New SE Site: SE.net

[Fyron]

Well... Kwok has forced my hand, so now I announce the founding of a brand new Space Empires fan site, SpaceEmpires.net! The url is thus:

http://spaceempires.net

I have not yet created everything I plan on for it, but it certainly has content so far. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Some random features:

Hosts tons of SE-related files for download.
Has a forum.
Has a newsletter.
Has an Image Gallery (that is not creating thumbnails at present http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif ).
SE.net Tribune - articles on various SE4-related subjects, currently only one there.
Other stuff.

Possible plans of offering cheap/free web hosting for SE-related sites.

[Captain Kwok]

Ha Ha Ha! The website was all my idea. I told Fyron that his Kazharii Hub was worthy of the spaceempires.org domain and that he should try and revive that site - but instead he got his own domain!

I don't like that PHP-nuke, blah blah, website interface, but I'm sure that the amount of crap and useful stuff you'll make available will certainly appease my visual discomfort with the site! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ZeroAdunn]

I must agree, I am really not a big fan of PHP Nuke.

You should have tried for something more originall.

[Taera]

see fyron? its not me who's too picky.
Its 3:45am and im going to sleep.

[Stone Mill]

This looks like a great start. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Voidhawk]

Wow, looks to be quite an ambitious undertaking.

Bookmarked by me it is!

(no clue why I suddenly started speaking in Yoda)

[ August 07, 2003, 12:52: Message edited by: Voidhawk ]

[StormcloudCreations]

Looks to be a good start! (though I agree about the mediocre look of the php-nuke sites; very cookie-cutter looking).

Fans of Space Empires, visit you must!

(That Yoda thing is spreading, Voidhawk! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )

[Erax]

Visited it I have. Ambitious it is.

Contagious this Yoda speak is.

[ August 06, 2003, 18:14: Message edited by: Erax ]

[Fyron]

Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
I must agree, I am really not a big fan of PHP Nuke.

You should have tried for something more originall.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Like what, a different portal script? Any of them I used would be essentially the same in the end run, PHP Nuke is just the one I chose.

Originally posted by Taera:
see fyron? its not me who's too picky.
Its 3:45am and im going to sleep.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You and a very small handful of people, yes. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Originally posted by StormcloudCreations:
Looks to be a good start! (though I agree about the mediocre look of the php-nuke sites; very cookie-cutter looking).<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well... I do plan on customizing the default theme. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

To the rest of you, thanks! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[tesco samoa]

gotta agree with fyron there.

php-nuke is a good content management system...

This allows the content to be created and maintained dynamiclly.

As the site grows and more and more people chip into the site the site grows.

To do this without a content management system is a huge waste of time. As you will be doing the same stuff over and over to upkeep the contents of the site.

Why not automate it.

Sure pretty sites are nice to look at.... But it is the content that keeps you coming back.

This is the difference between a programmer and a graphics designer concepts of web development.

If you want it to look nice... why not create icons , fonts , banners etc... for him and then fyron can work on the php end to add that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Fyron]

If you want it to look nice... why not create icons , fonts , banners etc... for him and then fyron can work on the php end to add that.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is a good idea. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif In fact, Kwok already helped me some with the banner. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
gotta agree with fyron there.

php-nuke is a good content management system...

This allows the content to be created and maintained dynamiclly.

As the site grows and more and more people chip into the site the site grows.

To do this without a content management system is a huge waste of time. As you will be doing the same stuff over and over to upkeep the contents of the site.

Why not automate it.

Sure pretty sites are nice to look at.... But it is the content that keeps you coming back.

This is the difference between a programmer and a graphics designer concepts of web development.

If you want it to look nice... why not create icons , fonts , banners etc... for him and then fyron can work on the php end to add that. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or use ASP http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[tesco samoa]

sorry thermo you lost me

how does using asp affect the content management system ???

asp on its own is just another scripting language

[Thermodyne]

As the content changes, ASP alters the html that the browser displays.

[Thermodyne]

You need to change the text in line four of your default page. It sets a link of "PHP nuke Powered Site", which is what a lot of them set, and it gets confusing.

[Mathias_Ice]

Ooooooh! It's purty!

[Fyron]

Why would I bother with ASP when this works great?

Originally posted by Thermodyne:
You need to change the text in line four of your default page. It sets a link of "PHP nuke Powered Site", which is what a lot of them set, and it gets confusing.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Huh? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif What are you talking about?

[Thermodyne]

When you bookmark Tesco’s site, it uses the text from line four of his default page to identify the link. And a lot of Nuke sites return the same text.

ASP is OK and ASP.net is neat. If you know PHP, then by all means use it. My comment was just a reply to Tesco's post. As in "he could use ASP to build an entry page."

[TerranC]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
This allows the content to be created and maintained dynamiclly.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">For no reason at all, other than that tesco said dynamically...

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2003484630716.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

most ambitious, it is.

go far you will, young web-master.

catching, it is.

[Fyron]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ August 07, 2003, 08:55: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Thermodyne]

OK I see you found what I was talking about. Now it saves the link with the name of the site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[tesco samoa]

please explain thermo....

are you saying when you bookmark the index.htm file or somewhere else ???

[Fyron]

Lots of new content, downloads, etc. for your viewing pleasure. There is even a Calendar for posting dates of SE related events available for use in the forums. Check it out!

[ August 10, 2003, 01:19: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i see stars. neat.

[tesco samoa]

thermo.. php is new to me.

i use asp at work... so please bear with me as i learn it....

[TerranC]

Nice site, fyron. Congrats.

I especially like that hangman game.

Edit: Heh. I just beat Kwok in guessing Dreadnought.

[ August 10, 2003, 05:47: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

try black nova traders. it's in the stories section.

[ August 14, 2003, 04:23: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Fyron]

Or in the Hosted Sites section, and the forum. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

hey Fyron, i downloaded black nova and php to play around with offline. what do i do with them?

sigh. bbs games where easy to play offline.

[ August 14, 2003, 20:25: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Fyron]

You have to set your comp up as a server. PHP is a server side language, not client side.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

if it's long and complicated, tell me and i'll forget it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

and the turns are fixed.

[Mikeyman]

I just registered at the site...