GMF Website: To Be or Not To Be?

[Catavarie]

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For $70 USD we can get 100gb of webspace with 500gb of transfers and 1000 email address along with a few other assorted services all hosted for 1 year.

EDIT: or for $40 USD we can get 5gb of webspace and 250 gb of transfer with 500 email addresses and some assorted services as well for 1 year

Both of these options give us access to Forums, blogging, and photo galleries the only thing holding us back then is needing someone who can code a webpage...I personally haven't done any webcoding in over 10 years so I'm sure that most anyone might know better than me.

 

[Rapida]

I've used Site Grounds when I've made people sites before. It has plenty of space and I can add in a forum. Here is a site I made hosted by sitegrounds Dave's Dive Site

 

[ChaosEvoker]

I'd go with the cheaper one (though I voted definatly)

Rapida, I would love you so much....

In a brotherly sort of way...

 

[Blade of Desecration]

One problem though, who foots the bill? I'm a minor, and I can't see my parents allowing me to help pay for something like this, unless I spun it just right and it was pretty cheap. Otherwise, I think our own website would be a good idea, but we should take time early to set up some actual projects.

By projects I mean things like a campaign setting, a campaign, making our own classes and PrCs, maybe even writing a d20 rulebook or making our own system of rules. Some kind of a consistent project to help maintain interest, something which the old GMF lacked. It used to be more of a "just post when you feel like it". We really need to set up some actual goals for ourselves.

 

[ChaosEvoker]

I could foot the bill, or at least help foot it. I would be glad to to try and get this thing back up and running

 

[Catavarie]

One problem though, who foots the bill? I'm a minor, and I can't see my parents allowing me to help pay for something like this, unless I spun it just right and it was pretty cheap. Otherwise, I think our own website would be a good idea, but we should take time early to set up some actual projects.

Well initially one of us could fit the bill webspace isn't all that expensive these days, and once we gott eh site up and running we could impliment (spelling?) a donation button for anyone who would be willing to help offset teh cost the site might incur.

By projects I mean things like a campaign setting, a campaign, making our own classes and PrCs, maybe even writing a d20 rulebook or making our own system of rules. Some kind of a consistent project to help maintain interest, something which the old GMF lacked. It used to be more of a "just post when you feel like it". We really need to set up some actual goals for ourselves.

A Website would be a great place to setup any projects of ours allowing each of us access to all files necesary for each...me ideal site would be full of projects of ours and even have indiviual chat rooms set up AJAX Dice rollers and "battlemats" for all to be able to see and a set of DM tools for building campaigns to run in our environment, think of it as you need to roll a fort Save so you click on the icon of a D20 in your tool bar and everyone in the game (or just the DM if its a secret roll) can see the dice jiggle and stop on a number and your total including bonuses pops up easy for everyone to see so that everyone can insure that no one is cheating or no lag time that a pbp game has, maybe even add in some sort of VOIP in to work with the chat rooms for that near table feel without the need to buy chips and drinks for everyone in the game, I would also like to see some sort of multiuser wordprocessor that is web enabled (ie Writely by Google) that allows multiple users to be working simulataneously on a project within the same file which could be saved and hosted on the website...of course both of these are seriously highly advanced uses and would quite possibly make our site completely original and truely Web 2.0

 

[Rapida]

Hmm I wouldn't know where to start with all that now. I haven't got very far into my programming classes at college yet. Give me another semester and we could talk. I can do a html website easy enough though. Then as I get more experience I could update it, but I need a general layout and webspace.

 

[Blade of Desecration]

Well initially one of us could fit the bill webspace isn't all that expensive these days, and once we gott eh site up and running we could impliment (spelling?) a donation button for anyone who would be willing to help offset teh cost the site might incur.



A Website would be a great place to setup any projects of ours allowing each of us access to all files necesary for each...me ideal site would be full of projects of ours and even have indiviual chat rooms set up AJAX Dice rollers and "battlemats" for all to be able to see and a set of DM tools for building campaigns to run in our environment, think of it as you need to roll a fort Save so you click on the icon of a D20 in your tool bar and everyone in the game (or just the DM if its a secret roll) can see the dice jiggle and stop on a number and your total including bonuses pops up easy for everyone to see so that everyone can insure that no one is cheating or no lag time that a pbp game has, maybe even add in some sort of VOIP in to work with the chat rooms for that near table feel without the need to buy chips and drinks for everyone in the game, I would also like to see some sort of multiuser wordprocessor that is web enabled (ie Writely by Google) that allows multiple users to be working simulataneously on a project within the same file which could be saved and hosted on the website...of course both of these are seriously highly advanced uses and would quite possibly make our site completely original and truely Web 2.0

Gahhhhh!!!! The periods!!!! They feel neglected!!!!

But anyways, nice ideas. I think it would be a good thing to set up chat rooms for the projects. We should have separate areas set up for different types of project, such as one for campaigns, another for rules variants, one for a campaign setting, etc.

 

[Catavarie]

WE would just need to be mindful of the fact that we don't want to create another EnWorld. We would need to be different enough and unique enough so that people will want to come to our site for different reasons not just general Game discussion.

 

[Blade of Desecration]

WE would just need to be mindful of the fact that we don't want to create another EnWorld. We would need to be different enough and unique enough so that people will want to come to our site for different reasons not just general Game discussion.

To do that, we should set up specific goals and projects as the main process. Forums for things like game discussion should be included, but we must make sure they are maintained as a secondary resource on the sight, rather than the main attraction. We should have a good deal of things that are not forum based.

One idea I had while looking back at Nightcloak's old GM's notebook (by the way, if we do move, someone should alert him in case he wants to come back and help). We should actually have a section for people to write and post articles. Something like this. You post your article, and other people can read it. They can range from suggestions on rules changes, to possible classes, to book reviews. Want to review the latest Monster Manual? Write a review in your word document, and upload it. We could have different sections for different kinds of articles, such as book reviews and rules variants.

Just my 2 coppers.