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I have no clue what FBSA even means, and likely a lot of your audience will not either. I'd suggest something a lot more generic that would turn up a lot more on websearches. Something like "City of Heroes Lorepedia" or something like that.|
Durakken needs clarity: #2. The site name. What do you think? Again it's alright, but I get the feeling that it could be named something better. I was gonna go with FBSA, but found that taken grrr. Anyways, not really worried about it as registering a domain and transfering the paths is hardly a challenge so if you have any ideas on it let me know. |
Good luck. This is quite an ambitious project that you probably won't see a great deal of fruition for quite a while, so know that going in and don't get discouraged in a month.
Dec out.
1: Actually, I think it looks nice. You should be able to customize anything you like with any of the skins, but the one you've got there looks good.
2: While the domain is largely irrelevant, I think you should name it just one thing, rather than FBSA and Vanguard. The Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs would probably make the most sense considering the content. Venguard are more concerned with Rikti than with superpowered being in general.
3: The logo size appears to be defined by this CSS:
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#p-logo,
#p-logo a,
#p-logo a:hover {
width: 180px;
height: 72px;
}
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/FBSA|
Originally Posted by Decorum
I have no clue what FBSA even means
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The FBSA is... all 10 blueside starting contacts (edit: For non-EATs), basically.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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#1. there is this one called pixelated I found that looks much better but it would take too much work to fix it for a wiki as it had been turned into a blog format... also i think some of the things were taken out so it might of been a waste to even try.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
1: Actually, I think it looks nice. You should be able to customize anything you like with any of the skins, but the one you've got there looks good.
2: While the domain is largely irrelevant, I think you should name it just one thing, rather than FBSA and Vanguard. The Federal Bureau of Super-powered Affairs would probably make the most sense considering the content. Venguard are more concerned with Rikti than with superpowered being in general. 3: The logo size appears to be defined by this CSS: Code:
#p-logo,
#p-logo a,
#p-logo a:hover {
width: 180px;
height: 72px;
}
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I know i can theoretically alter anything I want, but messing with messy code you didn't right that isn't well documented and you don't have a very good background with isn't that smart when your doing this lol ^.^ though if nothing else for a logo and banner i could just theoretically make a new div and move it wherever i want.
#2. Yeah I was thinking about going with FBSA Files but something was off with that. Maybe Portal Corp or something like that as they'd have to keep files on this stuff too and probably would work better with the color scheme. I'm up for suggestions though i think short and easily identifiable is best (which fbsavanguard isn't... just more or less a place holder... it was free anyways)
#3. Tried that ^.^ unless you're talking about another css files as it is spread over 5 css files or something like that >.> it didn't change anything as far as I saw, but it might have been the case where it didn't update when i tried it as the site did (i worked on something for like 2 hours before i noticed that the reason it wasn't working is cuz it didn't update v.v quickly)
edit: yup it's just that it takes a wile to refresh...so now Any logo banner combination can be put in there ^.^
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Thanks. While I probably did see that at one point, it's not exactly a commonly used abbreviation. I would suggest that if Durakken does use it, to spell it out and not use the abbreviation.
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Fleeting Whisper informs: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/FBSA The FBSA is... all 10 blueside starting contacts (edit: For non-EATs), basically. |
Dec out.
Definitely. If I were designing the site, I'd probably use the abbreviation in the URL, and maybe as a namespace in the wiki, but elsewhere I'd use the full form, at least for the first occurence on a page. (Or the page header/title)
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
A side tip. Durakken should probably put a link in his signature right away, with maybe an "under construction" or something. One angle of how Google places sites is in order of how many links there are out there for it (unless you pay, of course) and bunches of links out there will push it a bit higher in the rankings.
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Good point ^.^ I'm adding it now.
the problem with FBSA do a search
http://www.thefbsa.com/
http://www.fbsa.com/
http://www.fbsa.org/
So... the only option for this would be something like
TheFBSA.org
FBSAFiles.com
or
FBSAFiles.org
if i were to go with...
