New Site and Nerd Notes...
It took a few false starts and a lot of procrastination, but I finally designed and released the new site. I've summarized a few design and code details for the curious (which 99% of people won't care about):The news engine is a modified version of a webcomic management system I wrote a few years ago. A prior version of it can be seen running at my friend's site, Bizarre Uprising.
The amazing banner artwork belongs to Mynril - I just chopped it up and gave it some movement using jParallax.
Recruitment tooltips are made using qTip.
The lightbox effect when clicking on news images and certain links is from prettyPhoto.
Lots of JS but the site will still function perfectly fine if you're the NoScript type. All of the aforementioned plugins require the amazing jQuery library - if you're into web development at all check it out.
Site compatibility was tested in IE7/8, Firefox 3, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. If you're still on IE6 for some awful reason, transparent PNGs won't work so the banner and recruitment won't look right (but everything else will function).
That said, I hope everyone enjoys the new site!
Posted by jendead on 2009-07-01
You encounter a wild Death Monkey.
You attack with Flung Poo. It's super effective!After a few nights of face planting we finally managed to down Hard mode Iron Council. Quite the intense healing and dps race, congratulations to everyone involved. Grats Taowth on Greaves of Swift Vengeance.
Posted by coppers on 2009-06-12