Out of nowhere Buzz talked about needing to do sites for his portfolio, and I told him my idea for a PvP-only fansite. I talked about some of the ideas I had for it in the convo below in the spoiler, but I/we want to hear some of your guys'! Any input is welcome too.
Ideas I had so far:
-have a news feed everything pvp related fights, video, streams
-clan directory page
-page of history of the wildy?
-a guide to the wildy (map of it, name for each location)
-page for IRC like our Live Chat
-radio?-new integrated memberlist system (always updated), partner with Paul from ClanBase?
-evolution/change of the wilderness
[3:08pm] Buzz: What's this pvp idea
[3:09pm] Al: oh yeah
[3:10pm] Al: so
[3:10pm] Al: pvp only fansite
[3:10pm] Al: im thinking u could do grpahics for the layout?
[3:10pm] Al: nice for portfolio maybe
[3:10pm] Al: u can run a clan world type forum. new clan fansite besides zybez
[3:11pm] Al: pvp-focused only tho
[3:11pm] Al:
[3:11pm] Al: have a news feed everything pvp related
[3:11pm] Al: fights, video, on a stream you knw
[3:11pm] Al: clan directory page
[3:11pm] Al: page of history of the wildy?
[3:11pm] Al: a guide to the wildy (map of it, name for each location)
[3:11pm] Buzz: Sounds like it would work
[3:11pm] Al: another page for irc channel? like our Live Chat
[3:12pm] Al: i thought i had more ideas. but i've been up all night & it's 8:11 P:
[3:12pm] Buzz: My girlfriend is going home this week so I can see if I can get a layout/design down
[3:12pm] Buzz: got a colour scheme in mind?
[3:13pm] Al: dark yeah? for the wild
[3:13pm] Al: dark green? trees
[3:13pm] Al: black and dark green
[3:13pm] Al: maybe a dark gold for the text...? lava
[3:13pm] Al: light is too bright
[3:14pm] Buzz: light is clean
[3:14pm] Buzz: but I like darker colours
[3:14pm] Buzz: makes things blend more
[3:15pm] Al: ah hmm
[3:16pm] Buzz: only thing is we need something to draw players away from rsc forums and stuff
[3:17pm] Al: like a marketing/promotional thing?
[3:17pm] Al: i was thinking it'd be free of the trolls and shit
[3:17pm] Al: u know? rsc is a toxic environment
[3:17pm] Al: we would need a good moderating team for that. could ask gene for help?
[3:17pm] Al: bassism is a good choice
[3:17pm] Al: those guys have dealt with kids and they're both teachers
[3:18pm] Buzz: Hmm yeah, but lets work on getting it functional first
[3:18pm] Al: yeah just brainstorming lols
[3:19pm] Buzz: Wonder if we could have like a radio type thing like RuneZone?
[3:19pm] Buzz: might be too much
[3:19pm] Al: kinda gey imo
[3:19pm] Buzz: yeah but draws people in
[3:19pm] Al: also don't think there's much of a point to compete
[3:19pm] Buzz: Can't compete with rune zone anyway
[3:19pm] Al: people can just listen to pandora man
[3:20pm] Buzz: it's run by a jmod I'm pretty sure lol
[3:20pm] Al: it's run by a guy named nathan
[3:20pm] Al: his company's name or w/e is FactoryBox
[3:20pm] Al: he's not that big. it's really community focused
[3:20pm] Al: and a lot of people from the staff run it
[3:20pm] Buzz: It's affiliated with the jmod guy in charge of pmod stuff
[3:20pm] Al: ex i met a woman from my area actually went to stanford for computer and she's like head of community
[3:20pm] Buzz: cause his non-jmod account name is RuneZone lol
[3:20pm] Al: oh really?!
[3:21pm] Al: fk lol nvm
[3:21pm] Buzz: yep
[3:21pm] Buzz: <-- Pmod
[3:21pm] Buzz:
[3:21pm] Al: speaking of j-mod related
[3:21pm] Al: mod paul m, also the guy that wore our tshirt in the stream
[3:21pm] Al: produced a video for the clan blue steel
[3:21pm] Buzz: god my dog is laying right on my leg and I can't fucking type properly
[3:21pm] Al: was over twitter.
[3:21pm] Al: LOL
[3:22pm] Buzz: Wonder if we need Jagex's permission to run a site with their copyrighted stuff?
[3:22pm] Al: definitely?
