Ok Gatchafreaks, youve prolly been wondering what in the hell has been going on the last couple of days. Well this is it. This is the new site. Its not got all the bells and whistles the old site had but considering most of them didnt work it doesnt matter. Instead I have gone for the upgrade to the forums, an emphasis on XHTML compatibility and offering only those hacks which I deemed working correctly. So new site, new design, new server. Its a fully XHTML Trans 1.0 compliant site and its the ONLY hacked wbblite forum to be 100% compliant to my knowledge. Now you may be able to find the odd flaw because as with anything, I may have overlooked something. I have validated the site as much as I can but I still think you users may find a non valid part at some point. Anyway whats missing? We no longer have pets, the RPG system, the Jukebox, the forum shop, lotteries, the file system or forum money. Some of these I will be written again from scratch by me. So they will work this time What do we still have? Arcade, Calendar, Who is where, all the forum posts and threads from our old forum. What is new and improved? Attachments, smilies, gallery ( a proper one ), a quick pm which works, sub domain hosting and lots of other little things for you to search for. I have added all the old attachments back to their posts by hand people! Took me hours! Now there is so much to talk about ill let you guys ask the questions. Ill just add up a quick poll Cep - Gatchamania.net Administrator

I'll cast a vote once I play around a bit more. Looks good so far, speed is decent (high speed modem, so not much of a test) Reattaching everything by hand? That's dedication! Question: on the page listing all the boards and forums, The left button looking like text is something like "reply" and the right with a checkmark is "reply / post to thread", but what's the red star thingy? Please tell me it's not something like "delete the thread and throw shuriken at all who posted to it", otherwise I'm gonna be in trouble. Cricket

I love the colour scheme I also very much like the greater range of "recent threads" options. Cricket, I think the red asterisk thingy marks everything in that forum as read.

Ah yes you mean this? From left to right, Start new thread, Mark all as read, add forum to favourites

I Luuuurve that a new gallery has been added! I assume this means I can upload directly from my machine? (eyeballing her way through the particulars as we speak) I dont' see where to add gallery pics...Is it not user ready or am I blind? The site is much much faster now! Wonderful! Bravo Cep! The color scheme is very sweet. The bells and whistles are much more user friendly so far! Thank you thank you!

Yay more happy customers! I thought I would go for a brighter colour scheme, I was originally intending on going with the Katse uniform colours (red for borders etc) but I tell you, this site is one mutha to code CSS for. Which brings me to my next little surprise, if you would like some slightly different colours etc then I am happy to tailor a style for you which can then be selected from the style dropdown in the bottom left hand corner. The gallery is fairly advanced even though it only allows certain picture formats, you can upload directly and information about your photos will even appear, including what camera you may have used! I am interested to know if the speed is better? So far I have found this host the bee's knees so let me know how you guys feel about it. Oh an Buffy if you open the gallery page, near the bottom towards the footer display you will see a little hyperlink on its own called "add new gallery image". At least you should do! Let me know if you cant find it!

By the Mad Cep I am interested to know if the speed is better? So far I have found this host the bee's knees so let me know how you guys feel about it. The Speed is AWESOME so far! Oh an Buffy if you open the gallery page, near the bottom towards the footer display you will see a little hyperlink on its own called "add new gallery image". !

Thankx! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Wow. This is incredible. Now I have to go explore!

'Fraid there's a bit of a bug on the main page, where it lists most recent people to visit. I posted more recently than three hours ago, and Buffy posted much more recently than 7 days ago. Might be a delay in updating the stats. More research needed.

Well spotted, its not a bug persay but I have changed it to reflect what you mean. The last online should really be called the last visit because it references the last time you visited (less any activity today). I have now changed this to how the old last online used to be by checking the last activity instead

How do you upload the pictures?

How do you upload pictures in the gallery? Or as attachments?

Thank you Cep for all the work you have done here. I'm especially grateful for the speed! When I connect from my office I have usually no problems, but from home I end up often stucked with an old modem, so I really appreciate the change! Bravo, good work!

Originally posted by Cep How do you upload pictures in the gallery? Or as attachments?

Upload pictures tot he gallery.

On the main gallery page, there is an "add image to gallery" link near the bottom, not far above the "powered by burning board lite" etc box at the bottom. So you click on that and then choose the image, title, description and which gallery and so on. As I discovered yesterday, remember not to use any apostrophes because you'll get a sql error rather than an uploaded file.

You get an SQL error on the gallery? Ooo might have to fix hat

But it really works incredibly well. It's really impressive. One of my favorite things has to be the random smilies that are shown in the little smilie box. So I can see some smilies that I would never see otherwise. Fun! >.> I think my smilie addiction is trying to overcome me again. Must. Resist.

