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Hey all, I've been using Google Site Builder for some time now, particularly to make a site for my various campaigns. It's evolved into a very useful website and I've made it available as a template on Google Site Builder.
You can check it out RIGHT HERE
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. If at any point you go to the Site Builder page and are searching through templates, this is the only one that comes up when you search for RPG (although now that I think of it, that might be some homeland security thing lol)
The page works equally well for play-by-post or face-to-face campaigns, and I hope you'll agree that it contains some useful features.
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them; just post them here. Thanks!
Hey all, I've been using Google Site Builder for some time now, particularly to make a site for my various campaigns. It's evolved into a very useful website and I've made it available as a template on Google Site Builder.
You can check it out RIGHT HERE
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. If at any point you go to the Site Builder page and are searching through templates, this is the only one that comes up when you search for RPG (although now that I think of it, that might be some homeland security thing lol)
The page works equally well for play-by-post or face-to-face campaigns, and I hope you'll agree that it contains some useful features.
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them; just post them here. Thanks!
I glanced over it, and have not checked it in detail yet, but it looks nice. I will probably mess with it when I wake up tomorrow/later today.
I glanced over it, and have not checked it in detail yet, but it looks nice. I will probably mess with it when I wake up tomorrow/later today.Hey all, I've been using Google Site Builder for some time now, particularly to make a site for my various campaigns. It's evolved into a very useful website and I've made it available as a template on Google Site Builder.
You can check it out RIGHT HERE
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. If at any point you go to the Site Builder page and are searching through templates, this is the only one that comes up when you search for RPG (although now that I think of it, that might be some homeland security thing lol)
The page works equally well for play-by-post or face-to-face campaigns, and I hope you'll agree that it contains some useful features.
If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them; just post them here. Thanks!
Cool, thanks! Have you used Google's Site Builder before? If not I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with how intuitive and powerful it is. If you have any questions about how to change anything I can help you out no problemo.
Bumpin' it up :) Campaign website in a box.. ready to rock
Are the fonts and the artwork all from Paizo's community use kit? If not, they'll probably ask you to remove them.
Are the fonts and the artwork all from Paizo's community use kit? If not, they'll probably ask you to remove them.
I didn't think that would be an issue since it's not a commercial product. At any rate, it's an easy thing for me to delete the images. There aren't many of them. All the titles were made by me with a third party font.
If I may ask, what do you think of the site itself?
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Ugh, just let my post get eaten, but I did want to thank you for posting this. I had started building a wiki with a similar idea in mind some time ago, but RL swept me away before I managed to get it to the point I was very happy with it and even with that in mind my goals with it were far short of what you have put together. Its a really great job and certainly appreciated. I'd be interested to see where you might go with this in the future and to follow any uses you may have of it with live games.
Thanks guys.. If you use it I'd love to hear how it goes for you and any suggestions you might have to make it better.
Google Site Builder is very user friendly, to the point that non-savvy users can figure out how to customize, for example, their character pages. It makes the site a lot of fun, because each player can go as crazy as they want setting up a page that represents their character.
Another very nice feature is the account control you have. You can easily set the list of people who are able to view and/or edit your site.
Are the fonts and the artwork all from Paizo's community use kit? If not, they'll probably ask you to remove them.I didn't think that would be an issue since it's not a commercial product. At any rate, it's an easy thing for me to delete the images. There aren't many of them. All the titles were made by me with a third party font.
Commercial or not doesn't matter; under copyright law, they can lose the copyright if they do not protect it.
If I may ask, what do you think of the site itself?
Looks quite good. I doubt I'll ever use it myself, but it looks like a very nice resource for the people who it's targeted at.
I wasn't meaning to be critical; quite the opposite. I wanted to make sure you were doing it "by the books" so there were no legal problems with it :)
NICE!!!
Yeah, just make sure you're using the stuff from the community use package.
Many thanks.. I'll contact someone at paizo and run it by them to see what the say.
