Muhahaha the dawn has come and enemies must be aware. The Bigg guy has new gear, weapons and some serious tech behind his side. That’s righ, Biggs just scored a new motherboard, power supply and the mean mugger of all video cards, the EVGA GTX 280. The vid card is literally huge and with 1g of memory on board should rock with the 4g I already have.

Some other tech updates are in the way of some new forums: Stairs and Forges (would have added more but haven’t been there yet).

So KO3A members send some advice to me on what you want to see in the forums or better volunteer for forum moderator bitcholas!

Tons of stuff are happening with KO3A. Redrover and Minityrant have come back from their vacation to slay and kill things. Good thing to because we are still missing some old timers like Ascenbrand, one of hell of a minstrel.

Right now I am waiting for the LOTRO client to update before slaying Middle Earth with friends and a few foes

WTF is pre-requisite software? Boo LOTRO, hurry up or I start killing developers with Peerless Silver Mallorn Hammers. Oh no, got the 14k download now. OMG what does it take to download at a high rate of speed…ok it is going fast but that is not fast enough for a lvl 60 Champ

Shhhh…when Managuensis goes to bed I will game on his machine. Sssshhh, keep it down he is still awake. Damn Mike. I know you’re leader and all. Just kidding bro-kish-kosh. Don’t demote me.

Anyhoo. Well Knights have some fun slaying monsters in Moria and lets show everyone while we are the best Kinship!

KO3A fo Life!

Got some more updates rolled out: Ryangar’s profile page and the Calendar, profile page info. The Calendar is going to work but it is going to take logging into the website slightly different than the forums. There is no way to post events from the visual part of the site and have to be conducted in the WP-Admin dashboard. I will get to that later but for now it will just look pretty until I get around to writing out instructions. Lata all and cya in the game!

The last few hours have been busy busy. Since my pc is broke down it has given more time to focus on the website and get it up to snuff. It has been exciting to feel the site and forums take shape and look like a kinship website. Even though the theme is specific to LOTRO it fits nicely and another bonus came in the forums where there was a “medieval” display setting.

The navigation is coming along and with more content it will gradually build out and seem fuller. The homepage is wacked but bios are coming along and look a lot better than the previous theme. Check out Mikered’s and mine. Image sizes are 133×220 if you are interest in have a one of your own.

There has been much discussion in the old forums regard kin Rift raids and looting rules. The only thing set in stone is the Rift week schedule and this weekend lets get to it Knights. Hopefully KO3A will be bombing around collecting mad loot and gearing up before the expansion.

Well that is it for me today…going to get a beer and game out. See ya in battle

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!