Sully Posted July 8, 2011 Posted July 8, 2011 Time War is pretty much finished. Over this weekend and most likely also the next I'll be working on website re-design. This will be the first of many as I bring the site up to date....So lets see what to expect on the next update. WF-Fic site This section of WG.com will be redesigned completely. Fan-fiction and art will no longer be organised by who wrote / drew it but the series it is based on. The fiction will be devided into 2 sections. 1. Chronicles of the Warrior Guyver 2. Collective Guyver Chronicles (at the moment this is the name I'm toying with for the other fan-fiction stories) Inside this the following fan-fictions will be found: 1. Assassin Guyver 2. Cyber Guyver 3. Flight of an Angel 4. Guyver XT 5. Nova Guyver 6. Warrior Guyver 7. Warrior GuyverC 8. W'Kar 9. Character Stories (Currently only me (Brian) has stories in that) This list will be shortened and characterswho have wrote 2 or less stories will be moved into the Character Stories section. Looking at that list with the next update that would mean.... 1. Flight of an Angel 2. Nova Guyver 3. Warrior Guyver 4. Warrior GuyverC 5. Character stories (But no longer just stories by me) Each of the 5 sections will have art work in it for that section that reflects the characters within it. Over time that means new art, in the mean time depends on what I find this and next weekend. I'm sure Allen for example when he gets an urge of writing will do more W'Kar stories and that will be number 5 then. But I'll not be over doing this section, Assassin Guyver for example will not be getting her own section and will stay in the character stories even if the number goes over 2 stories. Guyver XT depends on Mike's return and wanting to have his character getting his own section. I've yet to decide how art will be devided up. But again it'll not be down too who done what. Data files section will be cleaned up... this is where a LOT of work needs to be done, but mainly my focus will be on the "Creators" secton will be renamed Gen and data files corrected for Time War and new versions uploaded for Warrior Guyver and Gigantic Guyver. There will be some other new stuff too. For the time being the Calendar will be removed. After the rewrites are done though it should make a return. Overall the redesign will follow the 3 click rule.... Basically from the front page it should only take you 3 clicks to find something interesting and what you want within the site. The above is the plan for the WG-fic section of the site. As well as that I plan to do some tidy up to the structure of WG.com design itself. If you've any weblinks that are Guyver related please let me know for them to be updated. As well as WG.com the Guyver messageboard will be getting some work, no this isn't new work yet but more so on the code behind the board so that we get some any spam bot features. After the next two wekends I hope to re-open the board to new people. Admins will no longer be activating user accounts, this "should" be doable by new joiners themself. But they will be only allowed post in a new spam section of the site. Once someone posts there and shows they are not a bot then they'll be allowed post in the main sections of the site. Note this will mean that if a bot joins the site the above section can at times be filled with vigra adds etc... SO beware, admins and mods won't always get before you do. Quote
TheGuyversWill Posted July 13, 2011 Posted July 13, 2011 Sounds awesome. The forum needs love man! Its a well visited portion of the site and has been sitting in generic mode for years. Quote
Sully Posted July 14, 2011 Author Posted July 14, 2011 I aggree there, but my first concern is getting the Messageboard to work correctly, rather than making it look good (though I've a load of stuff I would like to do to make it more Guyver / WG like....) Quote
Sully Posted July 15, 2011 Author Posted July 15, 2011 Update... there is a new version of PHPBB. Hopefully this will fix most of the problems in one go. Quote
Sully Posted July 16, 2011 Author Posted July 16, 2011 Ok the messageboard has being updated, and repairs done to the reg process. At the moment this is open so new people can simply activate their own account with a valid email address... and if they know who writes the Guyver story. Next week I'll look into how you modify PHP BB so it's more Guyver like. Quote
Sully Posted July 17, 2011 Author Posted July 17, 2011 Update time, I've made a new templete I'm happy with but there is another problem... There are 530 HTM files in the WG fic site..... soo simply put updating them all and redesigning the folder structure is taking a LONG time. A lot longer than I planned. But it's coming along. So while I might not get the update ready this weekend at least most of the nasty work is out of the way. Quote
Sully Posted July 26, 2011 Author Posted July 26, 2011 This has turned out to be a bigger job than planned. At the moment the amin thing slowing this down is editing the Data Files... I do not want a mixed match set of data files for both the old version and the re-wrote verson of the fan-fiction... So I'm editing them ALL to reflect this... that is a lot of work but in the end it is worth it. Browsing the website in the new template is also one hell of a lot easier, you can with one click go from the Warrior Guyver story to looking at the Chronos Data files, or an ACTF one if you want, or a Grakken or a Gen data file... You can (when they are populated) also do the same to the Character profile section or art. The 3 click rule is in full effect too, making it a much quicker site to work around At the moment the Gen data file section is almost complete, am getting there but it's taking a good long while. after this is done, there will be still some data files out of date, or that will need extra work (Guyver XT9 for example has a completely different history in the re-write). Anyway sorry for the delay guys, but it should all be very worth it. Quote
