Post by Frank Gasking on Feb 1, 2006 12:40:58 GMT
Just to let people know, a GTW portal site will be in production around Easter time, using one of the CMS based systems which are on the net.
I would program things myself, but to be honest I don't have the time... hence why GTW 64 is still using tables and no database. We must concentrate on finding the actual games and not worry about the backend of the system (apart from cosmetic, minor code and search engine enhancements).
The portal will aim to bridge the gap between PC GTW, Amiga GTW and GTW64 which currently exists. People will come to the portal first, possibly hang around and post comments/reviews about games for various systems unreleased and discuss topics across all systems. You'd then have entry points which branch off into our separate sites.
One idea which Timo from PC GTW called for a while back, a single large forum, will be implemented with such a project in place. This forum will remain locked, but still accessible as part of an history archive of the site. We've extracted most the information from posts for C64 GTW entries that people submitted here.
I'm not sure how things will pan out with this portal, but we hope it will draw more people in and put us on the map more within the retro community. We need a lot of visitors if we are to find more games. One person could know some vital information about one of the games we search for.. so its for that reason more than personal "ego boosting" regarding our site hits.
If people have ideas for the portal, then feel free to leave your comments here. Really its early days, and i'm just making it aware to people that its going to happen.
We're looking at using e107.org/ as our CMS.
More soon as decisions are made...
I would program things myself, but to be honest I don't have the time... hence why GTW 64 is still using tables and no database. We must concentrate on finding the actual games and not worry about the backend of the system (apart from cosmetic, minor code and search engine enhancements).
The portal will aim to bridge the gap between PC GTW, Amiga GTW and GTW64 which currently exists. People will come to the portal first, possibly hang around and post comments/reviews about games for various systems unreleased and discuss topics across all systems. You'd then have entry points which branch off into our separate sites.
One idea which Timo from PC GTW called for a while back, a single large forum, will be implemented with such a project in place. This forum will remain locked, but still accessible as part of an history archive of the site. We've extracted most the information from posts for C64 GTW entries that people submitted here.
I'm not sure how things will pan out with this portal, but we hope it will draw more people in and put us on the map more within the retro community. We need a lot of visitors if we are to find more games. One person could know some vital information about one of the games we search for.. so its for that reason more than personal "ego boosting" regarding our site hits.
If people have ideas for the portal, then feel free to leave your comments here. Really its early days, and i'm just making it aware to people that its going to happen.
We're looking at using e107.org/ as our CMS.
More soon as decisions are made...
