Post by Colosseum on Nov 25, 2007 22:30:48 GMT -5
To-Do List (if you want this place to bear any semblance of popularity)
1. Get the hell off ProBoards. ProBoards is the penultimate 13 year old forum. There are MUCH better alternatives out there... hell, even an InvisionFree forum is more secure and easier to use.
2. If you're truly serious about this, the admin should fork up some money and buy a domain name with some hosting. Yahoo! will offer you a domain name for one year for $2.99 US (last time I checked). You can then buy hosting services from someone like Dreamhost or The Upstream will give you a good deal at a cheap rate.
3. Write up some bulletproof forum rules.
4. Take the time to write up a detailed guide to the RP. How should we go about it? What sort of things do we need to take into account when writing an RP post? Clear up the setting, historical background, what the UCC is supposed to be, naming conventions for UNSC/UCC planets and ships, and the general background to the game.
5. Make a website that's not just a forum. Link the site to the forum. Give people the chance to upload a picture of their character and write detailed bios on a profile page. Maybe even start a rank system where people can buy/control different planets?
6. GET MORE d**n MEMBERS! There are currently more Global Moderators than there are members... the proportion should ALWAYS be somewhere around 50:1 (50 members to 1 moderator).
7. If you're serious about this, advertise on Project Wonderful (http://www.projectwonderful.org) (a great advertising website that costs relatively little and actually helps). Pay for advertising on larger sites with thousands of viewers. Allow other companies/websites to run ads on your website.
8. Find a dedicated web designer to make your website look nice. Out of work web designers are a dime a dozen these days, so find someone with actual talent (designing Myspace layouts DOES NOT count, take my word for it).
9. Take some of the character management out of peoples' hands and place it in a database; you'd obviously have to do this with a website and with some sort of webhost that has database support (MySQL is the best). This way people won't forget who the hell they are.
10. LIMIT PEOPLE TO ONE d**n CHARACTER!!!! How the hell can you keep track of five different people? Good lord.
11. Kill off your spam forum. It's unprofessional and unneeded.
12. Kill off as many forums as you can; the vertical length of your forum is currently quite horrendous. I get lost scrolling up and down. Find a forum that offers sub-forum support, then condense some of your forums into sub-forums. This would help A LOT.
13. Decide on a good, memorable name.
14. Find a graphics designer to assist your web designer with graphics. Most web designers are also graphics designer, so this shouldn't prevent much of a problem.
15. In general, tone up the professionalism. Admins and Global Mods should ALWAYS take the time to write their posts neatly. This alone would help a lot.
Heh, sorry for the exhaustive list. I'm always available if you need help with it, and you have given me an idea for a future project. My MSN is EPColosseum@hotmail.com if you need to reach me.
1. Get the hell off ProBoards. ProBoards is the penultimate 13 year old forum. There are MUCH better alternatives out there... hell, even an InvisionFree forum is more secure and easier to use.
2. If you're truly serious about this, the admin should fork up some money and buy a domain name with some hosting. Yahoo! will offer you a domain name for one year for $2.99 US (last time I checked). You can then buy hosting services from someone like Dreamhost or The Upstream will give you a good deal at a cheap rate.
3. Write up some bulletproof forum rules.
4. Take the time to write up a detailed guide to the RP. How should we go about it? What sort of things do we need to take into account when writing an RP post? Clear up the setting, historical background, what the UCC is supposed to be, naming conventions for UNSC/UCC planets and ships, and the general background to the game.
5. Make a website that's not just a forum. Link the site to the forum. Give people the chance to upload a picture of their character and write detailed bios on a profile page. Maybe even start a rank system where people can buy/control different planets?
6. GET MORE d**n MEMBERS! There are currently more Global Moderators than there are members... the proportion should ALWAYS be somewhere around 50:1 (50 members to 1 moderator).
7. If you're serious about this, advertise on Project Wonderful (http://www.projectwonderful.org) (a great advertising website that costs relatively little and actually helps). Pay for advertising on larger sites with thousands of viewers. Allow other companies/websites to run ads on your website.
8. Find a dedicated web designer to make your website look nice. Out of work web designers are a dime a dozen these days, so find someone with actual talent (designing Myspace layouts DOES NOT count, take my word for it).
9. Take some of the character management out of peoples' hands and place it in a database; you'd obviously have to do this with a website and with some sort of webhost that has database support (MySQL is the best). This way people won't forget who the hell they are.
10. LIMIT PEOPLE TO ONE d**n CHARACTER!!!! How the hell can you keep track of five different people? Good lord.
11. Kill off your spam forum. It's unprofessional and unneeded.
12. Kill off as many forums as you can; the vertical length of your forum is currently quite horrendous. I get lost scrolling up and down. Find a forum that offers sub-forum support, then condense some of your forums into sub-forums. This would help A LOT.
13. Decide on a good, memorable name.
14. Find a graphics designer to assist your web designer with graphics. Most web designers are also graphics designer, so this shouldn't prevent much of a problem.
15. In general, tone up the professionalism. Admins and Global Mods should ALWAYS take the time to write their posts neatly. This alone would help a lot.
Heh, sorry for the exhaustive list. I'm always available if you need help with it, and you have given me an idea for a future project. My MSN is EPColosseum@hotmail.com if you need to reach me.