You Have Chosen.Us

Pages updated: from the PC section all d, e, f, g, h, i, j pages.
Pages left: some 450 out of 583.

Yay for me. After looking at all of that code (making sure it’s all up to par, and the auto-replace didn’t make any mistakes, etc) any new solution for GameSphere will just have to have a WYSIWYG text editor…

First off, I removed the monthly archive links. Never could think of a reason why anyone might want to search the archives by month - or any date, really. In my eyes they were simply taking up valuable screen space. If you want to look for something, either use the describing category, or use the search box. Not really any content here benefiting from - or even warranting a - time-based archive listing.
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If you’ve read Page layouts updated: pc/a, you know I’m pretty hesitant about recoding 583 (just over 500 left now), knowing it may well be time wasted. Still, as it stands, I’m undecided about how to progress the site (leaning towards blog, but unsure still). I just redid Vandaele.us and I think it looks sweet, so naturally I’m excited about doing something similar for GameSphere.com. Needless to say it’s impossible with both the old and new format, but if they all have one single, same format it would be a helluva lot easier to adapt all the pages so that it would be possible.

Anyway, all the PC Games B and PC Games C have both been standardized. Damn that’s a lot of extraordinarily boring work…

The entire Vandaele.us website has been redesigned. All areas now come with proper information, the homepage lists the privacy policy, the layout was redone using the YouHaveChosen.Us neutral layout as a template, Track0 page has additional information as well as screenshots (including a screenshot of the invisible mode… ) and the Track0 counter (tracking the page, not the one for download) has been nicely integrated into the footer. I can’t wait to do something similar for GameSphere.com, but first that needs the old pages to conform with the new system (wouldn’t be pretty with half a pretty gray site and half a not-so-pretty blue site). Anyway, I like the new Vandaele.us

All the PC games starting with an A have had their layouts updated. I was going to do more, but then I stopped myself. Perhaps I should convert that part (or all) of GameSphere to either a blog or a wiki. A blog has obvious advantages - besides everything being automatic, it also supports multiple authors. The downsides are they would be hard to search (unless you put everything - reviews, hints, cheats, screenshots, … - all on one page), and it would be even harder to contain all the info to any given game. What bothers me most though, is that it only supports one author per page. If I post 4 cheats to a game, and you add 7 more, you wouldn’t get any credit. Creating two pages with cheats is just retarded, so I could only hope that wouldn’t be encouraged… It might also be hard to find authors, since I’d have to personally give you unrestricted access. I’m paranoid, so not quite comfortable with that idea. Still, a blog is a good prospect despite all of this.
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