Welcome to the drastically different looking Mechanical Maniacs! Now you know why there hasn’t been any updates since December! I’ve been busy at work creating this new layout you see before you. And it isn’t one of those cheating new layouts where I just changed the graphics to Power Battles or something. No, this is 100% new, 100% created by me (save for the new Annihilation banner created by Raj). Even the various watch parts were scanned by me; they aren’t from the internet at all.

This is a 95% table-free layout. Finally! The only table used in construction of the layout is the one housing the affiliates … divs just can’t grow width-wise.

More than just the general layout files have changed. I have painstakingly gone through each and every file on the site to ensure that they are all up to code. And there’s a lot of them.

Why all the work for the layout? Mostly because the old layout …. got old. Sure, it was the very best I could do … in 04. And it got a graphical overhaul in 06. But the thing used tables – which are no longer industry standard. And, although I thought using game graphics was a terribly clever idea it’s time to face facts: there’s a lot of pages that do that and I didn’t draw it. I wanted to do something 100% my own. And now it’s done.

There’s a lot of bells and whistles in the layout, And I’m glad to finally present it.