Sailor Pluto, Luna & Artemis

Updates | Monday June 29 2009 1:11 am | Comments (4)

Well, just as the title says, I’ve managed to find the time between my Gothic art test and Greek art test to upload some new caps.
Updated galleries:

New Galleries:

Also, I wanted to comment on an email I’ve received, asking me how come I claim Star-Dusting is a non-profit website while I put on a Google ad. The thing is that keeping a web server and web storage costs money, so I’ve decided to give Google ads a try in order to cover some of the expenses. Therefore, any income I get from Google is definitely not a profit. Thanks for reading and enjoy the updates! ^^

Stop Direct-Linking!

Uncategorised | Sunday June 21 2009 1:43 am | Comments (0)

Hi guys,

As I’m sure you’ve read my usage policy of using my screencaptures, you know I asked not to direct-link (display an image on your website that its source starts with http://stardusting.nekomaki.com or http://star-dusting.nekomaki.com…). Why? Because by doing this you’re:

  1. Stealing material from my website since you’re not asking permission to display it, nor credit me and link back.
  2. Stealing my bandwidth which costs me money!!

Every month I check the usage of my bandwidth and discover all kinds of interesting things… This girl for example has a Sailor Moon gallery which most of it are direct-linked screencaptures made by yours truly. The problem is she’s not alone, and there are many websites and blogs out there that direct-link my captures.

So I’ve decided to put an end to all of this and disabled direct-linking permanently. Sorry all of you that now have broken images on your websites, but stealing is not only annoying, but wrong.

New galleries and other stuff

Uncategorised | Saturday June 13 2009 12:22 pm | Comments (2)

Hi everyone!

First of all, Star-Dusting has a new affiliate: Moonkitty.NET! This is awesome because Brad is a wonderful person, and if there’s any chance (and I really doubt it) you haven’t visited this website, be sure to do so if you’re calling yourself a Sailor Moon fan ^^.

Just when I made it easier to update, the semester ended and the tests started, so I have no time to do anything but studying or writing papers… T_T . Therefore, sorry, but there won’t be many updates in the next three months…

But, here are some new galleries:

Naturally, all the other galleries were updated as well. I also fixed the disoriented galleries, but please let me know if there’s anyone I missed.

Back in Action!

Updates | Thursday May 28 2009 11:55 am | Comments (4)

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the lack of updates in the last three months, but as you can see it was for a good cause ^^;;.

So what’s new? Hmm… just about… everything really. First, Star-Dusting is now a php based website, which allows to do all kinds of things that couldn’t be done in a static website, like searching or leaving comments. It also makes things way more easier for me when making new web pages and galleries. No longer do I need to set my galleries manually – everything’s automatic now with the press of a button! This means I need to put less time and effort to add galleries and they would be up much faster then they used to ^^.

Second, it was a great chance for me to do some clean-ups, fix some errors and add new material that I didn’t think about when I was making the previous layout. Therefore, besides the screencaps you can now find icons, wallpapers and game sprites for your usage.

Plus, I’ve fnally was able to find the time to write some Sailor Moon related articles! This was something that I’ve wanted to do for quit some time now, but didn’t really know where exactly to put it in the previous layout. This was actually another reason why I’ve decided to change the layout – if I’m going to make some changes in the layout, why not make a brand new one? There are very few articles at the moment (since almost my entire effort went on renewing the galleries…), but I’m loaded with ideas and will write them in few more days.

Some of the galleries are still missing (heck, it took me three months to transfer most of them, so I figured that if I don’t launch the new layout as is, I never will…) but they will be back online very soon along with some new ones. Same goes for all the ‘coming soon’ pages that will be up shortly, I promise ^^.

So enjoy the new and improved Star-Dusting and let me know what you think!