New SE Site: SE.net

Fyron · #1 August 6th, 2003, 02:39 AM

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.

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

).
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 · #2 August 6th, 2003, 02:54 AM

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!

ZeroAdunn · #3 August 6th, 2003, 09:22 AM

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

You should have tried for something more originall.

Taera · #4 August 6th, 2003, 11:41 AM

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

Stone Mill · #5 August 6th, 2003, 04:11 PM

This looks like a great start.

Voidhawk · #6 August 6th, 2003, 05:27 PM

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 · #7 August 6th, 2003, 05:44 PM

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!

)

Erax · #8 August 6th, 2003, 07:13 PM

Visited it I have. Ambitious it is.

Contagious this Yoda speak is.

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

Fyron · #9 August 6th, 2003, 08:27 PM

Quote:

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.

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.

Quote:

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

You and a very small handful of people, yes.

Quote:

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).

Well... I do plan on customizing the default theme.

To the rest of you, thanks!

tesco samoa · #10 August 6th, 2003, 09:25 PM

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.