Share your guilds websites...

Hi there, Community!

Just wondered what everyone's guild websites were like?

Do people have frontpages or are most guilds based around forums?

Visit ours: www.theredshield.com - please bear in mind that this is a work in progress and I'm trying to construct it just using HTML and CSS from scratch (Not cheating using NetObjects etc), and this is the first site I've built - so please don't flame.

I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions anyone can give.

Thanks

We have a front page and forum. www.gw.mysticteam.com

Wow...you bought your own domain. Cheers.

Not that great, sorry. I mean not bad for a first try though. Hmm, suggestions. If you can, get photoshop or photoshop elements (which is far more affordable), to make some of your own web graphics. Then to facilitate the job, get Macromedia Dreamweaver (because MS Frontpage stinks) to put the webpage together rather than working with HTML and CSS.

QUESTION! How did you get that [gw] part in your domain name marz?

the GW would be a subdomain. as his guild plays other games, take the gw. out and you'll see their guilds main page.

I agree on the graphics, but not on the HTML and CSS, I have designed and coded (if that's what you may call it lol since it's only HTML and CSS) quite a few websites.
I've gotten Dreamweaver lessons in College but I simply don't see the need, I am nearly twice as fast doing it just in html, another thing about Dreamweaver is alignment it often has a problem with aligning things.
Everytime I've used Dreamweaver I've always ended up editting most of it in HTML.
Though if you want to use a webdesign program, it still is the best one out there, since it hardly messes up your coding compared to other programs.

anyone use bbedit? I used to use it but do it in dreamweaver now, I like switching from the WYSIWUG part of dreamweaver to the "code" of your website, quite nice.

Dreamweaver is the best, but will adobe keep dreamweaver and lose GoLive (which they should) Adobe ONLY bought macromedia for Flash and its plug-ins, me thinks adobe predicts lots more flash related web experiences....which i can believe.

oh yeah....

Brothers of the Jade

Akilles, I like your guildsite, but the thing is when u click a link the whole page including all the images load again.
to prevent this u could implement an iFrame on the place where the content is, or more difficult work with Meta forms.

www.allianceknights.net

KoA has been around since 1997. It started in Diablo and then moved to UO. Branches have moved to SB, WOW, and now GW.

http://www.freewebs.com/bsbz/

Glorified text document.

www.clanafo.com

Multi-game website based off of forums. Our GW branch is still fairly new and small.

hmmm....good tip, if i ever get time, i probably will do that, i never thought of it.

There is no CSS used there at all and the markup is a tag-soup. You should review the sources you learn from.

This does not make sense at all. Using an iframe (note the correct capitalization) has nothing to do with wether the images are cached or not. If what you describe is happening it's because of either server or client misconfiguration. And there is no such thing as "meta forms".

Also, about WYSIWYG editors like Dreamwaver — you'd do yourself a favour and earn some geek style points by staying away from them. Don't waste your time by learning how to use flawed software, as the code it outputs is unaccessible and generally bad.

http://www.guildwarsarena.net

A Guild Wars fansite and the home of the Ascalon Freedom Fighters guild

Nowadays it doesn't matter much though, people's connections are fast enough for it to load all the things again.
It's just the few slower connections that are left you have to take in count...

sigh.. my college is annoying with that =P

With an iframe you won't have to load all the pictures since only the frame will have to reload itself when you click a link.
let's say there's 20 pictures making up the site, from which 2 are the content part. just click a link and see all the pictures loading again, eventhough it only takes 1 second it does happen. if you make the iframe the exact size of the 2 pictures that contain the content it will only have to reload the frame when u click a link thus only reloading 2 pictures instead of 20.
even if pictures are cached it still reloads them, takes a fraction of a second.. which is just noticeable.
Even if it's a server or client related problem the iframe will reduce the "problem"

there's something with Meta.. never used it don't know exactly what it's called, but it does a similair thing.

I agree with you on the editors, I prefer notepad =P


Sorry for the doublepost, didn't read this after I replied.

i do agree about the WYSIWUG software, i use it to rough out what i want and then always to into the code itself to really do what i need, it is just a time saver, i would NEVER make a site on that and release it without going thru the code. Its like when i draw, i just need a quick idea of what things will look like and then i can go back and clean up. I do need to get back into more current html though, its been a while.

Yes, once images are cached it flies, which is why i did not care really. I wanted certain fonts so i used images. I said to myself, ppl who play GW use broadband, so the ppl who visit should be the same.

Do schools really still stress about optimizing sites for 56k? its been a while and broadband was just starting to be affordable when i took the classes. the sites had to be for 800x600 screens and 56k friendly.

As I said, the browser caches the pictures and does not reload them unless either it or the HTTP server is misconfigured.

Iframes are inaccessible for most search engines, some older browsers, and have usability issues like the visitor not being able to bookmark a page or copy the correct link. Basically what you're suggesting is an abuse of the iframe tag and a common newb mistake.

Edit: the site in question actually has a different set of images for each page, so it's no wonder that you see all of them reloading every time you click on a link.

Didn't realise the different pictures, then it can't be used no.

Iframes and search engines are usually a problem yes, you seem to have knowledge lol, maybe you know.
How can you make a site, with scrolling content, when you click a link you only want the content part to change. but not using an Iframe.
Because Iframes have worked for me and they're easy to use, but they do lack in certain ways.

I got a guild wars forum but it is **** it ishttp://www.guildnet.tk/

But the first 6 new registered users will become mods