I'm not sure that you have to "protect or lose" as far as copyright is concerned anymore however. I'm a photographer I know for sure that you don't even have to register copyright to own it. You own the copyright upon creation of the work. You do have to register the copyright in order to sue for anything other than actual damages however.
That's all moot, of course, as I do want to make sure it's all cool with this great company. Thanks again for the dose of reality.
Can someone point me in the direction of the Community Use Package?
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Nice work. It looks like it will be a very useful format.
Can someone point me in the direction of the Community Use Package?
For the CUP, start here.
Thanks a ton.. I can easily update it to comply. Doing that now.
As far as I can tell, it's all within the Community Use Policy now. Thanks for the heads up about that.
The site is on the Registry as Pathfinder Campaign Website Template for Google Sites now as well.
You can see the updated site at http://sites.google.com/site/pathfindertemplate/ and create your own based on it right from there if the mood strikes you :)
Everything is good to go now as far as the Community Use policy. Definitely interested in hearing if you have any suggestions. Thanks!
Just a sidenote, d20pfsrd.com was built on Google Sites. Its a very good tool for this sort of stuff.
Just a sidenote, d20pfsrd.com was built on Google Sites. Its a very good tool for this sort of stuff.
Yeah, it really is. Easy to use but still pretty powerfull
Just a sidenote, d20pfsrd.com was built on Google Sites. Its a very good tool for this sort of stuff.Yeah, it really is. Easy to use but still pretty powerfull
What changed between the templates? I only noticed the goblin and the Paizo lettering looks different?
Edit: If the goblin and the lettering is an issue, is it possible to change them without erasing the site, and doing everything over, not that I have done that much. It would however save me from sending out invitations again.
Just a sidenote, d20pfsrd.com was built on Google Sites. Its a very good tool for this sort of stuff.Yeah, it really is. Easy to use but still pretty powerfullWhat changed between the templates? I only noticed the goblin and the Paizo lettering looks different?
Edit: If the goblin and the lettering is an issue, is it possible to change them without erasing the site, and doing everything over, not that I have done that much. It would however save me from sending out invitations again.
I really don't think you've got any kind of issue if the site is only accessible to your group. I changed those things because the Community Use agreement states that since I was making it available to the public I had to use approved logos and could only use images from the Community Use Package or that had appeared on the Paizo Blog. So, those were the changes that were made. There were some other image changes on the Equipment page as well. Again, though, since your site is private I'd think you're ok. Hope you have fun with it!
Here is the Community Use package:
This post might be useful for people too. I found a site that lets you give Google Maps functionality to images, like, for example, gaming maps. I've been messing around with it and I think it's going to be very cool.
Just a sidenote, d20pfsrd.com was built on Google Sites. Its a very good tool for this sort of stuff.Yeah, it really is. Easy to use but still pretty powerfullWhat changed between the templates? I only noticed the goblin and the Paizo lettering looks different?
Edit: If the goblin and the lettering is an issue, is it possible to change them without erasing the site, and doing everything over, not that I have done that much. It would however save me from sending out invitations again.
I really don't think you've got any kind of issue if the site is only accessible to your group. I changed those things because the Community Use agreement states that since I was making it available to the public I had to use approved logos and could only use images from the Community Use Package or that had appeared on the Paizo Blog. So, those were the changes that were made. There were some other image changes on the Equipment page as well. Again, though, since your site is private I'd think you're ok. Hope you have fun with it!
Here is the Community Use package:
I just figured out how to change the template, and thanks again.
I just figured out how to change the template, and thanks again.
Yeah you can completely customize it.. the template is really just the annoying part, and you can jump off from there. Check out when you Edit Page the Insert button to the left. You can insert Picasa slideshows, Google Maps, Youtube vids, Google Docs (spreadsheets and forms are particularly useful), and then at the bottom of the list you can select More Gadgets..and there are many to choose from
Quick question to those familiar with the system.
Can you use PhP with it?
