Post by ShockHelix on Jan 24, 2019 0:04:31 GMT -5
A day late a dollar short again, but here nonetheless. For anyone keeping track, I updated the forum text and size, so you're not seeing the blocky nonsense it was before. Making things a bit easier on the eyes.
In reference to the lack of photo-shop aspect I have for working on site design, I've went ahead and downloaded GIMP so I have something to use. Obviously without CS5 I'm gonna have a learning curve to making it work the way I want, but I'll figure out the design and make a custom logo eventually.
On a positive note, I've officially enlisted Zen for help. I've upgraded him to admin so he can mess with the code, and the current things we've talked about really needing for the site are the 'category tabulate' we used to have so you can collapse and expand the categories you want to see (because even with the cuts this forum still extends into forever), sideboxes where we can put important info such as a welcome to the site and another for important links to the rules and info for each section so people can get started easily, and a way for me to insert the logo I eventually make up top where it says 'the Nexus' currently. He's still busy, so for anyone lurking around and paying attention, don't expect anything soon. There's no timeline on this and I've essentially told him to only work on it if he has the downtime for it at work. How long it takes to get up is largely how difficult it is to insert the plugins or navigate the proboards aspects, so there's no guarantee anything happens soon.
With that being said, once we get to that aspect where he's handled the code side, it'll free me up to work on the design side. Once we make some headway with that and we have something to show for it, I'll be making a discord so that we can actually communicate more efficiently in a concise location, and be contacting Dawg to just reevaluate all of the lore we currently have for the different sections, discuss if any further changes on said sections will be made, and to make sure all of the guides and everything are in order.
That's all for this week, stay tuned.
-ShockHelix
In reference to the lack of photo-shop aspect I have for working on site design, I've went ahead and downloaded GIMP so I have something to use. Obviously without CS5 I'm gonna have a learning curve to making it work the way I want, but I'll figure out the design and make a custom logo eventually.
On a positive note, I've officially enlisted Zen for help. I've upgraded him to admin so he can mess with the code, and the current things we've talked about really needing for the site are the 'category tabulate' we used to have so you can collapse and expand the categories you want to see (because even with the cuts this forum still extends into forever), sideboxes where we can put important info such as a welcome to the site and another for important links to the rules and info for each section so people can get started easily, and a way for me to insert the logo I eventually make up top where it says 'the Nexus' currently. He's still busy, so for anyone lurking around and paying attention, don't expect anything soon. There's no timeline on this and I've essentially told him to only work on it if he has the downtime for it at work. How long it takes to get up is largely how difficult it is to insert the plugins or navigate the proboards aspects, so there's no guarantee anything happens soon.
With that being said, once we get to that aspect where he's handled the code side, it'll free me up to work on the design side. Once we make some headway with that and we have something to show for it, I'll be making a discord so that we can actually communicate more efficiently in a concise location, and be contacting Dawg to just reevaluate all of the lore we currently have for the different sections, discuss if any further changes on said sections will be made, and to make sure all of the guides and everything are in order.
That's all for this week, stay tuned.
-ShockHelix
