GNamer Major Writes Site

Bloody hell. Er, well when my 10000th post comes up, I'm happy to take suggestions for what I should write!

Some crappy teen chick-lit, obvs.

Balladeer wrote:

Bloody hell.  Er, well when my 10000th post comes up, I'm happy to take suggestions for what I should write!

That was a joke by the by, I'd rather not read Pokemon slashfic on our new writes site.

Too late!

"He was a hard-boiled goat from Down Under, whose favourite grazing food was BEEEEEEER.  He'd seen it all, heard it all, and felt it all.

At least, that's what he thought... until she walked in.

Or... possibly a he.  The goat wasn't sure at this point.

S/he sat down, ribbons swirling, baby-blue eyes glimmering with tears, and blew a heart-shaped smoke ring directly into his face.  Then s/he took a deep breath.

"I need your help to find something," he purred in a dusky, bright pink, West Country voice.  It was definitely a he now, but the goat didn't care.

"And what's a pretty little thing lahk you looking for in a town lahk this?" he snarled back, horny in more ways than one.

The creature with the ribbons desk fixed his Baby-Doll Eyes on the goat.  In that instant, his fate was sealed (and his attack was lowered).

"Sonic's credibility.""

TO BE CONTINUED!?

You've started it now, Balla! (Chucks out Amazon Kindle wishlist)

Balladeer wrote:

TO BE CONTINUED!?

Please no.

www.gintendo-namer.squarespace.com

Nothing much on there yet. I will pm the login details to everyone who wants to contribute, I used Squarespace because based on my experience with dinosaurpoems.com I know that it is the easiest thing in the world to add new content or even new pages. Enjoy!

Looks promising, Drunka! Now I just need to figure out how to link the forums back to your site...

Looking good, just trying to grapple with the posting interface right now. I see there's functionality to add different authors - might be an idea to see what we can do there to save us from having to sign off at the bottom of each piece of work we put up there.

Splendid stuff! Also, "Gintendo"? How very appropriate and alcoholic.

Just managed to link this site to it before I go out. Will be having a fart around with it tomorrow myself. Good luck, guise!

Another idea - is it possible to have something on the home page? I had a rake through the settings but I couldn't find anything. Might be an idea just to have a brief "what this site is" thing up on the home page.

Idea for Gintendo Namer's logo - Grackler swaying and singing raucously.

Yeh, you should be able to edit the home page itself in much the same way you do an individual article.

I'm thinking now that GNamer (this site) will now need 'Forum' placing with its title. It's been that unofficially forever.

Just had a look and was going to put the release up & indie game of the week in the articles section and I was like urghh what do I do.

I wouldn't put them in the articles bit, but you could add a news section or something? I wouldn't worry too much about trying to do that, we're never gonna be IGN so it's better to just stick to writing from the heart and being the website only this collection of nutters could have produced.

Yeah that's why I think the Indie Week would be great to have as like you said from the heart but I'm not sure about how to link the pictures, video and my writing there.

So don't know if you can just do it Drunka, you can be Editor-in-chief for the site.

It's actually pretty simple to put pictures and videos into articles, it's just time consuming to go through the whole thing with the forum then again on the site, so I'd do one or the other.
Obviously, you can stick it on the site then just put the link on the forum thread where the discussion will be.

Great idea folks! I will look forward to reading the reviews & crazy articles that I know will eventually appear, also nice to see GNamer the grackler represented.

Drunkalilly wrote:

I wouldn't worry too much about trying to do that, we're never gonna be IGN

Not with that attitude.

But yeah, I know what you're saying, this page would be for "features" - no-one outside of our group would go there to see any news, and we'd go here anyway.

If I did actually write something about the BBC Micro, would that just be irritating? Is it only for the Nints?

Drunkalilly wrote:

It's actually pretty simple to put pictures and videos into articles, it's just time consuming to go through the whole thing with the forum then again on the site, so I'd do one or the other.
Obviously, you can stick it on the site then just put the link on the forum thread where the discussion will be.

I think I'm going to stick to posting here, as I don't know what I'm doing with the site and I do here. Hopefully if people go to the site they then come the forum and see it anyway.

I've just tweaked the forum header to take people to the reviews page of the site for the time being, seeing as there's some content up there already. Interestingly the site's basic URL goes straight to the (currently blank) articles section.

Jimbob wrote:

If I did actually write something about the BBC Micro, would that just be irritating? Is it only for the Nints?

Nah - at least I don't think that's the plan. I put up my review of Thomas Was Alone which I played on PC.

Stu_the_great wrote:

I've just tweaked the forum header to take people to the reviews page of the site for the time being, seeing as there's some content up there already. Interestingly the site's basic URL goes straight to the (currently blank) articles section.

That'll be what I was meaning when I was talking about putting something on the homepage earlier then.