I have a PhP forum I've been working on and I would LOVE to be able to install the forum into a googlesite and combine the two. I've got another site I'm working with at present but it doesn't seem as intuitive as the Google system.
I think it's a no-go. I would definitely check out the help page though
http://sites.google.com/support/?hl=en
Quick question to those familiar with the system.
Can you use PhP with it?
I have a PhP forum I've been working on and I would LOVE to be able to install the forum into a googlesite and combine the two. I've got another site I'm working with at present but it doesn't seem as intuitive as the Google system.
You can't install PHP or do anything like that with Google Sites but you CAN embed other pages in iframe-like Google Gadgets. That's how I embed the dice roller, dungeon magazine lookup, PF index, and some other pages.
Yeah you can completely customize it.. the template is really just the annoying part, and you can jump off from there. Check out when you Edit Page the Insert button to the left. You can insert Picasa slideshows, Google Maps, Youtube vids, Google Docs (spreadsheets and forms are particularly useful), and then at the bottom of the list you can select More Gadgets..and there are many to choose from
I just figured out how to change the template, and thanks again.
Inserting spreadsheets is how I do the various database/filter pages on d20pfsrd.com, such as the monster, spells, and magic item databases. They work well together.
Inserting spreadsheets is how I do the various database/filter pages on d20pfsrd.com, such as the monster, spells, and magic item databases. They work well together.Yeah you can completely customize it.. the template is really just the annoying part, and you can jump off from there. Check out when you Edit Page the Insert button to the left. You can insert Picasa slideshows, Google Maps, Youtube vids, Google Docs (spreadsheets and forms are particularly useful), and then at the bottom of the list you can select More Gadgets..and there are many to choose from
I just figured out how to change the template, and thanks again.
Yeah and I've used forms before as a quick poll of players and also as a "what do you do in this situation". I love the way that Google Forms create their own associated Spreadsheet with all the submitted data.
Also, inserting a Text Box is a good way to add visual interest to a page. You can have the rest of the text wrap around it and format what is in the text box completely different from the rest of the page
hmmm, I found somebody who imbedded the front page of a forum into a page of their googlesite like this but I was wondering, would it be possible to embed in such a way that clicking on a link inside the page would bring a new page up in that imbed screen?You can't install PHP or do anything like that with Google Sites but you CAN embed other pages in iframe-like Google Gadgets. That's how I embed the dice roller, dungeon magazine lookup, PF index, and some other pages.Quick question to those familiar with the system.
Can you use PhP with it?
I have a PhP forum I've been working on and I would LOVE to be able to install the forum into a googlesite and combine the two. I've got another site I'm working with at present but it doesn't seem as intuitive as the Google system.
I did that on the template with the Pathfinder forum. Search the insertable gadgets for iFrame
http://sites.google.com/site/pathfindertemplate/forums
edit.. nevermind I misread what you wanted to do. I don't know of a way unless that forum had their links set up to open in a new page. With the iframe it's just as if you were on that page in your browser so you can't control any of its behavior. I guess you could set your browser to open all links in a new tab or window but that's it.
Well I did some more looking and you can make a link embedded in an iFrame open in a new tab.
The link itself needs to be modified on the page that is embedded.
It needs to be formatted like so (the "_blank" is not an instruction or something.. it needs to be typed as it is)
<a href="http://www.linkurl.com" target="_blank">YOUR LINK TEXT HERE</a>
Merry Christmas everyone!
Added an OOC page called The Tavern, with a sign for a famous watering hole from a home campaign from ages ago called The Soggy Duck.
Happy New Year everyone! Please let me know if you think of any changes or additions that are needed!
Hi all, figured I'd bump one last time in case someone who is interested missed it the first time around. A few changes and tweaks have been made to the template. It all falls within the community use guidelines and it's been through more playtests and proven nice and usable. Let me know if there are any questions or comments, thanks!
You did some really nice work on this. What font did you use for the page headings like 'Library'?
Thanks! It's Dark11, available at Dafont.com