While updating information and doing crosslinks to other articles, I discovered that I really needed to include the base classes and other common classes into my site. I'd hoped to not have to duplicate the information there but in explaining additional abilities or alternate features it was required that I provide information on the original.
This has made me greatly expand my Character Class page. It is growing quite a bit and still has a lot of information left to go on it. I may have to break the Class section off onto it's own sublisting. I've discovered that a lot of information needs to be crosslinked between classes. I am trying to use category trees but I already see that will not be enough to link similar abilities. This is turning in to an interesting cunundrum but if the control page gets too large my plan is to create a new selection.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
New Content
My Site is up and working 100%! I have begun to upload new content. Over the last couple of weeks, I've uploaded about 200 new files that weren't available at the old location as well as created over a hundred new articles. I'm still working to figure out everything that I need to get working so expect some new additions and expansions to the site over the next year.
The Maiden of Pain is a new monster, actually she isn't new... she's the servant of Loviatar who has been around for a while but I finally put together her stat block. The Elder Gods have been defined somewhat as well as the ultimate creation myth and Traykon's backstory. There are even a few 3.5 edition articles for continuity reasons including the various Racial Deific Pantheons.
Soon I will be deciding on how best to incorporate random generators. Right now I'm leaning toward simple php scripting off the main wiki unless I can think of a safe way of doing it within the wiki. We will have to see how that works out. With the holidays, I don't think I'll be doing anything major but I find in my free time I can easily add an article or expand a little bit when I go back to the site.
The Maiden of Pain is a new monster, actually she isn't new... she's the servant of Loviatar who has been around for a while but I finally put together her stat block. The Elder Gods have been defined somewhat as well as the ultimate creation myth and Traykon's backstory. There are even a few 3.5 edition articles for continuity reasons including the various Racial Deific Pantheons.
Soon I will be deciding on how best to incorporate random generators. Right now I'm leaning toward simple php scripting off the main wiki unless I can think of a safe way of doing it within the wiki. We will have to see how that works out. With the holidays, I don't think I'll be doing anything major but I find in my free time I can easily add an article or expand a little bit when I go back to the site.
Saturday, November 02, 2019
New site is semi-up
Traykon is now hosted at Interserver and will probably be a MediaWiki site. My plan right now is to just convert the site over to MediaWiki using the Pivot (mobile friendly) skin. I'll host the legacy site as well but right now I'm focusing on getting the server up and running.
The reason I am probably going to just be using a MediaWiki site is due to the nature of the information. I've tried out Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and Tiki CMS, they all have features I don't really need and their interface makes it difficult to highlight my content. Although I have issues with MediaWiki, I'll be using it to host my content since I can edit it on the fly and control how that information is displayed best. Since I have no desire to host a "blog" as my main site, a few of the main CMS options become obsolete as the typical article posting just doesn't work. That doesn't mean I won't be using those systems in the future, it just means I won't be using them now.
Feel free to email me with any suggestions or feedback. Hopefully I'll get this up and running in a timely manner but I have to do a clean install, upload all the extensions, configure the database to work with the new extensions, and then import all the data. I'll admit that importing the data will be the most difficult thing to do simply because of the amount of data I have. There is a hardcoded 2MB file limit in php and my data is more than that. I'll have to decide how best to proceed or if I should edit the php.ini to increase the limit which can cause other issues.
The reason I am probably going to just be using a MediaWiki site is due to the nature of the information. I've tried out Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and Tiki CMS, they all have features I don't really need and their interface makes it difficult to highlight my content. Although I have issues with MediaWiki, I'll be using it to host my content since I can edit it on the fly and control how that information is displayed best. Since I have no desire to host a "blog" as my main site, a few of the main CMS options become obsolete as the typical article posting just doesn't work. That doesn't mean I won't be using those systems in the future, it just means I won't be using them now.
Feel free to email me with any suggestions or feedback. Hopefully I'll get this up and running in a timely manner but I have to do a clean install, upload all the extensions, configure the database to work with the new extensions, and then import all the data. I'll admit that importing the data will be the most difficult thing to do simply because of the amount of data I have. There is a hardcoded 2MB file limit in php and my data is more than that. I'll have to decide how best to proceed or if I should edit the php.ini to increase the limit which can cause other issues.
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