Is your new gaming website affiliated with the .net network at all?

Are you going to be using more modern systems than dii.net did in terms of content management and publishing? Ie, no more endless toil hand-crafting each and every strategy article, intead you'd just design the template for the page and dump the text in?

 

much automation has been introduced. It's basically being run on a script template similar to the gwonline.net site. all the content is entered through a script template which sorts and archives it. screenshots especially rule; all browser-based, just browse from my HD and they go up and get sorted and named and thumbed automatically. I then select type and add captions and keywords and it's done. They take about 10% as long to do as in the old manual D2 site days.

Content still takes time to write though, and info must be assimilated. It's really sort of stupid how much work I'm putting in getting the pages done, since I'll be rewriting everything in a month, after I get to see/play the game at E3. I should just get the shell of the pages up so I can populate them more fully, but i can't stand putting up shitty pages, when none of the current HGL fansite have any decent content.

 

Yeah, if you come out with a page that actually has content, and especially screenshot analysis etc, then you'll quickly win a following.

It's funny looking at the fansites linked from the official Oblivion page; almost all of them still have pre-release information on them ("we think the system requirements will be...") and no more information on enemies/skills etc than what you can find in the manual and/or through the descriptions in-game.

I think most people just have no idea what should be put into a fansite in order to make it 1) useful and 2) successful.