I would honestly do away with the FBSA and go fore something generic(you do lack unique however atleast it would be known accross the community).
And as always, if assistance is needed in terms of digital art/website design, do get in touch. I am all for helping City of Heroes/Villains-based projects.
Well once we come with a good name it would be great to get an unique logo and or banner
Can't think of anything else... less I spontaneously learn to code in PHP 100% ^.^ I personally wanted a sleaker, dark purple skin, but that got tossed out the window when I couldn't figure out how to construct the skin well enough.
If we're looking for a neutral non-specific-reference name, how about 'Citypedia'?
citypedia.com and citypedia.org are taken, but citypedia.net appears to be an open domain name.
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It doesn't load for me. Will be interested to see where this goes.
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It doesn't load for me. Will be interested to see where this goes.
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page, skin, content?
If you're looking for a suitable name, how about Paragon University? You might even then be able to add a subtitle, like Department of History.
www.cityoflore.com seems to be available, as are the .net and .org variants.
I'll keep my eye on this, maybe contribute a few things. It could be an neat resource for AE arc referencing.
Also, the temp link in your sig is incorrect, you set it as .com instead of .org :P
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The name is more important than the URL. URLs are more or less irrelevant (although nice if you can get them).
EDIT: Well, yeah, except for setting links. 
And City of Lore would be an excellent one IMHO.
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i is fixed it
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Originally Posted by LLamaBoy
www.cityoflore.com seems to be available, as are the .net and .org variants.
I'll keep my eye on this, maybe contribute a few things. It could be an neat resource for AE arc referencing. Also, the temp link in your sig is incorrect, you set it as .com instead of .org :P |
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Works now. |
Originally Posted by Durakken
i is fixed it
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Seconding this suggestion.
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Originally Posted by TyrantMikey
If you're looking for a suitable name, how about Paragon University? You might even then be able to add a subtitle, like Department of History.
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I'd second that too.
In fact, anything is better than tying the vaguely remembered FBSA with Vanguard in some joint history venture.
Either make it something in character that's possible, such as a Paragon University collective research project, or something out of character that tells people what it does, such as city of lore.
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That doesn't bode well...seems the server crashed >.>
So... I decided to create a separate CoH lore wiki. The reason being I think there needs to be one and I felt it was obvious I wasn't going to convince the people working on paragonwiki of that (not trying to paint anyone in a bad light, everyone is mondo-helpful over there, just stating the why...), so I just created it myself. ^.^
Anyways... There are a few glitches that are a mystery to me with a few things, but nothing serious that most people will notice so decided it was ready to be shown and ready to open up to people.
#1. Let me know what you think about the skin. I like it well enough personally, but I have no idea how much of it I can actually alter and it was the one I liked the most.
#2. The site name. What do you think? Again it's alright, but I get the feeling that it could be named something better. I was gonna go with FBSA, but found that taken grrr. Anyways, not really worried about it as registering a domain and transfering the paths is hardly a challenge so if you have any ideas on it let me know.
#3. Logo... it sucks. If anyone want to take a crack at making a better one the image dimension apparently are 72x180, but not sure how accurate that is. When you click on it you can see the out line around it. Changing the size in a template didn't do anything to it so i assume it's perma set to 72x180 (also the current image is 80x200 and click on it shows that it is off center as if the rest of the image was cut off on the right side)
#4. Please Contribute ^.^ and Cite anything you can. I want to make sure that every bit of info can be tracked back to it's source so that we can get the best understanding of the whole possible. Also please use the same formatting already established for the various areas (like all characters like statesman should have similar looking pages) This can be pretty easily done by going to the particular page, copying it and pasting it in the new page you create and just changing the parts that are different... It saves a lot of time.
Anyways come join in and contribute...
edit: i forgot to post the site addy lol...
It's http://www.fbsavanguard.org/