Need help developing guild website please

[Lagin3]

chainmail.ninja

We want to move away from discord, The days of guildportal are over, I used to be able to use wyswyg for those hosted sights. Not any more.
Too many people push back against discord. + it's another paywall. NTY
I want to keep it simple, 3 tabs and a voip with main page having a simple chat or blog feature.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Nod]

Check out discord!

 

[Chab]

what about skype

 

[Erofen]

Going backwards in time is an interesting choice, but I'd be willing to do it if you bought me the new expansion. Dev work generally ain't free (for projects that the devs have no vested interest in).

 

[Erofen]

(or just use WordPress like a normal person trying to make a website)

 

[Lagin3]

(or just use WordPress like a normal person trying to make a website)

It is a wp site, I tried, the free termplates are too restrictive

 

[Chab]

teamspeak? zoom?

 

[Mindos]

Quakespy!

 

[Erofen]

It is a wp site, I tried, the free termplates are too restrictive

So you created a free hosted WordPress instance instead of hosting your own. If so, there is nothing a dev could help you with. Hosting your own WordPress site has no such restrictions and lots of options.

 

[Zavina]

chainmail.ninja

We want to move away from discord, The days of guildportal are over, I used to be able to use wyswyg for those hosted sights. Not any more.
Too many people push back against discord. + it's another paywall. NTY
I want to keep it simple, 3 tabs and a voip with main page having a simple chat or blog feature.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

@LeslieWest_GuitarGod (Tyrs Palladium) @vryxnr (LWOG), want to give him some tips.

 

[vryxnr]

I mean, LWOG uses discord primarily now. we do have a shivtr website, but it's barely used for anything anymore. It works, has it's own forums, but is kinda old and clunky as well

 

[Zavina]

I mean, LWOG uses discord primarily now. we do have a shivtr website, but it's barely used for anything anymore. It works, has it's own forums, but is kinda old and clunky as well

i was thinking that too, but figured best he heard from people who have it up and running than spend X time to get it running only to find out it was old and clunky.

 

[Randomdude1223]

Do you need someone to develop it for you ? Or are you asking how to learn to build one ?

 

[Dielzen]

chainmail.ninja

We want to move away from discord, The days of guildportal are over, I used to be able to use wyswyg for those hosted sights. Not any more.
Too many people push back against discord. + it's another paywall. NTY
I want to keep it simple, 3 tabs and a voip with main page having a simple chat or blog feature.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

discord is a paywall? never paid them a penny /shrug

 

[vryxnr]

discord is a paywall? never paid them a penny /shrug

hm, yeah, basic discord is free, and is able to cover most things quite well imo. Paying discord for Nitro is optional, and does open up more options and better quality all around, and allows you to "boost" a server, which does things like even better audio quality in voice chat, higher upload limits for things like images, and a bunch of cosmetic things like banners, badges, custom emotes, etc... but all that is not actually required.

Sadly I don't have any recommendations for a different webhosting site. I've never even used things like wix to make custom websites, so I don't know how hard or easy adding voip that way would be. sorry.

 

[woq]

Discord is about as paywalled as DDO is f2p

 

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Well met Lagin!

You are an old school gamer. I can just tell by the way you type. Embrace what works in your mind. We use Discord but we turned it down FOR YEARS. We leave it up to the group if they'd like to use IN GAME VOICE or DISCORD. There is no right or wrong.

Our website is currently ShivTR. We started MANY MOONS AGO on FORUMOTION. Loved that platform in its heyday. That heydey has passed.

Noone does MEMBER ROSTER & SCHEDULED RAIDS better than ShivTR. It works so well, as long as your guildies use it. If you look in the guild recruitment section here, noone has more hits than us. Same wit the old DDO site.

So what did we do. We surely weren't the biggest or baddest. What we did was create a vision, and a goal. The Ghallanda recruitment thread, and our website are responsible for 99+% of our hires over our 17 years as a guild.

I am a ShivTR fan. Still the best imho. Easy to do everything and its a GAMER'S PORTAL. It even includes DDO as a game option.

Wix is a recommendation as well. It's generic, but easy and more modern. More options too. Id sign up for a free trial first and see if you can do what you want for free.

Now Im not going to BS you. Other than a few of your diehard guildies, its mostly going to be used as a recruitment site, and thats IF you create a page for your guild rules and utilize the brilliant APPLICATION feature.

If you tell new recruits that your website is important to your guild they'll use it! Assuming that you maintain it. But nowadays people tend to move to Discord and ditch the forums.

So my recommendations:

1. Try to create SIMPLE website on ShivTR and Wix. What feels better to you? You are going to be using it more than anyone else!
2. Ask your officers or anyone else who will be maintaining the site.
3. Go with your GUT. Whichever one you enjoy working with (IS EASIER!) and/or more attractive to you RUN WITH IT.

Good luck Lagin!

 

[Lagin3]

Well met Lagin!

You are an old school gamer. I can just tell by the way you type. Embrace what works in your mind. We use Discord but we turned it down FOR YEARS. We leave it up to the group if they'd like to use IN GAME VOICE or DISCORD. There is no right or wrong.

Our website is currently ShivTR. We started MANY MOONS AGO on FORUMOTION. Loved that platform in its heyday. That heydey has passed.

Noone does MEMBER ROSTER & SCHEDULED RAIDS better than ShivTR. It works so well, as long as your guildies use it. If you look in the guild recruitment section here, noone has more hits than us. Same wit the old DDO site.

So what did we do. We surely weren't the biggest or baddest. What we did was create a vision, and a goal. The Ghallanda recruitment thread, and our website are responsible for 99+% of our hires over our 17 years as a guild.

I am a ShivTR fan. Still the best imho. Easy to to everything and its a GAMERS PORTAL. It even includes DDO as a game option.

Wix is a recommendation as well. It's generic, but easy and more modern. More options too. Id sign up for a free trial first and see if you can do what you want for free.

Now Im not going to BS you. Other than a few of your diehard guildies, its mostly going to be used as a recruitment site, and thats IF you create a page for your guild rules and utilize the brilliant APPLICATION feature.

If you tell new recruits that your website is important to your guild they'll use it! Assuming that you maintain it. But nowadays people tend to move to Discord and ditch the forums.

So my recommendations:

1. Try to create SIMPLE website on ShivTR and Wix. What feels better to you? You are going to be using it more than anyone else!
2. Ask your officers or anyone else who will be maintaining the site.
3. Go with you GUT. Whichever one3 you enjoy working with (IS EASIER!) and/or more attractive to you RUN WITH IT.

Good luck Lagin!

ty, shivtr is exctly what Im looking for

 

[I dont Like gimps]

Just use them good Old can and strings they even work during fallouts

 

[MarauderX]

Fandom works as an open wiki - get the group to act as a team to help develop, add character details, perspectives, etc.

https://makers-of-mortality.fandom.com/wiki/Setting_Description