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..and we’re live. New site launched!
I suppose that’s a bit obvious, eh? What do you guys think?
I’m pretty happy with how its all looking and I’ve managed to sort out about 90% of the tiny little things that had been bugging me. In the next week I’ll continue to fine tune a few final things including the formatting of the forums and general content linkage.
I’ve wanted to do my own wholly new design for a long time but as I’ve now learned it’s no small task. I really like the move from black background to white background, too. It was difficult to figure out how to do it and not have it look terrible but in the end I think a good balance has been achieved. For anyone curious I went through my old pictures and dug up different screenshots of the site over the years:
I actually had saate.com once upon a time (2001 – that’s 10 years ago, ugh!) and had hoped the waybackmachine internet archive might have stored more of it. It did get a few grabs of the splash page but nothing else unfortunately.
On to the prizes!
[Landro's Lil XT] – Sephrenia
[Landro's Lil XT] – Tsubakai (Totally deserved it too – Check out his post here.)
[Landro's Lil XT] – Cruelmalice and Missus, old friends from US-Shadowsong, came up as a tie which I thought was delightful. They need to flip a fountain coin in-game to decide the winner and link the screenshot :)
To further celebrate I’ve sent out a bunch of cards to other bloggers to have their own competitions. Keep an eye on [SRSBusiness], [Anaalius' Hunt for Gold], [Bangkok Bill's World of Goldcraft], [Alto's Goldish Advice], [Trading with Zoxy] and [The Consortium] blogs in coming days for more competitions!
Thanks again for all your support to date!
New Free Gold Guide – Gold for Dummies
Hey Hey, well this is exciting! I’ve just finished putting the finishing touches on my new gold guide [Gold for Dummies]. I’m pretty happy with how the graphics turned out and I think the information is basic but informative so I hope people find it useful.
I decided to do something different for this as well. I’ve included a 2 minute video introduction to the guide that I hope takes some step toward breaking the ‘..but I have to read?’ dread that those-in-need often encounter with material like this.
I hope you enjoy the guide, and as always appreciate any comments, feedback and suggestions you might have!
New Guides – Reputation experts wanted!
This is pretty exciting one for me! After some gentle reminders from Penfold it’s time to get into a guide producing routine again.
One thing this blog has taught me well in the past year is that amongst our regulars we have a huge amount of experience and expertise when it comes to this stuff. The recent ‘user submitted tips’ I’ve been posting each week are a perfect example of that.
So I’ve decided that instead of writing guides and getting feedback after-the-fact a much better approach would be to collaborate with the experts (thats you guys!). To this end I’ve started using the new Google Wave tool to work on new guides together. It works kinda like an email or document that people get invited into.
You can make changes, discuss points, add content and even replay the document from the start. It’s pretty cool and a small group of us are already underway with a ‘Guide to Capital Cities Exalted’. I’m looking for more people to join in and add their weight to the contents so we can make these guides as good as possible.
If you’re a regular or can otherwise sell me on the benefits you’d bring I’d be happy to send you an invite! Interested? Flick me an email via the contact me section and we’ll go from there.
Introducing Zevia!
It gives me great pleasure to welcome a new regular to the site – Zevia! After getting to know him whilst putting together the article for QQ Premades both Serephim and I were impressed with his prior work on podcasts.
After some initial chats we were excited to welcome him on board the saate.net team! He’ll be using his amazing vocal talents to bring us a weekly podcast on…well..whatever you guys want it to be on! I’ll let Zevia introduce himself now, check out his great first episode: