So I can't believe it, but it's finally done. I've finished a releasable version of one of my biggest projects. Some of you might have heard me referencing GS or GameSitez up until a few months ago, this is it.
I started the project as GameSitez about 3 summers ago before I left for a vacation. The idea was to make a simple webhost for forum goers and the such to display their projects with little to no work. I intended the project to be very simple on the php end, but as time went on it became evident that this was unrealistic. I worked on it until around the end of that year and it became pretty impressive... for my little php knowledge. I dropped it for a bit after that for other projects and then came back to it for a few months some time the next year. I continued work on the forums mostly at at that time, but I also added a lot to the administration side of the site. Eventually it dropped again, only to be picked up early this year. I worked on it up until now pretty constantly, and I redesigned a lot of what I designed. I came to find much of what I did was rather badly coded and recoded a lot of it. Eventually I found a better host than my house and moved it, as well as buying myself a domain name for it.
And now,
Project Pages is open.
It's a free webhost, it has a google search and google ads at the bottom of the pages. I know they're somewhat annoying but they can be removed. It is gonna cost a bit to host it and the ads being on there will hopefully make a dent in those costs.
I'd have to say my biggest accomplishment on it is fully working forums, and a pretty good user system. Each site comes with a board that can have up to 10 (I believe) forums, and as many categories as you can cram forums into. The posting and bbcodes and emoticons work fine. There are locked topics as well as stickied ones. The forums have a skin to match their websites'.
I coded a pretty advanced site coloring system... it works for everywhere. It now also includes a banner generator as well as button generator. A layout previewer is also built in now.
With it you now get your own subdomain, which wasn't half as hard to code as I expected. It also allows for uploads and images.
If any of the restrictions on storage etc are too small for your project, get in contact with me. I intend to eventually set up a system for paying for upgrades, but chances are right now I'll do it for free, since this is so new.
And for my beta testers that stuck around, (tet and xero mostly, zell for being around as well) thanks a ton, I owe ya. Free account upgrades are open to you peoples
So thanks for giving it a look people, hoping to hear lots from you.
~ Chris
