New Ns Www Site
SpiritMaster
Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7580Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7580Members, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">For the Glory of all Fanatics</div> I have started up a new NS site with the intention of providing a central point where those of you who enjoy making maps and mods for NS can place his work. these files would be hosted locally by me (although you can also provide WWW links to a location for the map if you have no need of hosting). Needless to say the site is at a very primative stage at the moment, but I hope to have it all ironed out soon. Hopefully people will submit there work here and provide the community with a quick and easy place to grab the latest mods, and comment on the latest maps.
Check it out at <a href='http://NS.Admins.US' target='_blank'>NS Center</a> (Comments are Welcome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
Check it out at <a href='http://NS.Admins.US' target='_blank'>NS Center</a> (Comments are Welcome <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
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Other wise gj
As far as the requiring registered users, I decided it was better to require users to register to use command such as review and feedback, since another site has had problem with unregistered users being able to post replies and votes and ruining the average of the programs/maps with stupid replies. Registering takes no time at all, and allows the owners of the programs/maps to see who is actually posting the replies, and also allows the admins to keep track of abusive posters.
As far as the layout, as I said in the news I am looking for a graphics designer who would be willing to make graphics to make it look more NS'ish since my own skills in that area are rather limited.
Beyond that I have left the site somewhat primitive untill I see what kind of reaction the site gets, since I don't want to invest huge ammounts of time in setting up a super-site that will go unused. I already have several ideas ready to impliment should it prove popular.
PS: Thanks goto SuicideDog for all those AMX mods
nice choice of default details for your downloads <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also redid the graphics, they arent perfect, but its getting there.
My only piece of criticism is that black text on dark backgrounds is bloody undreadable. I didn't mind the white, boring pages that were up before. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Could you either make the text white when it's against maroon or navy, or lighten up those background colors a bit for more contrast?
I agree about changing the text color or lightening the backgrounds.
The site is still young tho and I doubt there will be any overnight sucesses, sites like mine becomes popular from a long association. you cant just put it up and expect people to flock to it in droves.
what can I say ? I'm a shameless self-promoter <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
PS: [WHO]Them Read yer PM's on the site and if u have a newer mod u can sumbit it via the downloads page. And you think <b>YOU</b> are a shameless self promoter? I've been advertising my site on the NS Forums <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Black text on dark red background.
And in the poll and other links:
Black Text opn black Background.
I voted, but dunno what. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
PS: [WHO]Them Read yer PM's on the site and if u have a newer mod u can sumbit it via the downloads page. And you think <b>YOU</b> are a shameless self promoter? I've been advertising my site on the NS Forums <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ive been down this road if you need assistance let me know.
So those sites have expanded their services to include mod/plugin repositories? If so, I can't seem to find those areas. I also don't see the problem with having multiple sites host files for download, unless the maintainers are competing for advertising traffic, or have some kind of alpha-complex.
The Upload system is currently broken I'm afraid as even after I add the folders for uploading they wont appear on the pull-down menu. I'll fiddle with it after I get the phpBB forums linked into phpNUKE. If you want to add a download there is a link in the Downloads section called 'Add Download' use that to submit files untill such time as I can get the upload system working.
As far as the other sites NS World currently has problems in that anybody can post a review, and quite often they are total crap, this was brought up in a different post which you can search for if you are interested. This aside the end result is that the maps on NS-World frequently have crappy ratings becuase un-registered users can give it a 1/10 with comments like 'n00b map'. Brandyfire seems a good site but on that site I cant seem to find anywhere at all to submit map reviews or ratings. Ultimately this is what caused me to create a site that hosted both maps and plugins, and gave registered users the ability to rank the files without them being spoiled by unregistered users. In many respects NS-World has some superior options for hosting maps like the ability to submit screenshots, which my site doesnt have, but NS-World's map section seems to be going rapidly downhill for lack of anybody to fix the voting system to keep the abusers out.
All this aside I relize that the site does have problems, and I try to fix them as quickly as possible but I am currently the only person working on this site using a pre-scripted program. As verbose stated theres nothing wrong with one more site, just becuase something has ''been here since the begining'' doesn't necessarily mean that it's ''The Best'' its quite possible that another site may come along, or that existing sites will be improved, and knock me out of the loop. I'll reetirate once again that I made this site becuase I felt the others were lacking and wanted to provide everything that I felt was necessary for a good NS-Site, I would freely welcome the help of ChromeAngle or any other people who would be interested in helping make this site the place to be for NS needs.
PNGs are superior to GIFs, and are not encumbered by royalty-generating patents (backstabbers at Unisys...).