( MY ARE WE TESTY TODAY )

[Heather]

it is so freaking hot in this house...

so yeah this is a test thread, hope it looks as good as I want it to or I swear my head'll explode again.

It is way too quiet in this house...

HELLO!

[Mel]

Ahh so cool! Should definitely attract more people.

When were you planning on start this up, Heather? Is there anything I could help with?

[Heather]

That is what I am hoping, haha.

Um I do not want to start it until I know it is perfect, i'm lame like that. Um right now things look good, I still need to change the color of the scrollbar because IE and something else will still see the blue instead of the other colors around here.

Something I am still not too happy with has got to be the site plot that you can read in the very first box (under welcome)....i'm just, I don't know if that is how I want it worded. If you want to help with that it'd be great, I just...UGH i don't know how it should go and it drives me insane, haha.

Also do you think we should have the icons (like the group with the sun under the links one) in the other ones too that are just words, or would that be TOO MANY icons? I love our staff icons, they all worked out with the dark backgrounds and are beautiful, so that is awesome at least lol.

OH and do you like the site banner or should I find something else? I love the picture but with the few changes to shade/hue all that good stuff does it look terrible? Hah.

Yeah I wrote a lot and basically what I was trying to say is :

Yes, I would love your help getting this site perfect! Do you have any preferences to what you'd like to do?

[Mel]

I'll start tackling the plot section of the sidebar. Is it basically what you want it to say though, just worded wrong? I don't think it describes the board very well to be honest. The plot should get to the root of what Point Pleasant is and means to us....Okay that sounded cheesy, but it's how I feel the plot should be. I'll copy what you have now into my word and do up a few different ideas, then PM you them.

Haha, about the scrollbar , I'll take your word for it because I'm using Safari on my mac and can't see what you mean. lol

I like the icons, but as is stands now the sidebar seems kind if.... big. I suppose it won't seem that way though after we get all the boards in place, now that I think about it. Hmmm..I'd say keep it, but maybe re-order them? Like the "updates" box is waaaaay at the bottom and I think it could be higher. Maybe make the fonts in "Plot" and all of the descriptions smaller? I think right now it looks good, but smaller would condense things a bit more. Ooo maybe we could even find a code somewhere and make the plot description scrolling? That could look cool. I've seen it done with some boards...I think invisionfree, but there must be a proboards code somewhere. I'll start looking too and let ya know.

On a side note, I agree about the staff icons! FABULOUS! They caught my attention as soon as I got here!

Site banner I think the text may be too small...and i don't especially like the font. Maybe something more...flow-y? Like cursive type writing. I don't know for me that type of text says "relax and stay awhile", but the one now is kinda harsh for some reason. Haha, I'm weird, it's okay.

I'll do anything..when I'm on. Haha. I'm crazy busy right now looking for a job, having one of my friends move in tonight (who i then have to help find a job and a place to stay) and I go back to school the first week of September for orientation and classes shortly after. Oh well, I'm sooo excited so I want to do my best to help. Do we have a potential launch date? I was thinking we should as like a goal to work towards so this actually happens. maybe post it on the PP and let people know that change is coming?

[Heather]

I don't like it, it can be changed to anything. I pretty much just wrote something up so I could fill the spot on the side-bar so you guys could see what it would look like with text. Ha, after four years I think it is okay to be cheesy lol.

and I thought it seemed big too, which is why I kept making more boards, but I think that when we move it over to PP it should be alright like you said. We have a lot more boards over there, plus if it's still too big that'll just give us reason to make more boards lol. Either that or we can shrink the side-bar some. Like on this layout I went and made an events box, which is something we don't have on PP right now but I think it's a good idea for group posts and all that good stuff, so that right there made it larger i'm guessing as well as the bigger icons.

As for the code I can look for that as well because I have a lot more time on here than you since my life has finally cooled off for a few weeks. I am sure I can find it on proboards support and do it here. I didn't really like the one with all the circles(banner) around it on the other one, sort of looked lame and unappealing, and the last thing we need is for something to look bad.

As for site banner with the program I have on my computer I am verryyy limited with font, it's not a graphics thing just pretty much a picture editer, so yeah it sort of sucks so that was the best I could do haha. If you want I could give you a link to the actual photo and maybe since you have a better program you could do something better? I love that photo, it's actually really cute, so i'll look for that link again and send it your way...and then maybe you could work magic on it? Either that or I have a friend on invisionfree who does magic too, pretty much everyone but me lol.

I was thinking a good launch date might be the first of September. It is coming up rather quickly and with the new month could be the re-vamp and all that...plus that gives us over a week to get things perfect (i'm editing boards around PP right now too), so I think that could give us just enough time to make things perfect...and so yeah, maybe the first just because it's the beginning of a new month, so maybe the beginning of a new pleasant era too?

