Welcome to BowserBasher's Lair.

BowserBasher's Lair is a personal site designed by me, with a little help from a few people along the way. face_grin

This new version will be incorporating the use of many new features and techniques that I have been learning. The main difference that you will see, is that I have now incorporated a navigational menu on the left of the page, and removed the button links from the top. This will make it a lot easier to find your way around The Lair. The site will also take advantage of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the <DIV> element to get a much simpler site layout.

The main purpose of BowserBasher's Lair is just for me to have a place to show off, display or rant about anything I want to. You can check out the about BowserBasher page, for info on me. See me on Roller Coasters on my Roller Coaster picture page. See me with a couple of stars from The Lord of the Rings when I went to a Lord of the Rings signing. Or take a read of my Orlando Holiday.
There are many other places to visit too, Like my Animal Crossing page. This is all about TheShire (my AC town) which includes many, many pictures. This is currently being updated to fit the new look, and should be up soon. If you ever get lost on BowserBasher's Lair, you can check out the Site Map.

BowserBasher's Lair is designed to look good in all browsers, though I find that it looks best (and the way I intend it to look) in Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is alternative browser that is becoming very popular with many people. Whilst it is viewable in all other browsers, I recommend that you take a look at Firefox.
I was converted some time ago, when a friend showed me what my original site design looked like in Firefox, and graciously helped me re code my site so that it would look great in other browsers besides IE. I started using Firefox and have not regretted it.

To make BowserBasher's Lair I use HTML (HyperText Markup Language), a little PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). I use Macromedia DreamWeaver 8 for all the coding and Adobe Photoshop CS3 to design my images. I have taken the time to make sure that this version of my site conforms to W3C recommendations, and as such I am proud to be able to display the Valid CSS! button button on my site.

Latest updates

31/05/09 : More Animal Crossing Comics and Flash animation.
I have uploaded all the remaining Animal Crossing comics that I had made, but never uploaded. They can all be found in the menu to the left. Enjoy.
If you keep up with the Oz photo gallery, you may notice that I have had to restart my town. This is because after sending my Wii to Nintendo for cleaning, it was returned to me with all my data missing, erased, gone.
Something new, I have found some time to learn a little Flash. I have wanted to do this for some time, but never got round to it. You can find my work in My Ramblings section.

01/02/09 : Animal Crossing Comics.
I had started making these exclusively for the staff of ACC, but I have decided that they are too good to keep to us alone. So I will be sharing these creations on my site for everyone. All the comics are created by me, using screen shots that I have taken in Lets go to the City. I then use an effect in photoshop to create a more comic book like style. Then it is just a case of using Comic Life to create the comic itself. I hope you enjoy these.
You can find the links on the menu to the left, where you will find The Adventures of Three, which was also the first one I made, and Frosty the Snowman.

14/12/08 : Let's Go to the City Gallery.
It's finally here, one of the major features of BowserBasher's Lair was the Animal Crossing Gallery for my town of TheShire. With the release of Let's Go to the City on Wii, it was only a matter of time before I started a new one. With the addition of a camera feature in the game too it makes it so much easier to get photos too. I present the Oz photo gallery.

09/11/08 : Planet Gallery and Signature Gallery.
Added to BowserBasher's Lair, a new Planet image gallery, and Signature Gallery. You may have seen a few of the planets in My Ramblings, they now have their own section too. The signature Gallery comprises of simple image signatures that i have been creating.

19/10/08 : Super Mario Bros Animaltion.
Small addition to the Ramblings section. A friend, Nigel91 of ACC, has provided a Mario Bros Animation based on my hand drawn picture.
You may also have noticed many more Brawl screenshots, I have been updating them semi-regularly so always check the page to see if there are any new ones on there.

10/07/08 : Super Smash Bros Gallery.
Yes, with the release of Smash Bros Brawl everyone has been taking screenshots using the ingame camera mode, and posting them on internet forums. well now it's my turn, but I'm not posting them on internet forums, I have made my own Smash Bros. Gallery. You can find it in the Wii section, or by clicking the link. Enjoy the pics. This will be updated as much as I can.

08/06/08 : New Ramble added
I have added another ramble on a couple of new photoshop images that I have created.

