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Suggestions for TTFF; Anyone have any?
Topic Started: Jul 24 2008, 07:14 PM (513 Views)
Parin
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STAHP

Well, with the board having looked basically the same for a while, I created this topic in hopes that everyone could put some ideas in for some new stuff here at TTFF. That being said, is there anyone here with some suggestions? I think its time that the board got a few new features or two, maybe a new default skin other than the blue one, etc. But what to add?

So, does anyone have any ideas? I personally like the idea of a website. And yes, I know thats been posted before, but it is possible, so why not?
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Shadre


Official Invision Free Shout box?

Also, the board is to long.

You could make it so much more shorter and less complicated:

Key:
- = Section.
-- = Forum in a section.
>-- = A sub-forum in a forum.




-General Area.

-- Forum News and Updates.
>-- Rules Area.
-- General Discussion. <---- Pin a Birthday topic, instead of having a forum for it.
>-- Personal Information. <---- Make it non-viewable by guests. It currently isn't...
>-- Tails' Kitchen.
-- Advertisements.
>-- Your site. <---- Pin a topic reminding people about the rules of advertising.
>-- Popular websites. Eg. Newgrounds, Fireball20xl, Drshnaps... etc.
-- Suggestions.

-Sonic Stuff.

-- Sonic Characters Discussion.
>-- Tails Discussion!
-- General Sonic Discussion.
-- Sonic Media.
>-- Sonic Video Games.
>-- Sonic Cartoons.
>-- Sonic Comics.

-Creativity Area. <---- A lot of people post sprites and art which aren't fan related. (So for their benefit, remove the 'Fan' sign.)

-- Artwork. <---- Computer art fits in with either spriting or artwork.
>-- Sprites.
-- Writing.
>-- Comics.
>-- Character Profiles/Fan Characters. <---- As bad as 'Fan' goes, I think it's fine here.

-- Role-playing Forum.
>-- Sonic RPs.
>-- Non-Sonic RPs.
>-- Private RPs.

-- Request Forum.
-- Creations Of A Different Kind. <---- A good under slogan would be; "Did we miss you out."

-Media

-- Video Games.
>-- Console and Hand-held Games.
>-- Computer/Internet Games.
>-- Board Games.
>-- Pok駑on.
>-- Online games.

-- General Media.
>-- Music.
>-- Television.
>-- Films.
>-- Reading Material.

-- Technology.
>-- Wonders Of The Modern Age. <---- Debate about computers and modern stuff.
>-- Problems?

-Misc.

-- Forum Games.
>-- Spam World.
>-- Chat Topics.

-- Trash Bin.


This will make it easier to Mod as well, giving Mods sections of a forum and their sub-forums.

This took a lot of time to make, so I hope you consider it.

Seriously consider it. D: Please?
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Parin
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Garage
Jul 25 2008, 06:08 AM
Official Invision Free Shout box?

Also, the board is to long.

You could make it so much more shorter and less complicated:

Key:
- = Section.
-- = Forum in a section.
>-- = A sub-forum in a forum.




-General Area.

-- Forum News and Updates.
>-- Rules Area.
-- General Discussion. <---- Pin a Birthday topic, instead of having a forum for it.
>-- Personal Information. <---- Make it non-viewable by guests. It currently isn't...
>-- Tails' Kitchen.
-- Advertisements.
>-- Your site. <---- Pin a topic reminding people about the rules of advertising.
>-- Popular websites. Eg. Newgrounds, Fireball20xl, Drshnaps... etc.
-- Suggestions.

-Sonic Stuff.

-- Sonic Characters Discussion.
>-- Tails Discussion!
-- General Sonic Discussion.
-- Sonic Media.
>-- Sonic Video Games.
>-- Sonic Cartoons.
>-- Sonic Comics.

-Creativity Area. <---- A lot of people post sprites and art which aren't fan related. (So for their benefit, remove the 'Fan' sign.)

