March 18th, 2009 - State of the Community
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:27 am
As your representative for Campaign Creations, as previously mentioned, I come at your 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 still like to continuously thank you all for participating in the forum. The sole-activeness of the forum is my ultimate knowledge of how well we are doing. Hits, visitors, and so forth- None of that means as much to me as reading the community bonding together in a forum.
Although, after multiple discussions with newly-appointed PR, Dread, and widely-known Iskatumesk, I've come to a few realizations thanks to them both. Most of the content for our modders-to-be is absolutely and utterly outdated. Tutorials. Tips. Programs. All outdated. Heck, the WarCraft 3 section doesn't even have tutorials! I suppose now is the time to further reveal what's been occurring in CC during the silence:
Over the course of several months last year, Taeradun had officially stepped into Campaign Creations as the programmer to further enhance the site through CMS. His work helped establish a beta version of the site using Drupal as the engine- And looked identical to the current layout. The only issue however, was a rather large time span between information updates as to what is occurring in the CMS, and eventually utter silence. After the stretch of my patience ended, I took over work on the CMS personally, and have been doing so when time permits.
I'm sure the way I am doing things was not the original system for performing these updates, which is updating all links in each page manually, creating new META content, and so forth. I can admit that it is a long, repetitive, strenuous task, but I have yet to give up, and doubt I will. I can inform you I am near halfway through with the project pages, and anything aside those are already active aside the Resource center, which brings me to my next discussion.
Iskatumesk has made given me quite extensive information in terms of what should be done with the resource section of the site, which has led me to possibly conclude I should launch the new site without the resources until I fully update them. One thing to be aware of is I work much faster under pressure, and the pressure of having the site live without a resource center is by far a large task to want to accomplish. Currently, I can almost fully admit I would doubt if people would even bother to look into the resource section as it is a rather large garble of a mess and fully outdated. I can see how it was effective back in the days of its glory, but those times are long gone.
With that said, I hope to have a few surprises lined up for you all in the upcoming weeks to help pass time while all this is performed in the background. I appreciate your patience and understanding.
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 still like to continuously thank you all for participating in the forum. The sole-activeness of the forum is my ultimate knowledge of how well we are doing. Hits, visitors, and so forth- None of that means as much to me as reading the community bonding together in a forum.
Although, after multiple discussions with newly-appointed PR, Dread, and widely-known Iskatumesk, I've come to a few realizations thanks to them both. Most of the content for our modders-to-be is absolutely and utterly outdated. Tutorials. Tips. Programs. All outdated. Heck, the WarCraft 3 section doesn't even have tutorials! I suppose now is the time to further reveal what's been occurring in CC during the silence:
Over the course of several months last year, Taeradun had officially stepped into Campaign Creations as the programmer to further enhance the site through CMS. His work helped establish a beta version of the site using Drupal as the engine- And looked identical to the current layout. The only issue however, was a rather large time span between information updates as to what is occurring in the CMS, and eventually utter silence. After the stretch of my patience ended, I took over work on the CMS personally, and have been doing so when time permits.
I'm sure the way I am doing things was not the original system for performing these updates, which is updating all links in each page manually, creating new META content, and so forth. I can admit that it is a long, repetitive, strenuous task, but I have yet to give up, and doubt I will. I can inform you I am near halfway through with the project pages, and anything aside those are already active aside the Resource center, which brings me to my next discussion.
Iskatumesk has made given me quite extensive information in terms of what should be done with the resource section of the site, which has led me to possibly conclude I should launch the new site without the resources until I fully update them. One thing to be aware of is I work much faster under pressure, and the pressure of having the site live without a resource center is by far a large task to want to accomplish. Currently, I can almost fully admit I would doubt if people would even bother to look into the resource section as it is a rather large garble of a mess and fully outdated. I can see how it was effective back in the days of its glory, but those times are long gone.
With that said, I hope to have a few surprises lined up for you all in the upcoming weeks to help pass time while all this is performed in the background. I appreciate your patience and understanding.
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.