Wow, love the new layout =D

Looks a lot neater and more organised than the current one and also gives a feel for the 'damage' which the current model left you guessing for heh.
Should be great once you implement it.

BTW, that view summary link above the description of the battle..will that put any more description into the attacks or just list out the previous attacks?

~Gen

Yeah, I'm trying to make everything a bit clearer, both in terms of raw visual layout and in terms of the data presented on screen. Having actual indicators of damage/status effects/etc will make it a lot easier to follow, I think, especially when people start creating their own attacks.

I was planning for the "full summary" to just be a list of all the attacks thus far -- I haven't really thought about expanding it. If you've got any suggestions on how I could do that, please, let me know. The launch version of the new site will probably be pretty basic, but I'm hoping to throw in a few new surprises to make it worth switching :)

Lookin' good! Hope this turns out well for you <.<

Thanks! I'll keep plugging away at it and we'll see what happens :P

In Firefox everything loads up and looks okay the only problem is the colouring on the tiles at the bottom for choosing the attack and Latios' health bar is still green with a red outline as opposed to being red in Chrome. Just thought you should know :3

There's errors in the CSS code. I checked it with W3C CSS validator and here's the report:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/.....=1&lang=en

The W3C validator can be useful sometimes, but in this case it's mainly just a lot of noise :P About 95% of the errors it's throwing have to do with browser-specific attributes that are just fine as long as you use them correctly, or new CSS3 features that haven't been ratified yet (CSS animation, etc). As long as you're careful to include fallbacks for older browsers -- and as long as you know what you're doing :P -- it all works out just fine.

On that note, though, I'm not going to be supporting anything before IE8 -- it's a lot of work that I'm just not interested in doing. IE8 should work fine, but it'll lack some of the prettier touches.

Good to know :) Right now I'm constantly making changes, so it can be annoying to copy/paste a bunch of color codes to get all the different browsers working, but I'll definitely fix that up before the site goes live. (And if I don't, I'm sure there will be users who point out what I've missed :P)

"Firefox probably has some colors wrong at this point"
I use Firefox and it looked perfectly fine.

Attack buttons text color should be darker.

Attack buttons are intended to be brown and charcoal, but there are some things I haven't yet propagated through the whole CSS file. It'll be fixed eventually :P

Wow that puts the old one to shame, no offense.
Very nice.

Oh no, I totally agree :P The layout of the old site makes me cringe -- it's not completely terrible, but it was very quickly thrown together and it definitely shows. This is a chance to start over, so hooray!

I was meaning to ask you, actually: I don't know if you noticed, but there's a little slot in the upper-left corner of this new layout that says "LOGO". I've been trying to come up with something simple to put there, probably just a symbol or a silhouette of some kind, but I haven't yet found a logo I like. Ideally it would work as a 16x16 favicon, but also as a medium-sized logo for the login page and some other pages. I'll probably figure it out on my own eventually, but if you have any ideas, let me know :)

I'll try some things when classes are done (oh so soon). I would not mind making one for you at all.

That'd be awesome, if you can manage. I've been thinking of something pretty simple and geometric, but I just haven't struck upon the right thing yet -- maybe you'll have more luck than me :)

I actually checked it out, hot damn that's fun stuff... though I have to say I like the look and feel of the new layout better (and I like the pictures better too, but that is a completely different topic (TITS!) except that most of your underground league stuff seems to imply anthropokemon (which made me honestly expect the move "bounce" to increase arousal and and decrease accuracy/cause flinching because of bouncing tits) and these images fit better for that concept)

Yeah, I pretty much always assume anthro Pokemon, even if I sometimes forget to state that explicitly in stories. The new site makes that assumption too, at least for launch -- I'm going to write descriptions as if all combatants are bipedal, and maybe at some point down the line I can add in more specialized stuff for four-leggers and ethereal beings and whatever else have you.

Also, that Kangaskhan pic is preeeetty much my favorite on the current site. Might be a tie between her and Dragonair :P

both very good!

I like aerodactyl and lickitung (except she made me laugh too hard) a lot

Heh, yeah, Lickitung is kind of ridiculous. I always wonder why that species doesn't show up in more lemons, given the tongue...I used a male Licki in one story and had a lot of fun with it :)

Didn't that one also have a heracross? Or am I getting my pokesmutting authors confused... Sorry if I am.

