There has been a very long pause in productivity for this site, but that’s only because it’s gotten a completely new look to it. Right away, I know that you’re thinking that it looks very similar to the style of GorillaMask, and it should, because I stole all the code (including the style sheet) from there and twisted it into what you see before you. Though I did slack off and leave a lot the same, such as most of the fonts and font colours. But I’ve gotta learn somehow right? Taking someone else’s work and warping it into my own sort of hybrid creation is how I’ve done pretty much everything requiring work up until now, including web pages, school work, and game coding in VB and RPG Maker. And plagiarism is one of the greatest forms of flattery anyway, isn’t it? Well even if it is wrong, at least I’m not trying to pass it off as my own.
Anywizzle, things are changing not only visually, but content-wise as well. No longer are those pain-in-the-ass full-length articles going to be the dominant part of the site. Instead, they will be put over to the side whilst this bloggish thingy jumps into the hot seat. The biggest reason for this change is that the news was the only thing I regularly updated, and I felt as if it needed to be given more of a chance to be an important part of the site. I was always making long news posts about things that I thought you should check out, stuff that happened to me lately (usually as excuses as to why I was writing no articles), and just random babble, rather than having the section dedicated solely to important changes to the site.
I was thinking about saving this change until the site turned 2 years old, but I figured that maybe the sooner, the better. After all, it wasn’t exactly the most appealing of websites, and though this one doesn’t have that much eye candy either, it at least looks like something that you wouldn’t mind looking at. And the anniversary is just far too far away. December is months away, and it’s also going to be a busy time, so it’s best that I went and got this out of the way during the summer when I’ve got my days to waste. ‘Sides, so many other sites I frequent have been changing, so I decided that I’d hop on the bandwagon and change mine too.
The first thing I want to draw your attention to is the new name of the site: Torrential Equilibrium. “The Page of Death” was really old and somewhat overused (do a search on Google), so I decided it needed a change. Badly. I’m still not sure how I came up with Torrential Equilibrium. My understanding of both of the words leads me to believe that the name makes no sense at all, but I think it sounds cool. Just like Genius Sonority (although they have a “meaning”, the words together are kinda senseless). If you want to try to make sense of the name, go look them up and draw your own conclusions.
You’ll notice that one of the most prominent new features is that slick little sidebar on the side (code designed by whoever made the Mask’s, and graphics designed by me in MS Paint). It doesn’t look all that spiffy right now, as I didn’t really need it to, but it does the job. And lemme tell ya, it took a real long time to make it look so perfect, as all the pieces of the border were all out of place. After a lot of time spent on changing the sizes and placements, I finally got it all figured out, and now it looks great. Certainly better than the old bar of links that used to be up at the top. And all my links are on the bar, but the Links page is still intact, in case you’d like to read the descriptions before you click.
So that’s really about all I have to say about my “new site”. All of the old stuff is still hanging around, and while I probably won’t bother changing the pages to match the new look, the important ones like the Articles page and the Links page will still be updated, if just a little less frequently than before. Don’t think that this is the end of my website. It’s just a new beginning.