Two more new pages have been added to the background information section, one regarding the history of the war, the other discussing the various games and sports of avatar.

Edit: Also, another new page is now accessible here, or by clicking on the new link at the bottom of the right navigation. It contains information and downloads regarding the online game “Avatar Escape”.

Edit2: Two small announcements here; first, I’ve started to put my different colored layouts back up, check them out at the top of the screen (Default | Green, etc). Second, remember that the Book 2 Volume 3 DVD came out this morning, pick up your copy today!

Edit3: I didn’t want to make a new post for this, but if your page is stretching or looking funny somehow, ignore it for a bit please. I’m aware of the problem, and I’m trying to fix it. Thanks! Problem now fixed, thanks for your patience!

As promised, I have continued to add to my background information section, and I now have a page up analyzing each of the four nations. Check it out here, or click on “Background Info” on the navigation.

Courtesy of meebo, Waterbender now has a chatroom (linked to in the left navigation). Check it out!

The affiliation form did not work over the past couple weeks, it does now. If you sent an affiliation request to me sometime recently, and did not receive a reply, please re-send your message, and I’ll get it this time Sorry for the inconvenience!

A new section of waterbender, background info, is now open. Right now, all that is up on it is a summary of the bending disciplines, but much more will be added very soon.

New Layout! Yay! Still not quite perfect, there’s a few things I’m going to tweak over the next 20 minutes or so, but it’s pretty much done!

Edit: I’m in the middle of a sitewide upload that will update every page on waterbender with the final template. Please tell me what you think of the new layout in the comments

I’ve decided, for a couple of reasons, the most prominent of which is bandwidth, to move the comments from the Speculation Section to WT Forums. This won’t be much of an inconvenience to anyone, all you’ll have to do is login one time to comment. I’ll take care of making the accounts and copying over the comments, and if you ever commented in the Speculation section, you should receive an email within the next few days containing your username and password. Also, if necessary, you can change your username (the one you login with). That will hopefully be done within a few days.

I’m almost finished with a new design for Waterbender (sort of, though it’s very similar), view it here. Please, email me and tell me what you think

Note: The color scheme is not final, and is only there so I can see border’s and such.

As you have probably noticed by now, waterbender now has 2 new layouts, 2 different forms of a general black theme. However, I’m not quite satisfied. As a webmaster, layout design has never been quite my thing. If you’d like to make a layout for waterbender, or improve on an old one (knowledge of CSS is required, basic photo shopping skills optional), go to the feedback form and select “Layout Contest” from the drop down menu. Or, check out this page. Enter your expereicne with CSS and making layouts, and, if possible, examples of your work into the feedback form, and I’ll reply with the URL to the page with the actual info, which contains everything you’ll need to make a layout within the parameters I’ve already created. If you have a good knowledge of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), it doesn’t take long. I’ll be sure to credit you in accordance with your layout once you make it and send it to me, and, since waterbender receives almost 1,000 unique visitors everyday, you can be sure your layout will be seen.

Edit: I’m happy with the layout now, so this contest is closed. Thanks for the offers!

The box set for book 2 of avatar was announced today by TV Shows on DVD.com. Two pictures of the DVD, which releases on September 11th, can be seen here (box art only) and here (box art with discs sticking out). This appears to roughly coincide with the probable air date of Book 3, and releases about a month after volume 4 of the individual DVD’s come out.

This DVD will also, like the first box set, contain a bonus disc of special features, in addition to all of the episodes on 4 discs. ASN is reporting that the special features on the bonus disc will have subtitles. The exact content of the bonus disc, and whether or not it only contains all the special features on the individual DVD’s (like the first box set) is yet to be revealed.