Forum Layout

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

Oo. That's nice. Perhaps a little sparkle on one side like the fonts in the sidebar?

Horizontal icons with a small border around the edge. Just a line. Hover code if we can find one. When the cursor is placed over it that little info box thingy (great use of language Ali) should read our names. I think perhaps the icon should be of our favourite cat character or a cat that represents us.

[Tiger]

That sounds good. I'm still trying to find a working hover code, although the names appearing when the mouse is hovered over is extraordinarily simple to do and poses no risk of messing anything up. :3

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

Boo! Bad hover codes!
Yay! Name hover codes!

Comments on board organising?

[heartnet]

Wait, Ali...the idea with our names and all sounds cool. But the pics of our fav cat charrie....what is that? Like, where does that go? Sorry, just a little confused x3

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

On the sidebar under staff, we're planning on putting little icons which link to our profiles. Kind of like what we've done with the Clan cats. I reckon they should by icons of our favourite cat or just a random cat related image. On another forum they just had icons that related to the person themselves. Don't know, whatever you guys reckon.

[heartnet]

Oh! Like the random pictures or cat pictures I saw on one of the sites that had the name of the staff person on it and linked to them. I understand now =) And that sounds cool and I thought it looked great on the other site.

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

So do you vote for random pictures (including cats) or just cat pictures?
Also, should we put names of them or not?

To do or not to do. That is the question x3

[Tiger]

Either way'll work for me. x3 If we have just any image, I'll put an Appaloosa (spotted horse). If we do only cats, would it be one of our cats or our favorite cat from the books? Or would it be our pet cat (if we have one)?

[heartnet]

Same, either works.

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

Any of what you listed Tiger. Character, Book, Pet cat. It's all fine.
Where's Lexie? She should have a say in this too.

[Tiger]

Another thing--we should have different colored names for staff. :3 Only Lexie can modify them because she's in charge, though. xD A lot of the other fancy sites have that.

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

-nods-
Lexie will have to do that. Perhaps different colours for different rankings? We should make rankings more official.

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

Jan 8, 2009 19:54:32 GMT -5 á£Îmaý---♫♥ said:

(Stole this from Cat ^^; )


General Info:

Clan Information (including the Rules as sticky posts and naming information)
-The Plot
Noticeboard
-Going Away
-Cat Adoptions
Apps
-Accepted Applications
Naming Help
Admin Board
*Games or OOC chat if wanted

Clan Info:
(Subboards?)
Beachclan
~Apprentices
~ Questions
(These type of thing go under each)
Frostclan
Rainclan
Aquaclan
Art Gallery

Starclan:

The High Cloud
Path of Dreams
*Path of Decision (I was thinking something like this because some cats could choose their place, Starclan or The Place Of No Stars
Place of No Stars
(Maybe we could put Moonpool or Fourtrees with Starclan, because they are both important places for Starclan?)

Beachclan:

General Camp
Dens
The Forest (As general territory all over BeachClan)
The Farm
The Beach (Border with AquaClan again. Greedy AquaClanners xD )
-The Dunes (Patch of flat land, sandy and covered with grasses and other weeds.)
-*The Palm Tree?
-*The Rocks (Not very fancy. Instead of sand, the bay curves around to a coastline of rocks.)
-*Old Boat Shed (Thought this might be an idea as to replace a barn. It would be near the water. Just above the rocks I imagine. It would be a small thing, wooden with the doors padlocked. No windows.)


Frostclan:

General Camp
The Lake
The Fence
Sandy Hollow
The Open Field and The Meadow (possible sub-boards under something else?)

Rainclan:

General Camp
Dens
Tree Grove
The Marsh (Landmark Border with AquaClan)
Abandoned Twoleg Nest
-Secret Garden
-Herb Field
-*Creek?
Creek (With Willow Tree. Everything went squiffy on the map as it was impossible for the river to be both a border for AquaClan and RainClan. Created creek run-off )

Aquaclan:

General Camp
Dens
Wetlands (Only at low tide)
Sand Bar
Rushing River (Personally, I think it should be a Stream)
Willow Tree

Kittypet/Rogues:
Twoleg Nest
Rogue Nest
The Farm (Could move the Crop Fields close with the Farm, because they kinda go together)
The Creek
(Possibly make this two catergorys?)

*No Cat's Land:

The Rogue Nest (Like a general camp. Possible den sub-boards?)
The Hillside (Steep hillside consisting of only long grass or tussocks. Occasional tree and bushes.)
*Other landmarks?

*Twoleg Place:

Gardens (For the cats to play in)
The Farm (Empy paddock, maybe some animals and rusting gear)
-The Barn (Abandoned barn. No longer used. Note: Is reachable from No Cat's Land)
Thunderpath (Leads away from a few holiday houses up to a big township)

Other:
Herb Field
Thunderpath

Also: Where do we put the Four Trees and Moonpool on the map?

[Lexie]

Sorry I haven't been on in awhile.
I like the ideas on the new territory markings but we need more water supply for cats, like Frostclan can have like an old twoleg fountain or something, just so the cats can actually drink. We want this to be realalisic. Wow I can't spell. So, maybe putting some things and such would work.