-- Artwork. <---- Computer art fits in with either spriting or artwork.
>-- Sprites.
-- Writing.
>-- Comics.
>-- Character Profiles/Fan Characters. <---- As bad as 'Fan' goes, I think it's fine here.

-- Role-playing Forum.
>-- Sonic RPs.
>-- Non-Sonic RPs.
>-- Private RPs.

-- Request Forum.
-- Creations Of A Different Kind. <---- A good under slogan would be; "Did we miss you out."

-Media

-- Video Games.
>-- Console and Hand-held Games.
>-- Computer/Internet Games.
>-- Board Games.
>-- Pok駑on.
>-- Online games.

-- General Media.
>-- Music.
>-- Television.
>-- Films.
>-- Reading Material.

-- Technology.
>-- Wonders Of The Modern Age. <---- Debate about computers and modern stuff.
>-- Problems?

-Misc.

-- Forum Games.
>-- Spam World.
>-- Chat Topics.

-- Trash Bin.


This will make it easier to Mod as well, giving Mods sections of a forum and their sub-forums.

This took a lot of time to make, so I hope you consider it.

Seriously consider it. D: Please?

For your first suggestion, the shoutbox. I can't comment on this at the moment, but its a possibility that it might show up sometime in the future. Rest assured its not impossible. There once was a shoutbox on this forum. Unfortunately, it was plauged by trolls and other things of that nature, so it was taken down. The possibility for a shoutbox, however, isn't gone.


As for your second suggestion, i'll ask about it. :]
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Crystatic
Jul 25 2008, 06:41 AM
For your first suggestion, the shoutbox. I can't comment on this at the moment, but its a possibility that it might show up sometime in the future. Rest assured its not impossible. There once was a shoutbox on this forum. Unfortunately, it was plauged by trolls and other things of that nature, so it was taken down. The possibility for a shoutbox, however, isn't gone.

I don't mean a third party one.. Invision free comes with a free shout box right? Which displays the names of members, so that guests will have to log on to talk on it.

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As for your second suggestion, i'll ask about it. :]


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Also... the description for the 'Fan Stories And Poems' has a typo in it. 'Sutch' rather than 'such'.
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Parin
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Garage
Jul 25 2008, 06:47 AM
Crystatic
Jul 25 2008, 06:41 AM
For your first suggestion, the shoutbox. I can't comment on this at the moment, but its a possibility that it might show up sometime in the future. Rest assured its not impossible. There once was a shoutbox on this forum. Unfortunately, it was plauged by trolls and other things of that nature, so it was taken down. The possibility for a shoutbox, however, isn't gone.

I don't mean a third party one.. Invision free comes with a free shout box right? Which displays the names of members, so that guests will have to log on to talk on it.

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As for your second suggestion, i'll ask about it. :]


<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Also... the description for the 'Fan Stories And Poems' has a typo in it. 'Sutch' rather than 'such'.

The board won't have one unless members have to be logged in to post in it or even view it. Of course, invisionfree does not come packaged with its own shoutbox, but theres alot of em' floating around out there already anyway. And there is one that requires you to be logged in, I already knew of it. :]



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Also... the description for the 'Fan Stories And Poems' has a typo in it.


Fixed.
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Shadre


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I personally like the idea of a website.


But what would be on the website? If it was just a go to our forums website, It'd be pointless. And would it be raw code, or a crappy freeweb template?
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Lukeprism
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Zeldaaa~

A website devoted to Tails by TTFF? Way cool!

But, that would be a lot of work for one person... Pictures, template, code, skin(s)...

Wow, even I'm tiered now.
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Check out this feature-length fan Zelda movie, 'The Hero of Time'! 8'D
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Parin
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Garage
Jul 25 2008, 08:02 AM
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I personally like the idea of a website.


But what would be on the website? If it was just a go to our forums website, It'd be pointless. And would it be raw code, or a crappy freeweb template?

