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Designing the Website; Official Thread to Discuss What Needs to Get Done
Topic Started: Jul 24 2010, 11:04 PM (330 Views)
husekhan
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Okay so I'm pretty much done designing the site. Obviously it can use some improvement, which I hope the people who I've asked to help can do. Other than that though the current concerns are:

1) Optimizing the site and the Pages.

We are paying money to host a real website and I think we should therefore at least get properly onto the search engines. This requires using the Optimizing tab in the editor. I'm trying my best to learn it, but I could definitely use some help because we have to do it with each page.

Basically the goal here is to make us show up on Google when people search us.

2) Ads

This isn't so much a concern but it's definitely something we should look into. It would be so kick ass if we could actually get some paying ones on.

3) More Details in Designing

- Need to banner more properly. My attempt looks horrible on the Entente page. All banners and other resources can be found in the downloaded fansite kit http://us.starcraft2.com/downloads.xml
- The background is not completely matching so yea if anyone can figure out how to make it all match go ahead.

With the tools they limit us on the editor, it might not be possible to do more than what I've done with these issues, but I thought maybe it might be possible with coding which do allow or maybe I overlooked something.

- One thing that I definitely think can be fixed however is the format of the Constitution because some words are being cut off. I guess I'll just retype it.

4) The main site obviously is getting like no traffic because everyone just goes straight to this URL, but I the main site is still valuable because we have our own URL for it and it makes us much more legitimate. This comes after all these other things to do but I think we should eventually work towards integrating forums into the main site.

That's pretty much it for now. I will just edit this post and anything else that comes up in the future or delete ones we don't need to worry about.
Edited by husekhan, Dec 11 2010, 03:15 PM.
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husekhan
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Jon, we also need a clan alliance page now where we can feature Fever clan.
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Jon
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I made a quick page for the clan alliances
I will add more later, but I do need to know a bit more about this "alliance" with Fever cause I'm not really sure what that even means other than you guys are playing a skrim tommorow

And i also need the background image used for the site.
It is not in the fansite kit and a quick google image search didn't have it either
thanks
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Garber
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I would rather look for a different background image. That ones awesome but its the same one that SCA uses.
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Jon
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ok
i'll look into it

if anyone has any suggestions for the website or any pictures that they want to use can they please tell me asap
i will be going on vacation on the 18th (saturday) and i won't be back until the 31st (friday). I also can't do any editing on friday because I have to pack and I have a party to go to, so the sooner you guys tell me these things or send me pictures you want me to use the better
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husekhan
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Jon, would you like me to give you the details on how each page is designed? (e,g, banner, background stuff like that)

One thing to note, is that I currently don't know how to make a template to just apply to all pages automatically which would make things a lot easier.
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Jon
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i can work on trying to make a template for all of the pages if you give me an image to use

i'm not sure what you mean by details about each page, but if you think it would be helpful then sure
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Template 1.0

Background:

Image: real_sc_II_background.jpg

Position: Center/Center (The only problem is that different positions look better on certain pages but just for the sake of the template let's just choose this for now.

Repeat: on

Content:

image: background_2.jpg

Position: Doesn't matter

Repeat: on

Header: What ever banner you finish

Footer:

image: real_sc_II_background.jpg

Position: Bottom Left

Repeat: On

Side bar:

Text Font Size: 12

Text Font Color: Teal/Cyan (just match the color of the sidebar of all the other pages)

Hover Font Size: 12

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Jon
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can you send me the "real_sc_ll_background.jpg" file or just link it here
that is the one thing that I am missing
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Jon
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i'm leaving for Hawaii today,
so i won't be able to work on the website for a while

merry christmas/happy holidays everyone
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