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Hey you, DB! I wish I could say I've been secretly working away in the background, haha. I've not been around much. I think I'm subconciously hiding from the impending major updates I need to do here on DM and over on SW.
Though I'm always itching to find the next gem of a game. Sacred 1 & 2 is hard to match! Ok Flix. I opted to restore the auto created support topic and then replaced the content with a link leading here. I had a look at the database option but there seems to be many value references like strings going this way and that way. If I move a couple strings some others might get tangled!
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Great! I'll see about the support topic. Might be a bit tricky but as a temporary means maybe I could restore the deleted auto-generated support topic, delete it's contents and put a link in it to redirect visitors to your topic here.
In the past I know I've edited the database for this sort of situation though it's always an unnerving endeavor, haha. I could also move posts here to the auto support topic after restoring it but of course there's the issue of time stamps... I fiddle around and see what happens.
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Tada! Oh rats, wait...
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmXw7Xsgdss6gmHZUfLlMdgTYrcR
Ta... Daaaaa!
I put it up a couple days ago which I downloaded from that other site. I hope it's the right one. Great work Flix. Clearly you are insane, (to have done all that), lol.
P.s.
I gave you power to link to an external file source in the Downloads section Flix. Let me know if you get stuck! It's a bit finicky.
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Thanx gang! I had planned to just chill aaaall day. Maybe a bike ride, movie'n'stuff like that... Ha! Yah right. Reality had it's own plans for me, lol. Had 5 customers burst out of the wood work who were in "desperate" need of my immediate attention. Argh! That's what happens when when yer birthday lands on a Monday I guess huh. Doh! On the flip side.... I got an unexpected bonus wad of cash on my b-day sooo... Yay me?
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CHeers guys. Glad you approve!
Been dying to use that little chest icon for years now, haha.-
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After a very long dissapearance, the Sacred Underworld Map is back!
Sacred:Underworld Map of Ancaria
Maplib once hosted this map but long ago it shut it's doors and it's site. Life as it goes prevented this project from re-emerging. Until now. What I find most exciting by the return of this map is that while it was on Maplib it was limited to a size of 9936 x 6922 pixels. But now... Now I have it rendering at 22320 x 15495 at full zoom. Enjoy the extra details and close up all!
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Welcome welcome Flix! Though I always thought of you as part of the team, it's nice to finally and much deservedly make it official. Can't wait to see what we do in Unbended!
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Merry Christmas Everyone. Woohoo! This is the best Christmas evah. Thank you Santa! I love Global Warming!
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Is this an example of the kind of website content you'll have Knuckles?
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Minor edit to the Uniques Database page. Saw that there was need of a DragonMage icon so I made one and added it.
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Well thank god for no need of a complicated unfathomable solution but boy that was a stressful upgrade.
Everything is mostly A ok now. Just need to fix some things that were broke from the upgrade now.-
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Oh yes rm3000. We've been shot in the foot a number of times in the past. A website is much like an old world ship in a vast unpredictable digital sea I like to think.
I hope I can be as good as Indiana and avoid giant rocks while I upgrade the wiki! I'm in the process now of creating a backup and setting up for the upgrade process. Might be done this evening. And hopefully that'll resolve the trouble we have now...
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lol Flix. Iiiii remember that lil gif, hehe. It's looking like our host may have upgraded our server php causing the PCRE part of php to fall out of compatablility with the wiki. Looks like a mediawiki update is the simplest solution so I'll give that a go this weekend.
Strange that this just happened out of the blue like this. Thanx for posting guys!
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Well here's their theme list. Lots are free but paying 20 bucks for a theme I feel is fair too. Easy to get a quick pro look using the themes. Ideally, you'll want a "responsive" theme. Responsive meaning the website/theme will fit any media interface from pc to mobile.
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sort/newest.
Wordpress has a built in function that allows you to browse and install themes directly from within the admin controls of Wordpress as opposed to having to download, upload and then install a theme like some other software I know. *cough* our forum *cough!*
On a functional level there are lots of software that could provide you a perfectly informative site but there are only a handful that can provide a very professional look with minimal work.
T get a better idea of your options out there you could check Softaculous' top ten list of CMS's. Softaculous is an auto installer that comes with most hosting packages. It there to make installing forums, blogs and the rest easy to start. It's in their interest to provide easy installation of the most popular softwares and from what I can tell they only have free solutions listed.
http://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/apps
I had fogotten about Softaculous but now that I'm thinking of it... I may have recommended Drupal or Joomla instead of Wordpress. Wordpress is firstly a blog software that can be adapted to suit pretty much any need whereas the other two are more portal cms's. I had done quite a lot of reading on these three in the past and had decided that Drupal would have been a great choice for a project I wanted to try that was along the same basis as what you need. A relatively static site with occasional minor updates. So! I would recommend some quick reading on those three choices, then write their names on pieces of paper, and pull one from a hat, hehe. All three have excellent world community support which means they all have tons of plugins and themes being genereated by their respective communities. Most of which are free.
