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Right, so I finished my term paper on Napoleonic navies last night(YAY!!!). Which means I had red bull coursing through my veins at 2 am so I started the new codes for the website. It is excessively bare bones right now, just a blank page with some text, but over time it will grow and improve. If you like you can check on it from time to time and see the progress, comment on things you dislike/like, and suggest new ideas. See link(will be changed to lionsroad.org once it is all done).

lionsroad.org/wordpress/

Rafaella, I don't know anything about when the podcast will be out, that's not my department so to speak. As for an episode guide(I assume you mean a list of episodes with a short summary or something like that) I will probably incorporate something like that onto podcast page.

And as a general update to everybody. I do not know when the new website will be out. It all depends on how much work I can get done per day(I am thinking 1-2 hours of work right now). I am setting up a new website that will replace the old one, so instead of gradual changes you will see one very large change. I will keep the old files as back up in case things don't work though. So keep giving me ideas, and as I work I will add them in!

Good idea. I think that would work well for Tryggvy so that he can keep you up to date on whats going on without actually having to go into the html editor and edit the web page. I will see what I can do, thanks a bunch!

Very good indeed. I really want to see more of them.

It will be awesome. The live show I mean. Even with my unnaturally slow interweb speed this is going to be a treat. I may get skype just so I can call in(though I called in earlier on my cell phone and it worked fine).

maestro-siggy; do you have larger versions of the logos? I think the look great and maybe we could slip one in somewhere on the site. I will pm you with my personal email. If those are the best sizes though I can just right click save and we are done.

Well, Safari corrected the menu text overlap but it did not correct the table text overlap on things like Tryggvy's staff page. This may be an issue that can be simply fixed by fixing the code, or I may just move it down so it all fits. Regardless I can't do much at the moment. I normally would use Seamonkey to do html editing but for some reason it messes up the page whenever I hit preview. I still can't figure out why. Oh well, I will get another html editor.

@Eulalia: perhaps we could do something to the effect of after a podcast comes out with the food/drink(the five min. boil could work here too) we could post a text summary or something. Maybe like directions on making the food? I don't know exactly what all the dead text on the left side of the site was for but I think that could have been Tryggvy's intent.

@maestro-siggy: I am running firefox to, and I get the same thing. Hang on a sec and let me look at the site in safari...

I am Mark, the web lackey mentioned in the last podcast. I am taking over the maintenance and development of the lions road website from Tryggvy. He will still be adding things from time to time, but he has given me license to kick some major web arse.

So the point of this nifty little thread is to find out what you want/like one the LR site. I have my own ideas about it but I want to know what you think would be good, or for that matter what is good. I am not talking about the dead links or the overlapped text, that is more just a need to recode. No, I mean like color scheme, user interface(the menus, links, etc), the organization, the information on the site. I want your input! Anything and everything.

Anyway, you can reply here. If I end up with a slot on the staff page I will probably put an email address so you can email me too.

Well many thanks for your ideas and support. This will go splendidly, I can tell already.