22/05/08 : Added Ramble
I have added a new ramble on a few photos and a video of me playing Mario Kart Wii. Enjoy.

01/03/08 : Minor update
I have added a new ramble. See my creaations using PhotoShop. Also, I have added links to BowserLand in the menu. Please try to click either one of the links each day to help BowserLand grow.

28/02/08 : New stuff on BowserBasher's Lair
As you may have noticed I have made some changes to the site. Let me run through them for you.
New banner. I have been looking a lot into PhotoShop tutorials and learnt a ton of stuff that I have put into making the new banner.
Google ads moved. I have moved the Google ads from the top of the pages into the main body of the page. I feel this is better as they seem more integrated into the page than just sitting at the top.
Wii Wallpapers. As with the banner, I learnt a lot of techniques and put them to good use in making some desktop wallpapers. These may be used for personal use, but should not be stolen and claimed as your own.

01/02/08 : Updated Site Map
I realised that the Site Map was way out of date, so this has been updated to include the most recent pages. I have also added a few more images to the Endless Ocean Gallery.

23/12/07 : Endless Ocean Gallery update
I have added a few more images to the Endless Ocean Gallery. These were taken whilst on a WiFi dive with a fellow ACC member, SimFreak. Some great shots taken.

16/12/07 : Endless Ocean Gallery
Yes, i have started another new bit and left others unfinished, don't blame me though, it's just how I am. Anyway, this is a new page going in with the Wii section, the Endless Ocean Gallery. Endless Ocean for the Nintendo Wii allows you to explore underwater worlds and interact with the fish and mammals there. It features a camera mode, where you can take and save photos of the many creatures or scenery that you encounter. This page is going to be just that.

18/10/07 : More Monkey Ball Videos
Firstly, apologies to anyone that was attempting to access BowserBasher's Lair this past week or so. I have been experiencing server side issues that prevented any of the files on the site showing. That is all sorted now, so on to the good stuff.
Today sees the addition of World 3 Super Monkey Ball Videos. These are probably the most entertaining to watch so far, with quite a few shortcuts. As always they can be found in the Wii Videos Section.

07/10/07 : Lots of Monkey Ball Videos
I have added lots of videos for Super Monkey Ball : Banana Blits to the Wii Videos Section. There are individual level videos of the first two worlds so far. I plan to get as many as I can.

04/10/07 : More Wii videos
Some more Wii Videos today. To accompany the Mii Plaza video, is the Mii Parade video, showing the 273 Miis in my Parade. Also I have started a Super Monkey Ball : Banana Blitz video page. So far this has videos of the levels in the first stage. More will follow.

02/10/07 : Mario Strikers Videos
A nice update today. I have added some new videos to the Wii Videos section. This time round, i have added two videos of Mario Strikers Charged Football. Both are goal highlight videos, one being of the teleporting type goals, and the other is a collection of the Skill Shots.
Added a further video too. A video from my Mii Plaza.

13/09/07 : A little fun.
Just a quicky, I've added a cool picture in my latest ramble. Check it out.

27/05/07 : Just a quicky
Not much added, just a new ramble on my new iMac and why I have not been adding much lately.

04/03/07 : More videos added to Wii Videos
The Nintendo Wii section is now called Wii Videos. I have added 4 new videos to the section, all from Excite Truck. I plan to add more all the time, and eventually from other games too. As of now, I hope you enjoy what is up.

The Terms of Service page has been updated to reflect all new content on the site. I've also gone round and done a little tidying, but nothing that you need to worry about.

02/02/07 : Nintendo Wii section
Yet another new section is being added to the site. My Nintendo Wii section. This will include videos and screenshots that I want to share. The first thing to go up is a video from WiiSports of the 91 Pin strike trick. Enjoy. i will be adding lots later, one thing I would like to add is a Mii gallery. This will hold all te Mii's that have gathered on my Wii.

31/01/07 : New year, first entries
It's a new year, and this is my first update to the site. So what have I done. The latest ramble includes a comparison between the different types of cables that you can buy for the Wii. I have also removed all old updates from this page. You can find them all in the updates section though.

Also added today, a new DS review has been done. Tetris DS is now reviewed.