Aha, and you thought dcNET was dead. I fooled all three of you, didn't I? ;)

Long update is long but read it anyway.

Yes, well, I posted that update back in July promising to add at least some stuff that night... and I didn't, because by then the site as a whole was annoying me to the point where I didn't see any reason to update that version of it. Most of it was actually the mess the layouts were in, but other little bits and pieces were bugging me and there were a few new things I wanted to try.

Thus the revamped dcNET you now see before you. I worked on it on and off for those two months and finally came up with something I am semi-satisfied with. Not that I'm ever fully satisfied with anything I do. The layouts, which were previously heavily and poorly modified versions of a free skeleton layout I found, have been redone completely from scratch (except for the drop-down menus, which are modified versions of Stu Nichols's CSS-play dropdowns) and are now 100% valid CSS and XHTML Strict. None of you care about this, of course, but I do because I'm studying web design in school and I feel like valid and compliant layouts are something I should be striving for. They're simple and quite possibly boring and ugly, but they'll do for now and at least the Blaziken layout is no longer eye-hurtingly godawful.

Most of the content so far is the same as it was before–I've removed some of the old fanart pics because they were effing huge, and I may or may not put them back up, but at least when I do they will have been reduced to a reasonable size. There are a few new pictures (and a few new-old pictures) in their place, though. I've also finally gotten around to writing up some of that "miscellaneous fancontent" I never know what to call, and that's probably the biggest and most impressive addition. Currently the only articlething is an "Animé-Style Battling for Dummies" type of thing that I will keep adding to and revising, so if you've ever thought about joining your forum's ASB league you might want to check it out.

Um, what else... there are some free Pokémon images in the new "Free Stuff" section up there, so you can go use those for whatever. I'll probably revamp some of them, but later. I've also gotten a new ASB team following the TCoD forum explosion back in June, so if you're one of those people with no life and you actually found the ASB team page semi-interesting you can go see that. The old page is currently in hiding, but I may put it back up (with moar valid code this time) for nostalgic purposes eventually. Oh, and I've rewritten/revised the About Me/About dcNET pages. Got a more reliable styleswitcher, too. At least, I hope so. God but those things hate me.

Last but not least, I've linked to a few of my other internets thingamabobbies over to your right. Eventually I'll have some actual project websites up there, but for now it's just my dA, my LJ sketchblog and another LJ I set up as a blog for the Platinum version I got the other day. Why watch a boring YouTube playthrough with sound and video when you can read a sarcastic diary-review-rant-blog?! Yeah!!! but um yeah it's there if you want my opinions on stuff in the game and such. It's pretty cool so far.

That's pretty much everything. So, uh, look around, enjoy stuff (yeah, right), suggest stuff... whatever. It's late and I need to go to bed because I have work tomorrow. Today. Um. Yeah it's late.

Phoenix out.