[legionofangels]

Just to clarify a few things here for the sake of honesty.

Tact is a great friend that I've known for I think 5 years now online only, on the phone, video chat, text, never met. Just a good friend that has helped with this project since day 1. In the beginning I just had an idea 4 years ago, and was like, I need a graphic person to help me with this. He made cool graphics and seemed like a polite person on the forums so I asked him to help. This was a different forum than our own now. He made all the original artwork for the group "LoA" and was a member of it as well. So in short, while I had an idea, this would never have been made if not for him, or I guess a diff designer. When it came to make the website I knew he had went to schooling for some coding, didn't know what, and thought I could ask him to help out in this. He liked the idea and has helped over the past year and a half.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm using someone, as he could quit at any time as could I, I guess on designing stuff. Nor do I know of any unique coding he's done or made from scratch programs for our site that would require commission, but yes...a payout just out of gratitude alone at some time is most likely in the near future.

As far as his ability I knew he was competent with CSS and HTML, but didn't know about all the other forms of coding. We also aren't arrogant and have hired someone in the past to do some Flash coding for us. It's mainly a case where we know the limits of expertise and we make the decision onsite to either hire someone if its too difficult or figure it out ourselves if it doesn't present itself to be mind bending difficult.

In the case of this project, as I stated in the other thread in modifications unpaid, the concept of an "anymedia" system is possible and with dynamic page creation through PHP which I was aware of, it can be done. My thought was to show a layout, and say, wouldn't it be nice and anyone with the knowledge to handle the database mysql side as well as the php integration of the two, then they could release the mod for pay or for free here at .org. As I said there, and say here, MANY people could use a good organized video/media management system for there site. It's like having your own youtube in a sense, but can post any type of object, OR video, movie, game on your site. Almost like having a three in one, Vid gallery, Picture, and Game, Movie, etc.

By asking a bunch of questions in threads and taking what we already knew, we have gathered enough code for the design end of this, where indifference to our site, you could grab the style ID of whatever style someone is on and the page would display in that format, which in fact would be easier for us but is not an option. As well as all the standard aspects of the layout, the cat's, the boxes, the bg's, the text, etc. So the media goes there, the rating goes below, and then comments shown below.

I did notice Nix making something like this in a screenshot he posted, but unfortunately cannot wait for the release of that to get this project done as once we're done with this, we're done with our forum for quite some time we believe. He used the WYSIWYG editor in place of a simple comment script, but I don't want avatars out there jumbling things up either. However the system in theory would be fantastic, would like it to be free, and it's hugely flexible. You haven't seen the main pages yet either, that completely organize your sections of content, and your media list within those categories. Because we know how we want it to look but the idea was to get a single game page ready, so I can start the monotonous work of copying and changing the appropriate sections by hand. So the Main Pages for each area are not ready, just finishing up the template for one, then change imagery and colors for the others, then I'll do all the content and php pages, while he designs and codes the main pages.

In closing here, sometimes Tact pushes the truth as he has done work in other types of coding before, and I've even messed around with php. But messing with it and "building code" out of it, are not the same thing. I am not against paying for help on this and will consider it maybe for the sake of getting it done so that all other vb owners out there can have an option like this for there boards.

In the interim, I'll do it the hard way, as after posting 3000 or so videos on my site over 1 months time, I can handle monotonous tasks fairly well, and I'm usually pretty quick about it.

Finally, as we talked on msn tonight making our checklist of things to change or fix on our template so far; we both believe we know bits and pieces of how this works or parts of it but not the whole enchilada. Because of that we cannot do it, and suspect the part that we cannot figure out if we started putting it together is again, the mysql integration with php. I personally think it has a lot to do with parts of code that says "get title of xxxx", I don't know the name or if they are called "get" codes, but yeah, that seems like it would make sense as it's making a call for information based upon what you hit. Due to the difficulty will probably just stick with games then, as movies and video could go on forever.

Anyways, sorry this is long, and thanks for your help. If we ever figure it out, or if we hire someone for it, we'll release it as an add on here for everyone, I promise.

Here are Day 2 Screenshots if anyone is curious:

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