It has been a long time coming, but Kalorian finally has a brand new website up and running (queue the applause and shouts of joy). He and his friends have joked for years that he should have a website dedicated to his template making madness… uh… hobby! And now, thanks—in no small part—to Musie slaving away until all hours of the night, that idea has finally exploded onto the world wide web (queue the fireworks).

In the coming months you will start to see this website flush out with lots of goodies! Kalorian will be slaving away, cranking out those templates and Musie will be cracking her staff over the back of his helm every time he slacks off! Yes, yes… there will also be much tomfoolery and nonsense to partake in too, so be sure to stop by often.

We hope most of the visitors to KaloTemps.com don’t really need an explanation about what this site is all about. But I’m sure there will be a few random strangers that float in from time to time, so, for them we’ve put up a detailed “About” page. For the rest of you, well, you just get to sit back, relax, and admire this fine site with an appropriate amount of envy.

Thanks for stopping by folks, we hope you enjoy your visit.

Cheers!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. But I wanted to give you all an update.

The development of this site stalled to a screeching halt about a month or so ago, when Kalorian got very sick and real life started to kick my own buttocks. So, we had to take a break. The good news is that Kalorian is feeling better! And my hectic RL schedule is starting to get back to a normal level. Therefore, we should be back up and running very soon. So keep checking!

Also, if you have have sent in a request for a template recently and did not get an answer from us… we are sorry. We have a stack of about 30 requests to go through and I should be able to get the status page updated soon (after we go through them all and decide which of them we are able/willing to complete).

Happy Hunting!
Muse

Greetings everyone!

So, it has been almost two months since we launched KALOTEMPS.COM, and we are very happy to report that the site is doing great! We get new registered users everyday and we have had many compliments. The KALOTEMPS.COM team has been hard at work trying to improve the site and adding more content as fast as we can, we hope you have enjoyed growing with us! Over the last few weeks we have learned a great deal and this experience has helped us to change and improve the site! We’ve added things like: new templates, a five-start rating system for our templates, a shout box, forums, a FAQ page, a TOP TEMPLATES page, private messaging for users, the CRAFT-4-ME service and the REQUEST-A-TEMP service.

Some of the things we learned over the last few weeks were fun and exciting; while other things were not so fun. For example, we found out that our REQUEST-A-TEMP service was far more popular than we ever could have anticipated. Unfortunately, we also found out that people are generally far more unresponsive and un-generous than we thought. Sadly, we were so hammered with request, eventually we ended up having to flat out decline the vast majority of them. Plus keeping up with the administrative work involved with processing each request was crazy, not to mention the amount of wasted time/effort we spent spinning our wheels with users who requested templates and then vanished into thin air. Yes, we actually had users that would request templates, but then they would not respond to any of our attempts to contact them with the first drafts we worked so hard on.

So, while we are very happy people liked the REQUEST-A-TEMP feature, we were not so happy to be working around the clock for very little in the way of donations. Our frustration levels were mounting, and so too were the frustrations of our many new users who where getting flat out declined.

Happily, we have devised a new system to help us prioritize our custom template requests as well as help us weed out the ‘less-than-serious’ individuals who may just end up wasting everyone’s time. In addition to this, we have stream-lined the request processing and the way we manage those request. Some of you may have already noticed that we have updated our REQUEST-A-TEMP submission form and FAQ page (and therefore you already have a clue as to what is coming next). For those of you that haven’t noticed read on…

Hello Campers!

I just wanted to drop a line and let you know that I am back from my vacation and ready to get back to work on this website.

We have received many custom template requests while I was away and Kalorian has been busy (so he tells me) making those templates. I’ll be posting these new templates to the site in the next couple of days. For those of you in the waiting queue for your custom templates, it may be a while as we have had an enormous response to the new REQUEST-A-TEMP feature. Remember, those requests with the best donation offering will likely get the highest priority so if you are in hurry to get your template cranked out quickly don’t hesitate to re-submit your request with a better donation offering. As always, you can keep tabs on the status of your request, here.

Also, we have a new template rating system on the website. As you will notice when you click on any template there is a five-star rating system (located right under the title and again at the bottom of the template) and all you have to do is click on the stars to rate the template. Please help us (and our users) by rating these templates as you peruse the website.

Lastly, we have added a new ShoutBox to the site (it is located at the bottom of the left column of the site). Only registered users can use it, though, so sign up today to keep up-to-date with all the new templates we add to KALOTEMPS.COM!

Happy Hunting!
Muse

High folks, this is your site Admin (Muse). I just wanted to post a little note to let you all know I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow (Saturday 08/29/09) and will not be back for one week. So the site might be quiet for a week and any incoming requests will likely be delayed.

Rest assured, I’ll be back soon enough, and Kalo promised to have lots of goodies (templates) for me to post up when I get back.

Toodles!
Muse