15 February 2010 - The times, they are a changing
Well I've done it again. Welcome to the new site. I've worked on it for about a week and it's done. Besides the obvious style changes, the biggest thing is that maps.kidying.com is no more. I've merged the maps section of the site with the front page. When I first designed the site, my intention was to have two separate sites - one personal and one for maps. The front page was sort of like a gateway. Well the personal site never materialized, so it didn't make any sense having a front page for a site when the two of them really just talked about the same thing. Plus, while the design was cool (in my opinion), the maps site was kind of hard to navigate and even harder to link to when I needed to direct someone here. One thing to note is that all you Internet Explorer users will see the site a little differently. IE renders the colors in .png images differently than other browsers, so the site looks a little darker in IE. Also, there is a glowing effect on the menu links that doesn't show up in IE. Click here to see a comparison image. I used to use IE for a long time because I never liked FireFox. But I've been using Google Chrome for a while now and I really like it. If you're still using IE, you should give it a try.
ANYWAY let's take a minute to mourn the loss of the old sites.
But now it's time to move on. As you can see, it's kind of like the two sites had a baby. A more functional, visually appealing baby. Anyway, I didn't want to throw away all the updates I made on the map site, so that turned into the Map News section of the site. I figure I'll post map related updates over there and this will kind of turn into a more general blog. The rest of the site is just like the old map site with all my maps featured on the Releases page and upcoming maps and videos on the Previews and Videos pages, respectively.
Finally is the Info page, which is the personal page that I never got around to making before. Not really sure where I want to go with it, but for right now you can just learn a little about me and see what games I'm currently into.
So that's it for now. I have made a lot of progress on the map, and should hopefully have some screens soon. It's 99% finished, but I'm not putting it out until Valve fixes or at least acknowledges an issue that keeps any physics props from moving in Survival mode before the round begins.