Marauders: The Story so far....

Well ok so I was a litte shall we say vauge before. So lets fill in the blanks a bit. My main project as of late is The Marauders website. However, where did it some from? Whats it for? Well, here we go, hope this clears things up.

Many, many years ago me and three friends came up with the wacky concept of four girls who can control the elements and fight the evil pigeon mafia(no I'm not joking, really, evil pigeons). How we came to this I won't go into but it kinda grew over time and I got the urge to write it down somewhere and having no printer ink at the time to show it off and being a web designer I decided to get a website and domain for it.


Version 1
The first layout was as basic as possible as I didn't have much time between this and uni work so I took a simple mix of div layers and built each page in a static HTML fashion until I had a bit more time to devote to the project.


Version 2
Next came a slightly more advanced attempt. The website circles between four different stylesheets using java script, but all four have the same basic principle. A large graphic background image with a left aligned column with transparent edges giving a torn paper look. However the site still remained static


Version 3
So by now I was utterly bored with university, so it was time to step it up. The story was growing and by now had hit around eight to nine novel-sized chapters so it needed some kind of base of operations. So, taking a new layout that was cleaner and simpler, I set to work building a PHP content management system. This also incorperated an email notification system for my friends so I could tell them via email that a new chapter had been released.


Version 4
So by now I'd built up a brand for the site. It had a recongnised logo and four defined colours which coicided with the four elements. When I moved over to version 4 I decided that I wanted feedback for my work instead of bugging people for it. So I built a comment system and patched it into the existing PHP, giving my friends an easy way to tell me what they think.



Version 5
And so that brings us to the present, version 5. After a long time laying dormant whilst the final proof of the story is being proof-read ready for publishing, I thought it might be a good time to re-evaluate. So now a major task lies ahead. To take the functionality and place it into ASP.NET format possibly adding more. So for a rundown of this versions features so far, take a step into the next post (when I've written it of course - which I'm hoping will be moring!)