[3:22pm] Al: lol
[3:22pm] Buzz: Yeah but I mean like I wonder how we'd get that permission
[3:22pm] Al: emailz
[3:22pm] Al: lol? or i can tweet and ask one of the jmods
[3:22pm] Buzz: Jagex is really shit when it comes to responding to emails lol
[3:22pm] Al: or DM
[3:22pm] Al: i have a lot of them following me
[3:22pm] Al: the clan twitter account
[3:22pm] Buzz: dm 1 of them and ask
[3:23pm] Al: later
[3:23pm] Buzz: After we get a somewhat working model up
[3:23pm] Al: yeahh
[3:23pm] Buzz: I'll start working on it tomorrow
[3:23pm] Al: & also, we should try to get it platinum status fansite
[3:24pm] Al: just think cos zybez doesnt have that. and there's sort of a cold war between them right
[3:24pm] Buzz: Gotta drive 3 hours home today to drop the gf off then 3 hours back tomorrow to be here for work on monday
[3:24pm] Buzz: Yeah
[3:24pm] Al: if we got ours platinum ours would be a top destination for pvp fansite
[3:24pm] Buzz: and well just getting on that list is a good start
[3:24pm] Al: yh
[3:24pm] Al: we should be able to.
[3:24pm] Buzz: I wonder how much staff rsc has
[3:24pm] Al: quite a few
[3:25pm] Al: like mods?
[3:25pm] Buzz: Like actual people who manage the sites
[3:25pm] Al: i hate how it was bought out tho. i've heard of a mod they don't like it
[3:25pm] Buzz: and pages and stuff
[3:25pm] Al: the company is based in SF
[3:25pm] Al: cursed or something
[3:25pm] Al: capital c
[3:25pm] Buzz: lol
[3:25pm] Al: LOL
[3:26pm] Al: yeah but we dont need to be bought out i think...
[3:26pm] Al: just a page for fanz
[3:26pm] Al: would u put ads on it?
[3:26pm] Buzz: Yeah, we'd need something to pay for hosting
[3:26pm] Al: u mean the money?
[3:26pm] Buzz: yeah
[3:27pm] Al: we could ask the clan to pitch in. i'll pitch in...how much would the hosting cost
[3:27pm] Buzz: Not sure, I'll have to look into what hosting a website + forum costs (shouldn't be too much different than a regular website if it is at all)
[3:28pm] Buzz: and it depends on how much content we'll have
[3:28pm] Al: i'm not too worried
[3:28pm] Buzz: nah shouldn't be too bad
[3:28pm] Al: if it turns out good...i may pay the whole thing
[3:29pm] Al: yeah
[3:29pm] Buzz: Also, another idea
[3:29pm] Buzz: could host sub-domains off ours for clans to build their own website/forum
[3:29pm] Al: yeah. Paul from #clanbase wanted to do that
[3:29pm] Al: the guy who made the new 07 clan memberlist system
[3:29pm] Buzz: Would bring in tons of money
[3:30pm] Buzz: Just put an ad banner across the top of each page or on the sides
[3:30pm] Al: oh and yea i thought of this before with this idea. what if we did that and like acquired clanbase or something
[3:30pm] Al: no more unupdated systems like that and runehead
[3:30pm] Al:
[3:30pm] Buzz: acquired clanbase? as in bought them? haha
[3:30pm] Al: i guess or make our own dont need to acquire rofl
[3:31pm] Al: i don't think it's hard.? dude when i asked him to make clanbase for eoc he did it in like 40 minutes
[3:31pm] Buzz: Wouldn't be too hard to make a system like that I don't think
[3:31pm] Al: or we can just ask him to join us
[3:31pm] Al: and make him a partner/mod
[3:31pm] Al: he's a good guy
[3:32pm] Buzz: Could, let me get the basic stuff laid out and we'll see what happens from there
[3:32pm] Buzz: Got a layout in mind? A certain way things should be laid out.. Just like a typical website or would you want it to be like "really" unique
[3:34pm] Buzz: brb, gotta finish cleaning up
[3:34pm] Al: well really unique..in the sense i dont want it to be just a regular layout with borders
[3:34pm] Al: solid colors u know
[3:34pm] Buzz: ok
[3:34pm] Buzz: sooo
[3:34pm] Buzz: 1 sec I'll pull up some pictures
[3:34pm] Al: there's a lot of sites with example. web design examples
[3:34pm] Al: what if u made it in java? or something and it was more like interactive
[3:34pm] Al: like scrolling over tabs is like poking water
[3:34pm] Al: rofl
[3:35pm] Buzz: I think poking water might be a bit annoying but I can see what we can do lol
[3:37pm] Al: not that responsive
[3:37pm] Al: or maybe like a scroll wheel
[3:37pm] Al: imagine like looking at a wage at eye level
[3:38pm] Buzz: Just remember though the more interactive stuff you add the slower the page loads
[3:38pm] Al: higher or lower u move ur mouse, it scrolls the wheel
[3:38pm] Al: watch* not wage
[3:38pm] Al: oh..yeah
[3:40pm] Buzz: I'll keep thinking but I gotta finish cleaning
[3:41pm] Buzz: I'll be like 20 mins or so
[3:45pm] Al: np
[3:52pm] Buzz: Excited to start this
[3:53pm] Al: yea!
[3:53pm] Al: ill post this convo in general discussion?
[3:53pm] Al: ill summarize this and spoiler it
[3:54pm] Buzz: ok, sounds good. see if anyone has any suggestions