An important update? No, not really. But I feel I should make a little entry about it.

As you all have noticed, moderators have rainbow emeralds for their rank. Normal members have normal colored emeralds,
moderators have Rainbow emeralds. Now..I decided to spice up the rainbow emeralds a little to make them look nice.
How'd it turn out? Like this:



Top: New
Bottom: Old
The old one was a simple gradient with rainbow colors. The new one has...

Wow, there hasn't been an entry in this Journal
in over a month! This thing has been collecting dust.

Anyhow, not really a big update, but I updated some of the button icons for those new members who have trouble navigating.
Here are the 2 ones that were updated:

New Topic:
Old



New

Now I've been itching to add something to this site. I've got something in mind, but I'll have to ask Miles24 for assistance. I'll do that tomorrow.


This, however, I've been planning to add for a while. Just never got around to it.
I added a Warning System. It generally speaks for itself, but I have to explain it anyway.

Here's how the system goes. If you do anything to break the rules, You will get a warning point.
After you break the rules on your 3rd warning...

The forum isn't getting as many posts as it should. Why? I blame the chat box.
A lot of our members are, shall we say, addicted to the chat and very rarely, if at all, visit the actual forum.
Some people don't even read the news section! I do my best to try and keep people on the actual forum,
but its not helping much. This issue has been bothering me. Try to visit the forum more often people,
and maybe convince others to do so as well.

So, I apologized to Sonicfreak for what happened to his forum.(even though it wasn't my doing exactly.)
Smash and I told him that just because Joe was involved for what happened, he wouldn't have to strike back at this site.
None of us want any of this, really. We all want peace for this place. Sonic Freak said that he was already over it, although
he still seemed rather mad.(I'm still upset about it, too) He said he doesn't want any more connection with this site. There
wasn't much connection in the first place, so it won't hurt too much. In the big picture, all is well. We...

No Way! No Way! No Way! No Way?


Yeah, its another update. This one is mainly for the ranks.
I have updated them. The emeralds look a lot nicer now and less pixelated.
I also shortened the emerald count so that there is only 3 emeralds for each color, making about 21 ranks.
As for the ranks themselves, I have finished them. It takes a while to get to the last rank. You'll need a whole
lot of posts.

Whats that? what are all the ranks? I'm not going to tell you. Find out on your own.

Well the Art Gallery isn't going to last all that long, given that we only have 100 pictures worth space.

..it was such a good idea in my head..


Well, I still have other things that I had in store for you all. The Banner Contest has started,
I created the weekly poll like I planned(Yes, that was the other feature I had in mind). I hope
you all enjoy all of this. I still have something else I'm planning, too. Not exactly a feature for the site,
but a little something to...

After a couple of days of working on this, I got the Art Gallery up. I hope you people like it.
Hopefully this will attract more people over here, and raise activity.


I planned to release the Art Gallery on Sunday, the day I start the Banner Contest,
and the day I start another new forum feature. Whats the other thing? Wait and see. Its nothing too too big.

Boy, I've been working a lot on this, haven't I?
I'm not even fully done yet.

I made some huge
improvements to the Portal. It was really bland and...well..boring before, so I spiced it up. I think it looks really nice now. The Affiliates also scroll across the bottom part of the page. So go check it out!
I know nobody really uses the Portal that much(at all?), but its not a bad idea to wash where the sun don't shine!




~Kapus

Miles24 and I had been planning to make a Sprite comic to celebrate the anniversary.
A sprite comic about the events at SW, what we went through in one year. It was a pretty nice idea,
although the anniversary is long gone now. I'm not sure where this idea is going to go, but I had planned
on making a sprite comic with a similar theme for a long time now.

So, stay tuned I guess.




On a side note, I noticed that SL was unbanned from the chatbox...

So I made the Sonic World Journal, a blog that I'm writing about the site.
Whats it about? Just what I'm working on for the site, what I have planned ahead,
and generally anything thats going on. Of course really big things would go in the News section, such as
the Anniversary.

Yeah, its the anniversary today. SW is one year old. Been a while since the forum was made, huh?
Okay, so not that long. We still have quite a ways to go, no?

Anyhow, We're celebrating...