Nov 27 2007

DNS Updates

You may have found the website not working for a short period of time.  This is due to updating the DNS.  We are switching over the DNS for pokequest over from everyDNS to Dreamhost.  Hopefully, everything will be up and working again soon.


Nov 18 2007

Foreign Languages

Well, I was looking at the Google Analytics for PoKéQuesT, and I have seen MANY different languages of visitors.  Because of this, we are in dire need of translators who will be able to help translate the game, the characters names, and the website.  Translators must be fluent in both the language they plan to translate, and at least partially fluent in English (Yes, I know, English sucks but its unfortunately my native language).

Some of the languages we need translators for:

  • Spanish (Espanol)
  • Portuguese
  • German
  • Dutch
  • French (Francais)
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • Swedish
  • Russian

There are many others, but we have had 3 or less visitors from each.  If you are fluent in English and a language *not* listed above and are interested in translating, please, go ahead and send me an email.  My new email for contact about PoKéQuesT is navarr@pkqst.net.


Nov 6 2007

Web 2.5

If you’ve been anywhere else on the Internet, you’ve probably at least heard the term “Web 2.0″.  You may have even heard the terms “Web 3.0″, “POSH”, “Semantic HTML”, or “Microformats”.  Well, PoKéQuesT has a combination of a lot of it.

The new www.pkqst.net website uses what I like to call “Web 2.5″.  Its a combination of the AJAX-y features of Web 2.0 with the semantics, S.E.O., and Microformats of Web 3.0.

This allows our data to be super-organized and compatible with such things as “Operator” for FireFox.

Here is what we have and our thinking about right now:

  • XHTML 1.1 Website (Valid)
  • CSS 3.0 (Valid)
  • X.F.N. (Microformat)
  • S.E.O.
  • hCard (Microformat)
  • AJAX
  • JavaScript

Yeah, this is probably very unorganized.  www.pkqst.net is available for public view, all of it does work, but we are having some slight design issues with IE6; or, in other words, we haven’t even touched the possibility of making the website compatible with IE6.

Known Issues:

  • [safari 3] Blocks do not stay minimized
  • [safari 3] Weird side comes out of nowhere on blocks
  • [ie7] Slight Errors with overflow:hide;
  • [all] Icons look horrible.  This is just bad art.
  • [amaya] Don’t even get me started.