Okay so it's time to start organizing the Smash Bros site. I'll leave this out for probably a couple weeks to make sure we get everyone to help.

In case the title didn't clue ya in, we're going to make a Smash Bros Brawl site on the Center Network. What I need are staff and ideas. I need people to help with GFX work and I need people to help build/maintain the site. I have a pretty good feeling I'm going to do all the coding and actual web page making, but if anyone else here has experience with that, I'd be more than happy to have you on the team too. The sites I make usually consist of basically a PHP template that loads pages into it (to describe without getting TOO terribly specific). In short, it's actually quite simple. We make a stylesheet, some header images, etc. and knit the site together from this and that.

Recommended programs:

• Photoshop or The GIMP (if you know how to use it)
• Frontpage/Sharepoint Designer/Expressions Web or Dreamweaver
• Wordpad (if you know what you're doing and don't want a web authoring program)
• Filezilla (for uploading shit)
• Firefox AND Internet Explorer (to compare pages...and Opera and Safari if you really want to get finicky)

Don't already have these or know where to get them? Talk to me; I'll get you on the right path.

I'd like to get as many people as I can on this project because I'd like to finish it some time this century. Once we've got people, we can start planning out what we want to have on the site, what it's going to look like, and who's going to be doing what. So hell, even if you've never done this before...if you like Smash Bros and want to make a site, hop aboard!

Current Staff:

• webhead
• MT
• Ashley
• WantonGroove
• Dez
• KuraiKaze
• Hojo
• Blackjak

- Changed General Insanity to General Discussion
- Changed Dead End to General Insanity
- Moved General Insanity into the General category, made the posts count.
- Moved Fresh Meat to the top, to make it more visible.
- Moved The Holodeck into Creative Works
- Removed General Dragon Ball, moved topics into General Anime
- Renamed General Anime to General Anime & Manga
- Combined both Naruto Manga and Bleach Manga with Naruto Anime and Bleach Anime, renamed Bleach Anime to Bleach, and Naruto Anime to Naruto
- Combined General Books, Comics & Manga with General Entertainment
- Rue Morgue removed, all posts in it moved into General Discussion

That's all i've done so far. Not sure what's going to happen from here, but there you go.

Just a quick little thing here. I added profile fields for you guys to put in IDs for Playstation Network, XBOX Live, and Nintendo Wifi Connection.

PSN and XBL are just a one line field. NWFC is a text BOX so you can put each game in it. Feel free to fill those out NOW if you have them and you can continue updating the topic to let people know they've changed if you like. Just figured this would be a nice convenience to have for people. Enjoy!

Well I'm just going to formally announce a few things. First off, welcome MaJr and Ghostfire to the staff. They will be filling in as Global Mods from here on out. Wish them luck and I'm sure they'll help to keep things moving along. It'll be nice to have them on the team and I'm glad to have them. We may be picking another mod or two after them as well, so keep an eye out folks.

Secondly and entirely related, we say goodbye to about um...well 7 of the mods as part of a huge restructuring of the staff. I've given them all former mod status here and I've also promoted Lucy to a Global along with Ma and Gumbo. Thanks for the help guys and I'm sure you'll still be around here and there to comment on things. You'd better still stick around god damn it!

This is part of an overall plan to change things up a bit around here. I want active mods that are always on the lookout along with them having global powers so that when they're around they can actually do something. As we discuss things there will be more news topics, but this is definitely a nice big change that I think we can all probably appreciate. Here's to more good times ahead.

For some time now many of us have been discussing what we should do with the main site. There have been many different ideas, but the intent was always the same; to draw in new members in order to boost activity. This is normally something I would stay out of, since I tend to shy away from competition, and couldn't be bothered to get worked up over an idea that may not even be used in the first place, but I do believe I have something pretty significant. Something that would most certainly yield extraordinary results, and prove quite exciting in the process.

A couple years ago we seemingly transformed the Center into a Naruto themed site, deviating from the exclusivity of Dragon Ball, which was for all intents and purposes a dying series. With that transformation, a surprising influx of new members had joined, some of which are still here today. We had effectively cashed in on the series during the height of its popularity, just before being licensed and airing in the states.

I'd like to see something like that once again, with a new series.

Well, not a new series, but a series that will most certainly become popular. Death Note.

It's going to begin airing on Adult Swim sometime next month, and the DVDs will follow the month thereafter. It's already wildly successful, and its fame is going to grow even larger once the American audience is drawn in. If we could give Death Note the "chuushin" treatment, I really think that the Center could become bigger than ever, doubly so because there's little to no decent competition out there. The only one that really comes to mind is deathfan, which has degraded into an all encompassing horror manga site (and even then it was pretty shitty to begin with).

I know there are a lot of people who are very much into the series, and would be more than willing to help contribute, myself included. I've helped with the DBZCenter and Chuushin main sites in the past, but I wasn't passionate about what I was writing or doing, because I had long since lost interest in the respective series. The same can be said for most, I'd imagine. Death Note is still relatively fresh, and nowhere near as long as either of the aforementioned. The fact that it's "finished" should make it a lot easier as well, since there'll be little to no updating once everything's been implemented, save for the occasional news on upcoming movies, games, specials, and so on.

What's more, I'd like to think that Death Note would attract a higher caliber of members, rather than the dime a dozen, underage narutards. It's a fairly intelligent series, at least compared to most shounen anime, and I think the majority of the demographic would be significantly older and more mature (it's as easy as comparing an Adult Swim audience to a Toonami audience). In any case, all I know is that Death Note is going to be very huge, very fast, and people are going to designate a "go to" site just as quickly. We could be that site.

Having said that, I'd like to hear what you guys think about this. I'd also like to get a feel for whoever may be interested in contributing. This will ultimately be an administrator decision, but perhaps seeing a public response could influence that decision.