The change over to the new server seems to be going well, worked out the glitches with the original transfer of the files and the database, still seems to be about a 50/50 crap shoot as to which version of the pages come up whenever I open a browser, but hopefully everything will be pointing to these new pages soon.

I changed part of the header text so that the basic information is in a three column format rather than being in three rows.  I think that makes it stand out a little better from the regular posts. The only problem I can foresee with it would be on low resolution monitors, but it seemed to be fairly readable to me with the testing I did.

I also changed the menus in the sidebar to sort by a page order that I can assign rather than having them come up alphabetically. This was particularly helpful in being able to have the ICE Products side menu come up in the order I like. I’ll probably keep juggling some of the other menu items around until I have everything where I want it.

I’ve started moving the RMSS vs RMFRP article pages into proper Wordpress pages. Unfortunately the source code for my original pages had a lot of hard line breaks which html and regular php pages ignored quite nicely but Wordpress is abit fussier so I’m having to make sure I have those straightened out before I copy them in. I also need to update all the links for the images and to other pages, so if you notice a missing picture or there is a link that doesn’t work, please let me know.
Three pages down, eighteen to go!

Finally added Banners to the site, using the AdRotator plugin, so, if you have a site related to ICE games and have a banner available, let me know and I’ll get it in the rotation.

Did some tweaking of the pages to hopefully improve the way some of them display, particularly the individual product pages.
Have also been doing some work on the Database version of the Product List, should be putting up a test version soon, still need to validate the data that I’m going to be using and add in some missing information. Also got some additional information on Japanese translations that I will need to add as well.

Renamed and moved a bunch of the thumbnail images for the ICE Product Lists in preparation for creation of the Database. Hopefully it didn’t break anything.

Updated to the newest version of WordPress. Overall it went okay, had a couple issues with one of the plugins that I updated, but turned out I had included an extra directory when I uploaded it, which seemed to confuse things. Once I fixed that, things seemed to be okay. If you notice anything that doesn’t seem to be working right, particularly links that seem broken, please let me know.

Updated to the newest version of WordPress. Overall it went okay except I also updated the plugins and the one that allows me to do “includes” to other php pages seems to be malfunctioning. Need to do some testing to see if it can be repaired, in the mean time, several pages will not be available

Finished converting all the first level internal links to Wordpress pages, which gets rid of the “Unconverted” section of the sidebar menu. Also fixed up the Footnotes, updated the copyright date and fixed up the copyright and registered trademark symbols.

I’ve converted over a couple more pages to Wordpress, the News page (for 2005 and earlier), the MERP Webring page and I also got rid of a couple of redundant links from the unconverted links section, the ICE Products link and the Joining the ICE Webring link.

Fixed up the links to the cover images on several pages, a few Shadow World pages and about half of the Spacemaster 1st and 2nd edition pages. These got broken when the pages were converted to php extensions, and they are pages where the cover images are not in the standard directories. These are usually smaller than usual cover images.
Since I now own most of these items, the todo list entry is to scan in larger images and update these pages so the images are in the correct directories.
Also need to add in the Spacemaster DataNet Pdf’s to the Spacemaster product list.

Thanks to a nice trade with Turambar from over at the ICE Forums, I’ve been able to update the MERP Product pages to show my new acquisitions. It really is amazing how many products ICE pumped out for MERP between 1984 and 1997. Doing the updates also made me realize that I haven’t included the Publication year column on the MERP 2nd Edition page. Another item for my ToDo List.

So, for no particular reason, here is the list of MERP items I’m still looking for, although I’m not looking too hard at the moment and am not willing to drop alot of cash on them.

8000 Middle Earth Role Playing (UK)
8001 Middle Earth Role Playing Combat Screen
8011 Mouths of the Entwash
8012 Warlords of the Desert
8013 Dark Mage of Rhudaur
8015 Forest of Tears
8080 Rivendell The House of Elrond
8090 Brigands of Mirkwood
8100 Middle Earth Roleplaying 1986 Edition Box (UK)
8101 Haunted Ruins of the Dunlendings
8103 Trolls of the Misty Mountains
8105 Gates of Mordor
8107 Woses of the Black Wood
8109 Ghosts of the Southern Anduin
8112 Hazards of the Harad Wood
8202 Teeth of Mordor
8205 Nazgul’s Citadel
3110 Mount Gundabad
3111 Greater Harad
3112 Gorgoroth
3113 The Grey Mountains
3300 Havens of Gondor, Land of Belfalas
3400 Sea-Lords of Gondor, Pelargir & Lebenin
3600 Dunland & the Southern Misty Mountains
3800 Far Harad, the Scorched Land
3900 Shadow in the South
4001 Northwestern Middle Earth Map Set
4010 Mirkwood The Wilds of Rhovanion
4011 Empire of the Witch-King
Rescue in Mirkwood
2002 Middle Earth Accessory Pack ( box )
2003 Middle Earth Campaign Guide
2005 Arnor
2007 Minas Tirith Softcover
2008 MERP Poster Maps
2013 Elves
2014 Dol Guldur
2017 The Shire
2018 Angmar
2019 Mirkwood
2020 Southern Gondor : The People
2021 Southern Gondor : The Land
2022 Arnor : The People
2023 Arnor : The Land
2024 The Lord of the Rings Poster Map
2025 Northern Waste