Fixes and Changes to the Fractured Fairfax Forums

I've made the following fixes and changes to the Fractured Fairfax forums:

1. Fixed the problem where the buttons in the editor didn't work if you were using Firefox 16+. This was particularly annoying, but it was a pretty easy fix once I found the patch on the MyBB Web site.
2. Removed the link to the forum calendar from the forum header. I'd disabled the calendar anyway, so all clicking on the calendar link did was take you to a page telling you that the calendar had been disabled, which was kind of annoying and useless.
3. Added a new "Announcements" forum. I added a new read-only forum for news and announcements for the Fractured Fairfax forums.

The Fractured Fairfax forums also had their first spambot registrations: two of them, in fact! I deleted the accounts, but this has got me thinking as to what other changes I'm going to have to make to protect the forums from spambots.

I also think I'd like to make some changes to the formatting and layout of the forums to make them look a little more like the Fractured Fairfax wiki.

Now Testing the Fractured Fairfax Forum

Now testing the Fractured Fairfax forums at http://fracturedfairfax.com/forum.

The Evolution of the Fractured Fairfax Logo

Here's the original Fractured Fairfax logo:

Actually, it's not the original, original Fractured Fairfax logo. That one had a slightly different pattern of lines, but I was unhappy with it because it looked like tiger stripes rather than cracks. When I redrew it, the old one went to the great bitbucket in the sky.

I used this logo for about the first year of Fractured Fairfax, but I was increasingly unhappy with it. Finally, I broke down and created this version last month:

It's better, because the outline of Fairfax County is actually broken up (fractured, even!). I've used this logo for about a week or so, but the problem is that when it was shrunken down, the words seemed too small. So I left it alone with the idea that I'd know better what changes were needed after a "cooling off" period.

Finally, I came back to it and made a few color changes and made the text bigger, so here's the new new Fractured Fairfax logo:

I'm still not 100% happy with it, so I imagine before too long we'll see the new new new Fractured Fairfax logo.