Fangamer

The second half of my insane-o long post, wherein I’ll be discussing the work we’ve gotten done on Fangamer’s design/code since February. A tl;dr summary for the lazy among us:

• I got some mockups done
• Started work on the XHTML/CSS
• Ryan has made TONS of progress on the forum

Again, we’ve got some more banners to show first!

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  forteshadow
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  hawaiian
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  Klobber

I think I’m finally going to get caught up on Banner Contest entries (of which I’ve posted another 12). There are 30 more in the queue, and the vast majority of them are seconds or thirds entries. Don’t be afraid to send yours in if you’ve made one, though!

Design

A few weeks ago, Ryan was kind enough to post the latest forum designs. As you can see, things were going pretty well on that front, but they hit a snag at the beginning of this month as my computer ground itself to a screeching halt.

I’m sure I complained about the limitations of my old Macbook before, but by the end of January it was causing me enough grief that I went ahead and ordered a new Macbook Pro off of eBay (for a super-insanely-good price). There’s a long backstory, but in the end I got my new computer and it works great. It’s super nice to be able to open Photoshop without any ‘Disk Full’ errors, and the speed boost sure doesn’t hurt either.

Development

Since I’ve got the three most ‘important’ mockups done I’ll be focusing mostly on the XHTML/CSS for now. I should actually have a preliminary preview ready soon, since I’ve made a lot of progress this week.

Like I said, I’m not super-familiar with the programming Ryan has done yet, but I do know that he’s done tons of work on the forum and that it’s already got most of its functionality in place. How awesome is that? There’s plenty of work yet to do, but superkudos to him for being all uppity in that thang’s face.

I’ll leave it up to him to explain the details, since he’s got a better handle of it…I’m still off in my own world working on the design/interface.

Update: I thought I had posted this yesterday, but apparently not! I’ll use this opportunity to commemorate my brilliant grasp of technology: