August 30th, 2008 - State of the Community
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:48 pm
As your representative for Campaign Creations, as previously mentioned, I come at you today to update you on the state of the community. I simply use the term community to represent this site, Campaign Creations, as a whole. In reality, the community is typically regarded as the modding community, that being additional sites which also serve the same purpose. However, in this speech, I shall regard it only as this sole site.
First, and foremost, I would like to thank you all for your aid in making the community a much more lively place. It nearly brings a tear to my eye to experience the community slowly healing to a state of what it once was. Below is a graphical overview of how the community has improved in terms of our forum usage:
As you can see we had a few up and down moments, however are currently are on a steady upwards stream. Now, I do realize this could all change in a matter of days, but it is nice to have moments of glory. I could find no records of how Campaign Creations used to be in the past, other than our ever-friendly Web Archive, however for this day and age, I believe we are on a steady pace to a greater future together.
In terms of the website itself, long-time member Taeradun has stepped in to help Campaign Creations in it's first attempt to move the site to a fully functional content management system. What does this mean for Campaign Creations? A content management system (CMS from here on) is a different management process for our content. Yes, duh. In more detail, it allows us, the staff, to manage our pages in a much simpler process than through our FTP. we will access the site pages through the CMS and make realtime edits without the need to know HTML. The simple use of BBCode, much like in our forum, will allow the CMS to understand what you are attempting to create and display the page properly for you. This will allow our staff to update their pages whenever they like and however they like. Later additions to the website are hopes to track which pages are more popular, what campaigns more players prefer, and how many downloads are being performed per project. One step at a time, however.
A few of you have contacted me personally in terms of a follow up contest to our previous contest. I will mention here, officially, that there is more than one contest in the works at the moment, and hopefully if things go as planned we will begin to host multiple contests at the same time. However, before this begins, I must set myself in rhythm for these by crafting the "contest" section of the website and placing all submitted contests into those pages, alongside winners. I would also like to apologize for the winners of our last contest for the delays in your prizes as this is my first time, after all, hosting a contest. Future prizes will not take as long as the first. This is all, after all, trial and error as we involve Campaign Creations in more activities publically than we ever have.
As we update the website with the previously mentioned items, we also attempt to work on our Podcasts. Campaign Creations Podcasts require some effort to put together, however. Future Podcast, unlike the previous, may have a more varied appearance of staff instead of the same old three voices, and may at times, not even include myself, for example. We have discussed a lot of "serious" topics in the Podcasts, however, for the sake of entertainment, we may release some more comical Podcasts at times as well.
Campaign Creations strives to be the main supplier of quality projects and mods for your Blizzard products. However, we cannot do this alone. We need you, our community, to spread the word. Our background is stockpiled with quality. If you visit a forum who you think would find us interesting, let them know to visit our site. If you see something you think should be showcased more, let us know what ideas you may have to do so. We are only as big as you let us be. Help us push forward, and we will respond with affirmative action.
I thank you all for reading this post, and any feedback you would like to respond with, feel free to do so. I may have a more free spirited attitude in my posting in other threads, however I do take this position in administration seriously. Thanks again.
Your Administrator.
First, and foremost, I would like to thank you all for your aid in making the community a much more lively place. It nearly brings a tear to my eye to experience the community slowly healing to a state of what it once was. Below is a graphical overview of how the community has improved in terms of our forum usage:
As you can see we had a few up and down moments, however are currently are on a steady upwards stream. Now, I do realize this could all change in a matter of days, but it is nice to have moments of glory. I could find no records of how Campaign Creations used to be in the past, other than our ever-friendly Web Archive, however for this day and age, I believe we are on a steady pace to a greater future together.
In terms of the website itself, long-time member Taeradun has stepped in to help Campaign Creations in it's first attempt to move the site to a fully functional content management system. What does this mean for Campaign Creations? A content management system (CMS from here on) is a different management process for our content. Yes, duh. In more detail, it allows us, the staff, to manage our pages in a much simpler process than through our FTP. we will access the site pages through the CMS and make realtime edits without the need to know HTML. The simple use of BBCode, much like in our forum, will allow the CMS to understand what you are attempting to create and display the page properly for you. This will allow our staff to update their pages whenever they like and however they like. Later additions to the website are hopes to track which pages are more popular, what campaigns more players prefer, and how many downloads are being performed per project. One step at a time, however.
A few of you have contacted me personally in terms of a follow up contest to our previous contest. I will mention here, officially, that there is more than one contest in the works at the moment, and hopefully if things go as planned we will begin to host multiple contests at the same time. However, before this begins, I must set myself in rhythm for these by crafting the "contest" section of the website and placing all submitted contests into those pages, alongside winners. I would also like to apologize for the winners of our last contest for the delays in your prizes as this is my first time, after all, hosting a contest. Future prizes will not take as long as the first. This is all, after all, trial and error as we involve Campaign Creations in more activities publically than we ever have.
As we update the website with the previously mentioned items, we also attempt to work on our Podcasts. Campaign Creations Podcasts require some effort to put together, however. Future Podcast, unlike the previous, may have a more varied appearance of staff instead of the same old three voices, and may at times, not even include myself, for example. We have discussed a lot of "serious" topics in the Podcasts, however, for the sake of entertainment, we may release some more comical Podcasts at times as well.
Campaign Creations strives to be the main supplier of quality projects and mods for your Blizzard products. However, we cannot do this alone. We need you, our community, to spread the word. Our background is stockpiled with quality. If you visit a forum who you think would find us interesting, let them know to visit our site. If you see something you think should be showcased more, let us know what ideas you may have to do so. We are only as big as you let us be. Help us push forward, and we will respond with affirmative action.
I thank you all for reading this post, and any feedback you would like to respond with, feel free to do so. I may have a more free spirited attitude in my posting in other threads, however I do take this position in administration seriously. Thanks again.
Your Administrator.
