[Free] Ways of Getting a Campaign Setting Online?

[Nyaricus]

So, it has struck again. What has been dormant for a year has resurfaced, and I really want to get into building my Campaign Setting (Ascension: Paths of Power FYI) and even getting it on the web if I can help it So, that's where you fine folks come in.

I have close to no experience making a website, and in particular getting something to get my CS onto. I've seen a few different examples here on EN World (Jurgen and el-remmen spring to mind) but I'd like some feedback on this form them and others. What works well for a CS-website? What is something I should avoid? What's great out there that's free? Anyone pay for their website?

Thanks in advance

cheers,
--N

 

[Crothian]

I use a wiki as one can see in my sig.

 

[blargney the second]

I have my own domain (not free, but not expensive), where I installed DotNetNuke (free), which comes with decent forums (free). I set up a private forum for my D&D group, and we keep track of everything in threads. It's working fine so far!

 

[el-remmen]

a wiki is the way to go.

It may not always be pretty, but you can organize things in a way that makes sense to you, easily make it cross-referenced without any kind of technical knowledge and make a personal back-up on your own machine.

Also, if you have more than one person working on the setting, it makes keeping track of and reverting changes very very simple.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Well, a Livejournal blog can work, but you'd have to be careful how you organize things. A Yahoo Groups can also work, especially if most of your existing stuff isn't HTML already (you can just upload the raw files). Myspace would probably work (though I've never looked). There's also Geocities/Lycos. All of those are free, and generally non-tech friendly.

Your ISP (email provider) probably also includes some web space at part of your service, but that usually requires some work.

For that matter, you could always talk to Morrus about getting a private forum here. It's probably not free, but at least you know the money's going to good places.

But if you want a complete list, just try a google on "Free Web Host Provider".

 

[Ebonyr]

I use googlepages (its free) and had 100 MB of space. I could send you an invite to join. I use tiddlywiki/ as my main page (its free) and use the googlepages for maps and other large images using their pagemaker software (free).

See my .sig for my homebrew.

 

[reason]

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I use blog software for my setting material - so long as you pick something that allows decent hierarchical categorization, you're fine. Searching can be done by Google, so that's not an absolute need. Wikis are also good, as has been noted.

Reason
Principia Infecta

 

[Pbartender]

I highly recommend PBwiki.com... It's one of the very few free wiki sites that'll let you use .html coding in your wikipages. That gives a LOT more options for variety of format.

I'm currently building a campaign website for my new Iron Heroes game on PBwiki.

 

[Aus_Snow]

I highly recommend PBwiki.com

Seconded. It's very good for the price. I'm actually working on my own setting/rules pbwiki currently, when I'm not furiously busy in other ways.

Yours looks cool, by the way.