Good luck! Aaaaah ha ha ha ha ha! *lightening & thunder*
But do keep us updated.
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Safest bet is usually Wordpress Knuckles. Which is a CMS as rm300 mentioned.
I wouldn't recommend creating a site from scratch as a first timer. Way easier to learn from something already made. Important factors are what the purpose of the site is, possible future needs, level of user freindliness required. If it were purely informative you could probably go with a wiki but since you mention "customers" it gets me thinking the site may need to handle transactions in the future which Wordpress has a large focus on. It's free. I believe you could even start one with free hosting from their website. If you're after hosting though I believe Namecheap is running a special. We buy all our domains from them. Never tried their hosting because they don't offer what we need but for first timers it's fine for a year or two. Maybe even forever. For a site with your needs Just about any hoster could fulfill what you need since your site will not be focused on social which means minimal traffic. Namecheap provides a tool called Softaculous that will install Wordpress for you as well as many other popular CMS apps free with their hosting plans. Seems they start at about 12 bucks for the first year and then about 40 bucks for following years. Changing hosters is risk free so no need to worry about locking yourself in with a hoster in case you find a better deal in the future.
So Wordpress on their free servers would be my recommendation. If you prefer to own your hosting then Namecheap. Lot's of free skins for Wordpress and tons of documentation. There's even a book!
WordPress For DummiesAs for your ISP I "think" they generally charge quite a bit more than pure hosting companies online...
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Kudos Pyxel. You are one classy guy.
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Oh fireworks!
*recalls gogo episode - "Stolen Sweet Potato & the Microwave Inferno" ...Thanx for the heads up Knuckles. That sounds a little too risky for me with the poss. of arcing. It's a 3 bulb fixture and I'm pretty sure one is bad. The socket isn't secure so it twists and turns when trying to take a bulb out or put one in. The loose socket has been empty for the longest time and only since getting these LED's has it been back in use. I guess I'll take that bulb out and see if it stops the crackling. Time to get a new fixture me thinks!
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ok now it seem's that I'm the dumb guy over here....
*sighs*
I swear that 2 weeks ago it was not there
*thread can be closed*
Oops. Sorry for making you feel like you're going crazy PyxeL, lol. I did make a small adjustment to your user group,(which gogo created. Ahem!
) I did not think it would make much difference so I didn't bother to mention it but maybe it did after all.Glad to read you have sig powers again!
guys I know that but there is no signature "function" neither via profile nor via my settings
I had this discussion some weeks ago with gogo via PN - but nothin happens, so thats why I decide to post here.No offent @gogo
will attach a screnee a bit later - it's cookin' time
That probably went something like this:
gogo says, "how to fix Pyxel's signature? hmm... What's that smell? <sniff> <sniff> Poutine"
lol @ poutine... gogo's kryptonite. ^^
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yes - tried FF, Chrome and Opera. All the same. There is no option in my settings nor in my profile to edit the signature.
Normally forums place "Signature" at the bottom of "Settings" so I scrolled down to the bottom and found nothing.A day or two later accidently noticed this.Does this help you?
And this too! It's strange, I know, but changing the sig is done in "My Settings" rather than "My Profile". When we upgraded the forum I had a hard time finding it. But don't tell anyone that, hehe.
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Our Tomb is filling up! Never thought I'd be so happy to see a bunch of dead heads, lol. Here's a nice little interactive sampler I plucked from Unbended's map. For those not aware, you can hover your cursor over the names under some skulls to see their inscriptions!
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Well at first I took it as a mocking jab at deep silver's version of Sacred but after looking a while I could see a fair bit of thought went into choosing the character's, their positions and tone. I especially like the two at the far left. Is that SX255 at the far left, inconsolable by the dwarf?
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Greetings Dorimil and welcome home!
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Oh... Wow... Honestly. At first I smiled, then snickered and then... As I looked longer and longer I think I actually shed a tear, lol. Seriously though. The drawing sums up earily too well. Excellent idea and execution!
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Maps on the Wiki do not display anymore?
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Hey guys. Seems to be working now. I could pretend and say I slaved for hours to fix it, hehe. But honestly, when gogo pointed it out to me it was already resolved. Must have been a temporary server burp/fart.