We are proud to announce a whole new look to the website as you can already see.
Now there are some rough edges. Everything does work just fine if you are using Opera as your web browser. If you are using IE, Safari or Firefox most things work as they should but there might be some formatting problems.
Ironically it is Firefox 2 and 3 that are giving the most problems right now. For some reason Firefox2/3 will fail to load the CSS style sheet sometimes and you will need to refresh the page. I am working on that oddity as well as testing everything in the other browsers. And NO we are not going to test and support the new Google Chrome browser. It is still beta and probably will be for a very, very long time if past Google Betas are any indication.
There some neat new features on the sidebars that are totally Ajax driven.
You can mouse over any name in the Top 10 Blogs and a window will open showing the last blog the person posted. If you mouse over the name in the Latest Blogs a window will open showing the blog the person just posted. If you mouse over a name in the Blog Comments you will see all of the comments for that blog listed in reverse date order. If you mouse over the name of a player in the New Signups and New Profiles a window will open showing the profile page for that player. All of the controls now have mouse overs that will give information about what the button does.
The last Ajax item is on the New Signups. If you mouse over the Server Name a window will open showing the Ranking Page from that server. It will give you instant access to see who is playing on any server listed.
There are still a few pages that need to be changed to fit the new style of the site. Two of them are Reading Private Messages page and the Server List. The Server List is using the old style display for now as I haven't quite figured out what I want to do with it yet.
So enjoy the new look of the site. Almost everything is a CSS layout. There are only a few pages that still have a little Table usage but they will be going away over the next week or two.
We have also thrown out the old Chat software and installed a completely new Chat Package that should fix all of the problems people have had in the past.
Enjoy and let me know about any odd things you may run into.