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-I had no idea about the Steam community. Just joined. All news posted on here need to be posted on Steam and on Raptr. As a matter of fact, I just posted about Assist on Raptr.

-for the home page, all the posts are written in a blog style instead of a news style. For me, a better posting would be "Assist is excited to announce this month Big Clan Day" or whatever, followed by times/days, servers available, maps used and such.  Also, the home page doesn't need to have latest topics and all of that.

-for the About, new players are the lifeblood of a game. In the case of Assist it is even more true. Old players and AA veterans such as myself understand what Assist is, however new players and those that have not touched AA since 2007-2008 may not.

I 100% agree that the homepage should be much more professional, appealing and information giving.

I'll let other people handle Raptr, that program annoys me to no end. Steam needs some help, it looks like I'm admin on there but I don't see much to do, might just be that I have no idea how to use Steam Groups. Might be best to let someone else handle the Steam side of things.

As for cross-posting, I've got Facebook & Twitter setup that way, I think Steam and Raptr would have to be manually done.

I'm not sure what you mean about the news posts. Maybe you can explain the difference between blog style and news style? The titles can't be too long, otherwise they overlap and makes things ugly. All pages, including the forum, have the sidebar. It's not just about the latest topics but also the donation box, shoutbox, stats and Teamspeak viewer. It wouldn't do any good to omit the latest posts with the rest of the sidebar still there, plus it would take away the continuity.

One of the things I was working on before I screwed up the site and lost the information by restoring a backup was a history of Assist with release dates, changelogs and all that good stuff. I'd like to see that back again, perhaps in the 'About' section.

Let's use this thread as a jumping off point for the About section. What are the basics that we should cover? Should we have a history or should it just be straight to the point?




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Vanoke, it's time for me to say something you probably don't want to hear;
You have Photoshop talent, I won't dispute that, but I would not use your talent to create promotional graphics. I have not seen anything of yours that is professional. The things you create are fun but not something that should be seen as the first thing when people hear about Assist. I understand that this project is not a paid, professional group of people doing this seriously but at the same time, we need new users to understand that this isn't some new flash-in-the-pan project that may die tomorrow. We've been around long enough to know what we're doing and any promotional graphics need to reflect that. While I've been part of Assist and AA, I've tried to keep a level of professionalism both in my writing and in the website/graphics. The reason is, anybody can start up a shitty clan site with bad graphics and guess what, nobody takes them seriously. I've been there, I've had shitty sites and it's a joke. When you bring a level of professionalism to the table, people pay attention and realize that it's something that's been around a while and that there's people behind the project that actually care. That's the way I view it anyway, even though I can be a prick at times.

No, better.
A banner is more like this:
http://www.webestools.com/signatures-maker-forum-phpbb-sig-generator-images-banner-signature-online-photoshop.html



As I see it should have the following information:
AA2
25Asisst
http://aao25.com
Perhaps the playername.

I gave it a quick try hehe, it's pretty simple.
There should be a word (verb) linking 25Assist to Americas Army 2.5.
And there might be too much empty space



I'm doing this for fun, maybe I'll give someone an idea to make a better one





And as icon it would be pretty badass to merge these too:

@august: I'm glad that someone finally took the initiative ...

As for the name / banner: should be easily recognizable and readable at the same time. Furthermore, acronym CM (Client Manager) should be a good addition.

I did juse to a part of Announcement from ! march but is this ok.

To Spanky

-I can take care of Raptr. I use it daily
-cant do Steam as I am not on there that much
-for the about section, I see it as 2 tabs. 1 tab a short about, 2nd tab full history of Assist
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I love the graphics I am seeing. I will start using them.

Understood.
Personally I am not qualified to make graphics, so I will let someone else do it.  Also, check your email.