Fansite Sub Forums

[Mr A]

Originally Posted by The Jake

We've had Dreamweaver for a while. My Dad got it for some weird reason a while ago for work.. He never used it though so he gave it to me to install on my computer for school projects and stuff.About the design view... That's about he only thing I know how to use on dreamweaver.
I'll probably bother looking up tutorials on the coding side some time. But for now I'm gonna have to stick with it.

So there.

I built mine completely from NotePad.

I used to wish I had Dreamweaver, although somehow I see myself being tempted to become complacent and use the WYSIWYG tools more than coding it myself.

[Speshal Crayon]

Notepad is bad. Get Notepad ++.

[Aaron]

Dreamweaver eff-tee-doubleyew!

[Mr A]

I did have a look at that but I wanted to keep it as simple as I could while working through the book. I'll have another look at it when I re-design the site later in the summer.

[Aaron]

I sold my copy of Studio 8 for just over £300 earlier this year. You'll be able to find an old version of Dreamweaver on its own for very little. Buy!

[dbuggy455]

I think splitting this forum into many other forums would only make it less active.

There used to be loads of sims sites posting updates in here but not anymore... I think the uk fansite community is starting to dwindle, personally i don't want to do much to TSC2 as i don't know whats going to happen with TS3, if there will even be a need for somewhere to post downloads and such. I know for sure i don't care about sims news, so making a site just for posting that would be silly.

More things to entice fansite owners to post in here would be a better thing.

For example:
Put links like the off topic forums in the game forums that take you to here, so that anyone interested in the sims can then follow the fansite link.

Give fansites a place on the main sites (i know the sims has a page, but does fifa and other places? and it's a fairly static page.. never changes really)

Something that makes them think their posts will actually be seen and be of benefit.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by dbuggy455

Something that makes them think their posts will actually be seen and be of benefit.

Well it looks like no post in this thread has had any attention from "them".

Sucks.

[EAUK_Aurora]

Firstly, the directories at the top of the forum here have links to more websites than the ones that have update threads here, so if you are looking for a The Sims Series or Spore fansite for example then you can look through the relevant listing.

As there are not all that many people posting EA Game related fansites at this time then it would seem pointless to have subforums. The most actively updated threads are easily found.

As for advertising other sites on the forum, then this is not acceptable. This is an EA Games forum and as such, we only allow websites dedicated to EA Games to be advertised here. I am sure that any site on another theme or topic could be advertised in a more relevant place or in some other way.

I hope this answers some of your questions.

[Speshal Crayon]

.. But why? Nobody benefits from this rule.

[Sumo]

Originally Posted by Speshal Crayon

.. But why? Nobody benefits from this rule.

of course they do.

People who were getting constantly bombarded with PM's saying

"Hi, plz join ma nu footy forum. cheerz"

[Speshal Crayon]

But what's stopping them from doing it now? If anything, it encourages it.

[Sumo]

Originally Posted by Speshal Crayon

But what's stopping them from doing it now? If anything, it encourages it.

This rule is stopping them from doing it.

If they know they could get punished from doing it, then they don't do it.

[Speshal Crayon]

So is that the reason they did it? That doesn't seem fair on the people who did have decent sites to show and who weren't forcing them in people's faces.

[Sumo]

I think if you look accross most forums, this rule is enfoced.

Infact, on most forums advertising of ANY website isn't allowed so think yourself lucky.

[EAUK_Aurora]

This is correct. Generally it is not permitted on sites such as this to advertise other websites. It is true that the rules also state that you can not spam members with PMs asking them to join another site, which was happening quite a lot previously.

The EA Fansite only rule allows sites with content that has taken a good deal of time, effort and talent to create to be shown. We welcome regular updates of EA Game fansites. After all, EA provides fansite kits for use and we also have directories here of many fansites for the different games.

[Karsh]

Originally Posted by Speshal Crayon

.. But why? Nobody benefits from this rule.

I do not understand why this would be under discussion. It is an EAUK rule for the forums and it is an very acceptable one of that. This rule is across many other game company forums and websites. It won't be in-justice for any company to promote rival games. This is not about EA not wanting to support or work with other game or their providers, it is about EA having their market and community resources being used for EA Titles. EAUK have put a lot of resources and effort building their online features, including these forum you post on. Fan sites what support EA Titles need support from EA so they can get as many hits as possible and get used.

Trying to change this rule is pointless in my view due to the fact that it is a sensible rule.

[dbuggy455]

As someone who builds websites that aren't just sims related, i can honestly say i don't care.

I'm not sticking up for EA, i agree the rule was put in place for the wrong reasons (outright banning all sites not related to ea games because of some rubbish sites showing up was silly, a lot of them were for ea games anyway). But, it's their forum and theres not much we can do about it. I think protesting against them allowing us to post our own sites (which may even be trying to make a profit themselves, which just makes it more fair) is a futile effort.

Would be nice to show off our website creations somewhere though.

[Aaron]

It's true that this forum isn't going to be a decent place to advertise any non-EA related website anyway, but the way this forum has been used for the past five and a half years has just been changed for no reason, and with the rule change, it died.

The EA Fansite only rule allows sites with content that has taken a good deal of time, effort and talent to create to be shown.

That's right. Any website that doesn't feature an EA product took no time or effort to create. Sure.

EA related images only in the creators forum next, right?

[EAUK_Aurora]

That was not what I intended to infer in that comment. Only that many of the fansites that we see here have a lot of work go into them and this ruling gives them more of a chance to shine.

The fact of whether a different kind of site has the same kind of talent behind it is irrelevant as they are not permitted here.

[Sumo]

A good way to look at it would be like this....

Would ITV allow BBC to advertise Eastenders on ITV during the ad breaks?

[Aaron]

Yes.

[EAUK_Aurora]

I don't think that the Fansite Forum 'died' with the new rule but was given the chance to blossom. After all, it is a 'Fansite Forum' rather than a 'Website Forum' and maybe now the fansite creators will feel more like any updates they post will be seen and read.


As for whether any other types of websites are created with the same talent, that is irrelevant as they are not permitted to be advertised here.

[Aaron]

A websites forum. Now there's a good idea.

[EAUK_Aurora]

It may be a good idea, but it won't be happening here, I am afraid.