Yep, that would be the one. My little Pokesmut contribution to two under-appreciated species :)

On a different note, did you get permission from the artists/owners of the various characters in the gallery? I just noticed that some of them are actual OC's, and... yeah. I'm pretty sure they won't mind, but ya never know.

Also... you are opening up the ability to create characters and moves? Will there be leveling? how will the stat thing work? Would there be graphics to go with created characters?

I haven't formally asked those artists/owners, no, and I'm aware that's a bit of an issue. Quoting from an earlier journal:

I know it's not the politest thing in the world to use other people's artwork without asking, and for that I apologize. I tried to mitigate that problem by only using artwork directly from rule34.paheal.net (i.e. artwork that has been implicitly approved for public consumption by the artist), but I know that's still not a clean-cut solution. If you're the artist of a particular picture and you want it removed, just PM me and I'll remove it ASAP.

I'm a pretty strong proponent of ownership rights and the like, so the whole thing still makes me a little uncomfortable, but that's the best compromise I could find. So far I haven't had any problems, though that's probably because the site is pretty low-traffic (and the fact that it takes a few rounds of ballbusting to unlock porn pics anyway).

As for the new site: yes, characters and moves will be user-created. I'll probably start the site out with a few characters of my own as examples, but only a dozen or so -- after that, I'm expecting everyone else to add characters to suit their own interests. I'm still working out all the technical/implementation details, but the stats system will be point-based (i.e. you get XX points to distribute among X categories), the graphics will be supplied by the user (i.e. enter a URL pointing to the image you want to use), and there will be leveling up (though probably not at launch). It's gonna be tricky to pull off, but I'm hopeful.

Good luck.

That's looking -damn- sharp. I greatly approve.

I keep abortively start-stopping on a story set (very) loosely in that league, but I also keep trailing off into various distractions. (This month's distraction: Actually -playing- Pokemon.)

Really should sit down, figure out a proper cast and bash it out one day. I know loosely how it ought to go.

Glad you like! The whole thing came together really nicely -- I'm quite happy with it. Plenty more to do, of course, but it's a solid foundation to start from.

And please, please do bash out another story one of these days...emphasis on the bashing :P I'd love to see your take on this twisted little league, or on anything else for that matter. If Gym Class Accident is anything to judge by, I'm eagerly looking forward to it :)

I have a few suggestions:
there are too many species of Pokemon, and is it possible to give out only a part of them by settings? I mean some people do not like certain species, or certain generation of pokemons. For examples, I usually avoid any non-mammals (expecially an occasional dragon), and I am very unfamiliar with the fourth and fifth generation. So maybe you can add a function to personal settings, to allow the user choose "classes" (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, fungi, non-organisms), and generations (I-Kanto, II-Jhoto, III-Hoenne, IV-Shinno, etc), so only the species the user feel comfortable with will appear on his/her list. (I bet some people here do not accept the idea that a stone pillar have testicles, and they are not made of stone)
Also, for those who know not much about pokemon or accustomed to other translations, maybe a brief introduction can be applied. It can be even a few words, such as Growlithe (red canine). Or "national code index", with Bulbasaur being 001 and Deoxys being 386 like that.
Thank you very much!

For examples, I usually avoid any non-mammals (expecially an occasional dragon),

Sorry I have a typo in this sentence, it's except not expecially.

Yep, I'm planning something like that. The new site will actually have a lot more than just Pokemon -- people will be able to create their own characters, so there'll probably be furries and humans and aliens and all sorts of stuff. For that reason I'm working on a filter system and adding short character descriptions like you suggested, so users can better find the characters they want to use and ignore those they don't like :)

Actually I made a list of 493 pokemons' classification as (Mammal Bird Reptile Amphibian Fish Invertebrate Plant Fungi Non-organism Unclassified)
I can send you a copy.

Sure, couldn't hurt -- send me a PM or email it to poiupoiupoiupoiu@gmail.com.

Sent. Here is a brief summary:
in 493 pokemon species, there are
167 mammals, 40 birds, 62 reptiles (including dragons), 12 amphibians, 26 fishes, 69 invertebrates (including insects), 45 plants, 7 fungi, 27 non-organisms (mineral and metal), and 54 unclassified species (including ghosts).
The border line between mammals and reptiles is not very clear, and my decisions may be not the best. The total number is greater than 493 because a few of them are double classified, like Bulbasaur is amphibian and plant. Thank you!

looking forward to it