Site Changes

As you can see I've made a few changes to the design and layout of the site. I've also updated all of the old posts with proper titles and categories. That all took quite a bit longer than I had hoped. Moveable Type has pretty bad search features (why can't I search on date?).

Anyway, with the new sidebar on the right, I figure this will allow me to expand the site pretty easily as I add more sections (and I will). I've also made a list of games I'm playing at the moment, added a few related links of mine that might be of interest, and also some other people's sites I find interesting. I'm sure other stuff might pop up over there in the future as well.

I also redid the main archives page so you can go right to any past post, and redid the RSS Feed to show comment totals. This has a rather interesting side effect. If someone posts a new comment, the comment total goes up and thus the RSS feed changes to reflect that. If your aggrigator fetches the RSS feed, any new comments will flag that post as changed, thus notifying you if someone has added anything new to the conversation. I figure since there is no subscription to comments (which I hear is coming in MT Pro), this could be a good way to keep people informed of when a thread changes. If it gets annoying, let me know, it's easy to fix. Oh, and for the time being you're only getting the Ghouls 'n Ghosts image up top. Since the logo size changed with the new layout, I only had one banner big enough off the bat. I'll add more later.

One thing I've had a hell of a time with though is doing this site up for IE/Win. Lets just say that if you're using IE/Win (which I know a majority are) you're not seeing the site the way it was intended to. Sure, it's close, but not quite, and there's not a whole lot I can do about it, because put simply, IE/Win sucks. The simple fact that a font-style in a blockquote makes the right border of a grandparent div disappear is assinine (which is what's happening right now). I was nice enough to use a hack to hide the lack of alpha-PNG support in background images, but the rest of it you're either going to have to live with until MS decide to get off their fat asses and make a decent browser, or go download a decent browser right now.

Anyway, enough babbling. The site is pretty much set now, and on its way, so enjoy.

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