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New theme and other changes

home_remodeling Today I decided it was the time for a few changes here at Stargazer’s World. The most obvious change is the new theme. Stargazer’s World now uses the Mystique theme by digitalnature. This theme has a much better readability than the one I used before and looks pretty cool. Alas I am not completely happy with the background, so I will probably change it in the next days.

I also got rid of the Disqus comment system. Recently the service was not that reliable and it often caused severe slowdowns on the site. So I replaced it with Intense Debate. Intense Debate definitely integrates better into the blog and has a few more features I find useful (like CommentLuv support).

I am still in the process of tweaking the theme and some of the plugins, so don’t get alarmed if something doesn’t work like you were used to it. If there are any major issues, please let me know. I’ll try to fix any errors ASAP.
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Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Greg Christopher

I like it!

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Sunglar

Am I still still hired or am I out with the old look? I can work for less!

(Just kidding, I love the new look!)

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Stargazer

I am glad you like the changes!

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greywulf

Looks good to me 🙂
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@thefreerpgblog

Lovely! I mostly read the blog in Google Reader but it's great to see a refresh.
The only thing I might change is reducing the size of the right-hand column. Categories is useful but do you need that and the cloud? Also, if you can, stripping the title of the 'search' item and affiliations boxes. Both are obvious what they are, so don't really need an extra title. Also, not sure if you need a calendar.
Now it sounds like I'm having a moan. Not really, just trying to be a bit more helpful than normal. 🙂
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Stargazer

I agree, the sidebar is a bit on the long side. I'll try to implement a few of your ideas!

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@thefreerpgblog

Splendid! Much neater and at the same time you've not lost any content or functionality. Bravo! *applause*

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