I've posted about this a couple of times before, but not in a while. So I figured I'd let everyone in the play-by-post forums know about the template if they don't already.
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
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. If you don't already have a Google ID (ie, Gmail account) it's quick and free to sign up at https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount. Whether you have an ID or not, you can look through the template to see what you think.
The template works equally well for play-by-post or live campaigns, and I hope you'll find that it contains some useful features no matter how you play the game.
The template conforms to Paizo's Community Use policies and is a registered project
I update the template often as good suggestions are made. most recently, I added a search box at the top right that you can use to search either your Google site or the Paizo messageboards.
I'd love to hear what you think of the template, so please just post any comments or suggestions here. Thanks so much in advance!
Again, the link to the template is:
I play in several pbps that make use of the template - it's been working very well for us :)
I play in several pbps that make use of the template - it's been working very well for us :)
Awesome, glad to hear it! Weren't you the one who created the character page three-column layout?
One thing that people might be interested in is Google's Shared Spaces. Basically, they took the applets from Wave and made them individually available and shareable. You can embed them into your Google Site as well! Very cool stuff. Just exploring this myself, and can't really include it as part of the template since that would have my account linked to all the shared spaces used. But check out this page for a list of the gadgets available.. http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/gallery/
You can add them to your Site by going to Edit Page... Insert... More Gadgets... Add Gadget By URL and paste the URL from that site above after you create a shared space.
Sorry if that's confusing!
Made a few minor updates, mainly corrections of typos that were brought to my attention and scaling of a few table cells. Every little bit helps though :) Not getting much contact regarding it anymore, so people are either not using it or are finding it about to their liking.. either way, it's there if you want to play around with it :P
