FanForce Web Masters Discussion Thread

I thought I'd start a thread for all the web masters of FF pages to share ideas and help out anyone that might need it.

I made a index of all the FF web pages.

FanForce Web Site Index

Australia & New Zealand
New South Wales | Fanforce New South Wales
New Zealand | Guardians of the Triple Star
Queensland | The Force Guild
Western Australia | Outer Rim
Victoria | Fanforce Victoria

Canada
Moncton | The Galactic Core
Niagara Falls | Young Jedi Niagara
Québec | The Sith Clan
Toronto, Canada | The Toronto Longline

Europe
German Speaking | GSFF Homepage
Netherlands | Stichting S.W. Fanclub
Portugal | FanForce Portugal
Sweden | Sweden FanForce

Latin America
Puerto Rico |Jedi Outcasts

USA - MidSouth
Dallas, TX | DFW Force
Lafayette, LA | FanForce Acadiana
Oklahoma City, OK | JediOKC
San Antonio, TX | San Antonio FanForce
Tulsa, Ok | Tulsa FanForce
Waco, TX | The Bounty Hunter's Guild

USA - MidWest
Chicago, IL | Chicago Force
Evansville,IN | E'ville Jedi
Indianapolis, IN | Indy Knights
Detroit, MI | R2Detroit
Louisville, KY | Louisville Alliance of Star Wars Enthusiasts
Minneapolis, MN | Minnesota Force
Milwaukee WI | The Milwookiee Council
Omaha, NE | River City Rebels
South Bend, IN | South Bend FanForce
Quad City: The Quad City Jedi Order

USA - NorthEast
Boston, Mass | The Boston Rebels
Buffalo, NY | The North Ridge
Pittsburgh, PA | Steel City Jedi Knights: Three Rivers, One Force
King of Prussia, PA | Philly Outer Rim
Maryland | Maryland Force
New York, NY | SWNYC
New Jersey | New Jersey Order

USA - Pacific
Idaho Falls, ID | Idaho Falls Star Wars Alliance
San Diego, CA San Diego FanForce
San Francisco, CA | San Francisco
Orange County, CA | The Orange Empire
Seattle, WA | Seattle FanForce
South Bay | South Bay Star Wars Fan Club

USA - SouthEast
Atlanta, GA | Hothlanta Rebels
Charlotte, NC | Charlotte Separatists
Lafayette, LA | FanForce Acadiana
Nashville TN | [

 

Wow, this is quite the list, I'm impressed. our webmaster doesn't really post here, but I'll see if I can entice him over.

 

The link for SWNYC is messed up a bit

¤Night

 

got it

 

upon dissection the following are also funky:

Western Australia
Toronto
Niagra Falls
Chicago
Indianpolis

hehe

¤Night

 

Actually, the Chicago link is messed up as well.

 

Hey guys. I'm the webmaster/board customizer/junk manipulator/secondary City Rep over at Charlotte...

Just curious and all, but does anyone else do banner graphics for their board? And do y'all manipulate the board color scheme? I've got some layouts we're considering, but we keep getting server problems, so our banners are always knocked off the net...

Oh and our link isn't quite accurate.. it changed a while back ~ http://separatists.sphosing.com ~ we needed to look good, so we spelled our name correctly on our domain

 

Got them

Thanks guys

 

No problem. Also, what format of pages do y'all use? I want to switch over to psp, but I don't know...

I'm currently working on a new site for us again that's driven by some Javascript and VBscript...

 

Front Page is my best firend

I'm not the code monkey I should be but I'll add some stuff to Waco as i learn it.

 

I do like FrontPage, but for general page layout, I have an old version of Netscape Composer (4.2 I think..) and it serves as a better site basis builder for tables and forms.

Then I head to FrontPage to finish off the design, and then off to notepad to add my source.. although I want to check out Jasc's new web designer or Dreamweaver... I don't know.

