Website Links and Page Structure proposed changes

[Fluffy]

I want to get some opinions here to this change. The reason for it, the website has been pieced together and now needs to be organized and set up for future additions. We need to hunt down and add content where we are missing it etc. In the end our website should be the only place you need to go for any Conan related information.

For reference "parent" refers to the links you would see on the top level pages like the home page.
"Child" refers to links that you would see on a secondary page. The proposed structure is below I suggest copy and pasting it to a word doc so that you can see the entire structure without scrolling.

Suggest any changes for me and also any additions to parent or child links that need to be there, places where we lack content etc.


Main page links and their suggested order:

Home

New Member info

Forums

Guild Pictures

Gathering Info – All gathering info, what can be gathered, where to get he quests for it etc.
   Child link – may require child pages may not depends on the length.

Crafting Info – Brief explanation about the crafting structure in AoC including bugs. May require sub child pages depending on material length, like GC may require sub child link for gem list etc.
   Child link – AC
   Child link – WC
   Child link – GC
   Child link – Alch
   Child link – Architect

Guild City Info – Brief description of Location, how to get there, graph of gathering requirements for the city etc. Links to gathering page on the page
   Child link- Current page showing T1 graph inc status of each piece
   Child link-Current page showing T2 graph inc status of each piece
   Child link-New page like showing T3 graph inc status of each piece

Equipment- Any equipment information on this page.
   Child link – possible child page breakouts for equipment, cloth, light, weapons and or all types.

Classes – Brief explanation of the different classes list them name them
   Child link – Class 1 cimmerian, Aquilonian, etc
      Sub Children- barbarian, priest, ranger etc
   

Guild Rules – Self explanatory

Vent Request – Self explanatory

Links – include daoc site on this page.

Member List

[Swill]

The link at the bottom of this post pretty much sums up my advice for layout etc. Click the "Guild City Info" and "Crafting Info" links when you get there. Thats how pretty much everything in that resource section should be formatted. The info is easy to see/read and easy to get to due to the table of contents at the top and the organised layout below.

News posts will be on the front page with the avatar of whoever posted it (I used Thrilg's in this example). Coding up some php to store and retrieve news posts would save you the hassle of hard coding them in every time. Same thing with the members list and other portions of the site.

Suppose I could brighten up the links and text in general, but you get the idea. 

http://www.whitemountainclassifieds.com/stygianthunder

[Thrilg (GM)]

The link at the bottom of this post pretty much sums up my advice for layout etc. Click the "Guild City Info" and "Crafting Info" links when you get there. Thats how pretty much everything in that resource section should be formatted. The info is easy to see/read and easy to get to due to the table of contents at the top and the organised layout below.

News posts will be on the front page with the avatar of whoever posted it (I used Thrilg's in this example). Coding up some php to store and retrieve news posts would save you the hassle of hard coding them in every time. Same thing with the members list and other portions of the site.

Suppose I could brighten up the links and text in general, but you get the idea. 

http://www.whitemountainclassifieds.com/stygianthunder

We were going to use a pvp structure for the website but since Fluffy does not know pvp we just went with html. It is not that difficult to upload the page, especially since he uses dream weaver (cringe). As for the guys avatar of whoever posted it, well we could wrap the forums cookie around the entire website (much like what was done for the gallery section). But with just two of us posting information it does not appear to be relevant. I could maybe run a php script that would read from the forums db and get a specific post or something and put that on the main page. I will look into that this weekend.

[Fluffy]

Well that was interesting , you have clearly dabbled in the graphics world a few times.
What did you use to write that test site, php?
Looks like I need to finally upgrade my skills and learn this new shit.

[Thrilg (GM)]

Right now I think for the news information I am going to write a php script that will read a specific section of the forums and post that on the main page. It will keep the last 5 news items or all news items posted within the past 14 days. After that it will move the post to the old news page. I will hash most of that out tonight.

I also want to get a last 5 topics section etc.