It’s been a while since anything was posted here, so I thought I should post something to keep everyone updated!

Charity Auction

We conducted our second round of the Charity Auction and the results were, well, less than overwhelming. While two people did take advantage of the “Buy It Now” feature that we added this time around to outright purchase a a couple of the autographed photos, the general response and interest in event was lackluster at best.

The good news is, we raised a total of over $700 for AmeriCares. $700 for AmeriCares equals to over $30,000 in aid delivered on the ground in Northern Japan, so I’m thrilled about that. Major thanks should be given to those who participated in the auction and supported this wonderful cause. Overall, however, I am seriously disappointed in the lack of support from our community. Not just the lack of bids – I understand financial hardship – but also in the lack of helping to promote the auction, failure to help by Retweeting the item posting tweets, or anything else to help promote it to the public in general. How much would that have cost fora a show we all supposedly loe so much, from people who spend so much time talking about it online, who also spent so much time tweeting & Facebooking about the tragedy in Japan? (continue reading…)

Our charity auction, to benefit the Pacific Earthquake & Tsunami Relief Fund of AmeriCares, has now launched!

The first round of the auction has launched with 7 items total, including 3 sizes of the Southland jackets and 4 different autographed photos signed by Michael Cudlitz and Michael McGrady.

For information about the auction, why we are doing it, how it’s being conducted, etc., please take a gander at our full Charity Auction page here on the site. You can also jump directly to our eBay Auction page to view the listings and, hopefully, place a bid on one or more of the items. Remember – this is for charity, to benefit the relief efforts in the Sendai region of northern Japan, with 100% of the final sale price of all items going directly to AmeriCares!

Place your bids, everyone! The first round of the auction ends shortly after 11pm Pacific time on April 7th.

Here are the items currently available for bidding – good luck to everyone! (continue reading…)

Southland Fans, I have an important question for you that I really need your feedback on!

Among other things, in the 2+ years that I have been running this site I have accumulated multiple domain names in order to protect our interests and prevent “domain squatters” from ruining our online reputation as the #1 Southland Fan Community.

What does that mean in real life terms? Well, for example, not only do we own SouthlandTvFans.com, but we also own the .net, .org, .info, .me, .mobi, .tv, .biz, .us and even .co.uk versions of SouthlandTvFans. We also own multiple variations of SouthlandForums and RenewSouthland (which we used for the petition), sfc.me (used for our own custom Short Links) and we even own Southland.me!

So here is the question of the hour! (continue reading…)

As you have probably already noticed if you reading this, our website has received a bit of a long-overdue facelift!

The changes are small, but cumulative. The HUGE background graphic has been replaced with a much, much smaller 1 pixel high graphic that repeats, which should drastically increase the page load time now.

I have also seriously tweaked the styles used on the pages, to set the background colors around the Category menus using CSS styles, rather than relying on the background graphic to do so. This has two benefits – speed (as mentioned above) and much greater compatibility with multiple browser types, as not all browsers displayed things the same way (most notably Internet Explorer) which made things look really, really funky on the site when viewed with them. You might also notice some little things, like rounded corners on the post/sidebar boxes.

The rest of the changes are fairly subtle and primarily deal with speed and style enhancements – I won’t bore you with the details. Needless to say, an overhaul was long overdue (e.g., we still said that filming had started after the season was over! D’Oh!) and I hope to keep things much more up to date in the future.

Thank you to all who have helped keep this site alive and have shown their love for the show that is SouthLAnd. It is your love for the show that keeps us doing this, keeps ME doing this. Without you, we would be nothing!

Effective immediately, the forums from SouthlandForums.com will be located at & operate from SouthlandTvFans.com/forum.

I will be totally honest with you – the primary reason for this move is to save me time and effort. Maintaining ONE website is much less work than maintaining two. With the way things have been lately and the fact that I run my own corporation while also working as a software developer full time (over 50 hours a week) on top of running these sites, anything I can do to help cut down on time is welcomed with open arms.

Here is the good news – for users like you, absolutely NOTHING changes! (continue reading…)