game-bloggers site now online

Post by **o'dium** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:25 pm

A mate of mine has his own site up and running. Its early days but its one of those "game news for everything" style sites and TBH its pretty cool, has his own forums and all sorts.

Give it a whirl, just pimping it for him

http://www.game-bloggers.co.uk

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:46 pm

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:50 pm

Looks like ass

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:57 pm

looks like a compilation of reefsurfer threads

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:59 pm

y helo thar

[lvlshot]http://www.game-bloggers.co.uk/e107_images/newspost_images/candc31.jpg[/lvlshot]

Post by **gregs2k2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:33 am

bitWISE wrote:Looks like ass

Wow. Constructive criticism. Thank you very much.

Oh, and thanks for the plug O'd.

Post by ek » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:37 am

these kind of sites are dime a dozen, dont bother lol.

Post by **gregs2k2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:42 am

Another thumbs up to somebody who has sod all useful to say, well done.

Post by ek » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:43 am

it is useful you fucking spastic. your site is shit and there are a dozen other sites that do a better job. remember, you're the one that has to convince me to use your site. idiot.

Post by **Yeando** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:44 am

Grudge wrote:y helo thar

"Holy anti Superman Batman!"

Any idea when its out?

Post by **gregs2k2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:58 am

ek wrote:it is useful you fucking spastic. your site is shit and there are a dozen other sites that do a better job. remember, you're the one that has to convince me to use your site. idiot.

Nice one.

I guess I can count you out of signing up then?

Post by **Yeando** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:15 am

Im no website expert but ill stick up for you and say its not bad. Bit generic but give it a chance. No pop up shit is a good start :icon14: .

BUT!!!!@!212 Showing articles from a site called gaygamer.net? ZWTF

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:20 am

i will applaud you for making the entire site xhtml valid

Post by **Foo** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:32 am

If my memory of that font is right that's a PHP Nuke install.

Nice theme.

Post by **gregs2k2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:31 am

For those with constructive crits/comments, thanks.

I'm a total novice when it comes to web development (it shows!). The whole site is a theme, which i've build up with plugins (all GUI controlled). So it doesn't need an ounce of coding knowledge. Thanks god.

So yeah, it has rough edges, but has only been up around a week (maybe less). I know it's another 'generic gaming site', but i've been wanting to do something like this for ages. If there's something you want on there, then drop me a line)

I'm hoping to teach myself PHP and CSS, perhaps make it better.

All suggestions/comments are welcome (so long as it's not something along the lines of 'it's shit')

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:58 pm

gregs2k2 wrote:For those with constructive crits/comments, thanks.

I'm a total novice when it comes to web development (it shows!). The whole site is a theme, which i've build up with plugins (all GUI controlled). So it doesn't need an ounce of coding knowledge. Thanks god.

So yeah, it has rough edges, but has only been up around a week (maybe less). I know it's another 'generic gaming site', but i've been wanting to do something like this for ages. If there's something you want on there, then drop me a line)

I'm hoping to teach myself PHP and CSS, perhaps make it better.

All suggestions/comments are welcome (so long as it's not something along the lines of 'it's shit')

I was trying to find some sort of credit to what package you used but when I couldn't find one I just had to assumed you were in complete control of the design. I'm sorry "looks like ass" wasn't constructive enough but I really don't like the design. It's a bit too bland and all the content just seems to run together. One quick suggestion would be to alternate the background color of each news item. Or maybe you could even set a background for each seperate block of content that should be logically grouped together.

Post by **4days** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:09 pm

ek wrote:it is useful you fucking spastic. your site is shit and there are a dozen other sites that do a better job. remember, you're the one that has to convince me to use your site. idiot.

what he said.

unless you're very lucky or have a fresh idea that captures imaginations - you don't make popular websites while you 'learn php and css'. did you look at different content management/blogging tools before installing nuke? do you know enough about nuke/php/mysql to be able to port your content to something else when you need to?

congrats on the domain name, that's got potential. hope you've got someone besides odium providing content

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:11 pm

hah i was thinking the same thing.. "hope you dont review like odium does"

Post by **Foo** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:14 pm

[quote="gregs2k2"][/quote]

Sent you a PM.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:35 pm

MKJ wrote:hah i was thinking the same thing.. "hope you dont review like odium does"

I think my reviews would be fucking class mate, think about it, they would consist of me either flip flopping mid review on liking it or not liking it, or just shear slagging the shit out of it.

Quality if you ask me, i'm wasted talent!

Post by **LawL** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:43 pm

gregs2k2 wrote:Another thumbs up to somebody who has sod all useful to say, well done.

Looks like someone's upset.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:00 pm

gregs2k2 wrote:For those with constructive crits/comments, thanks.

I'm a total novice when it comes to web development (it shows!). The whole site is a theme, which i've build up with plugins (all GUI controlled). So it doesn't need an ounce of coding knowledge. Thanks god.

So yeah, it has rough edges, but has only been up around a week (maybe less). I know it's another 'generic gaming site', but i've been wanting to do something like this for ages. If there's something you want on there, then drop me a line)

I'm hoping to teach myself PHP and CSS, perhaps make it better.

All suggestions/comments are welcome (so long as it's not something along the lines of 'it's shit')

Beyond how generic look.

Learn to fucking give news man. One half assed sentence about something and a link to the manufacture website is a bit shallow dont you think? and it seems alot of the "news" are like that. Dont just flop shit up while your bored at "work", either do it right or dont do it at all.

Post by **bitWISE** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:49 pm

SOAPboy wrote:Learn to fucking give news man. One half assed sentence about something and a link to the manufacture website is a bit shallow dont you think? and it seems alot of the "news" are like that. Dont just flop shit up while your bored at "work", either do it right or dont do it at all.

Aye. There's more information about who's posting on the forums than videogame content.

Post by **gregs2k2** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:41 pm

Foo, thanks for the PM, some good advice, thanks for going out of your way to help. I would have invested in a .com domain, but money is kind of tight for me at the moment. I may branch out to a .com in the future. We'll see if the site takes off.

As for posting news, yes, I have a lot to learn. Also there are others who post news on the site. I guess it is some form of feedback from you guys, which I do appreciate. But when the source of the news is either just a screenshot or just a tidbit of info then it's kind of hard to elaborate further. I was aiming at "short and to the point" newsposting method. I'll see how it pans out. Remember, i'm mainly one guy just experimenting, not a team (i.e. IGN, GameSpy, etc).

I don't expect people to like the site, the content, the colour scheme, the ads, the way in which news is posted. What would be nice is for people to just to give me constructive feedback.

And i'm not upset or pissed off at all, i'm not that easily offended. If I was then I wouldn't have registered here in the first place!

I'll look at the feedback from you guys and see if there are ways to make improvements.

Cheers

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