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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #15 on: Friday, May 11, 2012, 19:11:26 PM »
Quote from: august on Friday, May 11, 2012, 16:13:52 PM
Spanky, why don't you use the staff mod I linked. You will probably have to edit it to fit the custom theme though.

That's exactly why. Mods conflict with existing code and I can make a custom page much easier and faster than dealing with a mod.

The media, I used that a while back but now, I don't want to host the content. I have 300MB of disk space on this hosting account and I'm using half right now. I'm not going to buy more space for a website for a game that I don't even play :)
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #16 on: Friday, May 11, 2012, 20:25:53 PM »
Quote from: Spanky on Friday, May 11, 2012, 19:11:26 PM
The media, I used that a while back but now, I don't want to host the content. I have 300MB of disk space on this hosting account and I'm using half right now. I'm not going to buy more space for a website for a game that I don't even play :)

I believe it links/embeds from external sites.
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #17 on: Friday, May 11, 2012, 20:45:42 PM »
Quote from: Spanky on Friday, May 11, 2012, 13:09:13 PM
The media page as-is uses Dropbox for the images and YouTube for the videos. There's no frontend so the pages are edited in Dreamweaver. I don't know how to go about getting videos and screenshots from users and easily adding them to a homepage to keep things fresh. I made the media page to show the maps as they are and a couple of videos. If there's a few good 2.5 videos roaming around, I'll gladly add them to that page but as far as keeping content fresh, that's more difficult.

Maybe you can use this site for the videos:
http://www.goinglivemedia.com/
More info here -> http://aao25.com/internet/awesome-americas-army-video!-oldskool-iog/msg21053/#msg21053
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #18 on: Friday, May 11, 2012, 20:57:11 PM »
Interesting site. It may work if we can actually embed the videos and the images on the front page.
Anyone tried that site?
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #19 on: Friday, May 11, 2012, 22:28:06 PM »
Why wouldn't YouTube work again?
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #20 on: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 06:01:41 AM »
Quote from: Spanky on Friday, May 11, 2012, 22:28:06 PM
Why wouldn't YouTube work again?

It's your call :)
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #21 on: Saturday, May 12, 2012, 09:46:28 AM »
Quote from: Spanky on Friday, May 11, 2012, 22:28:06 PM
Why wouldn't YouTube work again?

That would work as well. Create a AA2.5 Assist youtube channel, then upload the videos given by players.
For the photos, how about using http://gallery.menalto.com/. From what I recall, you can even integrate the gallery with SMF and then the gallery could be used to show case game images, but also for players to post and show whatever pictures they would like.

What is important and urgent is to have the game videos and the game images on the front page.

On another suggestion, I would also add a portal page. The current front page is fine as it is and will be even better with the videos and the pictures, however it is really part of the forums. The portal page would be something graphical welcoming visitors
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #22 on: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 22:46:39 PM »
I would like to post a few examples of other successful independent games where we can look for more ideas for our site

http://www.realitymod.com/
http://www.interstellarmarines.com/
http://www.newworldinteractive.com/
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #23 on: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 22:52:07 PM »
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #24 on: Monday, May 14, 2012, 01:33:11 AM »
The SourceForge project web for Assist has a mysql database and space for us to start this. What would be the ideal way to begin. Should we use SMF and pack it with mods? Or should we use a CMS and tie in a forum? I can install any software on there.
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #25 on: Monday, May 14, 2012, 23:11:57 PM »
Quote from: BlueBlaster on Monday, May 14, 2012, 01:33:11 AM
The SourceForge project web for Assist has a mysql database and space for us to start this. What would be the ideal way to begin. Should we use SMF and pack it with mods? Or should we use a CMS and tie in a forum? I can install any software on there.

What exactly are we talking about Blue? If it is about redoing the site, I would use an CMS such as http://www.concrete5.org/, joomla or others to create the front page of the site. Then, I would use SMF with one of the SMF portals for forums. And I would pack it with SMF mods. As I mentioned before, I can help with the site. I am very familiar with both CMS (gaming CMS and not gaming ) and SMF

A few examples of CMS:

http://www.xcelgaming.com/ (gaming)
http://www.concrete5.org/
http://phpnuke-clan.net/ (gaming)
Joomla

Now, for what we need, we may want to go with Concrete or Joomla. Both Xcel Gaming and PhpNuke are more clan oriented
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #26 on: Monday, May 14, 2012, 23:26:28 PM »
Yes that was exactly the info I was looking for. I'll probably get started integrating concrete5 and smf at the sourceforge site without destroying what is already on there.
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #27 on: Monday, May 14, 2012, 23:27:40 PM »
Quote from: BlueBlaster on Monday, May 14, 2012, 23:26:28 PM
Yes that was exactly the info I was looking for. I'll probably get started integrating concrete5 and smf at the sourceforge site without destroying what is already on there.

yea, but why at the sourceforge site? Isnt the sourceforge site for development?
I thought you were referring to this site
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #28 on: Monday, May 14, 2012, 23:41:20 PM »
When everything is set-up, I can transfer the files and database to any site. So essentially we can consider all this new stuff to be in development. When I have the files set-up at Sourceforge I'll give you access to it so we can start getting things done.
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Re: Website improvements
« Reply #29 on: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 00:13:07 AM »
Understood and Hooah!!!
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