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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!
Achievement Forums now up!
This is a really big step for me! Thinking a few years back when I started saate.net I was pretty determined to never add forums to my site. I’d seen way too many blogs with dead forums on them that nobody used and I didn’t want to be one of ‘those’ sites.
Things have changed a lot this year for the site. One of my big goals had been to have a day where I broke 1440 hits, which is 1 visitor/minute for the whole day. I thought it a very lofty (and thus worthy) goal and wondered if it would ever arrive. I’ve well and truly surpassed that goal now and it indeed seems to be the ‘norm’ these days – check out the web stats for this past week:
Together we’ve built a great community of achievement fanatics (the 100 plus members in the insane hall of fame would certainly suggest that!) and I can think of no better way to continue to build upon that than for us to share our knowledge and communicate via some proper forums.
I’ve added a few sections that I thought made sense but would welcome feedback and direction! I’m also interested in identifying any regular contributors that could assist with forum moderation and general direction so leave a post on the forums and let me know.
Thanks everyone for your contributions to date – I’m really looking forward to what the future holds!
Site update in progress!
Hey Folks! Just a very short update – I’ve finally got some spare time to get stuck into some of the changes I’ve had planned for the site. I have this week off work so am relaxing and putting in a lot of hours on the redesign :)
If anyone’s going to be around much in the next few days check back regularly and let me know what you think. I’d also love to have a few guinea pigs to test out new features and the like so let me know if you’ll be around.
More to come – stay tuned!
2AM Update – Phew! The design changes have slotted in perfectly and I managed to sort out the PHP code without too much trouble. I’m pretty happy with how it’s looking and really satisfied with the new look. Tomorrow it’s on to more tweaking and some functionality stuff. Let me know what you think so far!