[Mel]

Sounds all good to me. I'll take a stab at the header when you send the link too. I have a few days left on my photoshop trial before I need to buy

[Heather]

well i was bored and had nothing better to do, lol, and a caution girl went ahead and made a new header for us like super freaking fast (like 10 minutes) so since you're super busy I thought maybe the one up now would do justice to the game? I can still send you the link if you want to mess around, I just looked at my things above of what needs to get done and I pretty much bogged us down with a good amount of tweaking (plus i'm not sure how long it's going to take for you to bang out an awesome plot because those are proving to be more work than I could imagine).

and also I lessened our load a little bit more too...go me! Haha, anyway what I did was went through all the sub-boards on the game and made them look like the front page does with the capitalizations and blockquotes, that way when people click on a main board they don't see messy sub-forums. It took forever but I think it'll do the game justice...

THOUGH as I was going through the high school and college ones I realized something. We have a lot and most of them don't get played in at all, so I was wondering if maybe we should go ahead and sort of shrink them down...like instead of having a board for each specific subject/category have ONE that is for all classes? Because come on, we all know RP'ing out a classes scene is boring as all hell and nothing good can happen, so instead of having useless boards that people will probably never post on I thought it'd be cool to minimize those into just one.

Either that or go back to the way things used to be with different categories for both the high school / college. I know that is going to stretch our board out some more, but maybe it will give it more of an active look on the main page when people post under those categories? Because right now if two threads are going on one is always going to be hidden, and some people are too lazy to click the board to see if there are other threads...so maybe that would even out chances for more activity? Plus it might make things easier with dorms and all that on campus for college....I mean it would stretch it out more, but if we did something like that it'd only be another category and maybe two or three more boards on main page? I don't know, I sort of want to throw this layout over there just to see how well the page is going to look, but I don't want to leak the new look until the first because i'm cool and secretive like that. lol.

I would say to let members know we could do a mass email, but then again most of them haven't went and activated their account so they wouldn't even get it...so that would be pointless. I think I put something on the side-bar already though i'm not too certain, and i'm about dead tired so i'm not even looking over there.

I am going to be hopefully working on the advert soon, I have to wake up super early tomorrow so i'm not sure if i'll have motivation at all for that, but yes before the first we will have a new advert as well to draw people to the game...

Um, since i'm about brain dead and heading to bed is there anything else you can think of to pick point pleasant up and get it active again? I know it doesn't take much considering last time we got it up to like forty members on a day, so it's just a matter of getting it out there and in the eyes of other writers, but what else do you think we should do before the first happens? I don't want to have it put out there and then realize we'd forgotten something, and i've definitely got the motivation to get her active again, and obviously you've had the motivation longer than I have because when I died a while back you were still around <3 Thank you for that.

You, Matt, Jack, Felix, and Heather have become like a second (online) family for me...I love it, never thought I could become so close with a group of people through a message board like this, see I can be sappy too Hahaha. Night love!

[Mel]

Haha I'm dead tired too...this is my final stop before I hit my sheets. Job interview tomorrow!

The header looks great so props to whoever did it. It's exactly what I would have done...if I was that talented, lmao. About the subboards, I say get rid of some, which would also make the site look more active. Its true that we have too many and what's the point, really? I mean most of our people are past school-age or not in school and the people that are in school don't even seem to use the school categories as it is.

I'll do my best to have the plot by Friday. Already done some rewriting, but want to make it more...personal. Like talk about the friendships, the relationships and the drama all. Not personally, but touch on some of Pleasant's history as we bring it to the present. So for sure Friday so I can check it over with you and make edits, if not, by the end of the weekend.

The advert sounds good. If you need help wording that too let me know! I'm happy to help with whatever.

Um..okay too sleepy to think! Love you too, hun! xo

[Heather]

Hopefully you nailed the interview <3

Um hello you are uber talented! You can do manipulations and do you know how freaking hard those are? I try and FAIL big time, so you definitely have more talent than you're giving yourself credit for.

As for school aged categories I switched them around and spaced them out, deleted a good deal, but i'm sure you'll see that when you go and sign on hah. It does make the page somewhat bigger, but i'm hoping that when this new side-bar goes in it fits well enough. I am hoping that we'll get more school aged around there when we re-vamp it with all this stuff...which i'm sure we will because we're putting a good deal of time/effort into this <3

and friday or the weekend sounds fine to me. I am going through picture after picture trying to find a good shot to make into an advert banner, but I am having no luck and i'm beat so i'm going to pick up where I left off tomorrow in hopes of finding something cute that would look good in the advert.

I was thinking about maybe putting the plot you'll write up in the advert too, either that or we can go ahead and write something else up for just that, doesn't matter either way to me because i'm pretty easy going when it comes to stuff like that. I have a few ideas for the advert that I am going to work on come the next few days, and i'll show you what I have got then...probably this weekend so the advert will look somewhat alright by the time you get that written up. Haha, by sunday it should be good I am hoping. All I have planned for this weekend is a few errands and that sort of stuff, so yeah I should have a good amount of time (mostly at night though) to work on this.