145187-project-rp-portal

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As a great fan of the site www.argentarchives.org, I've teamed up with a friend to design something similar, for the Wildstar roleplaying community!I'm going to be the designer, and this is the work I've done so far:
 
 
We want to add all we love from the archives, while adding a few extra features that we think could give the users even more. For instance some extra additions in search filters, to help track up special themed guilds.We also want to make this useful for as many as possible, thus we'll include both North American and European servers, with an added filter to help users focus on the posts relevant to the server they play on. Haven't personally tried it, but I've been told that everyone can get access to all servers now, meaning European players can play on the NA servers and vice versa. By adding this filter, it'll be a lot easier for the users to manage. The note under the main title will change, depended on what filter you're set to.Right now it's all pretty cramped together - this will of course be spread, and there will be news, art etc. below the menus.
 
 
This is how the personal profile set up will look like. The violet gradient will change, depended on what faction you set your character to be on: Red or Blue.We're looking forwards to see the first users try it, once it's ready to be opened, and in the meanwhile we'll keep the door open for like-minded creative designers who would be interested in working along with us, as a team.
 
Sounds like something you'd be up for? Then give me a poke in a private message, including contact information!
We're also open for suggestions to good names, to switch with the current place-holders. :P 
			
				
	Edited October 24, 2015 by Space_Radish	
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			Personally, I think it looks nice so far. Can't wait to see the finished product! 	
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For those unfamiliar with the Argent Archives project, you can visit them and have a chance to browse, by way of the links in my signature.  Those lead to character profiles on the Argent Archives, to give an idea of how the format shapes up.  Likewise, you can head from there to the front page, where the "Argent Post news items" can be found.The one real addition that I would recommend to the search function, something which the AA volunteer crew never anticipated they'd need when it was all set up [who knew it would be popular and in use near a decade later?], is a search by month/year.  At present, there's no real function to search by date, which, as a librarian, I'd love to see.
 
As for your design, I think the blue is a bit too sharp - since images will also be hosted against that background colour, I would advise something much more neutral in tone, so as to not affect the viewing of the colours in the actual images.  Remember [as everyone with the internet remembers, thanks to that gold/white/blue/black dress kerfuffle] that the way we humans see colour depends in part on the surrounding colours.  A white or off-white would be your best background for the body text and images, I think, as a result.
			
				
	Edited October 26, 2015 by Gnapoleon	
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			That would help keeping track of the latest up to date guilds and such, yeah. We'd probably also see if there are any options of how to work with the many guilds that are shown as active and recruiting, while they in reality has disbanded months ago... It's at least something to look into.	
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Oh, as for names, something tied to the Royal Collegium would make sense, as an archiving resource, the same way the Explorers' League does on WoW for the Argent Archives.
 
http://wildstar.gamepedia.com/Collegium	
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			From what I read, the Royal Collegium is very Dominion allied, and the site here would have to be neutral factioned, as it's going to be used by everyone.	
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I'd like to try it out. :3  i happen to have a fan site on Tumblr I just started for my character. 
 
http://bradofnexus.tumblr.com/	
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			Keep an eye out on this thread then, where we will keep everyone notified about the progress!	
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A little heads up regarding this project: Our programmer in the small team will start the production after Christmas, and to give it a proper kickstarter, he will gather his student mates to help him set it up. 
Once we are ready to test run the site, we'll bump this thread. Keep an eye out!	
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