darkcityproductions.com VALIS pages REPAIR / RENEWAL / UPDATE?

Hey friends,

I been random and all over the place about this so I decided to start a new topic asking for help and see where it goes.

Here is my idea.

I would like to go in a at the very least fix what's broken on the old Valis Pages I made so many years ago... as well as go into the turbo duo pages and do the same.  I am not really up to today's web design standards, so I am going to keep it old school.

My idea if time allows and motivation keeps, is to add new content.

My question for you guys.  

Is this worth my time? Does anyone care about my old pages anymore?  Or has someone else made a much better extensive set of Valis pages over the years (which wouldn't surprise me).. a page that's still online?   What should I do?  Would you guys be willing to help out?

If I decide to update I would like to collect every bit of fan art possible, and other media... dump it all on my hard drive and start using said media to use for updating the pages.. then upload the goodies.  Where do I begin?

I need to go over years of posts and links to find everything...  there is a bit of gaming history that's happened too....

Can someone help me summarize?

Let me see if I can place in order what was released Valis related over the past.. forever.

Cell phone game release
X Valis
Valis Complete Plus

Is that all? Was there any fan releases or attempts to make the game?
I would like to do my best to get myself up to date and if I can, do the same to the page... I found awsome pages like this http://www.illusionware.it/main/Valis%20Special/Valis_The%20Fantasm_Soldier_Special.html
that do most of the work for me... but I think it would be nice to get my own page updated...

I need your help!

Any suggestions and info would be helpful... I am all ears.  I can't make any promises, but I am motivated to do something at the moment.

Here is the current state of the pages!
Minor updates and fixes!
http://electrohaze.com/duo/valis

I have a huge collection of Valis thingies (soft copies).
Screenshots, videos, sounds, music, fan-art, games, fanfictions, etc.

I want to make all of that available to everyone, plus adding a good search engine, so people can search & filter easily. For example: search for media that is relevant to "Cham" only

Technology rapidly keeps changes.
Currently people using Instagram/Whatsapp/Snapchat/Telegram/Twitter/Facebook and many others.

If we want to gather all our collections into one place, it has to be on:

- Reliable server (with huge space, fast response)
>> if server would go down for any reason, we should be able have automated regular backup
- Easy to add/edit/delete for admins
- Central place. Currently we have the forums here and we have deviantart group, but every now and then technology and trends goes to somewhere else, it's hard to keep up!

I'm willing to re-open my website again, but maybe sometime in the future but thank you for encouraging all of us

evilReiko wrote:

I have a huge collection of Valis thingies (soft copies).
Screenshots, videos, sounds, music, fan-art, games, fanfictions, etc.

I want to make all of that available to everyone, plus adding a good search engine, so people can search & filter easily. For example: search for media that is relevant to "Cham" only

Technology rapidly keeps changes.
Currently people using Instagram/Whatsapp/Snapchat/Telegram/Twitter/Facebook and many others.

If we want to gather all our collections into one place, it has to be on:

- Reliable server (with huge space, fast response)
>> if server would go down for any reason, we should be able have automated regular backup
- Easy to add/edit/delete for admins
- Central place. Currently we have the forums here and we have deviantart group, but every now and then technology and trends goes to somewhere else, it's hard to keep up!

I'm willing to re-open my website again, but maybe sometime in the future but thank you for encouraging all of us

I can provide a server to store all the files for everyone. It has unlimited storage space, but not unlimited monthly transfer... I don't think I will ever exceed it so it's ok.

As for a search option, maybe a simple google searchbar that looks in our own directory of images?  This would be the last step for me... I want to just get all the images in one place.

evilReiko, would you like to work on this project with me?
I have been gathering images here and there, but I bet you have more..
it's going to be a challenge to sort them all.  
Would you like FTP access?  You can upload all the images to my server..

It really depends on what you want to contribute to this project.  
I am offering to update my site and add the content to it.  
I am not exactly sure how to make image galleries these days..(but I am sure I can figure it out if I research it)

What about just an open directory of images everyone can just browse and download?
Easy for starters, and we can get all the images online super fast!
Also, it will be easy to add more images to it as well...

Also, can you link me directly to the deviantart group listing please?
Is it cool to pull all the images from there, then upload those to my server?

If you would like, I'll compress everything into 1 zip file and upload it to your server by FTP. Send me the credentials by email: evilreiko at gmail dot com

Valis DeviantArt Group:
http://valisfantasmsoldier.deviantart.com/

Well, it's easy to upload them to a server. The difficultly is how to maintain it.
For instance, how will we be able to add/delete images and everyone knows this the latest version of the collection?

That's why I'm working hard on my website to provide these functions

For now, lets get all the files together..

I am going to think of a good way to share the content, maybe we can maintain it together?

I will send you an email now with login info!

Hi again darkman!
Alright so I don't forget to do this, I'll compress everything Valis-related into one zip file and upload it to my google drive, then I'll share the download link with you. (This is a reminder to myself LOL     )

I'll hopefully re-open my website, and try to centralize all the Valis-related into one place (sometime in the future).

evilReiko wrote:

Hi again darkman!
Alright so I don't forget to do this, I'll compress everything Valis-related into one zip file and upload it to my google drive, then I'll share the download link with you. (This is a reminder to myself LOL     )

I'll hopefully re-open my website, and try to centralize all the Valis-related into one place (sometime in the future).

I did create an FTP account on my server and emailed you the login information... didn't you get it? Awaiting the filez!

Im years late but yeah i like the new update. However a darkmode would be a good option.

How is that project going?

I totally forgot all about this forum! lol

I should like update my old pages!