Welcome rebooters! You probably stumbled upon my site via the front page of CSS Reboot where this site is featured as one of 50 premium rebooters. My redesign for PaulStamatiou.com was supposed to come in time for my spring break but it took longer than expected so I launched it on March 31st, exactly one month ago, with this post. My old design, which I have released, was a skinny single-column mod of the K2 theme. The design you are currently looking at, dubbed Defiance, was my attempt at a more professional design allowing me to show more content (many of my guides are lengthy, making reading them on a skinny layout a challenge) and provide for easier navigation. However, I think I owe an apology to those of you visiting me in Internet Explorer. Things look rather different for the bunch of you.
I have tweaked the background, still running K2, quite a bit to handle my growing trend of high traffic. Pages have been optimized from over 250kB to around 70kB. Load times have greatly improved, which was one thing people had informed me about following the redesign.
As you browse through my pages and posts, I will have pulled an all-nighter studying for my History 2112 final exam. If everything goes as planned I will have had read over 500 pages of selected readings from textbooks, novels and other assorted handouts within a 24 hour period.
Before heading back to CSS Reboot to check out the other amazing sites, please grab my feed. A thousand people can’t be wrong. =D I also highly recommend finding other rebooters within 9rules by heading over to 9rules.com. I have the feeling that a lot of 9rulers will be rebooting as well.
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The only problem is that the CSS Reboot website is currently down as has been for the whole day.
I actually emailed Adam at CSS Reboot about that…
Thanks Paul, I was wondering what was happening.
I thought the server was overloaded or something.
Very nice, Paul!
Bummer about the site being down. I just rebooted ;) I would check myself, but what time are the thumbs supposed to be up for CSS Reboot?
Too bad the site is down, I really like the reboot myself, load times are a lot better.
Wow, the new Avalonstar.com is amazing.
Derek, it’s supposed to be at 6PM GMT, so I guess modify that for your appropriate time zone :-)
Just rebooted, using K2 :)
I hope that the reboot site will be back soon, I can’t wait to see other rebooters’s redesign.
Wow…avalonstar’s reboot really is amazing.
Hey, it looks different since March, but still very cool. I’m glad to see you at 1024px… pretty. ;)
Lots of reboots going on. So far my favs are….
5 Thirtyone
Avalonstar
Matt Brett
Great job all around. How did you do on that CS test last week?
Thanks for the mention Paul. :) But we’ve already talked enough about my site. I like how you’ve slimmed things down here. It’s only a matter of time before I start slashing off features from my reboot, but such is the nature of the business.
@Kelsey: My group got a 102 on the CS project you are referring to. =D
1) Have some kind of tile mode program with a sprite moving around on it working: 50/50 points
2) The sprite moves around in a space bigger than the screen (continuous or discrete scrolling): 0/10 points
no use of scrolling
3) At least two difference spaces (different maps – perhaps entered via a door, etc.): 10/10 points
4) Clear sense of goal and goal accomplishment: 10/10 points
5) At least one other sprite that moves around besides the player: 10/10 points
6) Sprite animation employed (e.g. the player sprite changes as it moves around or changes when it takes an action): 10/10 points
7) Extra credit: 12
Exceptional game (is actually fun to play as a game, somewhat challenging) + 7 Exceptional visual design + 5
Total: 102 points
hey Paul, congrats for that new suit, hey I don’t remember exactly where but I think you were searching for stuff that would make some posts sticky on the frontpage or somewhere else (I think it’s the Lurker’s Call if I don’t get it wrong)..I’ve found the plugin check it out : http://www.asymptomatic.net/wp-hacks
Nice work dude. =)