2010-08-23 20:11:43 UTC
All the changes since my return...
Firstly, the first two lessons of the long-awaited Spriting Guide are now online! I hope that you will find this feature useful in conjunction with our other sprite-related pages.
Also, thanks to the generous help of a plethora of resident FireChao-ers, I have extensively corrected the site's GPXPlus content. Thanks to Dominic, Ace, Joseph, Will, Jessie, Vader, Synn Monger, Alicia and Astromegafire for helpfully pointing out mistakes.
Be sure to email me if you notice anything that could do with being fixed.
2010-07-23 20:42:54 UTC
Going on Holiday!
I'm sorry to have to announce that I am leaving for northern Italy this weekend (and then going to France for a week after around two in said location, if you're interested). Because of this, I will not be able to post new content until the 17th of August, when my flight home is scheduled.
I should be able to get internet access in Italy, so will probably pop up on the forums every now and then - regardless, Will will take over moderation until my return.
Adios for the next three weeks.
2010-07-18 18:38:43 UTC
A feature on Gengar
It took me a while to cut short my perfectionist tweaking and put it online, but I have now added a new page to the navigation: a feature on Gengar. I hope that you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!
Also, with help from Joseph, a new, more complete, iteration of the ItemDex has been put online.
See you on the forums.
2010-06-26 15:03:36 UTC
Topsites Layout and Item List
Thanks to Mystic, the Topsites List has a much-improved layout - I hope you like the revamped look, and will sign up on the list.
Also, I have uploaded a GPX Plus Item List to help all of you excel on GPX Plus!
I hope you like these changes.
2010-06-19 20:32:36 UTC
Imma Back!
The exams which previously held me from working on content as much as I'd have liked are now over, so I have no excuse for slacking and will endeavour to work at top speed over the two-and-a-half-month holiday which now lies before me. My exams went well, by the way.
We are now affiliated with Studio-Revolution.net, a really nice site with a good clean layout and friendly webmaster.
Mystic is about to release a useful stat tool for the pokemon guides; I've been working on validating, streamlining and generally cleaning up the forum layout.
Not much yet, as you can see, because I've only just been set free, but I intend to get a significant proportion of the work that I've let pile up finished over the coming weeks.
Thank you for using FireChao.com!
2010-06-01 19:47:37 UTC
Improvements to the sub-sites
I am not yet finished with my exams - there will be a host of new pages for the main site in a couple of weeks, when these exams are out of the way.
Regardless, there have been a few changes that I, often as not with Mystic's help, have carried out (I will edit this post as they come, as I usually do) :
The oekaki has a new, impeccable navigation bar, and new artists too! I must warn you that, along with many other things on the web, it doesn't look quite as good in Internet Explorer.
The topsites list has a plethora of new member, and a tweaked style.
And, finally, I've been doing a little work on that upcoming alternate forum theme.
That's just about all of the significant changes!
2010-05-08 20:09:55 UTC
It makes me sad too, I can assure you.
Recently you may have noticed a slow in the frequency of my news updates. This is no concern for the health of the site - it is simply an inevitable problem that I am afflicted with by my ever-nearening GCSEs. I intend to race through all of the delayed improvements that I have planned in a few weeks, when my results are set in stone.
You can also look forward to a host of new pages, general code validation (according to w3 standards) and probably even a style rehaul as well!
Obviously hiatus would be stupid as, as I said, it's only going to be a few weeks. I will be around on the forums for this period anyway, if you have anything to tell me - I'm not that industrious in my revision!
Patience will show you huge leaps.
Also, I've been messing around with the stylesheet and am now happy to report that it validates and the default links look much better - I hope you like them as much as I do!Another thing I've just finished (I'm not so good with the whole revision thing) is a new lightbox plugin - I'll be using this from now on.Unfortunately this lightbox appears to conflict with my other "blend" script - I will look for a replacement.
Lightbox now fixed - this will enrich future new pages, when the aforementioned exams are over.
2010-04-05 15:08:22 UTC
The Oekaki!
Well the oldest changes since my last update consisted of all the dull necessities such as working with sitemaps and fixing code slightly...
In view of this mediocrity, I stuck a new page in the sidebar, so as to have something new that the browsing user might actually care about!
There have been several design tweaks around the site, including an opacity change on hovering over our affiliates' buttons.
We also have a new affiliate: Ho-oh's Realm.
Finally, thanks to Mystic's invaluable assistance, the oekaki is up and running - within the next few days you should see it's design take shape and the site as a whole subjected to general streamlining to make it worthy of FireChao.com hosting. Layout revamped - there will still be changes made, but it's almost there (however, it looks alot better if you're not using Internet Explorer).
That's all so far.
