1. Look mum! It’s finished!

    I’ve finished off the site today so all bugs are now ironed out of the layout. Some of the “highlights” include:

    • Admin comments look different from regular ones (no more being ignored and seeing the same comments over and over…)
    • Customise the mascot page automated
    • “Quick bookmark” system introduced
    • RSS feed management moved over to Feedburner
    • Archives done properly
    • About page, contact page, services page and projects page all re-done
    • Favicon!

    I’ve also converted around a third of my posts from the last database over to this database as I’m starting to see a problem with deleting everything from the previous version of the site everytime I upgrade :) It’s also nice to have a real archive, but as you can probably see, all the comments from those posts are completly gone. But i’m sure you guys will solve that over time :)

    Also, another 6 mascot submissions:

    mascot8 Look mum! Its finished! mascot9 Look mum! Its finished! mascot10 Look mum! Its finished! mascot11 Look mum! Its finished! mascot12 Look mum! Its finished! mascot13 Look mum! Its finished!

    I absolutely LOVE the customisations coming through for the mascot, and hope to see plenty more from you guys to come :)

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  3. Now you MAY see something different..

    I decided that the previous version of Twod was generally very limited and poor to navigate, and I also wanted to switch to a simply layout that was quick to load and focused on the content I was putting accross. And then I found it.

    Theres alot of changes really:

    • main page shows 5 instead of 1
    • categories are browsable
    • great new archiving system
    • spam blocker on the comments
    • gravatar support on the comments
    • my latest del.icio.us bookmarks (so you can see what i’ve been reading..)
    • latest pixel2life tutorials
    • links
    • rss done properly (feedburner)
    • contact form opened up a little bit
    • about us page added (not yet actually got content though, haha)
    • complete twodded blogs listing on the right
    • NEW TWOD/TWODDED MASCOT IN THE HEADER! (an R-W Shilling creation)

    Whoever said that updates to site versions had to come with only 2 features? Well, quite alot of people really.. But thats just not the way we do things round here ;)

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