linkshell websites

[DarkRain]

I like www.sanctusrefero.com but I am biased; I designed the page and wrote a large portion of the widgets and mods we use on it. Working on getting live character data mod up and running as I write this. Fun stuff that!

To be unbiased, I like the sites that have clean, simple colors and basic layouts. Easy on the eyes, easy to find info. I also like the various server status displays that people have. I haven't added one to SR's website yet, but I need to.

Thats how i am also . But i really do like everyones LS sites.My LS i like to display a lot of key items on main page so theres less looking for pages. unless its LS fourm pages and just member items

[Rowyne]

What site you guys usually use for making your guild sites? Looking into making one soon, but I have a lack of in-depth coding knowledge.

I built Kindred using an open-source CMS called Joomla. I personally don't like cookie-cutter guild-o-matic type site builders.

[origamikitsune]

What site you guys usually use for making your guild sites? Looking into making one soon, but I have a lack of in-depth coding knowledge.

Well, I don't personally use a service to build the site for the linkshell I am in. We have a basic hosting service, and we use SMF with TinyPortal. It is (mostly) a matter of simply installing the files yourself, but it does require some basic knowledge of the behind-the-scenes stuff. No in-depth coding however, and most of the REALLY cool stuff has to be coded a little bit at least.

A lot of people use Enjin, and that seems to work very well for a reasonable cost. I don't know what sort of widgets and perks the have, but I suspect they will have the basics - like a leve reset timer, shout box, forums, etc. I don't know if Enjin can do live character stats or anything like that. But if all you are looking for is a basic web front with some of the more common stuff, they are probably the place to go.

EDIT: I am curious... Does anyone else use SMF or SMF/TP or SMF/some other portal?

[DarkRain]

Well, I don't personally use a service to build the site for the linkshell I am in. We have a basic hosting service, and we use SMF with TinyPortal. It is (mostly) a matter of simply installing the files yourself, but it does require some basic knowledge of the behind-the-scenes stuff. No in-depth coding however, and most of the REALLY cool stuff has to be coded a little bit at least.

A lot of people use Enjin, and that seems to work very well for a reasonable cost. I don't know what sort of widgets and perks the have, but I suspect they will have the basics - like a leve reset timer, shout box, forums, etc. I don't know if Enjin can do live character stats or anything like that. But if all you are looking for is a basic web front with some of the more common stuff, they are probably the place to go.

EDIT: I am curious... Does anyone else use SMF or SMF/TP or SMF/some other portal?

Enjin depending on your build you get 50 modulas ( basic service) unlimited ( 30$ a month) the mods very like if you look at my website i have a box with links to lodestone , our photos , our voice server status ( enjin has mods for mumble,vent,skype,ext.) i can add a updated member list witch shows everyones progressions/stats but i dont use it, there is a htlm mod to add your own html , chat , video , shout , server status , different ffxiv serch widgets. it has a lot to offer i made a website 1st useing .ning.com but it was limited . all i can say is check it out theres a free version if you wanna play with all the options

[origamikitsune]

That's cool. It sounds like they have a lot of the mods that we have had to code manually. Granted, I like to code as a hobby, so it works out best, and we can optimize specifically for our linkshell and for SMF/TP, which means we can do a few nifty little back end tricks.

I'm curious, does Enjin have support anywhere for a single logged in user to manage multiple characters? That's the pipe dream over on our site, and the ultimate goal with our FFXIV MOD for SMF.

[Rockne]

I might link my guild forums one day, If I ever get around to converting to to FF14 from WoW.

[DarkRain]

my enjin site i have admin's. that have full assecss to changeing things on the site . Also me being the creator i can ban , block IP's , If someone has more then one chr it shows them seprate but you can manage them if your the creator or admin i do believe. think you can manage them. i dont have multi-chrs so i cant really awnser that question . But i know 2 people in my LS have more then one chr and there all on the website.

[origamikitsune]

Say, does anyone out there who does their own coding for their site use mumble/murmur to display a mumble widget? That's another thing I want really bad. I like the Ventrillo and Teamspeak widgets I've seen on the sites in this thread, but they're all enijn, etc., and I doubt they would let me take a peak at their code XD

[Rowyne]

Say, does anyone out there who does their own coding for their site use mumble/murmur to display a mumble widget? That's another thing I want really bad. I like the Ventrillo and Teamspeak widgets I've seen on the sites in this thread, but they're all enijn, etc., and I doubt they would let me take a peak at their code XD

We have a free Mumble server through UKGame. It seems you have to know your JSON info or xml url to display the channels in a website module, and unfortunately UKGame told me that they don't support that info (so I'm screwed, apparently). I'm sure paid Mumble servers probably provide that info, though.

See here: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/3rd_Party_Applications

[JayvirDeforte]

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