New Website ! (was sneakpeak)

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New Website ! (was sneakpeak)

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All right guys. After having spent quite a lot of time and energy, I thought it was about time to show you the new website. There are still a few things to iron out before we switch over though. But I would enjoy some comments.

You should be able to log in using your current alfa login/pass, but it might fail the first time you try, because it is downloading your account data from the phpBB database. Yup, that's one of the reasons we aren't launching yet 8) It's a minor thing though, and only occurs the first time you log on.

I will try to add you to the ALFA Members usergroup as I see your user accounts popping up, so you get a little more access.

I have cleaned up, thrown out, redone etc, the old wiki.

Basically, the idea is to keep it all in ALFA Player Manual. One place to rule them all, means its a lot easier for people to keep it up to date. As well as much easier for new players to find the information they need.

Which reminds me, I'll hand out edit permissions to people wanting to help updating the various parts of the APM. I have done a few changes myself, but I'm afraid there's more that needs to be done. Please let me know by PM or on IRC.

One of the main reasons for redoing the entire website setup, was that the old one had been hacked to death/pieces by various IA's and others through the years. All editing their own files here and there, and not documenting. The new website, has zero hacking. Everything is done through modules, and done properly, with documentation. This means the next IA will have a very pleasant time taking over. Additionally, making changes to all the content is now super easy, thanks to a great WYSIWYG editor. Unfortunately you will need the right access to be allowed to edit content. Let me or Demson know if you want to help out!

Yes, there's phpBB3, introducing ALOT of new niceness for us. Especially in the moderation department. 8)

Hope you'll enjoy this. Hoping to launch in about 2 weeks time, but this might change obv.

Special thanks to Roekemoes for his fantastic help coding the massive applications module, aswell as importing wikidata and alot of other things. Invites module is in the works and will be in before we go live. Thanks mate! :P

http://zic.darktech.org/
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The post important one to update and be really careful about before we launch imo is this

http://zic.darktech.org/node/909

Feel free to post comments on what we should say here to make it as easy and nice as possible for noobs.
I will then change that pages url to something less annoying, and include it in the auto-email we send to new users when they apply.

Obviously, we have this that I made:

http://zic.darktech.org/downloads

But I somehow feel like we could use more, or maybe rewrite that / combine with the one above ?
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Before you ask, yes, the phpBB database in use here is atleast a month old. I will ofcourse make a new copy, and convert it to phpBB3 format right before launch so that no forum data is lost in the transition.
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the new website wrote: Software
  • Neverwinter Nights 1
You will also need Neverwinter Nights, and the two expansions, Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undertide, installed.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2
You will also need both Neverwinter Nights 2 and the expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, installed.
This makes no sense whatsoever, or it's not true, or both.

You need NWN1 and SoU and HotA,
or
NWN2 and MotB.
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hollyfant wrote:
the new website wrote: Software
  • Neverwinter Nights 1
You will also need Neverwinter Nights, and the two expansions, Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undertide, installed.
  • Neverwinter Nights 2
You will also need both Neverwinter Nights 2 and the expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, installed.
This makes no sense whatsoever, or it's not true, or both.

You need NWN1 and SoU and HotA,
or
NWN2 and MotB.
Yeah, this is taken pretty much directly from the old wiki. Wanna have edit-rights so you can fix the page properly ?
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Just take out the "also"s. And the comma after "Neverwinter Nights".
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NWN1: Soppi Widenbottle, High Priestess of Yondalla.
NWN2: Gruuhilda, Tree Hugging Half-Orc
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zicada wrote:Wanna have edit-rights so you can fix the page properly ?
Nah, give it to NickD. He's really picking nits. :wink:
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Would be cool if someone would like to add some more pictures to the various content aswell.

Check this out for example:

http://zic.darktech.org/node/916

Looks pretty sexy, right 8)


The process is extremely simple: The edit-interface looks and feels basically like microsoft word. You basically just click upload, and you get the picture in wysiwyg editor (what you see is what you get).
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Can you do collapsable forums in phpBB v3?
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NickD wrote:Can you do collapsable forums in phpBB v3?
Guessing you mean subforums. Yeah, pretty sure theres a module for phpbb3 for that. Just havent installed one yet.

Definately part of the plan though.


Ive given you edit-powers. Try it out :D
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Appreciate your hard work zicada.

Can the forum be the width of the entire screen? Most modules in new websites are collapsible, so with luck we'll be able to, but as it stands the forums are squished in between two fairly useless modules that could just as easily be in the topmenu.
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indio wrote:Appreciate your hard work zicada.

Can the forum be the width of the entire screen? Most modules in new websites are collapsible, so with luck we'll be able to, but as it stands the forums are squished in between two fairly useless modules that could just as easily be in the topmenu.
Yup, thats one of the things I wanted to ask everyone about. Do you want it in a frame, or as its own page ?

I can possibly set it up so that you can choose, unless most people would just want it fullscreen.

Its just a flip of a setting though to do it. Ill set it fullscreen now so you can check out the difference.
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Set to fullscreen now
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Turns out phpBB3 supports subforums by default :D

I'll set that up once I convert and copy the current DB when we switch over.
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It makes me feel all tingly!

In my pants! :shock:

Looks great Zic.
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