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| May 16th, 2008
Final Fantasy Illumina is finally back online! In celebration of our one-year birthday, we had closed down for the past few weeks to conduct a series of renovations. That period extended a little longer than originally planned, but alas, we are back open to the public and ready to begin anew!
For the past year, FFi has gone through an extensive amount of technical progress, but not much in terms of content. With Version 1.75, I hope to change that and bring FFi up to the standard that I had originally planned one year ago. With time, the website hopefully will transform into a place that is truly a hub for outstanding Final Fantasy fan-created media. So, a major goal of this new Version was the addition of loads of content.
While not all of the additions are finished yet, what has been added are as follows:
- Front Page -- A section showing the latest forum activity has been added. In addition, useful forum links have been added to the main site's navigation.
- FFi Radio -- The number of tracks on the FFi Radio playlist from each game soundrack are listed.
- FFi Chat has been added for real-time communication--even for non-registered visitors!
- About FFi -- A few images have been added to accompany the text and to make the page more pleasant to read. Also, the old production layout has been uploaded onto the server for nostalgia purposes.
- Staff Members -- A section for Job Openings has been added for positions currently available at the site.
- Artwork -- The gallery has been made more organized and user-friendly.
- Wallpapers -- A large amount of official wallpapers from several games have been added.
- Illumina Awards --The Illumina Award for May 2008 has been awarded to FinalFantasyXIII.net for "Innovative Original Content" and we've conducted a epic interview with them!
- Games -- All sub-pages for the games have been established. In addition, a massive amount of hard-to-find official artwork has been added for Final Fantasy XII, with much more still to come.
- Also, the Mint Green of FFi Version 1.5 has been replaced with Hot Magenta/Pale Indigo to commemorate the summer season!
There's still a bit more that will be added in the coming days, including the beginning of several character studies, the addition of original wallpapers and avatars/signatures, enormous amounts of game media, and our very first FFi radio show/podcast episode!
Stay with us in the coming week for all of the new additions -- and also don't forget to leave some feedback!
Site does look great. It feels much better now with all of the content. Nice work. Now we need to get more visitors.