I have updated the Steam Signature maker hell of a lot during these couple of days. I almost completely rewrote it to use Xml parsing this time instead of the sucky HTML parsing it was using before (didn’t even know Steam gave users community pages as Xml). Now you can either use your Steam community id (the name you have assigned yourself from the Steam Community options, can be identified by the url being like this: http://steamcommunity.com/id/) or the profile number (can be identified by the url being like this: http://steamcommunity.com/profile/).

The script now also indicates if you are playing a game (picture 1), just online (picture 2), or offline (picture 3).

It will also detect if your profile is private and write a message to indicate that in to the picture.

Oh and caching time has been reduced from 20 minutes to 5 minutes! Script can still be found from http://tomppaduulis.org/imggenerator/test2.php since it’s still in beta.

Oh and one more thing! I am accepting all kinds of backgrounds the script could use, they just need to have the same dimensions as the one currently in use has and the text has to fit to exactly the same spot.

This is the image you can use as reference!<— Click!

Email the completed backgrounds to tomppaduulis@gmail.com, you’ll have your name written to the credits page once I get one made.

So I made my own. It gives a small signature with your avatar, Steam rating and time you have played past 2 weeks.

That’s my signature. You can make your own by going to

http://tomppaduulis.org/imggenerator/test2.php

The images are cached for 20 minutes and the cache folder is emptied once a day.

I started to dislike the very dark theme of the blog, so I decided that I wanted it to have more light colors.

This theme, Greenpark 2, hit my eye because of the rather good looking style and because it has the same structure than the dark theme I used. I think I will be using this theme for a while, unless someone really dislikes it.

There was an issue on the blog that gave you 404 message whenever you tried to open any particular post. That issue is fixed now though.

So I got a new theme for the blog. Kind of grew tired to the old one, and wanted a more simplish one. This one only has one left panel to add my widgets in, and that is more than enough. My twitter-feed widget doesn’t work right with this one though, but I’ll try to get a replacement for that as soon as possible. That is the only problem I find in this theme though, so I’ll be keeping this one for now atleast.

The site, http://tomppaduulis.org has been updated. The update was big and time consuming, but I am more than happy of how it looks now. The site is about my maps, so I listed couple of my maps there and have started making new ones to list there. Maybe in the future I will list other peoples maps too, so it would be easier for you to download them.