Sunday June 10th 2001
Insanely Huge Internal Updates { Forrest }
Hello out there in lemur land!Do you like the new header? Joshstar's famous tagline, "beware the lemurs", now bolder, redder, and in Arial (or Helvetica) for your viewing pleasure!
This is just one of the pleasant side-effects of the work I've spent seven hours last night and another three tonight doing, behind the scenes here at Myth@Bungie.Org. Click around on the navbar and you will quickly notice that every section of this site now features the name of that section where you see the Lemish One's Final Words on the index here. If you look really closely, you will notice that, in fact, all of the headers and footers have subtley - and sometimes not so subtley - been changed!
I've gone through and rooted out all of the old SSI gunk here, so you won't find any more non-functional site-search boxes and stuff like that. This also means that your .shtml link should be updated to .html versions, but thankfully Claude's happy happy fun time error script will automatically try the .html version of that URL if it can't find a .shtml, so no worries for you happy webmunkies linking to us.
I've also gone and made sure that all of the headers and footers share a common format, and linked their common elements to single Universal Header and Footer files, to ensure consistancy across the site and make updating them much easier... which will come in handy very Soon™.
The Misc section has been altered in not-very-noticable ways. The tables are now the nicer, more aesthetically pleasing ones used in Relics and Delusions. The "library" image formerly at the top of almost every page in there now only appears at the top of the page, as well. And the index/generic ribbons on right hand side have been replaced with Legends' war banner image (Legends now uses the generic ribbons, for the moment).
On that note, the biggest noticable change is Mythmaster Central, which has also had the huge recurring image isolated only to the front index. You will note that the footer has been altered to the more compact and aesthetic style of Legends and Lore, and includes a submit-films link to my email addy on every page of the section, akin to Legends' post-at-the-Asylum message. Along with this redesign comes the removal of the News pages (or at least links to them; all the old ones are still there). I've decided to confine all the site's news to this news index here.
Lots of little bugs I found all around in there have been squashed, too.
But wait, that's not all! There are more updates to come soon. First I'll be making sure the entire site has font faces defined so it doesn't look all wocky for those people who use BankGothic Lt BT Light as their default font (you know who you are, Astro).
The right-hand images for each section will be getting updates, a unique image to each section. The ribbons for the index and generic pages; the banner for Misc; a quill pen for Forums; an old scroll for Legends; Gargamel's kick-ass sword currently in Mythmaster; and a old wood-and-hair paintbrush for . . . something else.
Something bigger. Much bigger.
Coming Soon™.
(I'd also like to wish everyone a belated Happy Aquisition Day; yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Microsoft's purchase of Bungie).