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Post by Christine Daaé de Chagny on Oct 12, 2009 21:36:51 GMT -5
Since we're trying to revive the site and all, shouldn't we try to clean it up a bit? Get rid of all of the old applications, dead threads, etc--and basically start over?
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Post by Riffael Dureau on Oct 12, 2009 23:24:22 GMT -5
Well... I actually have this thing. I was working on it at first just as a back-up site and layout testing, but it's there, so if you guys wanted to move the site over or something, it's up to you. I was thinking that some day it might serve as a jump-to-the-future roleplay, a continuation of this one. It's not finished, but tell me what you like and what you don't, and we can either move ourselves over there or move the things from there over here, or just keep it as my layout testing thing.
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Post by Liana Marceau on Oct 13, 2009 1:53:52 GMT -5
The layout is beautiful! I love the layout and the design. I think the boards are more organized, but I am worried about switching over in case old members come looking for this site. Besides, that I am worried about what would happen to the story lines- would they change completely or would we keep them going, or would there be a long term jump. If there is a jump what would that look like and who would we include etc.
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Post by Formorian Carlisle on Oct 13, 2009 18:46:46 GMT -5
I personally like the skin from the other site, another option instead of moving is that you simply edit the banner and we can apply it as the main skin to this site and the lay-out. Of course that's entirely up to you, I just agree at the prospect of moving this board is something I'm hesitant to do.
That's my two cents because I cant do anything creative with skins, I'm lucky to do a 100x100 avatar image and I'm happy.
~Mori
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Post by Marius Rousseau on Oct 14, 2009 11:32:04 GMT -5
Beautiful skin, Victoria! I find the coding it appears to have very difficult to read, especially since I have astigmatism. Only thing I dislike. I think if you were to decide to do something other than the default Verdana, Andalus is a fairly legible font as is the one on the pink skin here.
I wouldn't be that hesitant to move, but that might be because on my stuff I've had members who don't mind moving. We could easily put a note in large font across the top saying we moved and link to the site and then disable registration and put it into members must log-in mode (not maintenance mode as that will prevent members from getting their things), send a mass e-mail out to everyone stating that we're moving, and if we find a site a member has advertised on here with (particularly ones that haven't been around in a while), we could make sure to advertise there. Our current members might be excited by the prospect of something new yet familiar. Prospective members might find the perspective of a new but seemingly already established and budding site to be worth checking out rather than an old site with only a few logging in. Also, we could easily move threads over, if we so choose, and it would put the active admins in control of the whole operation; as it is, I'd imagine since no one here has the main admin account, we are semi-limited in what all can be done. So, the moving itself, if done right, is not the issue I'd have or a major problem.
What my issue would be would be just like Layni: would we abandon plots here? Would we be jumping forward in time? Are either for certain? If we went with the latter but kept the current plot lines, we need to at least spend a proper amount of time plotting on here to determine what happened to our characters and plot lines in the time that passes before we shift and in the meantime just move bios and plot-relevant threads over there into a "Time Between/Before" board before the move and mass advertising (perhaps a contest or something to try to get the word out to more people). I'd probably prefer to stick with the same plot lines, but that's just me. I don't feel we're that close to finishing the ones we have going, and it's getting interesting (I just need to whip my Marius and Sebastien muses back into shape).
Mori's idea of just slapping the skin and coding up on here works well, too, I think, if we do decide to stay here. We definitely need a revamp because prospective members now-a-days are looking for the nicer skins, nicer this, nicer that. Unfortunately, to make it in today's "RP market," having a simple, albeit nice, skin doesn't cut it. Good RP-ing isn't always enough anymore.
Anyway, in summary, I could go either way. I don't see the moving deal to be that big an issue, but at the same time, slapping a new layout and skin up wouldn't be a bad idea either.
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Post by Riffael Dureau on Oct 14, 2009 13:00:28 GMT -5
I was pretty much looking at the moving issue in the same way as Jen -- more of a solution than a problem. I've been on many, many sites that made successful moves in several stages of activity. As for the plot continuation issue, I didn't want to abandon our current plot. We could discuss the jumping issue later, when we've tied up the ends of our current one. It's too fun to let go of now, hehe. Jumping can be fun, but only when you need it -- otherwise, its unnecessary. If we did move the site over, we could have it just be a direct continuation of this one, except Mori and I would have full admin powers and I wouldn't have to redo everything here with a cleanup. This site could be altered to be basically a pretty little portal to the new site as well as an archive for what we've already done here. I'll confess; I'm a complete sucker at advertising. I'm clueless. I just started my own site for the first time, and have zero idea what to do. -sigh- So whatsoever we choose to do with this site (or possibly the next), I'll need assistance on the ads. Should we put up a vote, Mori, on what to do?
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Post by Marius Rousseau on Oct 14, 2009 21:09:59 GMT -5
I can help with the advertising, if you like, once we've made the decision. Easy enough for me to just make a point of posting an ad for here and an ad for my own site on a site while out on an ad spree.
Anywho, off to vote and hopefully to post before I go to bed later.
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