Yep, I am also very much enjoying the new look.

First I want to thank you Cep (and anyone else involved) for bringing this awsome web site to us. What I have seen of the "changes" looks pretty awesome. As far as the speed is concerned I definately love it because during the shutdown time of this site I upgraded my serveres speed too. Talk about perfect timing! The smilies rock too. The site must be forwarned though, I love the list of smilies.....will be lots of fun!!!!!

SMILIES!!!!!111one >.> Gatchgirl has drawn be back in! Help!

BE AFRAID be VERY afraid!!!!!!

Aaaaaack! What is it? Is it this? --> Oh. Oh, it isn't. It's this! --> Aaaaaaack! Run away! In other news, Elvin has entirely too much caffiene and has no outlet for it.

Yes I have a fond love of smilies, these are all handpicked by moi from across the internet. I have more to upload too Thankyou all for your very positive comments, its most insipiring to know that all my efforts have been fruitful and more will follow, I asure you!

I hate smilies as you know. But then Im not a great one for showing my emotions in any form.

Except maybe your fics. Which I might add I will be transferring from the old system to a new system soon enough. I want to create a fic library you see, much like the gallery only...well for fics

Yes, do so.

Originally posted by Cep You get an SQL error on the gallery? Ooo might have to fix hat

Who me? Wasn't me. Honest.

I like smileys and will use them to show what I am thinking or rather not thinking. It's just one way of showing how you feel.

or to add a little fun and orneriness!!!!!

Aaaaand annoy ronin until he does this! Or God grabs you!

Yep, the random smilies are a hit here, too. Great way to see them, without spending hours going through the alphabet.

Originally posted by Elvin Ruler Aaaaand annoy ronin until he does this! Or God grabs you!

Now thats a good plan that is.

Saw this one and thought immediately of Elvin. Next challenge -- find smilies for the board members, and for the team, and, well, why limit it?

condor trying out his new gun? or speaking to Nambu? Another COndor moment? Swan after finally getting a date with her eagle? The two of them together at last? The new Eagle? or maybe after promotion Imi listening to some tunes? or even after a night catching up on the boards? Metaliant? Me? or in 5 weeks Cricket's trademark smiley? For our lurkers? Maybe the next challenge should be to do a story containing mainly smileys?

I think that is an excellent idea But the story has to be gatch related!

Is there no Berg Katse/Zoltar smiley? I see the goon, and the team.

Nope one was never created for Katse/Zoltar although I think I can probably graft one from an image

Let's see if this attachment thingy works.

Ok ill just add a transparency to that and add it to the collection

Yay! A Katse smilie!

voila!

ed !

Thats all we need...

B-but...Katse killed Kenny! >.> Sorry...my friends watch too much South Park. And I like creating sentences with smilies. It seemed a perfect match!

South Park does rock but not as good as Gatch!!! I also like the idea of a short story done with smilies I just have a hard time figuring out what they mean sometimes. I guess that could make for some distorted story lines!!! For some reason I'm having problems with them now!

I seem to remember doing one a long time ago. It wasn't Gatch related, though.

Will you try for another one??? Maybe we could get a thread going where a story is done and then people could respond to it by giving their idea as to what it says!! Could prove to be very interesting.

even more so if it is done like an IF and everyone posts a sentence at a time and you have to guess what it means lol

Originally posted by Firebird condor trying out his new gun? or speaking to Nambu? Another COndor moment? Swan after finally getting a date with her eagle? The two of them together at last? The new Eagle? or maybe after promotion Imi listening to some tunes? or even after a night catching up on the boards? Metaliant? Me? or in 5 weeks Cricket's trademark smiley? For our lurkers? Maybe the next challenge should be to do a story containing mainly smileys?

Why did you use the smiless of and . Also where's the smiley of the Owl and Nambu?

I can't see a Nambu anywhere. Perhaps a Phoenix would also be useful. I shall see if I can dig out any other frames that would be good for making smilies out of.

Ah Hootie and not the Owl. Damm, didn't think to look in the Hs. I thought I did see a phoenix or was that my imagination.

gatchgirl, I did actually write a smilie story somewhere on these forums about Cep & Katse. Let me know if you can find it hehe!

All right I will try looking for it

I like the new design. Sorry I have not been around much, I have had a lot going on offline.

Nice to have ya back Thorn Gen X. Cep I have totally forgot to look for your smilie story. Sorry!!!!!!!!

Hehe no problems why not make one up, with the sailor moon, gatch, southpark and other various smilies I am sure we can come up with a very amusing story Might even issue the challenge at some point. Thanks Thornie, glad you like the place

You're welcome Cep. With some of those smileys around oh the tales that can be told. I'll bet it will be decadently delicious!