Opps forgot no pics allowed in mailing lists sorry. Re-sending.
On Saturday, 1 February 2020, 06:38:50 pm ACDT, D Blakeley
<d_blake...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
It's been a while, I've been buried in my own mod projects (retro Heroes of
Might & Magic Civ2, C&C Civ2 , and Red Alert 2 Civ2 mods). However I haven't
forgotten about my promises to help you guys on a few things (within my limited
abilities haha) so I just thought I'd give an update on a few things and ask
for some help on a few others.
1 - IndieDB Work:https://www.indiedb.com/games/freecol
If you guys check out the old FreeCol IndieDB page you'll see I've made a
number of updates to it recently. I've cloned the last stable release and some
of the recent nightly releases over there so that new visitors see the new
versions at the top instead of those bloody ancient 2010 files (which we can't
get rid of). I have also uploaded those 19 HD FreeCol shots I took a while back
(which I've told you guys about before) effectively burring all the old not so
pretty screenshots that were on the page (which we also can't get rid of).
Interestingly it's already attracted some attention as someone posted a comment
on the main page saying it looks good and they'd love to see a video! Guess
that means it's already working haha!
I have NOT posted an article there yet though as that's the one that really
attracts attention (as it goes into the main IndieDB & ModDB new pages) as I'm
thinking I'll hold off until I've got the HD video finished and on Youtube.
Then do a big "FreeCol is alive and well!" news post with the critical links,
pics and vid.
There's nothing I can do about the ancient banner across the top using old
graphics as only an admin can change that and presumably the admin of this page
was one of the long gone old FreeCol team members.
But nevertheless FreeCol is getting a much nicer & modern representation on
arguably the largest mods & indie game website out there now! :)
2 - Facebook
Group:https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/b73f378418/
Some of you may have already noticed the thread I made on the SF forum about
this but I've created a new (and world's only it would seem) Colonization Fans
Facebook group. This is a long term project (as it takes ages for them to get
going and get lots of sign ups) where I plan to market FreeCol by posting cool
info and news about the project as well as talking about other cool
Colonization games of course, but FreeCol will be getting the most attention
from me. I don't think there's a dedicated Colonization fans group on reddit
either so I might look into that too.
I've just posted those same 19 sexy HD FreeCol shots into an album there
too:https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.2507871526102866&type=3
3 - Sourceforge:Can someone with admin access to the sourceforge page please
please please please please please please please please help me do those front
page updates posted
here:https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/discussion/719661/thread/42b0844f/#a702/9e85
Believe me I'd love to do it myself and not be bothering you guys about it but
I can't, only admins can. It only needs about 2 minutes from one of you as I've
already written everything up. There's no modifying required (even for the
links) as I've tested the changes on my B5 mod page. Just a matter of copy
paste copy paste copy paste copy paste copy paste of the summary and the
features into the boxes on the Admin/Metadata/Full Description page.
4 - Website Work:I see Winter has finished the big overhaul of the website and
it looks amazing!! Keeps the old theme but is so clean and efficient in the
frontend and backend. I love it!
So now that his work is done I can look at adding some of those new ideas I've
probably mentioned before such as adding some of my HD pictures to the
Screenshots Section, adding a new Videos Section that's similar in layout to
the screenshots section (which has FreeCol version and date info on each item)
but has youtube videos in there instead (I've found a whole bunch on there and
of course I've got my own cool HD one coming too), and later down the track I
was thinking about a dedicated Modding Section that gives some general
information maybe with a screenshot or 2 about how FreeCol is super mod
friendly and links where to go on the forums (eg a dedicated modding info
sticky thread I've also been thinking about putting together for you guys) to
see guides, info & wishlists on modding etc. I believe that marketing FreeCol's
modability more is one of the best ways to attract new programming and graphic
talent to your team. Plus every time someone complains about something in
Freecol they don't like on forums and social media then everyone can just say
"no problem mate, here's a link to our modding info and guide section where you
can learn to make a mod doing exactly what you want and if others like it too
then we'll stick in the release mods". Just shove that line in their face every
time haha.
Only issue is how on earth does a noob like me update your new site lol? Can
someone give me an idiots guide on how to make alterations to the new site
now.. eg go here, install this, tell it to connect to here by typing this in
etc etc so that I can have a play with your screenshots section (which once
done should give me the confidence to attempt the new videos section).
I thought about just sticking to playing with the html backend however when I
cloned the repository to my hard drive and tried view the site by opening the
index.html file it didn't work so well and is missing the menu and background
elements etc. So if someone can tell me how to correctly load offsite copies of
the website that would help. However I'm guessing its probably better if I'm
making changes via your whole jeckle markdown system thing so giving me the
above requested idiots guide for that is probably better lol.
Regards
Blake
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