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U8 Guide overhaul

9th August 2015 by Dino

I've been working heavily on bringing the Ultima 8 Guide out of its legacy state and into the modern world. As such, here are the improvements I've implemented over the past week or so:

• Migrated the U8 Guide to HTML5.
• Set up a dual navigation system, so stuff like Walkthrough and Magic sections can be accessed directly from any page in the Guide. For this reason, main Walkthrough and Magic pages no longer exist.
• Improved style of headings and navigation.
• Cleaned up dead links in various pages (work in progress).
• The Lost Vale screenshots has been converted to a proper gallery with full-size images, rather than the tiny thumbnails there used to be.
• I am now hosting copies of The Lost Vale screenshots, the official patch, and Mad Hatter's U8 Graphics Viewer (which had otherwise disappeared from the web).
• Removed "This Guide" and "Disclaimer" sections from U8 Main page. Also added a "Magic" section that contains links that used to be in the old Magic page.
• World map in U8 Maps and Places page now highlights clickable areas when you hover over them.
• Added an entry in U8 Bugs and Mistakes for "Serpent Artifacts for Sale", a silly story I wrote many years ago to explain why the Avatar starts the game without his serpent artifacts. This story has been online for ages, but it seems I hadn't added a link to it in the Guide. Oops.