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Welcome to the new site! It's been a long time coming, and I've spent countless hours neck-deep in CSS, PHP, Javascript -- all the things I hoped to get through life without learning. Whatever happened to the basic .html pages of the 90s? Anyway, it's done and I'm quite excited about buildering.net 2.0's potential.

Features:

• Site login. Allows you to post comments, track posts, make a profile page, and more.
• User submitted content. Keen users drop me an email, and I'll upgrade your account to "field correspondent", allowing you to submit your own front page stories.
• Tags. A great way to sort the posts. Click on any tag (e.g. "buildering", "parkour", "gallery") to see all other posts in that category.
• Search. It really kicks ass! Yeah, I'm nerding out...but do you know how many websites have totally broken searches?
• Sexy new music player.
• Better Galleries. I'm sick of little thumbnails and navigating though each picture. Gimmie all my pics, full size, on one page dammit! AND do it quickly. My wish is my command.
• Better Content. Yes I'm an intolerable perfectionist. Since I had to repost all the old content anyway, I couldn't help but go through and fix up my atrocious grammar. I added some new stories here and there, especially in the galleries.

The rest of the features are nerdy stuff that I'm really stoked on, but won't make much difference to you:

• Driven by the Drupal CMS.
• Full W3C compliance.
• All CSS based design.

One thing that will remain from the old site is the forum. Unfortunately the Drupal forum module sucks. Until they overhaul it, you'll have to live with separate logins for the main site and the forum. Of course, if you've got cookies enabled and aren't constantly deleting your cache to hide your porn, then you'll only have to do this once. Also, the main site search won't look in the forum posts. Tis sad, but the forum still has it's own search.

So click around, try and break stuff, and lemme know what you think!

-ard
ardarvin@gmail.com

PS: Old-timey users who still have buildering.net email accounts can access their accounts via: www.buildering.net/webmail