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Good job everyone who got something done this year. It'll be interesting to hear what you all have come up with. About this, the server is slow, so you should probably use smaller images on the main page. We're a bit spoiled with most big sites being fast, so a lot of them don't bother will optimizing image size. But it's pretty noticeable here. I like the general vibe of the new colors, feels more wintry, though the background is a bit too bright for my liking. Overall, it's an improvement, and should indeed make updating a lot easier. I've worked with php, where you can easily update an element that shows up on multiple pages. Requires a different server setup, though. In html, this is probably the best approach, though in 17 more years the page is gonna be loooong. But by then you'll have learned javascript and can do some show/hide things. And linking to anchors/bookmarks. And more. Good job.

So I wanted to take a moment to say a few things. First, I want to thank everyone, all of the fans, all of the artists who've contributed to the albums over the years; you have my heartfelt gratitude and it has been an honor to help keep this album series going all these years. Secondly, about the updated site; part of the reason for the update is that I'm learning frontend development, well trying to at any rate, that said a site update has been long overdue. Going forward all of the albums will be on the main page, and they will be chronologically newest to oldest. This means no more clicking around to each volume to grab the albums you want. You can do that from the home page. This also has made my life easier and increased the speed at which I can get everything done and posted. I think I just spent about 20 minutes adding all the information onto the site itself, testing it, and then uploading it all to the server. I used to have to go to each and every page to update navigation and that was a very time consuming task. So, there's that. I've also long wanted to change the color scheme. Initially, I was going to stick with green because I love the color, but also because it featured on the original version of the site. I decided to mix it up a bit and go with a blue color scheme, and I think it's a lot nicer. The Coop should be adding the link to the site to the top of this thread soon-ish. That said, for now, I'll post the link here: https://williammichael.info/aocc Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! Enjoy volume 17!

Excellent work, guys. :) :D Lovely songs all around! A pleasure--as always--to be participating in this. ♡ Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and here's to another yeah full of (possible) bangers being made. :3

I had given alternative titles but erm… Night of O Holiness Misfit Isle Little Boy of the Drum something like that

Yay! My favorite OC tradition. Only just poked at it as I want to save this for later when I eat dinner, but I can already tell it's going to be great. Great job all! My only tiny bit of criticism are the track name seem a little generic, OC always have fun with their naming, don't just call a song "source"! BTW: Did you happen to have sources and composer breakdowns for the tracks that aren't obvious? OC used to be good a doing this, but the last several albums have been neglecting these fields... and I'm waaay to rusty myself, I can tell "Ice Paradise Zone - Act 2" is no doubt from a Sonic game, and there are a lot of traditional sings I see too, ie. "O Holy Night", "Greensleeves", etc., but also a lot are going over my head here, and I'm drawing blanks. (damn my old age!!!)

Great job everyone and thank you for pulling the sleigh Coop Merry Christmas and best wishes.