Ok so I was sadly disappointed with many of the "free guild" websites out for World of Warcraft guilds. So by the power of Drupal... I decided to make my own.
I am sadly a VERY amateur coder that knows next to nothing about css and php, but I'd like to think my site is actually pretty useful!
I used several moduales including, Image, Event, UIEForum, Bio, PrivateMsg, VentriloSpy and much more.
I thought I would share the easy way that I found to get the pop up tool tip links from wowhead or thottbot to function with a wow guild site. On either of the two sites they provide a simple javascript line that you can add to your site to implement the pop up tool tips. I simply made a small block with this code in it and stuck the block in a section of my site. Since the code is not leaving a visible trail, no one is the wiser that its there, but the code will function just fine on every page. For those of you not familiar with these tips, there are several links like this on the Holy Paladin guide.
I am not a super fan of the very DARK colored sites, so I went with a default garland theme for now, with the colors and logo matching our tabard.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on my site, I'd love some feedback.
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http://intrepid.trilless.org/ - link to the OP's site
Thanks
That would be one of those "Boy do I feel dumb right about now!" moments in life >.<
Sorry but is this supposed
Sorry but is this supposed to be a gaming site? It looks more like a personal blog? Maybe you should add pictures of WOW in there or something else besides the title. Couldn't really understand what it is. Maybe cause I know nothing about WOW. Just my honest opinion. Good luck!
nice game!!!!!!!!!!
The "World of Warcraft" is nice.I have played the game and its really interesting. I got the games and they are really exciting..The game is really addictive.But it is taking longer hours.I can't come out of it.But still
Appreciated.
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wow gold
Welcome to Drupal. :) I've
Welcome to Drupal. :) I've been running my guild's website using Drupal for 3 years now. www.thehateguild.com is our site, but I'm currently offline as I've been trying to port to 6.3 for 3 days now. :/ Anyway, some other software I've found useful is wowroster.com. I've tried to integrate it somewhat into my site, and you should be able to see it when it comes back online.
As far as the code... care to post a link?
Nifty!
I took a look at wowroster but I'm not sure exactly how I want something like that to work with my own site. I am not sure if you can see the roster we currently have but our guild runs achievement like badges that you can display on your profile pages. (DPS mile markers/reputation/etc)
For the wowhead code I used for item links its located here: http://www.wowhead.com/?powered
There is also an ability very similar on thottbot. However, I have had some difficulty trying to provide BOTH options (thus leaving it open for whomever is posting to choose who they want to link to.
Since i last updated... I've added a video's section, and a progression page to the mix which has been kind of fun.
If you can't see the roster and would like to, send me an email at trillianneATgmail.com and I'll hook you up with a test account to see how the forums and all come together.
I have not yet upgraded past 5.0 >.<
Wowroster + Drupal + other things
I also am still using Drupal 5 (though I believe it is currently 5.7 or 5.9), so don't worry you aren't alone. When I first set up the site, Drupal 6 was missing certain modules that I considered key.
At the moment I am running WowRoster along side Drupal, working on pulling certain parts of it into drupal for our guild, but for now it works fine as an along side (clumsy, but it works). There are certain things I've always like about WowRoster.
Ex. Siggen (which automatically creates avatars and signatures for the characters in the roster based on the characters stats, race, class, spec etc.).
I use Advanced Forums and Advanced Profile on my site, and created a new field in profile for a "Preferred Toon" that allows users to declare their main. I then wrote a little module that grabs the name of that toon, checks if the toon has an avatar in roster, and puts that image in the picture field of their drupal profile so it shows up as their avatar on the forum.
As for the item popups, I was able to get the old itemstats working just fine in my drupal and pulling from wowhead without a lot of fuss, so that anyone can put in the icon, the item name or both anywhere they want and it will create a color coded link that pulls the wowhead popups. Though apparently I'm a bit of an oddity in this. We use the feature all over though so I wasn't willing to lose it, and as long as it's working I'm definitely not going to mess with it anymore.
You guys should check out
You guys should check out this wow theme by alldrupalthemes.com found here http://alldrupalthemes.com/preview/node/2&theme=cto_adt_wow
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I looked at that theme. The
I looked at that theme. The issue I have with it is that its SOOOO dark. I'm also looking for a way to tie in our own guild pride with our custom logo image that doesn't look tacky with another theme.
Like I said... the theme is the next bit I"m working on... :D
Testing and playing with
So I found a couple drupal wow themes that weren't so dark, but when I tried to fit them with my own site modules, they seemed to always break the layout >.< (Ventrilo spy is too wide it seems)
So I've been fiddling around with some images and smashing around with the fancy theme atm.
