Hey all, I've been using Google Site Builder for some time now, mainly to make sites for my various play-by-post and home campaigns. I've made my site template available for any of you who would like to give it a go. Google has done a great job of making a powerful yet simple website building tool; and better yet, it's free.
You can check it out at http://sites.google.com/site/pathfindertemplate/
If you have a Google ID and you are logged in, you should be able to click a button at the top right of that page to create your own site from the template. Whether you have an ID or not, you can look through the template to see what you think.
The page works equally well for play-by-post or face-to-face campaigns, and I hope you'll find that it contains some useful features.
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them; just post them here. Thanks!
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Hey all, I've been using Google Site Builder for some time now, mainly to make sites for my various play-by-post and home campaigns. I've made my site template available for any of you who would like to give it a go. Google has done a great job of making a powerful yet simple website building tool; and better yet, it's free.
You can check it out at http://sites.google.com/site/pathfindertemplate/
If you have a Google ID and you are logged in, you should be able to click a button at the top right of that page to create your own site from the template. Whether you have an ID or not, you can look through the template to see what you think.
The page works equally well for play-by-post or face-to-face campaigns, and I hope you'll find that it contains some useful features.
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them; just post them here. Thanks!
When we started our Council of Thieves campaign we started using this template and they love it.
There was some stuff I tweaked for my players, but sites system is very flexible. For example, my players prefered using a googlespreadsheet to track loot, so we are sunsetting the loot system on the template and embedding the gooogle spreadsheet.
Great job on this template!
Awesome, glad it was a help! And yeah I love Google Spreadsheets as well. Their forms are awesome too, and great for taking a quick poll. All the results automatically go into a google spreadsheet and you can view results as a variety of graphs and charts
And if you're interested, the font used for the headers is called Dark 11 and is available for free from dafont.com here
ok last shameless bump in case someone finds it useful :) rock and roll!
I've got a Google site already, but this is a nice layout
Zo
By any chance, did you list this with Paizo as a open content project? that may help give it more visability.
Thanks, and yes it's listed and complies with all the rules!
I've got a Google site already, but this is a nice layout
Zo
Thanks much! And if you start a new campaign give this one a try and let me know what you think of its usability.
Thanks much! And if you start a new campaign give this one a try and let me know what you think of its usability.I've got a Google site already, but this is a nice layout
Zo
Matter of fact I've been playing around with the template and I think I'm going to use it. It'll be a bit of work copying my pages over but you've implemented a lot of things I hadn't got around to yet. It's pretty usable, though I'm not a fan of the large images. Google's lack of migration tools is kind of a let down. I stripped out a few of the announcement pages and the dice roller since we use Google Wave, but overall I think it's a great template and wish I'd known about it when I started the site 2 weeks ago!
Zo
Thanks much! And if you start a new campaign give this one a try and let me know what you think of its usability.I've got a Google site already, but this is a nice layout
Zo
Matter of fact I've been playing around with the template and I think I'm going to use it. It'll be a bit of work copying my pages over but you've implemented a lot of things I hadn't got around to yet. It's pretty usable, though I'm not a fan of the large images. Google's lack of migration tools is kind of a let down. I stripped out a few of the announcement pages and the dice roller since we use Google Wave, but overall I think it's a great template and wish I'd known about it when I started the site 2 weeks ago!
Zo
Awesome, good to hear! And which images are you speaking of? And large in dimension or file size? Thanks for the input!
And as for migration, I'm amazed they don't allow you to browse user themes in the theme selector after you've created the site. Seems like a no-brainer
Awesome, good to hear! And which images are you speaking of? And large in dimension or file size? Thanks for the input!
And as for migration, I'm amazed they don't allow you to browse user themes in the theme selector after you've created the site. Seems like a no-brainer
The header graphics, iconics images and the golden goblin on the front are graphics that take up unnecessary (for me) space and/or bandwidth. My campaign is PFRPG Forgotten Realms, and I'm keeping the site graphically minimal. My point is that the images are nice but not useful for me specifically, not that you should alter the template or anything.
I agree with "no-brainer" comment, I'm sure that Google will refine their site creation tools over time. Meanwhile, it's great that options like your site template are available. I had checked into making an Obsidian Portal site, but it seemed too restrictive. My web design skills are 10 years old, so a regular site would require too much time and overhead. I've integrated Maplib.net and Google Wave into my site and my players dig it.
Zo
Yeah I was very excited about maplib.net and made a pretty long post about it here a while back. Now that Google Sites supports image maps though, I've found it much easier to put coordinates on the map and move characters' tokens around myself in Adobe Imageready.
I have a Wave account and need to really explore more of what it can do. What features do you find most useful for gaming?
Yeah I was very excited about maplib.net and made a pretty long post about it here a while back. Now that Google Sites supports image maps though, I've found it much easier to put coordinates on the map and move characters' tokens around myself in Adobe Imageready.
I have a Wave account and need to really explore more of what it can do. What features do you find most useful for gaming?
Don't actually use the site for session-style gaming, so moving tokens around and rolling dice aren't a huge priority (though we've got a dice robot in the wavelet in case it comes up). We've just been using wave for chatting so far, but I intend to allow the PCs to "run errands" between sessions and possibly earn a few xp. As far as Maplib goes, I've got a high-res map of each ward of Waterdeep as well as the Sword Coast and I'm using the markers for landmarks, adventure sites, local taverns and what-have-you.
Zo
Yeah I was very excited about maplib.net and made a pretty long post about it here a while back. Now that Google Sites supports image maps though, I've found it much easier to put coordinates on the map and move characters' tokens around myself in Adobe Imageready.
I have a Wave account and need to really explore more of what it can do. What features do you find most useful for gaming?
Don't actually use the site for session-style gaming, so moving tokens around and rolling dice aren't a huge priority (though we've got a dice robot in the wavelet in case it comes up). We've just been using wave for chatting so far, but I intend to allow the PCs to "run errands" between sessions and possibly earn a few xp. As far as Maplib goes, I've got a high-res map of each ward of Waterdeep as well as the Sword Coast and I'm using the markers for landmarks, adventure sites, local taverns and what-have-you.
Zo
ah ok. when I was messing with it I had it set as private and each player was invited to the map. Then each of them uploaded a custom marker and could move it around on the map like a mini.
ah ok. when I was messing with it I had it set as private and each player was invited to the map. Then each of them uploaded a custom marker and could move it around on the map like a mini.
I believe MapTool has received acclaim for implementing that very concept. Does ImageReady have features beyond Photoshop in that regard?
Zo
ah ok. when I was messing with it I had it set as private and each player was invited to the map. Then each of them uploaded a custom marker and could move it around on the map like a mini.I believe MapTool has received acclaim for implementing that very concept. Does ImageReady have features beyond Photoshop in that regard?
Zo
Yeah, ImageReady will go ahead and create all the imagemap coordinates and code and all you have to do is copy and paste onto your site. It's wildly easy. And then when you move a piece around on the board it recalculates everything and you just paste the new code over the old.
a couple of minor changes made to the template
Last bump in case people who haven't seen it are interested. Promise :)
Last bump in case people who haven't seen it are interested. Promise :)
Nice template, bump.
Great job! :) I'm just starting a pbp and our GM's using the template. Very nice work