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February 18th, 2008 by Sean Big Update

Alrighty!

I’ve updated the look of ALW, along with adding some forums!

The look badly needed an upgrade. The old layout was made as a temporary placeholder, and was a little bland. The new is similar, except it looks more bad ass, and has bigger buttons.

I decided to add the forums for two reasons.

1. Some people were using the Video Board as a forum, and just posted multiple replies to get their message across. I figured that would happen, and didn’t attempt to prevent it, because communication is good :-P.

2. Forums create a wonderful community feeling, which I don’t think was really captured with the Video Board. I had hoped people would post videos of themselves, but I learned just as everyone else did - it takes a lot of effort to make even a simple video. And a lot of people really don’t want to broadcast themselves over the internet for everyone to see. Fair enough :-).

I scripted the new forums from scratch, because I didn’t feel like hacking around bloated forum packages found online (compare my script, 1,100 lines of code, to SimpleMachines, with 59,000 lines of code). I’ll be adding more features over time, and if you have any suggestions, just let me know.

Other than that, I hope everyone enjoys the updates!

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### 14 Responses to “Big Update”

1. Zectra Says:
   February 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

   The site is looking -awesome- Sean. The updated look looks sweet.
   Good idea to add forums =P. I liked the video board and the entire concept of it and all, but like you said.

   By the way, the skull on the front page looks awesome. Did you do that all in PS or is it a textured model? It looks like it could be either.

2. AndPious Says:
   February 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

   Alright, I was going to log in and leave a comment telling you that the site looked great UNTIL I actually saw the log-in screen. That made my day, for some reason, and now you deserve an expertly fashioned compliment of superior magnitude and fervor. Unfortunately, I can’t think of one at the moment, so I’ll leave you this gift.

   *Bestows upon Sean an expertly fashioned compliment of superior magnitude and fervor*

   Hope that does it! Site looks great, by the way.

3. Dash Says:
   February 18th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

   yay!

   .. nuff said

4. delimew Says:
   February 18th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

   loving the look so far!

   small comment for the forum, you need some sort of “skip to last page” type thing on the topic listings.

   other than that i really don’t think i’ve anything else to add. still, major props all the same!

   “Microsoft can suck my balls.”
   ^-^

5. PotentiaL Says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 1:54 am

   Nice job codeing the forum, it looks sweet.

   Good Stuff

6. zephyr Says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

   Yeah that skull is AWESOME! and the forum idea is just what we needed ^_^ By the way I noticed in the forums that some people had pictures. How do you get them?

7. jesse Says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

   Sean, I think the skull on the front page was an xray of that time you got bit up by all those ants…

8. delimew Says:
   February 19th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

   zephyr, click on “Set Avatar” at the topic of the boards page. (right between your name and log out). then upload the pic you want, and you’re done. ^-^

9. zephyr Says:
   February 20th, 2008 at 3:28 am

   Thanks delimew I got one ^_^

10. delimew Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 4:28 am

    ^-^

11. ARandomKid Says:
    February 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    Big skull logo on the front page is looking AWESOME. ;@_@

12. kiepmad Says:
    February 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Great!

13. Linked Says:
    February 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 am

    The new site looks great sean, one thing though.
    We need an edit button on the forums.

14. ARandomKid Says:
    February 27th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    An edit button would be a good thing to have. Also, I just now noticed the log in page. It’s pretty sweet too. ;@_@

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