Playing with New Design
I'm working on a new theme for version 4 of the Krystal Archive. The new theme will focus on simplification of the visual style, the site design itself, and the content design so that people that other myself will be able to help maintain the Krystal Archive. Take a look, and tell me what you think. The image of Krystal was specially rendered for the Krystal Archive version 4 by Greyfirefox.
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The first comments I've received on the above design called for a background image. The above image does have a subtle background in the form of noise (like the previous version 3.5 of the site). So far, commenters want a large, Krystal-centric background image, which is probably not going to happen due to the inherent limitations of such backgrounds (see comments), and the fact that this site expands and contracts its size based on the width of the browser window (and in the future, will adapt to mobile devices). I am not opposed to a more agressive, repeating, small background image though. Here's the site with some of the background imagery from the Saurian Translator. I think it works pretty well here, but tell me what you think.
IGN Readers Vote Star Fox “Most Wanted”
Predictably, everyone yearns for another spacefaring adventure with our favorite group of anthropomorphic animals: Star Fox! IGN held a poll for the Nintendo game series that most needed a revival. Star Fox beat out close second and third winners Earthbound and Metroid, respectively. F-Zero, Donkey Kong, and Ice Climbers followed them.
Let’s try that again…
The site's back. None of the content, all of the hope! Here at home, I'm limited right now. My computer is simply not powerful enough to deal with the huge task of rebuilding this site.
Fear not! I have ordered a new computer. It should be here in a week. In the meantime, I'm going to try and prepare for the huge change that the new capabilities will entail, and focus on giving you NEW news right now while you're waiting. You ready? Me too. Let's get to that. Right... now.
PS
For those of you just joining us. Beginning in mid-March, the Krystal Archive was hacked by dubious interests in a foreign nation, along with millions of other blogs in a massive attack. I managed to get the site back in working order within a few days, though some content was lost. Then, in cleaning up the remainder of the infection, a mixup at the hosting company deleted all files and pages associated with the site, so I now begin again. I still have the backups, but this time, I'm going to focus on rebuilding, rather than maintaining.
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