Web site suggestion

[AngelStreet]

Thanks to rayray we have now a website with domain http://www.flashgamemaker.net
Please give us all your recommendations here.

[AngelStreet]

Some of the rivals website:
- http://pushbuttonengine.com/
- http://flixel.org/
- http://flashpunk.net/ (I love it it is simple and flashy with
appropriate sections)
- http://www.stencyl.com/ (may have a look to the content they are
doing something really familiar to us. The brillantly name differently
the game creator StencylWork and ressource sharing system (graphics,
sound...) StencylForge
- http://citrusengine.com/
- http://www.openspace-engine.com/
- http://www.theoworlds.com/
- http://www.ffilmation.org/website/

[AngelStreet]

I think that we should try to compact the site in order to give as
much info as possible to visitors on first sight.
I tried to show it graphically with a little paint image
http://angelstreetv2.free.fr/FlashGameMaker/recommendation.jpg

[FantasyJam]

Site's OK so far, but I recommend using Drupal instead of whatever CMS
that is (looks like Joomla), and I recommend having something on the
front page in that white space.

Also, Stencyl is something I told you about. It's not really
competition. It's an actual Game Maker of sorts. The StencylWorks app
is brilliant, but I don't like it, because it doesn't give me that
same sense of accomplishment coding gives me. It also doesn't let me
save the game as a source file for Flash or anything like that, so
it's harder to share with others. Finally, it uses Flixel, and while I
don't have any big issues with Flixel, you don't have control over the
pause menu through StencylWorks, making all your games look like
Flixel demos. Hopefully, this will be fixed eventually, but for now,
it's a headache I don't care for.

StencylForge is crap. You can share the game assets, but all this does
is offer people a way to charge money for tiny objects and functions,
when you could just make your own classes for AS3 and share those
freely. Right now, however, StencylForge is free, and it's actually
somewhat fun. I'm simple worried about its intentions.

[Raynold van Heyningen]

Thanks for the feedback.

About the white space of course its there since i said that only the forum is up, the rest still needs to be implemented. When this is done there will be no white space.

Currently i have no experience with Drupal, if you think this is alot better and have the experience u try and set something up.

Then show us how that works and what the benefits are of drupal.

2010/10/11 FantasyJam <fanta...@gmail.com>

[FantasyJam]

I already have many Drupal-powered sites under my belt.
My favorite one is my own: http://getlives.com

It looks like you use Joomla with some forum add-on called Kunena.
Kunena actually looks pretty good. I think you may as well stick with
it.
I'm not really a Joomla user and can't say whether Drupal or Joomla is
better.
Drupal's a lot more work, that's for sure.

[Raynold van Heyningen]

Hmm ok ok nice site btw
Yea im not looking for alot of work it should be as easy as possible and still look good thats where joomla comes in.

----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: FantasyJam <fanta...@gmail.com>
Verzonden: woensdag 13 oktober 2010 1:35
Aan: FlashGameMaker <flashga...@googlegroups.com>
Onderwerp: Re: Web site suggestion

[AngelStreet]

That is exactly the template wann use for the site:
http://www.motocms.com/