Feel free to look at it http://trilless.org/testsite/drupal-5.7/ to see what I'm currently smashing away at.
The one thing I'm not too uber keen on, is that all my blocks atm have outlines and backgrounds. This is fine for most of my blocks, but for my wowjutsu block and my realm status block I kinda just want the image to pop on there. I am also thinking of moving our banner to a side bar, but not quite so sure how to get the image and not the block around it atm. So if someone with much more themeing knowledge than mine would like to drop me a line to help me out on that, I would appreciate it.
And for you wow-ers out there... let me know what you think so far. (the calendar and forums will be recolored in the more official version to a lovely tan/brown matching)
"Blocks"
The border and background are defined in your css.
If you want to get rid of them, just edit them out. They are defined by which bar they are currently placed in #sidebar-left, #sidebar-right and the class .block. You will find them in the style.css for your theme. If you have some that you want with the border, and some you want without, see if you can group them based on which side they are on (thus sidebar-left would contain all the blocks you want with the border, and sidebar-right all the ones you want without).
That would be the easiest way to achieve what you want.
As an example, on my page the left sidebar has defined blocks, the right does not. The code looks like this:
#sidebar-left .block .content (line 573)
{
padding-top: 0.4em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0.4em;
padding-left: 1em;
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url(images/block_leftbar_bottom.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: scroll;
background-x-position: center;
background-y-position: bottom;
}
#sidebar-right .block .content (line 608)
{
padding-top: 0.4em;
padding-right: 1em;
padding-bottom: 0.4em;
padding-left: 1em;
}
"I am also thinking of moving our banner to a side bar, but not quite so sure how to get the image and not the block around it atm. So if someone with much more themeing knowledge than mine would like to drop me a line to help me out on that, I would appreciate it."
Given the options above you would just put the image as a block on the right hand side with no problem.
Aside from that, initial impressions:
I'm so used to the login being the top thing, and thus easy to find it looks very out of place to me coming after the recruitment block.
Your banner is wrapping at high resolutions, and it wasn't design to wrap so it makes an very jarring effect in that corner. And you need to change the font on the title (it's lost in the image right now)
Can't comment on the forums, I can't see them (access denied)
Other than that it is starting to look much more "wow-ish". ^.^
Thank you!
Hmm.... well I was hoping for being able to do a variety. i like the border/background on a number of items but not all. Mostly the graphical elements in blocks that look kinda wonky imo. Ah well I'll keep banging away until I find the right solution :D
Yes.. the header needs work. I'm still undecided as to which Header I would like to use... so that's still on my to-do list.
As for the recruitment block place... yes its totally not right spot, but I needed a wider block on the left side for some of my testing. I am having some trouble with introducing a graphic backdrop for the titles of my blocks.... more on that some time later. After having discovered that the wider ventrilo block was breaking some graphical themes I wanted to make sure that I don't end up in the same shoes. If you compare to the more polished actual guild site, you can see that the navigation is still at the top in "real land" ;)
No problem
If you want to play around more to get the solution you wanted (remember I said it was the simplest way above) you could give Block Theme a try:
http://drupal.org/project/blocktheme
I have not used it personally, but I looked into it at one point.
The solution I finally came to for our banner was to have a solid banner and make the "logo" look it was embedded into the solid with a gradient. I still have an image that looks bannerish that way regardless of resolution, and as the resolution gets bigger what repeats is the solid color so the banner looks the same regardless of resolution. Also has the advantage of not causing banner blindness with a really busy banner. There a various ways you can get around the banner problem (at least until css3 actually goes live in all browsers with background-size etc). Note: the logo I'm using at the moment is a temporary one. It was something I did up as an example for something and for lack of anything at the moment and greater priorities it ended up as the logo for the site for now. The theme I'm using is half default and half "altered" at the moment, everytime i find time to theme I end up doing something "more important". ^.^
http:///www.bofif.com
Logo is at: http://www.bofif.com/files/demo2.jpg
A few other things you might want to consider looking at:
Thickbox - http://drupal.org/project/thickbox - Pulls your images up in an overlay. Also works in galleries so that you can navigate through the gallery in the overlay rather than opening each image node and then having to back out to go to the next one. There are a couple modules that have this effect if Thickbox doesn't do exactly what you want, Lightbox etc. You can search them.)
Event signup - http://drupal.org/project/signup - Allows signups for events on your calendar (not sure if you are already using this or not) - You can also attach signups to other content types. I made a "Signed Page" content type and set our charter to be on that type, so my guildies actually sign our charter so I have an idea of which new recruits have read them and which haven't Until they sign it they don't get promoted.