Petteri Pyyny
19 Dec 2003 22:39
It has been a long time coming, but the new AfterDawn.com v3 (version 3) layout is now here! It has taken literally hundreds of hours of designing, coding, and testing to get to result you are seeing before your eyes. To celebrate the release, we are giving away ten AfterDawn.com T-shirts to our members! If you already entered the draw before December 22nd, please enter again!
The pages have been designed from scratch by Teemu Pärssinen, our web designer (his home pages are only in Finnish, unfortunately). He has done an amazing job in turning our sometimes more than vague requests into reality.
After the layout was "locked", Petteri "dRD" Pyyny took over the pages and started transferring the old pages to the new layout. Many of the pages were actually re-coded to improve performance and functionality, and all of the pages were optimised and tweaked.
In addition to the new looks you'll find some new functionality from the site. But you can count on us adding nice little new features in the near future, as soon as we have ironed out the inevitable bugs and problems with the new page, and sat back for a while and taken a breath!
If you feel a bit lost, please take a look at the small
You can see the back of the T-shirt printing on the right (click for a bigger image). On the front of the shirt there's an embroidery of the AfterDawn.com v3 -logo.
Winners will be drawn at random on December 31th. We decided to extend the deadline to make sure everyone whose entry was lost due to the database wipeout has enough time to enter again. The winners will be contacted via email, so make sure your account information is up to date. Good luck! And Merry Christmas!
AfterDawn.com Staff