So why the changes? The old website seemed to be pretty good and fairly functional, so why go through the effort of all of this "fancy-dan" stuff? Well, for a start, the underlying platform that the old website ran on was starting to get rather dated. Particularly from a security perspective, PHP-Nuke has probably seen better days.

Not only that though. Functionally, this new platform (called "Joomla") seems to have a lot more "fun" stuff that we can look to introduce over time. While time-contraints in the leadup to the release of Wrath of the Lich King mean that I haven't been able to complete everything I wanted to before launch, there's still some awesome stuff here (and it's going to get better).

Check out what we've got on the Front Page alone! To start with, there's a cool new Guild Recruitment process. While we've always been able to indicate to people how much we've desired certain classes, now we can actually tell Druids that it would be great if you were Resto! We've got a new way of seeing who's on Ventrilo and getting people new to the Guild or on PUGS into Vent easily, and some really helpful forms for new Guild Applications and requesting changes such as Ranks and Mains. And finally (and you'll love this especially in the forums) - it's now easy to show off your recent spoils from Raiding or Instancing by publishing it like this: [Sinister Squashling]!

Anyway - I strongly encourage you to take a look around, and as a final "hurrah" to the new site, if you're reading this before WotLK has come out, just bide your time a little longer and get yourself hyped up for it by watching the Trailer for the 50th time....

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There - doesn't that feel better? Enjoy, and let me know if you have any other feedback on what you'd like to see next for the site.

Oh, and I almost forgot. If the Front End's going to get a facelift, why not fix up the back-end as well.....?