New site design work

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:41 am

Hi everyone. Since the hacking back in 2010 (yes it was that long ago), I've been attempting to redevelop the site with a new look - something that gives us the feeling of 'Middle-earth' and also harks back to our old design. But the newer version of our forum software is SOOOO much more complex than the older version and it's taken me a long time to really understand it (I still don't). Coupled with getting busy running a gaming convention, a couple of major terrain projects, and a huge workload at the end of last year, I've not got very far at all.

However, I got over a major hurdle this weekend on the site redesign. I can't show you much just yet, but the site is coming along well now.

My hurdle involves my ignorance of the newfangled way that cascading style sheets work these days, especially when combined with DIVs - if that means anything to anyone! I am still a bit ignorant of it all, but I did manage to get the banner and top menu displaying properly now (with an embedded search field). Struggling to get that displaying properly was what killed my attempts last time, so getting past that is a bit of a milestone for me. Now I'm working on the look and feel of the forum listings. Once I have a nice looking page, I'll grab a screen shot and post it here.

I'm still weeks away from finishing, but it's 'weeks' now, not 'months' and that's a good thing.

Chris · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:46 am

indeed, good luck with that

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:27 pm

sounds good!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:22 pm

Great news Alan. Glad to hear you've jumped the hurdle! I look forward to seeing what you do with the site design.

Drumstick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 4:11 pm

fantastic news, glad to see it's getting there. Thank you for all the effort you are putting into this community.

Valamir · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:30 pm

Though I've not been a member long, I have been checking out the site since before the re-vamp, and I too would like to offer my thanks for a good, clean site where one can come and enjoy reading/writing about the hobby we all delight in. My thanks to all of you who have put in so much time and effort at making this place what it is, for it truly would not exist without you.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:07 pm

Yikes......I hadn't really realized that it has been 2 years already. But, good to hear your over a hurdle. All the technical stuff is really gibberish to me, though I like to think that I am decently techie when it comes to computers....I guess just not in web design. :-D

Anyways, thanks so much for all the hard work you've put into restoring the site over the last couple of years. Especially considering how busy you were with work and other commitments. I applaud your work and hope to see the fruits of it soon-ish. :yay:

Meneldil · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:37 pm

Good to hear, thank you very much!

lorderkenbrand · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:14 am

I can't imagine what the coding must look like! Thankyou for all the time and effort you've put into this over the years and ofcourse more recently! This is a wonderful community, and long may it last on for years to come. To Dagorlaaaaaaaad! (*Downs umpteenth pint...)

:mrgreen:

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:44 am

lorderkenbrand wrote:

I can't imagine what the coding must look like!

Hehe, I can PM you some of it if you want

Thanks for the encouragement guys - it's a great community to be a part of.

Jamros · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:55 am

Dagorlad=Awesome.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:31 pm

Great news, Dags. I was never online before the Incident and thhe site has already changed much since I've been on, and what you can do with this never ceases to amaze me. Keep going, I can't wait.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1067

Good news. TLA has reformatted their page, maybe ask them for some help?

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:30 am

Heheh, I did the graphics for them (my user name there is "The Necromancer" - http://www.thelastalliance.com/memberli ... de=leaders).

lorderkenbrand · **Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:21 pm

Dagorlad wrote:

lorderkenbrand wrote:

I can't imagine what the coding must look like!

Hehe, I can PM you some of it if you want

Please don't lol, congrats with TLAs btw looking good now!

Dagorlad · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:24 am

I did the original graphic design, but James Braund did the hard work coding it, and now LonelyKnight is maintaining it, so any kudos should go to those two.

LonelyKnight · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:06 pm

I haven't done much cause I can't seem to figure out how it works :sad:

ukrocky added the banner for the sponsor, and Matt was going to take a look at the wordpress but nothing happened so far

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