The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Upgrade complete!

1,800 pictures. 423 posts. Hours upon hours of work later, our upgrade is finished!

It took quite a while, as I had to basically copy and paste and reformat all the old posts from the previous site design by hand; there was no compatibility with wordpress. Unfortunately all the old comments were lost in migration, but that was unavoidable.

I've designed the new site to navigate largely similar to the old one via a Projects link at the top. Additionally, there is a Quick Navigation in the new sidebar that will hopefully serve as a shortcut when necessary.

One of the biggest problems I had with the old site was that the front page and the projects pages were separate and divided, meaning that the only time the front page changed was when I had a general update to add. The new design, however, will provide everything up-front; anything that gets updated or posted will show here, making it less of a task to see what's being worked on currently. At the bottom of each post will be a link to the project's category that will allow quick access to all of the posts in that project.

A new commenting system is in place now which should allow you to subscribe to any comments on a particular post or project. It is no longer necessary to register to leave a comment - I tried to make it as easily accessible as possible.

The gallery on the site has improved a significant amount, and any images that are thumbnailed in sequence can be flipped between like a slideshow. I'm also going to make it my goal from here on out to provide larger images, as well - my previous gallery images were 600 x 400, but I'll be increasing my standard image resolution up to 800 x 532 henceforth.

I've added in a new Articles section, but I have not had a chance to put the content up yet. There will be additional content in the sidebar to the right shortly, as well.

All told, the new site's been a ton of work to put together. I want to thank my friends Zach and Brian for their assistance while I slogged my way through making php work. As a last little note, if you spot anything missing, incomplete, or broken, please do not hesitate to let me know or leave a comment.

Edit: August 29, 2009 - I am aware that the site doesn't work that well for IE6 and 7. There's a simple reason for that - I couldn't be bothered to try and slog through all the crap needed to make it work the same. However, I've tested the site in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera and it works fine in all of the 'newer' browsers. If you're running IE6 or 7 and the site looks strange, I would suggest you switch to one of the browsers listed above for a massive improvement in your general browsing experience.

In the mean time, I've noticed the time and date do some strange moving around in IE, so I'm going to look into fixing that. Be aware that it's current behavior is not intended.