MASC Factory - WIP

NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
edited November 2008 in NS2 General Discussion
<div class="IPBDescription">Work in Pregress, fan site.. for stuff</div>Well to keep my skills with photoshop and from what im learning from school im on my free time going to work on a fan site that is aimed for skins, maps and mods like co for ns2 if someone makes one.

So atm it just a presses in photoshop and none working site atm.
So here is a WIP from what i have so far, atm its not mutch but im going to add some boxed for link with mini banner or button or what they are called.
Anyway beside not beeing a site yet, i do need to find a webhotel and see if i can get a cheep domain.

Oh and the site is only going to be english, maybe swedish too.. cuse im swedish, but mainly english.

Here is my general idea with the site.

I like to create a site that collects skins, maps, mods etc for NS2m but not having the files for download, but link them to other sites that do have the downloads. Like FileFront or anything alike. To keep everything under one house sort off and with my own (free) forums we can share and discuss about all this and help out to find more new items to add. I dont know if this will happen with my site, but at least i get to some experians from this.


So here enjoy and pls comment on it and add any idea, oh and keep them simple now that i not some uber photoshoper or anything. hell NS2 site looks better.

<img src="http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/5809/mascfactorywipfixedte2.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />

So here is my list of what need to be done:

1. Webhotel
2. Domain
3. Forums

Oh if anyone has the female marin rendered (cut out) or if the NS team has a higher res version ill be happy if i can use it the side. like to add it along the side of the site.

Comments

  • ryknow69ryknow69 Join Date: 2008-03-24 Member: 63952Members
    well, that's mighty kind of you, but alittle early, NS2TR wont be out for a good while.
  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    its more of a something to test from what i learn i school and from the net. and try at the same time to learn to have real site up.

    but yeah nstr is not comming for a good time.. in that time ill keep my self bizzy with this..hoppfully.
  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Are you planning on coding it yourself or using an existing CMS?
  • ryknow69ryknow69 Join Date: 2008-03-24 Member: 63952Members
    *hopes he knows how to code a site*
  • RadixRadix Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34654Members, Constellation
    Your host is experiencing problems, throttling you, or the resolution is too high.
  • BCSephBCSeph Join Date: 2005-02-24 Member: 42384Members, Constellation
    The MASC is cool and all but I'm sure there are way cooler new or old things in NS2 to name a website after.
  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1693120:date=Nov 11 2008, 02:07 AM:name=ChromeAngel)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChromeAngel @ Nov 11 2008, 02:07 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693120"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Are you planning on coding it yourself or using an existing CMS?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    CMS?? dont know what it is..

    Most of it yeah, but ill mostly use what dreamwaver has, and ill slice and save as html in photoshop.


    <!--quoteo(post=1693157:date=Nov 11 2008, 11:50 AM:name=Radix)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Radix @ Nov 11 2008, 11:50 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693157"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Your host is experiencing problems, throttling you, or the resolution is too high.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Its a straint png dump with © all over. The background is going to something like that and it not just one big background, would be waste of space on a webhotel, unless its an image.


    <!--quoteo(post=1693204:date=Nov 11 2008, 10:45 PM:name=BCSeph)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BCSeph @ Nov 11 2008, 10:45 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693204"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The MASC is cool and all but I'm sure there are way cooler new or old things in NS2 to name a website after.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    yeah i know, but atm im going to with it, and well see maybe they have something new to show that gives me a new idea for name, untill the finished product, its MASC Factory.
  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    C.M.S. (Content Management System) , something like <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a> , <a href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a> or <a href="http://phpnuke.org/" target="_blank">PHP Nuke</a>, they are systems of pages that to manage articles, forums, polls and suchlike with an easy to use fronted. They are usually skinnable, so you can make it look properly NS-like.
  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1693212:date=Nov 12 2008, 02:07 AM:name=ChromeAngel)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChromeAngel @ Nov 12 2008, 02:07 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693212"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->C.M.S. (Content Management System) , something like <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank">Joomla</a> , <a href="http://drupal.org/" target="_blank">Drupal</a> or <a href="http://phpnuke.org/" target="_blank">PHP Nuke</a>, they are systems of pages that to manage articles, forums, polls and suchlike with an easy to use fronted. They are usually skinnable, so you can make it look properly NS-like.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    oh okie, i knw PHP Nuke i used before in school (not the same school im on now, that was "gymnasiet" thats kinda like High school sort of and now in "högskolan" that is sort of collage i gess.. diffrent school system.

