Now that the site is up and running (not as good as I would like it too) it is now time to start getting things to function as well as include content. Here are some of the things that have gone though my soft damaged brain.
Forums
The forums are having permission issues; don’t look to great and so far there are limited posts. The major problem has to due with the permissions. Currently Guests can post to the forums and no user information is saved.
I would like one volunteer to get website permission access to see if it it helps with the forum permission (all part of the testing phase as I have never integrated a Wordpress forum plugin). My thought is that if a KO3A member is registered on the website those permission would transfer over to the forums. If you would like to help me please volunteer to be a forum tester.
Here is what it should be like: http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/support-forum/
Member Pages
I have started building my page and would like at least to have Mikered and Officers have bio pages. The bios will help new members get to know their leader and officers as well as serve to help the SEO of the site.
Bios pages should be fun and light hearted. I have seen some writings on the old forums about your characters and thought they were awesome. Get creative and take a awesome screenshot (hit F12 to hide UI and F11 will screenshot) to round the page out. Bios can be submitted to me at goingbigger@hotmail.com and can be just a WORD doc.
Home Page
This is a difficult part. The page has to differ from the About page (which as info from the forums) so it makes it challenging to write a Home Page. I am totally open to suggestions and/or if someone wants to take it upon themselves to assist and write something up.
Theme Selection
So far none of the themes installed match or resemble anything close to LOTR. I did find one theme but it had to be built from scratch which outside my abilities. Ryangar mention his roommate might be able to help but lost the email address.
Any theme can be modified but finding images is the difficult part. Right now there is a picture I took of Forochel but it looks like squeeze. I would like to see a kin picture up there but has to be scheduled to get many off us online at the time; which is a schudeling calendar issue. Pictures can be emailed to me at goingbigger@hotmail.com and need to be 921×177 to fit smoothly. I know that is tough but give it a shot as KO3A submitted images would kick creep ass.
Calendar
A plugin has been downloaded but not uploaded into the site so what complication and/or will it suits scheduling needs is yet to be determined. From what has been said, the calendar will show days for raids, moors runs, kin class quests…etc. Hopefully the process is smoother than with the forums.
Miscellaneous
There has been some smack talked against Mikered in a LOTRO Forum and it is ghetto in my opinion. Even though we are gaming with these people we should not be aggravated that they is such smack talk because KO3A doesn’t stoop to that! We are a fun kin that doesn’t matter if someone dies a lot (that’s me) or isn’t the most spectacular player. LOTRO should be fun and part of relaxation outside of normal day-to-day life. So please no get busy with the smack (there is some grey area to I understand).
That is all for now and its back to getting this site working while my video card is down. It such weak ass since gamin rocks!