New website

Holy cripes!!! I've just seen the new Hands of Darkness website! Thats freakin' amazing!

http://www.handsofdarkness.org/

Great job.

Sureshot wrote:

Thats freakin' amazing!

Understatement, amazingly well done indeed!

Woah.

I really hope Redwatch has something good planned because right now, because they've blown the competition right out of the water!

You've only just visited?? It's been like that for aaaages. It's basically a HoD themed out-of-the-box website from 2Advanced Studios. Very nice though, I agree.

And sorry Harl, but my talent lies in static imagery. Not sure I could rival an expertly crafted site made by a team of professionals even if I knew the programs! Maybe extra cookies for any member here who recruits a bod with rich media skills!? lol

Very nifty why can't i have a useful job like that
Btw I used to tinker in this sort of stuff, flash animations and the like, I never did websites cause they never interested me really but the principles are the same and I've seen a few tutorials on how to do them.
Anyway if you guys were looking for something in particualr I might be able to oblige, don't worry though I'm not planning on making a fully animated site like that

Wow Pwns the hell out of our current site with its fancy ways and sound effects

Lunarwolf wrote:

(I don't envy our HOD Ambassador either, lol)

That might be me. D'oh!

I wonder whether we could benefit from a front-page as well? At the moment we are just a forum which is ace and all, but what about a page a bit like the SWTOR one that has some sort of neutral background and then lets you go to either a "Republic" or "Empire" page with Bios, Rosters and the like showing all the characters and stuff, with both having a forum link to here? (or a forum link on the main page before you go to either Rep/Emp?)

I know the forum is our core, but it'd be nice to have a front end with pictures and database info and what-not.

Thing is, do we have any web-designers among us? (I know Red does a stunning job with static images but would I be correct in assuming you're an artist at heart and not a web-designer mate?) If we had to hire a someone to do it, would anyone fancy chipping in? (If not, I'm willing to front the money for this....assuming it wont cost me a mortgage!)

I throw my idea to the Wolves....

Thank you for al the comments. As the "Technical Engineer" of the guild I appreciate it.

Just to give feed back on a few comments, I have never made a website before, or used flash before. I used Youtube and 2Advanced studios website in order to recreate the areas I liked.
Flash is not as complicated as it appears and there are many many tutorials on how to do it.

If you are considering a website, I highly recommend it, the exposer and recognition it has brought us is more than we could have ever hoped for. In designing one, I recommend always keep in mind your creating it for non-members.

I tried to understand Flash but got a little confused / bored by it (though to be fair I was trying to learn it on FlashMX Pro so it may have been overly-complex :S) - got all respect for your work though! I have to admit I would like to learn it for the more basic stuff (like mini animations and what-not) so I may end up trying again in the future. If that's the case I might try to bend your ear a little if thats ok?

Nice website in general though! Thanks for adding the "Skip Intro" button because I have a VERY slow internet connection at work so that helped a lot

(By the way, I did leave a message on your "Site Comments" because I noticed a type-o... have you seen that?)

yes you did, I have not had the chance to do any updates to the server in a while.

The leaders keep me quite busy.

I do however have the e-mail archived for when I do the next build.