A New Website?

Bit of a large question here but I've been checking the Enjin website and they really do have some nice themes. Seeing as green and gold seem to be our new theme, I would go with either of these as our new design:

Spoiler:

According to SW:TOR Roleplay who are ding the same at the minute, Enjin can transfer all of your guild data from your old forum to a new one. But I have a couple of questions. Firstly does anyone know if we can get our own customized domain name because I wouldn't leave here without www.agentsoftheepoch.org being our main home address. Secondly, is there anyone here who feels that they're comfortable with working their way around an Enjin website?

It's just an idea because I'm kinda happy with either decision but I thought I'd put it to the guild as a possibility.

The first skin is really nice for us. When compared to our starting flash screen it fits well. So I wouldn't mind moving there If it's possible without any major problems...However, I would miss our old site But, life's a change, and when something appears that is worth changing for it's good to do so.

Yeah I definitely wouldn't like to leave here without PJK's awesome banner either. I'd have to look into cost as well because it probably won't be cheap to have the amount of data we've got here transferred.

Double post. Here's the price list and features:



I think if we were to do it we'd have to go the whole hog and splash out for the Ultimate pack. So we'd be talking about £3.75 (4.25 Euros) a month each if all officers were to contribute and if were just between L-Dubz and I and I then we're talking roughly £7.50 a month each.

Wish I'd seen this sooner but I was sleeping

I'm pretty sure I suggested this site provider before but I'll glase over that fact ;P

In answer to your questions (because I currently host one)

Sureshot wrote:

Firstly does anyone know if we can get our own customized domain name because I wouldn't leave here without www.agentsoftheepoch.org being our main home address.

Yes, you can. Its part of the setup process (which is so Easy even I could do it). Alternatively you can use their free one like I do. My guild Sirocco has the url of http://siroccorp.enjin.com/home

Sureshot wrote:

Secondly, is there anyone here who feels that they're comfortable with working their way around an Enjin website?

Yes, pretty much everything on Enjin is customisable. For example this is the user made one one of our Guild members did for ours:


I should also point out (not wanting to over-sell it) but Enjin has a huge host of special features and they're adding to them all the time. Most can be used for any game but many are Game-Specific, meaning that once the game launches you will get TOR-Specific Features.

For example when Rift came out you got about 20 to choose from I think, on top of the 40-odd normal ones, so you could make all the modules (like our Widgets here) specific to the game.

Over at Sirocco for example, there is a "Dungeons" tab along the top which if you click on it gives a visual representation of which Dungeons the Guild as a group have cleared. You get bet your blaster bolts there will be a Flashpoint one once TOR goes live.

I've voted YES to Enjin because of all the paid sites it is, in my opinion, EASILY the best.

I voted NO! Cause I don't see the point of paying for what we have for free. This forum is anyway very good and cool... It would hurt my heart to just leave it!

LW's answered all your questions I'm up for it and I can fiddle with most things and get the hang of them so I wouldn't mind

I voted yes

and PJK that sound so wrong

PrioryJK wrote:

I can fiddle with most things

I voted yes because I think Enjin looks very good, but then again I'm not the one paying.

Why does it always sounds so PG18 when PJK talks ><'

Here's an example of some in action, btw:

SWTOR:

57th Squadron (note the "who's in Teamspeak" thing on the right)
Zone-X (Republian Honour Guard)
The Immortal Syndicate (note the animated banner..)

RIFT:

Sirocco
Imperium
Condemned

EDIT: Oh by the way, one of the latest Enjin features is "in-game live video streaming" though I don't really see the point of this unless you want to torment your mates who cant get into the game for some reason

It's aliiiiiiiiiiiive!

http://agentsoftheepoch.swtorwebsites.com/home

Yep, I'm just going to play about with it and try it out to see what its like first so please note:

THIS IS NOT OUR OFFICIAL PAGE.......yet.

Having banner problems ladies ?

Well it's coming along nicely but I'm now wondering how the hell we can get Enjin to transfer all of our data?!!

I asked them ages ago about it and they said it wasn't a problem.

But then the dude went into these complex instructions and I said not to worry about it, because at the time we decided against moving.

Sureshot wrote:

Well it's coming along nicely but I'm now wondering how the hell we can get Enjin to transfer all of our data?!!

That's ZE question ><'

Well I'll do it if we get the info do you have the info still LW?

Well accoring to Tziena who runs the SW:TOR RP site they don't transfer data:

Tziena wrote:

I know one of the Community Managers because of work. They don't "do" it -- they are making an exception for me. However, I was told that they are working on conversion tools. What forum are you running?

They might not do the process themselves because its time consuming but they may allow us to?
Btw regarding the site if you want things changing like the banner or the holonet animation can you ask and I'll do it, its just someone modifed the banner earlier today and made it bigger meaning that some of the animations overlapped and looked crappy and the holonet is all squidged up.
Its easier for me to make improvements then fix someones mistakes and then make improvements

PrioryJK wrote:

Btw regarding the site if you want things changing like the banner or the holonet animation can you ask and I'll do it, its just someone modifed the banner earlier today and made it bigger meaning that some of the animations overlapped and looked crappy and the holonet is all squidged up.

Time to flog someone but who? ^^'

Yup that was me, sorry, although I'm happier with a smaller HoloNet because I had problems fitting the original in. I'll leave up to you from now on though chap.

p.s. Made you an admin.

Sureshot wrote:

Yup that was me, sorry, although I'm happier with a smaller HoloNet because I had problems fitting the original in. I'll leave up to you from now on though chap.

p.s. Made you an admin.

Its my baby :3
lol yeah I got a bit moody there it runs in the family

Yeah I'll fix it all up when its finalised I bet we'll be making a change or 2 along the way, btw did you want a smaller chat button that apears on all the pages or just one on the main page (we could have both)

I think the one should be fine matey.

Actually I was going to suggest that when I get the new skin (or before) and if someone is feeling a bit artistic, they could possibly work on some new tabs near the top of the homepage?

By the way I've seen the skin we're after on the enjin site and it looks great! We'd probably need a new background though.

do you know what size the backdrop has to be?