• Ahnion
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Topic: Website?

When we started the forums, we also talked about making a website with a presentation of the community and our aims, as well as whatever other resources we could come up with. At the time, we (the people discussing it) were rather agreed that such a thing was not necessary until we began to get outside interest in the community. Well, seeing the people starting to come in from Ryzom, I'm starting to think that it's getting to be time to re-evaluate.

I've been looking at CMS systems, but though I have some experience in web-design, I've never used one. I'm still pretty old-school and not really very enlightened when it comes to server-side scripting. I know some PHP and I'm considering learning Python. I'm intrigued by the thought of using this site as an instigation to learn Python, but I'm also thinking it would be better if there were several of us working on it.

I have some webspace I'm pretty sure I can use for trying it out, though probably not for actually publishing the site. If anyone has any ideas and/or want to help out, please give a shout. smile

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  • Oluf
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As I said before i wouldnt mind buying us a domain and webspace.... I cant remember who right now but someone said that he/she had access to a totally free domain +webspace ? Anyways, if there is a general interrest in getting a "real" site I can buy us some space and domain for it in the middel of november.
By that time we may also be starting to look into other games (such as NWN2 and URU) so it might be good to get a "real" site by then.

And about making the site. We got Nuala who, i think, is a master-php-type-of-person. I myself can help make layout and gfx for it.

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While a complete doofus in matters IT, I think I'll at least offer some financial support to pay for it. So if we get a dedicated server/web-hotel somewhere, I herewith pledge to contribute to the financial upkeep.

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If we dont plan on using up more then 1000mb of space then its actually pretty cheap to get the webspace for it. The webhotel this site is hosted on (https://www.one.com/) only charges me 9 danish kr per month smile (+ 60 DKK a year for the domain name)

Of couse if we need either more space or some stuff this webhost doesnt offer the price may go up.
if we want a dedicated server the price would go up as well...however that would for example allow us to host IRC servers, etc. But we are talking $80+ a month here i think.... wink

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Re: Website?

As it seems, domain and webspace is not a problem. We still need people to make the damned site though. wink


Oluf wrote:

And about making the site. We got Nuala who, i think, is a master-php-type-of-person. I myself can help make layout and gfx for it.

Well, yes. Nuala is obviously the prime choice so far, but she's also very busy and while I can't speak for her, I think it feels rather awkward to toss more burden on her. That's part of why I volunteered to fiddle with it.
I can do graphics and design as well. (There's a forum style I've made, loosely based around the original Seed forums. It's coming in as soon as Nuala can implement it. http://ahnion.centralen.net/temp/seed-s … nshot2.png for a screenshot) Perhaps, being two of the most opinionated people in the bunch, we can beat our heads together and get a really good site design. wink

Oh and as for space, I don't think that's the problem. Traffic might get to be, though.

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Well on the host i am using they claim that there is unlimited traffic... of couse if there is a LOT of traffic they might start to complain wink
Your design looks real good so far! Its true that Nuala may be busy...hadnt thought of that hehe.

Lets bash heads as you said.... but let us wait and see if anyone else want to help out as well big_smile

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Well, as I said before, I can provide a free domain name, and hosting. It would be on a dedicated server I manage.
It's on a 100mbps link, unlimited traffic.
The server is located in France.
Disk space should not be an issue (around 15 Gb free atm).
IRC server possible.

and Ahnion this is a good design you made, I'm looking forward to see it on our forums.

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So we've got server space, design and domain covered, but only myself working with the CMS. Hm. We'll have to see how this works.

As for domain, something like:

seedthecommunity.org
seed-community.org
savetheroleplay.org

...perhaps?


Oh, and thanks for the positive comments on the design. It took some fiddling. smile

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Make a vote for the domain? I like seedthecommunity.org and savetheroleplay.org.

RP in MMOG's looks like this when trying to base it on in-game activities:
"Let's go <activity>!"
"Yay, <activity>!"
"<motivation>!"
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Let's see if there are any further suggestions first. smile

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Re: Website?

SeedRPCommunity.org
Seedroleplayers.org

?

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  • Nuala
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I will do my best to finish the design and all the add on for the forum tonight, as i'm not there the whole week end.
I indeed have a lot of work atm, but i guess it will be much better in a few weeks, thanks for your patience ^^

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As I didnt feel like working this morning, I have added tin's template.

Only one thing to say: I hate IE!

Enjoy it by modifying your profile, in the display part choosing Seed in the list.

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Thanks Nuala! Good work!

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And thanks Ahnion smile This template feels good and cozy.

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Just in the hope of adding some interest, the CMS that looks most appealing right now is e107.
http://e107.org/

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skanx would be awesome if you could host this... would be great to have our own IRC server as well smile

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own irc server? with a chimbot and idlerpg?

wanna wanna wanna!!!!

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We can host almost anything, provided in runs on a GNU/Linux server smile so yes, no problem for e107.

And yes, you can have an idlerpg wink I never setup an IRC server before, so I will see what I can do. I might need some help if anybody knows how that works.
Right now, I'm considering installing Unreal IRCd.