TheGuyversWill Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 Should be well worth the wait and awesome to see! Thanks for spending the time to make the site look even better! Quote
Sully Posted July 30, 2011 Author Posted July 30, 2011 Should be well worth the wait and awesome to see!Thanks for spending the time to make the site look even better! thanks Another +, found some unpublished Data files that will also be put into this update. Quote
jedi-guyver Posted July 30, 2011 Posted July 30, 2011 Awesome!! Any possibility on letting us know a couple of those? Quote
Sully Posted July 30, 2011 Author Posted July 30, 2011 Awesome!! Any possibility on letting us know a couple of those? One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour. Quote
jedi-guyver Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 Awesome!! Any possibility on letting us know a couple of those? One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour. Sweet! Any chance on us getting to see robo guyver?! Quote
Sully Posted July 31, 2011 Author Posted July 31, 2011 Awesome!! Any possibility on letting us know a couple of those? One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour. Sweet! Any chance on us getting to see robo guyver?! James never gave me an updated one for him, but if he gets one over I'll make sure it goes up. Quote
McAvoy Posted August 1, 2011 Posted August 1, 2011 Awesome!! Any possibility on letting us know a couple of those? One of the ones is an updated Data File of Guyver 0 including his Gigantic form, Warrior Aceaer and a stealth Wolf armour. I am looking forward to seeing the last two. What story is the stealth Wolf armor in? Matt's? Quote
Sully Posted August 1, 2011 Author Posted August 1, 2011 None yet, but I'll be working it into my re-writes (All Things Change most likely). As for a progress report, I was sailing along through the Chronos data files until I got to Kron and realised... Hmm that needs some major work. Quote
jedi-guyver Posted August 3, 2011 Posted August 3, 2011 At this point I'm almost salivating with anticipation. Any idea on how much longer your gonna be stringing along your loyal followers? Quote
Sully Posted August 3, 2011 Author Posted August 3, 2011 At this point I'm almost salivating with anticipation. Any idea on how much longer your gonna be stringing along your loyal followers? Work sent me to Cork.... (the other side of Ireland to where I am normally) so at the mo not much progress than where I stopped Sunday. I should get some more out of the way tonight. So... Gen Data Files = Complete and ready. Chronos Data Files = about half way. ACTF Data Files = Next big target (main troublesum one here would be Zeugma as I've to think ahead like Kron and plan out what it'll roughly be for the Data File). Grakken Data Files = There's only 3 here, but the main Grakken DF and the Destroyer one need some work. Once those are out of the way, that's the main thing holding back the update out of the way other than lots of HTML work for the art section. Hard to give a good guess on when this will go up, but I'm working on this other than the weekeneds as I too want this update done and want the referances that this update will have for when I travel on the train. The Character profiles while they'll not be there yet (though the working area will be) is deffo something I want for the future. Quote
jedi-guyver Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 How about Apothecary Guyver? I have an edited version from the old W'Kar site if you want it. Quote
Sully Posted August 4, 2011 Author Posted August 4, 2011 How about Apothecary Guyver? I have an edited version from the old W'Kar site if you want it. I'm waiting for the James made version of that. But things like this character can be done at a later date. Important thing at the moment is to get this big update finished so there is a working site in the new templete, not a mixed match pointing at the new folder scrutre and some looking at the old (basically there's lots of HTML errors from that and also it looks having them mixed. Quote
Sully Posted August 6, 2011 Author Posted August 6, 2011 5 data files away from finishing the Chronos DF section.... Next big target is the ACTF section. Quote
Sully Posted August 6, 2011 Author Posted August 6, 2011 5 data files away from finishing the Chronos DF section.... Next big target is the ACTF section. Quote
Sully Posted September 11, 2011 Author Posted September 11, 2011 Large update done today, noticed a few buggs that will be fixed with the next update next weekend. Quote
McAvoy Posted September 11, 2011 Posted September 11, 2011 I love the new look. Very simple. I also love the poster on the Warrior Guyver part of the stories. Matt also has one for his too, I think it's called Generations. Now off to story time! Quote
Sully Posted September 12, 2011 Author Posted September 12, 2011 I love the new look. Very simple. I also love the poster on the Warrior Guyver part of the stories. Matt also has one for his too, I think it's called Generations. Now off to story time! Thanks McAvoy, the poster in the WG Fic section is one of my faves. Great work by "tbone111" there! Matt's section and some tidy up will be done over the next few weeks, and yes the Generations pic was top of my list there too... unless Matt is feeling arty and wanting to do something custom! Though I might make a Netbook template later for the site when I've got the main version working (It doesn't all fit into the screen on one of those). Quote
largo Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 You are looking in to a netbook version of the site well i was wondering what the chances are of maybe a mobile version of the site. Quote
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