World of Warcraft (often abbreviated as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game set in the Warcraft Universe developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

World of Warcraft Map Updates

Just a moment ago I implemented a extremely simple designfor the World of Warcraft Map page.To make it more clear and easy to use. It will fill your whole screen instead of a predefined sized block.

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Avatar - The new you - Photo's

2 weeks ago I posted about my screenshots being used in an exhibition in Australia. Some days ago I got email from Malcolm with photo's. So here they are and enjoy them:

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Screenshots featuring at the Avatar exhibition at the ACP

Some time ago I got contacted by Malcolm Smith from the ACP. The ACP is going to have an exhibition about online alter-egos named Avatar. So 30 of my screenshots will feature on that exhibition. Really excited about it and can't wait to hear everything about it when it's over. You can find more about it on the ACP website: http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/index.php#files1

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World of Warcraft Custom Google Map back on screenshots

Just wanted everyone to know I enabled the World of Warcraft Google Map on the screenshots again since I'm done with the speed updates. Started working on tthe coords for each zone. This time I'll be using a 4 number coord insstead of the default 2 to increase acuracy.
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SVN up

Over the past few days I've been preparing SVN for most of my projects. They are read-only for non-loggedin users. Only authenticated users can write to it.

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Northrend and Instances added plus a little speed upgrade

2 days ago the instances from Atlasmod.com were added to the maps system (with permission from Dan). When I'm finished with posting this message I'll add the location information to the database so they show up tomorrow on the zones tag pages.

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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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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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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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World of Warcraft Custom Google Map Tiles Phase 1 completed

The wow custom tiles for google maps is my latest project. The project is seperated in 3 phases for now:

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World of Warcraft Gold (A bfrief history of NoGold.org and how I got involved)

For me this started all in the early days when gold sellers started to spam and bugged me to death with it. With Adsense ads on my site I soon found out that Gold Seller adds where showing on my site. So I started adding them to the Adsense blacklist. After a while I filtered out all (for that moment) sites and placed the first version of my list on my blog. After a while I ran into NoGold.org (the old site), at that time it wasn't really much used and irony was that they got spammed on their forums by gold sellers all the time. Last year when Rollie from WarCraftRealms.com took over the Azzor.com network I got the change to make something out of it. Rollie installed a WP install and at first we had a simple default list of sites. After some months when more and more people become active on the site the list grew and we even had to create a second list of currently active sites on Google's Adsense . And now Blizzard finaly made a statement on the official World of Warcraft websites.

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2.3 Vs. 2.4 Interface Option Screen

As originaly posted here this is my post about the new interface options screen in World of Warcraft.

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Friday night Themed Links week 4: 40 Cheatsheets

So I was browsing looking for an regexp cheatsheet when I ran into ILoveJackDaniels.com wich has loads of cheatsheets. So I decided to create an ever bigger list since I was missing some things

. Also Pete Freitag's Cheat Sheet's post was a source of inspiration.

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Tiny site updates

A few weeks ago I added the social bookmarking links just above the forum topics list.

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Screenshots Maps

As part of the redesign of the wow_db module I added a map with tiny red dots that represent screenshots taken.

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WoW Trans Logo

Someone at a forum wanted the logo from the WoW site. So I made this attempt . Hope it's any good to someone.

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World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King logo's

Yesterday I created a high-res and low-res version of the new expansions logo. (This logo is extracted from 1 of the wall papers on the Wrath of the Lich King's sub-site on wow-europe.com and all copyright is owned by Blizzard.) Just putting them online for anyone interested

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Mods Base

I have suspended the development of Mods Base 1 and started working on Mods Base 2. Mods Base 2 will be a light micro API and won't require to install an additional MOD. All MB2 files will be deliverd with the MOD that requires it. So that users don't get botherd with some extra thing to install. Wich was a great deal to me aswell since alot of people complaint about it. This means MAriage MOD 2 is delayed a bit (it is for a few years allready anyway), so t hat I can adjust it :).

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Screenshows problem

Currently my home server (wich contains the screenshots) has networking problems (something is wrong with the system updating it atm). So they might be not available. Most commen checked screenshots should be available cause they are cached on this website server.

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100K Hits well almost

My 2.0.1 Screenshot topic made it onto Schwick his 2.0.1 FAQ topic:

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WoW Screenshots

I changed the quality of all the fullsize screenshots to save bandwidth. The images are compressed as JPEG.15 now (wich is not pretty) but it stays readeble and it saves up around 250KB to 300KB per image of filesize and bandwidth.

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PvP Rewards Bandwidth

Hey I posted a topic on the official world of warcraft EU PvP forums with screenshots (hosted on my site) of all PvP rewards. Now I got 20k visitors and 3.5GB of traffic everyday since they day I posted them. It's so much it shows up on the servers bandwidth graphs, I posted it wensday evening: