Blog Posts

The basics of the new blog and news feature are now implemented. By basics, it is clearly just the very minimal amount of functionality and styling at this time. I plan to look into adding some filtering based on topics and also by date. Additionally to keep things somewhat tidy, I want to add a length limit with a read more option that will either slide out the remaining text or link to the actual post page. I will also be looking into cleaning up the style, but I may wait until a general site overhaul before doing that. There are also some improvements I plan to make on the CMS end of things that I can use for writing new posts.

For now at least, I have a quick way I can add some new information that is related to the site or just general thoughts on things going on in the gaming community. The latest post will now show up on the home page, and all posts will be viewable on the blog page.

Battle for Azeroth and Classic

With Legion winding down and Battle for Azeroth on the horizon, I am make some updates to the site's downloads section. Also, with the announcement at the 2017 Blizzcon of Classic, I will be updating the category names to properly reflect private server, Vanilla, addons and official, Classic, addons. At this time I do not know if Blizzard intends to use an API that works with the existing Vanilla, 1.12, addons or keep with the current API available in Legion and Battle for Azeroth. They could even end up doing something entirely different, so I will make updates as more information is available.

Next Features

I have a couple of things in mind to add to the site next. I have not decided which I will do first, but I plan to convert this section into more of a news/blog format and to implement some kind of a gallery. The news section will feature the newest post in this section, and a new page will be added for history and allow for linking directly to a specific post. The gallery I am still deciding if it will be set up to include multiple galleries or just have categories, similar to the downloads, that can filter down and specific images being displayed. These are still in the planning phase, but just an idea of things I plan to add in order to be able to more easily add new content, thoughts, and share information.

Finally I have added an actual site!

Currently I have a few goals in mind with the site. Most obvious is that I intend to provide a location where I can distribute useful game related information, downloads, screenshots, etc. Additionally, I want to be able to provide a bit of information about myself and my gaming background. Less important to everyone else, but more important to me, is that I am going to use this as a way to learn and test some new (in many cases new to me) development frameworks and technologies.

I still have a bunch of decisions to make on the direction I take for a number of things. As a result, expect some fairly stark changes over time to the design and available features. For now there will be some disabled links for features not yet implemented, but they will give an idea of the direction I am going. Initially I plan to focus more on MMOs, primary World of Warcaft, but I may expand to some other games and genres as well. Don't be surprised to see something Doom, MechWarrior, or maybe Destiny related.