For graphics, what do y'all stick to..? I prefer Jasc's Paint Shop Pro and LView Pro.. but Photoshop is cool, and I'll probably get it when I get some more money

 

Niagara (Not Niagara Falls, we cover a much larger area) is linked to Toronto.

Now the Toronto guys and gals are a great bunch. Heck, we had a CR movie night (me and TragicLad) tonight, but it would be better if the link pointed to www.youngjediniagara.com

 

I like to use Dreamweaver for page layouts, then I head to note pad to add stuff I wouldn't trust Dreamweaver to do. I've been messing around with php lately and I've got a grasp for it. For graphics I use else Photoshop or Illustrator, although I like some of the Macromedia grahics products but don't have the money to blow.

 

I have Dreamweaver and Fireworks but I haven't taken the time to learn them yet

I've gotten rusty in Photoshop so I've started back with the fan art. Gives me some fun computer art time since in school I'm only taking studio art right now.

 

NB: Added UK FanForce to the list.

 

I'm all for trying new software.. I can always download the demos off the internet. If I don't like what I see, well, then forget it...
So, what kind of scripts do y'all stick into a page (if any)? And what scripting language do you use?

I personally stick to plain old HTML Form commands, some Javascript and VBscript. I've written a few Active-X Plugins for our site, but since I don't know (nor think) that Active-X plugins would work on a Mac or any other non-Windows based computer, I didn't want to add to confusion of our website.

Oh and I just noticed that the Charlotte Separatist's link is messed up.. would an RSA or GSA mind fixing it? Please?

 

I pretty much always start my pages in Front Page, to get the grunt work and basic design out of the way, than tweak the code in Notepad as need to get things just the way I want.

Using Photoshop for most graphic mods.

I'm kinda in deep doo right now, my main graphics guy Grimby (who also did our custom FF board graphics), just left for the Air Force and no one is stepping up to replace him so far, i'm really good at using others graphics to integrate and use in pages, not so much at making stuff myself. Hopefully someone will come along, I just did a major facelift to our site working with Grimby before he left, so i'm ok for now.

One thing I just did with our site was create microsites for our Special Interest Groups, gave each of the groups' main person an FTP name and password that just lets them into their microsite and told them to have anyone they want design the site, i'll support them on a techincal level, but the design is only subject to that interest groups whims.

Groups are books, design, collecting, costumes, femme, and gaming. Should get some cool eclectic designs out of each group. The main site that I continue to update, design and maintain will just be used for main group news, meeting times, member list, photos etc.

Hope that gives others some ideas.

 

I knew Grimby because of the boards. Great guy.. he's also good with graphics and design. I like your idea on the web and how it's set up. Unfortunately, only one or two other people in our FanForce know of web design work and how to do it (if more know, they haven't let anyone know ). Ah well. And since I'm joining the Navy myself, I won't be around to do much more work anymore.

 

What servers do you all use?


!snap

 

We use(d) Sphosting.Com because of the price (none at all ), but now we're going to find another image host so we can have our banned displayed properly again.

 

We use www.imhosted.com , really great full featured package with lots of space and transfer for the price.

I use a great free portal program www.web-app.org for the cgi that runs the board. They have a wonderful group of volunteer coders who post updates and modifications constantly to the site and will answer questions about configuration.

 

I"m not the official webmaster for the Charleston, SC FanForce but I have a site up. It's in the infancy stages right now. I just use Notepad, web tutorials, www.htmlgoodies.com, and HotDog Page Wizard to help me with the webpage.

I do all the "html" in Notepad but I use the rest of the things I listed to make sure that I'm doing it correctly.

I host the site on my own computer. I'm looking at getting a name for our site but I'm not sure what the name should be. I wish there was a way to get a domain name for free.

 

Salty...
How do you host on your own computer? NT Server?

 

So... *nudge*
Anyone still care to talk here?

 

Oh please dont judge Boston by that crappy site listed up ther.I promise you we will have a much nicer site up and running by the fall.We just got our own domain name and are working on a brand new site.