Hey folks,

I’ve been inactive for the past few weeks for reasons I’d rather not go into. However, it’s almost that time of year where once again, we pack up our computers, buy a crap ton of caffeine enriched drinks and supplements, leave the relative safety of our studies and wonder out into the real world to travel to Telford for another epic weekend of games, competitions, freebies, boxes and booze. Yes ladies and gents, it’s time another iEvent.

This time we are headed to the chilly winter i44. To coincide with this epic event, I have been convinced sit down on my fat arse, load up notepad++ and get to work on improving the site before we hit the event in mere days.

First thing on my list is to actually get our logo on the site, finally. The reason its taken so long to actually get around to doing that simple job is simply out of both my laziness and the laziness of someone else who has taken 2 months to send me a copy of the logo with a transparent background since it appears I lack the programs required to do that simple job (I can’t install adobe products, dumps too much crap on the c: drive even if you tell it not too).

Secondly, I’m finally going to start trying to script the new homepage, which will temporarily be attached to the current site until I start coding the new site.

As far as the new site is involved, I need some help, any web designers out there willing to sit down, give me a few minutes of their time to pick their brains and help me wrap my head around exactly what I have let myself in for, drop me a message on xfire:ukutghost or grab me on either ts3 or mumble (I normally sit on both if I’m sat in one).

So then, GLHF and see you at LAN

~Ghostie!

Ok folks, so once again, I’m a little behind with my work on the website. However, after a little push from a few members, I have started work on the streaming side of the website. You can track progress of the streaming side at http://www.advancegamers.tv

Now it’s mostly just rough work at the moment, but I’m hoping that the future template will take in to account our sister site and the inter-connectivity. Both side use the same version of wordpress and the same security procedures as each other. They also use the same account database to store user information, meaning once you create an account on one of the sites, an account will automatically be made on our sister site.

As it stands, the only thing both sites are now missing is a theme, which I will be investigating this further in the next few weeks. However with the end of the year getting close I’m hesitate to change the template, however, working on the video site has shown me just how much a custom template will be needed if we wish to continue expanding. As it stands, there is a lot of work to do on both sites and I will be sitting down with people over the next few days to try and draft out what is left to do to get both sites to a functional state.

//Ghostie!

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After several months of delaying it, and in line with the PBBans requirements, I’m finally sorted the forums out… I’ll be using a WordPress Plugin for ease of installation so its going to take some trial and error but fingers crossed it’ll work out fine and theres no bridging databases for accounts (which is always a pain). Having 5mb upload helps alot though

UPDATE: 15:50 10/12/10

Right guys, the forum is live, its going to take some tweaking to get right but in order to allow members to register and use it, I’ve have to activate the Register function again for the site, which was deactivated due to spambots. So while I carry on working it out, heres what I have working so far

Multiple Categories, viewable depending on access level, the lowest being public going upto admins. This includes the Community group which any confirmed real person will be added to when I get the chance which opens a couple of extra forums up.

The forum needs a little testing but the server info forums will be populated with certain information depending again on access levels, admins will get links to the cpanel for the servers, team will get rcon, public/community will get the ip addresses… simplez

UPDATE: 19:30 10/12/10

In order to use all the features provided by the forum software, I have installed another plugin called Mingle, which happens to be a social networking plugin ¬.¬. this is mainly for the account features, but most of the other features have to be turned on my default… this includes an activity page with status updates, a friends section and a pm system(needed for the forum anywho) but it also means page spam in the header.. sorrwie

UPDATE: 19:52 10/12/10

Link spam across the top of the page fixed, not sure why the pages still work but at least the spam is gone eh