E-mail me at jayattwod@gmail.com with the subject “Twod affiliation” if your interested :)

Links will be in random rotation of 15 or 20, and text links only.

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• 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:

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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Download the new version here and I look forward to seeing your customised mascots :)

4 mascots sent in since yesterday :)

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Congratulations: MindGamez, here is your layout :)

The main reasons for me picking this above others was that it had perfect content presentation, a great ad spot and a nice patient and communicative guy behind it. Alot of people who entered this competition didn’t pay attention to the ‘design freedom’ they where given in this competition and stuck too much towards what I already had. MindGamez understood this freedom and gave it his all :) Congratulations MindGamez!

You’ll also notice Twod now has an ad system going on, and that if you click the penguin/mascot in the top left hand corner you’ll see all the mascots being rotated, and some information on how you can contribute your mascots to the mix :)

And now for the rest of the entrants… I’d like to say thank you to all 27 other entries that where submitted. There where at least 20 more entries for this competition but some people didn’t really add content, sent me zip files that where corrupted and even sent me layouts that clearly weren’t meant for this competition. But without further ado, here are the other layouts that where entered into this competition.

Click on the thumbnails to view the full layouts

I’d like to add that if anyone wants to get in contact with any of these designers for any quotes on potential work, please e-mail me at jayattwod@gmail.com quoting the name of the designer you wish to contact :)

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Note: This is an archived link, and is no longer a running competition.

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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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The main features of this “revamp” are:

• The move back to the Twod.co.uk domain
• Completely re-designed layout (Courtesy of NGPixel)
• A portfolio
• The ability to hire me as a coder
• The ability to contact me
• Alot better readability
• The mini projects page which will host all experiments and small things I code to learn certain programs/languages

I’ve also revamped the error pages, the twodded blogs index (now on this site) and put up some nice domain placeholders for people wanting to buy my domains off of me but never knew how to.

I hope all you guys like the site :)

EDIT: I’ve just realised the stickman tang hi-score tables are a little messed up, but I’ll fix this tommorow
SUB-EDIT: Just added 88×31 banners for people to switch to on the links page

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This summer sees the re-release of Twod, the site that started it all… This Twod re-release will be my blog, re-formed, with a gallery, portfolio and Flash games arcade.

Now, obviously I’ll need some games for this arcade :) If you want to submit your game to be on this section of the new Twod (which will be moving back to the original domain), you can send your .fla and .swf files over to jayattwod@gmail.com. Make sure the .fla is included so I can attatch a high score table to the game to make it a tiny bit more fun for users playing.

It doesn’t matter too much about the quality of the game, if people don’t like it – they won’t play it :P

Edit: Please check out NGPixels Blog for a Twodded AND Pixel2Life windows media player skin… (yes two seperate skins).

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You’ll see a lot of different things accross these blogs, and hopefully you’ll visit often :)

Also, Twod will be taken down until the release of Twodded, which is scheduled for May 1st. Also, you may also want to note that Twodded will be a tutorials based with projects only, no funny vids, interviews or galleries (But funny pic gen/funny quote gen will remain as side projects…). Although I may want to add these galleries into the blogs for people to put their own pictures up :)

Work on Pixel2life v2 is coming along very well, and I can promise you that you will LOVE the new version.

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TutorialSeek is the “tutorials only” site for Pixel2life and is a very big preview of what’s to come for Pixel2life v2.

The enhancements with this version are as following:

• All new tab system navigation! Individual tabs lead you to the major sections of the site. We felt this would make the entire site MUCH easier to browse and use no matter what you are looking for.
• Less images! The site uses WAY less images so it loads faster. Up to 4 times faster than the current pixel2life.com website!
• Random tutorials! If you’re a webmaster that has old tutorials submitted to the index and you think no one is seeing them, you’ll love this new feature! Each category view now has 5 random tutorials displayed at the bottom of each page
• BOOLEAN SEARCH! No more exact match folks!!!! We now use the full Boolean search method for search for your tutorials! That means more matches and better chances of finding exactly what you need much faster than before.
• Multiple tutorial submissions! Have 10 tutorials you want to submit for one category? Well now you can submit all 10 in one swoop instead of doing it one at a time!
• Not sure which tutorials require avatars when submitted? The new submission system has you covered with it’s required avatar system. If a tutorial category requires and avatar, the “No avatar” option is no longer displayed.
• The ultimate Source Site Summary! Remember how the old webmaster page would only show the tutorials for a particular website for one category? Well now this extremely advanced tutorial source site summary page will display every tutorial for all categories AND give you valuable stats regarding your tutorials! Webmasters can now see at a glance how many tutorials they have in the system, how many are waiting for approval, how many are approved and in the queue, total categories they have tutorials in, total tutorial views, average difficulty, average rating, and total votes!
• Over 30 bugs that were causing some listing related panics are now gone.
• DOUBLE THE CATEGORIES! We’ve added TONS of new categories that have been requested to us over the last few months!
• Smart category display! When you select a category from the listing on the left, the category and sub categories will automatically move to the top of the category list, so it’s easier for you to use the sub categories without having to scroll down each time!
• New contact form that makes it easier to report issues and comments to the right people! By selecting the correct topic, the person responsible for that subject receives your email right away.
• A new complete Sitemap! Lost? Click the sitemap for a complete listing of every link on the site. The listing automatically updates with any new Categories or Sub-Categories we add to the site.
• All new approval system. When a tutorial is approved, it’s moved to the go live queue and a new tutorial is approved every 30 minutes. So your tutorial is guaranteed at least 5 hours on the main page once it’s released from the queue!
• An all new dead link system that will allow us to correct dead link issues MUCH faster!
• Detailed submission results! When you submit tutorials, the new output system will give you a detailed breakdown of your submission so you can easily correct errors when you submit.
• Over 250 pages of code have been reduced to 60! Aside from the database, this entire site is a re-code from the ground up!

So head on over to TutorialSeek right now!

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Update: An updated and (actually) working version has been posted on StackOverflow

This snippet of code will produce a JavaScript function which you can then attach via a JavaScript call and shake the user’s Internet browser.

Place this anywhere before you’re going to call the function, or remove the surrounding <script> tags and place it within an external JavaScript file.

<script type=”text/javascript”>
function shake(n) {
if (parent.moveBy) {
for (i = 10; i > 0; i–) {
for (j = n; j > 0; j–) {
parent.moveBy(0,i);
parent.moveBy(i,0);
parent.moveBy(0,-i);
parent.moveBy(-i,0);
}
}
}
}
</script>

An example of this function being called using the onclick method would look as follows:

<input type=”button” onclick=”javascript:shake(200)” value=”Shake Me!” />

This will produce (go ahead, click for an example of the effect):

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The original Twod.co.uk site featured a forum which grew to over 10,000 posts and 1,000 members in under twelve months. Interviews with industry figures who I admired featured as well as groups of articles covering topics like .htaccess, CSS, PHP, XHTML and even Photoshop.

It was extremely enjoyable, but I’m afraid very few posts from that original site have made it into the dynamic archives of this site. I will however try to port across as many as possible when and if I can. If you have a request for a post that is lost – please let me know and I’ll try to get it back up for you.

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