rapidly approaching and some personal issues I have going on right now in terms of family responsibilities, the transferring of the pages in the old website will take some time to transfer here. I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to set up the new press section, so until I have that done, I’m going to be using the dropdown section in the top sidebar box for that so you can still read the articles. I also have a whole whack of house cleaning to do behind the scenes in clearing out the old files that once encompassed this site. I hope to have that done throughout December. With so much new here at TAMARA OBSCURA, I’m going to have to take the time to breathe it all in. So for now, I hope you love the changes. I know I do.

As always, take care and be safe.

Yours, Dianne

TAMARA OBSCURA || THE MAIN MONKEY BUSINESS

The title refers to a Rush song off of their “Snakes & Arrows” album that infers something is up. Something is. I’m going to be doing some monkeying around behind the scenes in getting the gallery fixed, and by fixed I mean, it’s in a shoddy state. Since I put this site up, I’ve gotten more proficient at organizing the galleries of my Stephen Nichols, Ted King and Mitch Pileggi sites. This one I’m afraid I kind of put up on the fly just to get something up on Tamara. I’m really disappointed in the way it looks organizationally for the new layout to go up. Plus, I’m going to be updating the database to a newer more svelt version of Coppermine. So for a time the look will be plain old, plain old. The new layout will be up, fingers crossed, next week, or at the very latest the weekend. So please forgive any hinkiness you might find in the viewing.

Another thing, I’ve been able to get a hold of about a dozen images of Tamara’s last event, the “Faster” premiere in Los Angeles. Hopefully I’ll have those for you sometime tonight. Sorry for the sluggishness of the updates and uploads but there’s been so much to do to prepare the site for the new layouts. My apologies.

Yours, Dianne

TAMARA OBSCURA || SITE PROBLEMS

I’ve been made aware of some issues regarding the comments section on the posts. Apparently, you can’t comment. Seems something is amiss, but I’m working on it. I’m not sure what happened and hopefully this won’t be a permanent thing. I’ve also been working on getting a new content management system up. Cutenews is really unreliable and it is no longer supported. As I said, I’m currently working on getting a new layout as well as trying to get the site converted to WordPress. In the meantime until I get things in order, please feel free to use the shoutmix in the sidebar to leave a comment or a fast blast. Again, so sorry for the problems but I’m getting tired of Cutenews. Stay tuned.

TAMARA OBSCURA || SITE PROBLEMS

My apologies for the site problems you might have been having here. What was the cause? Quite simply, me….In the endeavour to stop that all dreaded hotlinking from other sites to this one, I wrote some code and put it someplace where the sun don’t shine and it really screwed up the site. I wasn’t aware that it was not only stopping people (you know who you are) from viewing the site, but from displaying any images whatsoever. That dastardly code is now history and she’s back to her old faithful self. Again, my apologies. Yours, DiannePS: Still no news on the Tamara front. I’m still keeping an eye out and when I get news, I’ll be the first to blab it here…..Promise.

TAMARA OBSCURA || SITE CHANGES

You’ve likely noticed there has been a change over at the GALLERY. I updated that database and adopted a modification to the look of the images and the way the thumbnails are displayed. I’m also in the process of trying to get the site updates in terms of press articles and other images to the gallery. Plus, I’m also still trying to come up with a new design for the overall look and feel of the site. That’s been very slow going. I also wanted to let you know, i just recently wrote to Debby O’Connor, Tamara’s fan club president, and she told me so far Tamara doesn’t have anything lined up. I know it’s been a daught of epic proportions with nothing new coming, but I feel that Tamara deserves this time off. Since she left GENARAL HOSPITAL, she’s been working non-stop. She deserves this time. When something comes I was told by Debby she’d let me know and I’ll post here. Yours, Dianne