I don't ever plan on using anything such as some crappy freewebs template. Should a website ever arise, its going to be made from the ground up, no pre-built templates involved.

I can think of a multitude of things that would be great for a website here, such as information detailing Tails' past, screensavers and spritesheet rips, a wiki, a news section (For the sonic universe in general), and the list keeps going. The site could also, perhaps, read the skin cookie that is set on the board, and apply the same styling there as well. The tables on the website could very easily be id'd with the same names, like, for the tables, row4 or post1, which would be ideal choices for skinning the tables within such a site.

Also, I wouldn't plan on making it anything like the portal, which is, sadly, VERY useless.

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A website devoted to Tails by TTFF? Way cool!

But, that would be a lot of work for one person... Pictures, template, code, skin(s)...

Wow, even I'm tiered now.


I would be in charge of the coding and the template created for the site, but most likely not the images and the skin. The skins avaliable would most likely be the same as the ones offered here on the forums, and the images would probably be made in the same fashion as the ones here on the forums.
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I can think of a multitude of things that would be great for a website here, such as information detailing Tails' past, screensavers and spritesheet rips, a wiki, a news section (For the sonic universe in general), and the list keeps going.


You could also have featured sprite/drawn comics, and maybe even a blog. Sprite Archive (Not just sonic?)
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Lukeprism
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Zeldaaa~

XDXD A comic!

A blog is a good idea as well.

Hmmm...

What about a guestbook?
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Currently Playing: Pokemon: HeartGold (DS) and The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap (GBA)
Check out this feature-length fan Zelda movie, 'The Hero of Time'! 8'D
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Parin
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Garage
Jul 25 2008, 08:19 AM
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I can think of a multitude of things that would be great for a website here, such as information detailing Tails' past, screensavers and spritesheet rips, a wiki, a news section (For the sonic universe in general), and the list keeps going.


You could also have featured sprite/drawn comics, and maybe even a blog. Sprite Archive (Not just sonic?)

Blogs for the site or the admin you mean? I'd suppose. Blogs for each member would require seperate registration to this new site, which would be pretty inconveinant. The two can't be linked, they'd have to use separate databases.

There are some limits for this place as far as a site goes. The forum's database and the site's database are two different things alltogether. One won't be able to interact with the other. Client sided things, however, like cookies that were set here on the boards, can be read and retrieved, and action can be taken according to whats in those cookies. For example, the skin cookie can be read and a skin can be displayed on the site accordingly.

And, as far as non-sonic (Sonic used as a term to define the entire franchise, and etc) material making it anywhere onto any part of either the forums or such a website, I highly doubt that anyone would approve..
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Epic Prower
Jul 25 2008, 08:30 AM
XDXD A comic!

A blog is a good idea as well.

Hmmm...

What about a guestbook?

Who needs a guest book, when you have a forum?
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Maz
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Refridgerator

I like Garage's idea of simplifying the forum.

For the website, I think you could have sections for artwork (Best artpiece of the month, avatars for public use, Tails sprites and drawings by the members here) and like you said, the Tails history thing. Maybe a list of upcoming events such as the Sonic Conv. in August (London) and Sonic game releases.

Maybe even a section where we review Sonic games and the game has an average rating based upon what people submit.

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Would we also have character profiles?
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Parin
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Aurorae
Jul 25 2008, 01:55 PM
Would we also have character profiles?

Depends on what you mean? I can think of three things when you mention "Character profiles":

-A profile for each sonic character, listed somewhere on the site.

-A profile page for everyone's fancharacters, that you can customize just like you can your own profile here on the forums.

-Topics on the forum for each individual member's fancharacter, and each of those referenced or linked to from somewhere on the site.


If its any of those, not sure. #1 of course is possible, but I don't know if everyone would want that considering that the forum is based around Tails(?) #2 would require registration separately at this new site.
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