DPWR is Back!, (it's about ruddy time...)

[Alahmnat]

Yay, we're back! And better than that, we're home! Tell your friends, tell your forum buddies. I'll be passing through the other forums after work making the official announcements, unless someone else beats me to it, but until then, word of mouth is your friend .

Things should be falling into place over the next day or so as I finalize everything and tweak the little bugs that may have sprung up in the transfer. There's a couple more layout fixes to do, and I still have a few things up my sleeve for the future, but for the moment, everything (with the exception of the Gallery) is working, to the best of my knowledge. If you break something, please PM or email me, and PLEASE tell me how you did it! Knowing what happened beforehand will help pinpoint where things went wrong.

Thanks for bearing with me, gang, and thanks yet again to the great folks from Uru Obsession who let us visit for a while .

[Fallstar]

Yay! We're back! The new look is absolutely fabulous AL! L-O-V-E the map at the top of the page! Also...this whole website is so much faster! Yes, thanks so much to the folks at UO for letting us hang out there for a while.

[Donahoo]

I love the new look, especially no scroll bars.
I like the calendar, too, and the new format with the on-line users on the left side.

This is the silver lining to the cloud, although I can imagine what a PITA it was.

Anne

This post has been edited by Donahoo: Apr 3 2003, 10:11 PM

[Alahmnat]

This is the silver lining to the cloud, although I can imagine what a PITA it was.

You have no idea how much work it took to get this site to be 100% 800x600-resolution compatible while still retaining that left column. It's still not the prettiest thing in the world at that res, but it's at least *useable* now. The User Control Panel is especially high on my list of coolness things . That used to be a mess at 800x600... waded through the HTML for quite a while before I got it... the search form's even 800x600 now . Without the left column the default skin *is* 800x600-compatible, but only just, and that 200 or so pixels over there totally killed it. I would still recommend 1024x768 or higher to get rid of nasty text bunching, but like I said, at least you can use the site at a lower res now .

First person to bug me about 640x480-compatability gets banned, Cory .

I'm very glad that you all enjoy the new look so far. This place is nothing if not a labor of love (sometimes heavy on the labor and light on the love ), and its latest incarnation, while not a huge change, was one that I felt was extremely due (and was actually supposed to be coming *before* the servers went down... the server outage just gave the the chance to perfect it all in silence... the domain came up a few days ago, I've just been fiddling with stuff in that time ). The left column always felt like a waste of screen real-estate, and fairly pointless, so I did a lot of digging and found a system that would work a LOT better . The rest of the more aesthetic changes, like the stair-stepped headers and the new logo, were just a push to get the site to look a little more sophisticated. It just *feels* more well-rounded to me now... the last red-on-grayscale version was really boxy.

And, as always, I'm forever planning for the future . Uru's coming out this year, and I'm hoping we get a look at some D'ni tech... this place being geared towards the D'ni Universe, I think it'd be fun to mimick that appearance in here, if we're given the opportunity to see it. Like I said, we'll see. It might not happen, but it'll be fun just to putz around with it on my local server .

(wohba... that's a LOT of smilies in this post...)

[Cfischer83]

I like it! it's got a rocky feel to it (like D'ni ) Now all you need are Stalactites

[Fallstar]

How come I'm the only one in this thread with an avvie?

This post has been edited by Fallstar: Apr 4 2003, 03:59 PM

[Alahmnat]

  How come I'm the only one in this thread with an avvie?

Because I just felt so bad for you, not having an avvie on the Hiatus Boards .

Seriously though, we're missing avvies because the upload directory changd and a few things didn't get transferred. Doing that now.

[Fallstar]

OH! ....then ignore the PM you just received...

[Ta'nernin]

Well, my avvie is linked to from off site, so unless those settings were lost, I should be fine.

Good to be back here, al! Thanks for all the work you put into this place. I agree that it would be great to have a look at D'ni tech - I hope they maybe let us see a KI or something.

[trucker2000]

Woohoo.
Glad you were able to get it back.
This looks awesome. Super fantastic. I love it. Your logo looks good too. :runs:
Great work Al. I will put a message on my board for those who are watching it.

[LAHI]

Shorah,

I am very impressed with your new site and look. It is very professional and full featured. I am looking forward to learning everything about it and participating as much as possible. Good Job!