Cat I do like the idea of random cats, but I think we should use on of our favorite cats or something. Maybe, if not we can use different, like I can give tiger a picture of my cat or something, now that's an idea. Like we also want them to be the same size so it doesn't look sloppy. Like we have a lot of staff on our hands now, but when we bring in more members, all of us will be more helpful. Like we have like 35 members, but only 5 of them are online on a regular day. Hope you can follow along..... Like I think we should have another contest or something to bring in more members, like because of the medicine cat war, that's the only reason people were coming on and now they haven't been seen for a while. I can understand some people have their own forums -pokes Roux- But she is one about three times a week? The new layout is yet more apealing to look at, so people will want to join, instead of looking at something that isn't there. We want to have something apealing, not blinding or something wierd. People are here to roleplay and have fun, and we want them to have a good time. That is mainly our goal right now.

I think we should change fourtrees name, because moonpool is from a totally different territory then fourtrees. Maybe we can change it to something not from the books? If we are created, I think it's almost like taking all four clans from the books, like I like to have to same idea but think outside of that. We should either keep the moonpool or change it's name? I don't care.

O and you know in the books where you can see a map of like a twoleg map right after the clan maps. We could do something like that too, if any chance.

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

FrostClan have access to the Stream/River or whatever...
It's a long walk though so perhaps a little creek cutting through the hillside from a natural spring?

Yes, we should do one of our favourite characters. And I think we're makng them vertical with no names of them? Simple and sweet.
Once we get everything cleared up we should advertise on sites and perhaps people will join. Also, the more active threads we can get the better.

-nods-
I once joined a forum where they had a moontree. It was a plain tree but a creek flowed through it's roots. We should come up with locations which suit the territories here so that it is more personal to the forum. And yes, I'll have to figure out making the map better. Anybody know the size in pixels of the map? I could try and duplicate it...

[Lexie]

I have no idea ali about the pixiles on the map but the Moontree is creative. Really, a creek flowing through it's roots, amazing, whoever though of that is amazing xD;
I'll try to draw something, but it'll probably turn out horrible dX. O well, I can try right?
Ummmm maybe if we add a lot more skins thing, maybe like a skin request, and if it's creative enough we can pick at it.

[Tiger]

I'll take skin requests! n.n Should I set up a seperate board for it?
The dimensions of the map you drew are 783 x 543. I like the ideas of unique stuff...perhaps we could try and get our members to help us with this. DX Just because you don't have five stars by your name doesn't mean that you can influence the way we do everything on the forum.

[Lexie]

Exactly. Most people only have two or three stars, some don't even have any.

I can help you Tiger!! No worries, I can help find some stuff. Also..... maybe we can start something to really get members pooring in...

[Lexie]

Here, I found some affilate button we can use there's a lot:








Then here's some random that I cracked up on:

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

I like the icon with the black cat with yellow eyes. It's pretty.

I have that cat spit icon! It's just so cute.

I'll do some map sketches. Ideas for Fourtrees and Moonpool though? What do you think they should be?

[heartnet]

I like the black one with yellow eyes too, and the one under it! And lol, the one where its "dangerous to go alone, take this!" cracked me up!

And, woah, you know what's cool!? There's this kinda park place where I live. All sorts of different trees and whatnot. Well, there's this one spot i think is cool because it have like...5 or 6 big trees in a circle and one smaller tree with smaller limbs and lighter green leaves in the very middle. And the big trees block everything out, so it's like secluded. Its awesome!

[Lexie]

It could be like an old abandom twoleg fountain that every cat who arrives at it for the gathering takes a sip, in like for the love of Starclan, like it will be filled with rain water, then the leaders can sit on the top for fourtrees?

There could also be a moonrock that once the moon is directly above it, so moonhigh, it shine up on it and it brightens the whole place? idk just throwing out ideas.
We can also do a tree that has huge leaves, but it is a low lying tree, then there is like leaves missing on some of the outer in the middle, so they could maybe see the leaders? Then star-like rocks which can be marbles that twoleg kits left, but they can thinnk that starclan brought it to them?

[lord of all yellow mice]

I feel like I missed everything, but I'm sorry if you were talking about me with the whole inactive thing. ^^;
I'd have liked to have helped, but it seems you've got near everything sorted out already.

[Lexie]

I'm sorry Loaym, here I'll pm you, and I can see what you can do, or if you want to do anything! =]

[á£Îmaý---♫♥]

But for all those things Lexie, they would have to travel near the Twoleg Place which would be an absolute no-no in the warrior code.

Some pictures I though could be used for a Moonpool or a Moon-something rather;
aj07.deviantart.com/art/Memories-of-Solitude-64143074
dmcrae.deviantart.com/art/F-o-r-e-s-t-71912547
And we could easily do a Moontree. An old tree sitting in the middle of some water somewhere. There were a few pictures on DA showing a tree sitting in Lake Wanaka x'D

[Lexie]

Ali has a point, but also we have a problem with finding a home for all that. We can easily use the moontree. We can also use the no cats land easily.

[lord of all yellow mice]

I like the Moontree idea; it's really pretty. ^_^
To share tongues with StarClan, would they simply need to touch it like they do the Moonstone?

[Lexie]

Hey if for the admin team, I made an icon for an example:

[Tiger]

This is a bit off subject, but it's a suggestion for the forum layout...
Should we make a seperate board to move the accepted apps into and sub-boards within that board for each clan? It would make keeping track of everyone so much easier. ^-^;

[heartnet]

Yeah! That would so make it easier for leader's to find open warriors for apprentices and Gatherings and what not!!