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Post by xPhoenixXx on Jun 2, 2013 19:12:55 GMT 10
Hi Everyone, I've got a domain registered for the dark fortress. It is rather generic as all the variation of minecraft and dark fortress were already taken. our-game.net/you can also try to connect to the main minecraft server using: "play.our-game.net" As the host name. If anyone wants to knock up a basic web page to go there, zip it up and attach here in reply and ill take a look. |
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Post by 空 on Jun 3, 2013 2:43:20 GMT 10
About the future staff positons, I am willing to give a shot at EVERYTHING except Docs rofl.
I am going into my 3rd year on a Multimedia degree, might as well put it to use. Did a few module on Java, can try and learn that too.
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Post by 空 on Jun 3, 2013 2:44:50 GMT 10
Oh, for the new forum, I'd recommend MyBB look it up, I used to run/staff several MyBB forums back in the day. I'm rusty, but still I know it well, and it's one of the most oser/admin friendly BB software out there. EDIT:  http://i.imgur.com/3t3uo8I.pngFYI that's a scaled vector of the actual dark fortress  Also might have the time to whip up a quick temp website next few days. Although for long term I'd recommend a CMS/Blog type site in conjunction with forum like minecraftforum.net etc. |
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Post by xPhoenixXx on Jun 3, 2013 13:15:33 GMT 10
Theres a phpmybb on there at the moment, ive not played with it much, but looks pretty standard crap.. with the advantage.. no ads.
As for content, i wanna avoid the blog/cms stuff, its too difficult to maintain look and feel and content if something crashes.
I am aiming to pump up that wiki to cover the support areas from this forum; that allows user created content etc. Backups/recoverys are easy too, you just pull the txt files out, wipe the rest reinstall and copy them back.
The main page will just be a (nice looking) portal page with some hopefully nicely laid out pages for fixed content.
Thats just a cp blah blah to move/backup unlike the scripted stuff.
I am in no rush to ditch this forum anyway, its done well by me so far. As for ads, use firefox and ABP plugin, and ... what ads?
I can also pay a fee to remove ads for a month too.. tho thats not really an option, since they are not as bad as.. ninemsn for example where you move the mouse (at all) and it starts playing a full screen high def tv commercial.. man must suck to be 3g in Australia. 2 hd ads on your msn homepage and your "generous" 500mb allowance would be gone.
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Post by 空 on Jun 3, 2013 13:19:59 GMT 10
If you're planning to stick with this forum it's fine. For our current audince we don't exactly NEED all the functionality MyBB provides. I was just saying I'd pick MyBB over phpBB if you WERE switching  And I get what you mean about the portal. I'm no good at designing for mediawiki, and wiki's don't really need to be overly graphicalised anyway, so I'll whip up a portal/home page whenever I can. You OK with me using the logo/banner I supplied above or you got a better one? |
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Post by xPhoenixXx on Jun 3, 2013 13:38:49 GMT 10
I think brinsta was looking at taking a crack at a design too. But if you both have a go, then we compare the two; or even combine the best bits who knows. I've stuck your logo at the bottom of the placeholder page just to give you a feel for it. Ideally the main page would be a portal to pages for other servers/games too - with ours being the main one obviously. That way i could have darkfortress.our-game.net with a dedicated page for dark fortress, and a more general one on our-game.net with for example a link to alphawars.our-game.net which would have details of that server etc. I dunno, like i said previously, ive got a year to decided what to do with it  |
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Post by 空 on Jun 3, 2013 13:55:12 GMT 10
Ah right I understand. Keep us posted |
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Post by brinsta9 on Jun 3, 2013 15:51:41 GMT 10
i was like "woa" when i logged on and all this was like highlighted.. anyway i know the very basics of java website coding... but i am doing Visual Communication which will count for something!
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Post by grimnir on Jun 3, 2013 17:11:30 GMT 10
HTML5 is where its all at. no need for JAVA to much over heads anyhow. IMO. it would be best to setup a Jooma/Droopal/WP site and develop around that. Has all your CMS already there and easy to skin a layout/theme for. |
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Post by brinsta9 on Jun 3, 2013 19:07:00 GMT 10
i mean html... not java stupid me... lol... but yeah i agree
HTML FTW! ( yes i know a bit more about that too)
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Post by 空 on Jun 4, 2013 2:39:18 GMT 10
HTML5 is where its all at. no need for JAVA to much over heads anyhow. IMO. it would be best to setup a Jooma/Droopal/WP site and develop around that. Has all your CMS already there and easy to skin a layout/theme for. That's what I said, but phoenix doesn't want that. He wants the hope page to be portal, content on wiki, community on forums. |
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Post by grimnir on Jun 4, 2013 15:02:09 GMT 10
posted in wrong thread before; had 30 mins free time today so I threw up a sample website. www.alphawars.net/mc |
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Post by brinsta9 on Jun 4, 2013 16:46:30 GMT 10
posted in wrong thread before; had 30 mins free time today so I threw up a sample website. www.alphawars.net/mc I like thata one. |
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Post by brinsta9 on Jun 5, 2013 22:18:37 GMT 10
I did a background for the server, only if you want to use it. it does look crappy but i whipped it out in like 3 mins. i was acxtualy going to code a webpage myself but i couldnt actualy get it as a background and i was too lazy to research it.  This is the BB code [*IMG] i.imgur.com/DGCU9Ko.png[/IMG*](remove *'s) and the html one <a href="http://imgur.com/DGCU9Ko"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/DGCU9Ko.png" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a> orr you can just save it and re upload it lol |
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Post by brinsta9 on Jun 5, 2013 22:19:04 GMT 10
come to think of it i probably should have used a texture pack
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