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Junior Member
 
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/10/2008 5:33:56 PM
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Jebus Zaknif, wtf do you do?! I'm impressed with the professionalism and the attention to detail in trying to create a better site for ourselves. I will try to dispense my UI knowledge and hopefully help created a better site. (Just so I have a little credit, I'm a UI designer, and freelance Web Designer, with a degree in the field)
To start off, people made a lot of good suggestions, but im my opinion seem a little to much. We gotta start by asking a few basic easy questions. With these questions answered, we then can design a site thats fits us.
Who will be using this website?
What benefits do we want to offer to users of this site?
Who is our target audience?
What functionalities do we need and why?
Do those functionalities help your audience and its users?
I ask these questions because, its what you need to figure out before you do anything. I know you, Zaknif, know this, but i'm trying to have others look at these also, before splutting out un-necessary add-ons.
Nihilum is the highest rank guild in the WORLD. Of course they are going to drive traffic to there site, and with that they need a bad *** site. We are War Storm, a small guild on Dragonmaw. I don't think we need the Death Star of websites. In my opinion, we need only a few things. Forums and Guild Progression/News. Forums will cover everything we need to inform in-guildies of any information they would need or want. Guild Progression/News will inform any visitors of our progression, and any other news we want to dispense to them. I would also add maybe a navigation of some sort to link to forums, guild apps, etc etc.
A fresh design is always nice also, but I can't suggest anything right now. Be cool to have War Storm styled to whatever we want. I can offer my graphic design skills to help out. I've done everything from Logo creation to full site creation. Even font creation.
Anyways, on top of all that above, the BIGGEST problem is well THE GUILD using it. We get like a few new posts a day, so more in guild involvement would be good. I don't think half the people who raid ever use this site. A admin who has time to update and populate the forums would be good. Strats, Stats, whatever. Just get on the forums and post daily.
Thats my 5 cents.
(sorry if anything was bad grammar above)
Posh - Resto Shaman
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Junior Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 6/10/2008 5:33:56 PM
Posts: 20,
Visits: 71
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Jebus Zaknif, wtf do you do?! I'm impressed with the professionalism and the attention to detail in trying to create a better site for ourselves. I will try to dispense my UI knowledge and hopefully help created a better site. (Just so I have a little credit, I'm a UI designer, and freelance Web Designer, with a degree in the field)
To start off, people made a lot of good suggestions, but im my opinion seem a little to much. We gotta start by asking a few basic easy questions. With these questions answered, we then can design a site thats fits us.
Who will be using this website?
What benefits do we want to offer to users of this site?
Who is our target audience?
What functionalities do we need and why?
Do those functionalities help your audience and its users?
I ask these questions because, its what you need to figure out before you do anything. I know you, Zaknif, know this, but i'm trying to have others look at these also, before splutting out un-necessary add-ons.
Nihilum is the highest rank guild in the WORLD. Of course they are going to drive traffic to there site, and with that they need a bad *** site. We are War Storm, a small guild on Dragonmaw. I don't think we need the Death Star of websites. In my opinion, we need only a few things. Forums and Guild Progression/News. Forums will cover everything we need to inform in-guildies of any information they would need or want. Guild Progression/News will inform any visitors of our progression, and any other news we want to dispense to them. I would also add maybe a navigation of some sort to link to forums, guild apps, etc etc.
A fresh design is always nice also, but I can't suggest anything right now. Be cool to have War Storm styled to whatever we want. I can offer my graphic design skills to help out. I've done everything from Logo creation to full site creation. Even font creation.
Anyways, on top of all that above, the BIGGEST problem is well THE GUILD using it. We get like a few new posts a day, so more in guild involvement would be good. I don't think half the people who raid ever use this site. A admin who has time to update and populate the forums would be good. Strats, Stats, whatever. Just get on the forums and post daily.
Thats my 5 cents.
(sorry if anything was bad grammar above)
Posh - Resto Shaman
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Supreme Being
Group: Administrators
Last Login: Yesterday @ 11:57:13 AM
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Furikenjahva (4/15/2008)
Leotheras Down delak?!? wow grats dude
Look at the date on it!! psh!
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Forum Member
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 2 days ago @ 4:10:24 PM
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Well, I keep looking at other guild's websites and it looks like ours is just a big ol forum. I suppose it does what it does fairly well, although some variety couldn't hurt =]
I guess its more or less my own inner doer just craving to build something. Hehe.
All the important things like member info and kill stats all come from other sites: armory, wowjutsu, etc..
Given our new focus, I suppose a new splash and color set may be in order. Something focusing on Sunwell. Big ol picture of Kil-J up there...that sort of thing.
I do happen to like the look and feel granted by the Drupal CMS. I've got Drupal 6 up and running for my company's corporate intranet, and its really friggin cool to play with.
I guess I just got a hammer and I'm looking for nails 
Some kinda framework that grants us the ability to update the front page is always a plus.
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