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WoW Screenshots Map disabled

The new style maps on the wow screenshot pages are there now for a while. People seem to like them alot as they startmoving them around and check out place in the world. For the moment they are disabled to correct a few issue's. There are some problems I would like to fix before putting them back on. They can be very bandwidth demanding so I'll be looking into using a mix of image type to have optimal bandwidth useage but keeping the quality up. Another thing that is going to be included are Instance maps (thanks to Dan Gilbert from atlasmod.com). The third issue are the markers. Currently they are only on a handfull of zones like Nagrand. (The maps will only be removed on screenshot pages, but will be available on the map page and the page pages since they are still usefull on those pages.) This upcoming change will also include (when available) 4 diget coords to improve acuracy.

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Custom Google Map Tiles part 2/2: Slicing the tiles and creating the HTML

Time to create a Custom Tiled Google Map from out previous created World of Warcraft map. We'll do 3 maps in this tutorial. Starting with an easy of GTASA (Grand Theft Auto Sanandreas), then we'll make it a bit harder and make a Guild Wars map. After that we'll make a World of Warcraft map out of 4 parts. Below are the images needed for each map. With the GTASA I'll take you by hand over each step so you can get familier with the steps and give a short explanation of what each option/handling does. With the Guild Wars map we'll make a bigger map and with the World of Warcraft map we make a map out of 4 images and use some extra techniques to speed things up.

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Water plus Home Server is a very bad combination

Sigh here we go again. Last night some water leaked from our aquarium on the floor. We pulled out everything on power when we noticed it. That plus probably the water killed my home server so for the next few days anything not cached on the site server (like screenshots images) are unavailable. A new server is allready arranged and should be up and running in a few days. I'll keep you posted.

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Toplist MOD for phpBB3 Screens

Development is going great for Toplist MOD for phpBB3. Most of the work is converting the themes to the new system and into the new style. Some code fixes are included aswell and they will also be updated in the version for phpBB2. To keep is short here are 2 screenshots of the phpBB3 version:

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Friday night Themed Links stops (for now)

Ok this is it (for now) for the Friday night Themed Links. I decided to do this only once a month on the 14th of the month. This is to create more usefull and bigger link lists. Also a reason why I choose to do this less frequently to create better quality posts.

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Friday night Themed Links week 13: 39 World of Warcraft Sites

Easy pick for me this week, here is my World of Warcraft site list.

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Monthly Website Tips: Social March

Ok this area of work is kinda new for me. Never dugg into the social aspect of the web that much as a tech guy. But after some weeks of trying I booked some interesting results with it.

Forums

When looking into the other things (comments, digg(-clones)), and in particular looking through my access_logs. I found out that alot of people where checking out the sites I placed in my forum signature. After setting up a bit more advanced logging on this (phenomena). I found 2 different groups that where clicking. First the returning visitors (more then 1 visit) made out about 10 - 20% of the incoming hits from forums. The other 80 - 90% goes to the new visitor. So putting links in your forum signature is certainly worth the little effort.

Comments

Posting comments has the same effect as a forum signature. When posting a constructive (or just a positive) comment on a post/article/entry people tend to check out your site. This will have a positive effect on the number of visitors your getting.But again make sure to post something useful/constructive.

Sites

Below are a few sites that, when used properly, can increase your reach.

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Custom Google Map Tiles part 1/2: Creating the map

This part is optional and only covers creating a map image from the World of Warcraft game files. If you are looking for a how to create a google map custom tiles from a map image please keep an eye on my blogs. I'll post part 2/2 before the end of next week.

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How to add your visitors to a Google Map

Ok message 1 of today will be a howto to add your visitors as dots on a world map using Google Maps.

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Friday night Themed Links week 12: 0 sites

This week no links instead I spending all my time to give you 3 posts this weekend. 1 in the saterday noon, 1 in the saterday evening and 1 for sunday.