    Anyway im not going to use one of them now tha the whole idea is to make it from the ground up and learn as i go and to use what i leaned in school..

    But well see, maybe ill go with a CMS.... but atm who knows.

    Anyway i just worked it over into HTML, and have small problems with the CSS.

    But when that is kinked out then ill start focus on linking to gether the other parts, like maps, mods, forum etc etc.
  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    edited November 2008
    well just placed up on my freewebs account that i planed to have for starcraft2, but it never went on.. but now that i do have that i account i mite as well use it, but in the end ill see if i can gett a better free place or something cheep, but 12sek a month is not bad.

    Anyway here is, lets say a uploaded preview, and i dont need some over dune © stamped all over, its on the lower right corner.

    ash, here enjoy.. it pritty mutch as the screen shot, but anyway just want to show it off.

    <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/adsc2/index.html" target="_blank">MASC Factory HTML Preview</a>

    now i need to figure how im going to do the window frame where all the real new would go to look like. Im open for ant ideas, just keep it simple.

    (ps i know i can edit this in my previus post, but i wanted 64 posts <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" /> )
  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    edited November 2008
    Please take a spellchecker to your text beofre you put it into Photoshop. Actually, please take a native English speaker to it ('shear' is a word, it's just not the right one).
  • NovusAnimusNovusAnimus Join Date: 2008-06-20 Member: 64476Members
    Ok, not to be a ###### and go way off topic here, but why the hell do you have an anime chick in orgasmic pleasure as your avatar?
  • spellman23spellman23 NS1 Theorycraft Expert Join Date: 2007-05-17 Member: 60920Members
    I would recommend a voting system so the community can help sift through the good things and the not-so-good things. One of the problems is often there isn't a well-defined voting system and so you don't know if that map you just got is actually any good or not. Of course, it's useless if no one uses it, so create leader boards or something to promote well designed stuff.

    Anyways, have fun.

    @Novus, I think that's Nel from Bleach, and she's blushing. Not having an ######. Well, I hope not, my anime-fu isn't quite what it used to be.
  • NeXuZNeXuZ Join Date: 2003-08-12 Member: 19594Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1693336:date=Nov 13 2008, 05:44 AM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Crispy @ Nov 13 2008, 05:44 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693336"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Please take a spellchecker to your text beofre you put it into Photoshop. Actually, please take a native English speaker to it ('shear' is a word, it's just not the right one).<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    well first of it just saved right of and then i just uploaded it, its not a finnised produck and spelcheck i havent even started yet. But yeah i should be better on english now that i am half american and half swedish that livs in sweden. native would me my mother.. hihih..

    Anyway thanks for pointing out anyway.. and i happy your did go all flaming and stuff on me that i normally used to see on forums (doh not here and i hope not)


    <!--quoteo(post=1693382:date=Nov 13 2008, 02:15 PM:name=spellman23)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(spellman23 @ Nov 13 2008, 02:15 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693382"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->@Novus, I think that's Nel from Bleach, and she's blushing. Not having an ######. Well, I hope not, my anime-fu isn't quite what it used to be.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    yeah it Nel from bleach... i hade a pink anime chick from a wallpaper, but as read/view of bleach and naruto i found this one and went with it.
  • ozbirdboyozbirdboy Join Date: 2007-08-07 Member: 61827Confirm Email
    I'm not sure about the whole linking of downloads to other sites, if you want the site to be successful i really think you need in house hosting imo.
  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    NeXuZ did you get my PM?

    Your background gradient is showing some striping, you might want to add some uniform noise (5-10% usually does the trick) to hide it. if your OK with the stripign to could reduce the height if your gradient image to 1px to reduce the download time.
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