RSS website and the rest

Benny · March 01, 2007, 12:08:09 PM

Just my bi annual questions about the front page and what we can do to improve it?

It seems fairly stagnant when we look at it and I appreciate it's hard to keep it up to date, but with a few people contributing there is no reason why we couldn't. It would make the community more than just a forum and games.

That said I nosed about yahoo pipes and came up with a boring;
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/sOblvufH2xG9IW0Pr8cPhQ/

but it's a doddle to use and I'm sure we could have some kind of game news feed on the front.

Any feedback?

delanvital · March 01, 2007, 12:12:53 PM

Quote from: Benny;178977Just my bi annual questions about the front page and what we can do to improve it?

It seems fairly stagnant when we look at it and I appreciate it's hard to keep it up to date, but with a few people contributing there is no reason why we couldn't. It would make the community more than just a forum and games.

That said I nosed about yahoo pipes and came up with a boring;
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/sOblvufH2xG9IW0Pr8cPhQ/

but it's a doddle to use and I'm sure we could have some kind of game news feed on the front.

Any feedback?

The front which ED refers to, when referring to dMw is quite good. Same looks as the new site and up to date. How about using that?

Anonymous · March 01, 2007, 12:17:43 PM

Do you use this:

as the website homepage? Still a work in progress (tbh I think they are still waiting for me to get of my bum and provide some text for the BF2 area).

However, it is a lot more dynamic that the old page

Blunt · March 01, 2007, 12:54:47 PM

Just back from my bi-annual look at the front page.

I use a bookmark to "view new posts" as my way in:flirty:

Gandalf · March 01, 2007, 12:57:27 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;178982Do you use this:

as the website homepage? Still a work in progress (tbh I think they are still waiting for me to get of my bum and provide some text for the BF2 area).

However, it is a lot more dynamic that the old page

yeah, that's going live 'real soon now' just a bit more content needed and we're good.

suicidal_monkey · March 01, 2007, 12:58:22 PM

Quote from: Blunt;178984Just back from my bi-annual look at the front page.

I use a bookmark to "view new posts" as my way in:flirty:

:withstupid:

over at www.downgraded.net we relay the "news" section of the forum to the front page of the website and limit who can post there obvisously (though with the size of our forum that's just about anyone...). Good way to keep the front page content ticking over I think. Any way to link it to the forum really... recent posts section, popular threads section, that sort of thing :flirty:

p.s. the description of [dg] being a CS, bf1942, and WoW clan is a bit misleading as the only one of those in which [dg] are active (I assume) is WoW which I do not play

Benny · March 01, 2007, 01:20:37 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;178982Do you use this:

as the website homepage? Still a work in progress (tbh I think they are still waiting for me to get of my bum and provide some text for the BF2 area).

However, it is a lot more dynamic that the old page

nope, I use the old one.

The new one looks nice. Someone should get of their bum and liven it up quick smart.

delanvital · March 01, 2007, 02:11:22 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;178982Do you use this:

as the website homepage? Still a work in progress (tbh I think they are still waiting for me to get of my bum and provide some text for the BF2 area).

However, it is a lot more dynamic that the old page

That is the one that we use on ED yes and I like it

Othbarty · March 02, 2007, 02:29:15 PM

Quote from: BlueBall;178982Do you use this:

as the website homepage? Still a work in progress (tbh I think they are still waiting for me to get of my bum and provide some text for the BF2 area).

However, it is a lot more dynamic that the old page

QuotedMw's official WoW Guild, the Silver Oak Guardians, defeat Ragnaros

LOL, how up to date

But ye, it looks better, like the colours and stuff abit better on that page too.

And the fact that is integrated with the forum makes it easy to post events based on rank.

Bastet · March 02, 2007, 04:09:32 PM

shows you how long the sites been in the works huh :roflmao:

smite · March 03, 2007, 09:37:59 AM

Nice new front page Gents. Didn't know it was there.

TeaLeaf · March 03, 2007, 10:17:03 PM

Nope, nobody was meant to know as it is not live yet.

Ignore the content, we were playing with things to see how they worked. Url deleted as we're still playing :norty:

TL.

Anonymous · March 03, 2007, 11:52:17 PM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;179379Nope, nobody was meant to know as it is not live yet

TL.

Not true actually. The guys have been using it as the ED homepage for a while.

TeaLeaf · March 04, 2007, 09:33:13 AM

As the content could quite literally have been *anything* and half the links are incomplete and do not work that's not a particularly great one to use. I rest my case.

TL.

Whitey · March 04, 2007, 09:36:17 AM

Quote from: TeaLeaf;179402As the content could quite literally have been *anything* and half the links are incomplete and do not work that's not a particularly great one to use. I rest my case.

TL.

We had to have a website with CS:Source content and the list of Source players seperate from others. That's the reason we had to use the new one. We did discuss it at the time and that's why Gandy sorted out the rosta on the new site.