Zanko:
I would love to help, but I have a 50 to 60 hour job and no technical qualities at all. I like to continue donating prizes and can take on simple tasks, but unfortunately nothing more. Sadly, I just don’t have the time. 
:hashut
Admiral:
Your contest donations and link compilation work are of great help already, Zanko! Thanks a lot for being such a pillar of the community. 
Most understandable as to time restraints!
Also, all manner of new content creations are likewise most valuable for the site. New rules, campaign packs, background, artworks - you name it, for whatever setting or wargame.
So if anyone have got some ideas floating around, then be more than welcome to spill them out here. :hat off
tjub:
Im pretty much on the same level as you guys regarding technical qualities Im afraid.
Working on some content towards Kings of War, Vanguard, 15mm scaled Hobby stuff.
Uther the unhinged:
Sadly just the wrong side of 50 to have any technical skill (CDO IS my social media presence) and my organisational skills are infamous at work. We need beardlings really.
Zanko:
We need beardlings really.Admiral and Tjub are our beardlings! :P
Uther the unhinged
Jaroloth:
Hello,
I just stumbled upon this page due to being linked here from a comment in the azgorh facebook group page I also enjoy the ‘atmosphere’ of the forums. My occupation is an application developer but during college I took web development and web design and it wouldn’t take me much to dust off cob webs so speak and edit the html code here and there and perhaps javascript if this site is structured as such. Some web hosting services are easier to customize in regards to both front end and back-end code than others.
I will admit I do get very busy with work and life at times as I’m sure many of you do but I would be open to taking a look “under the hood” here to help grow this community.
I’m just now starting this faction but I can already tell the community surrounding it is special. It reminds me of the good things about the seraphon(lizardmen) community.
Feel free to message me or email me at: codyj1989@hotmail.com
Have a great day/night everyone!
Admiral:
Thanks a lot for the offer, Jaroloth! We’ll note it down, talk it over (not lest the tech-bits) and get back to you in due time. In the meanwhile, please feel at home here, and show us your minis. 
Yes, the Seraphon/Lizardmen community is a good comparison. Creative hobby hubs both.
Cheers!
Admiral:
As per cornixt’s proposal in Staff, we’ll transfer all the front page resources into pinned and locked threads that can be kept updated continuously with ease. Stopgap measures have become permanent, so let’s do like the Roman army of late antiquity did and adapt gear to more rustic conditions to better meet the demands of our time with scantier resources than we once had.
We can archive the front page resources on the front page as well as per tjub’s suggestion: Both for back-up, and for future possibilities of revived front page galleries.
So in the meanwhile we’ll run with sticky threads. Do you have any wishes for where the different front page resources should be placed on the forum?
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We’re mainly concerned with Site, although ideas for Gallery and Conversions under Forum are also welcome: Should they be archived as well, and perhaps appended to the big image salvage thread from 2017 on the forum?
Or should we seek to revive them with new conversions and logs?
I’m thinking both of Xander’s Hobby Guide articles could be transfered as sticky threads to the Tutorials subsection.
Where should Golden Hat be moved to? Perhaps Introductions and CDO Information as a way of keeping our shop front stuffed with goodies?
I’ll also take the chance to upload all Artisan’s Contest gold winners into their own sticky thread, and do likewise for Scribe’s Contest (SC hall of fame at last, muahahaha!). Please tell if you want them somewhere else than Introductions and CDO Information.
Should Word of Hashut/Online Magazine go to Introductions and CDO Information as well? With (2008-2012) as a caveat in the title until we get new Word of Hashut issues produced.
As to Fan-Made Army Lists: Where to? Introductions & CDO Information, or Rules Development?
Should as much as possible be carried over to Introductions and CDO Information? Including the Hobby Guides?
Input wanted, folks! Where do you want it all?
The end result will be less glorious than a maintained polished front page, but it will also be a lot easier to maintain and hopefully much more glorious than an unmaintained front page. Adapt and do the best with the situation for the time being, and maybe raise ambitions again in the future whenever we get new Staff with knowhow who wish to take it up a notch.
Admiral:
The overhaul involving a slow transfer of front page material to sticky threads on the forum has begun with Chaos Dwarfs Through the Ages placed in CDO Information.
Next step will likely be to set up one sticky thread each for Golden Hat, Artisan’s Contest and Scribe’s Contest. When checking the old untended Golden Hat compilation from the front page, I noticed that the compilation included all entries from each contest.
How would you like to see the sticky thread contest compilations to look like?
Hall of fame with Gold-Silver-Bronze entries only, or featuring all entries from each contest?
Each contest in the sticky threads will of course have a link to the voting thread in question, so it will still be easy to check the rest of the entries through the contest “library” so to say, even for a Hall of Fame setup.
Going into this planned endeavour, my plan was to run limited Hall of Fame threads for the contest winners (linking to each contest as mentioned), but should we include all entries instead like we’ve done on the front page all along?
Your call: This is all done for your sake.
How would you like the contest summaries to look like now that they will be featured in one single thread each?
tjub:
Regarding GH, all of them with the winners most visible. Maybe 1,2,3 => rest.
Admiral:
As we currently do on the front page, then. All included.
How about Artisan’s Contest? Same there? And Scribe’s?
We can by the way make new front page entries when all of this is finished. Archive the old ones as you proposed, tjub, and then install new links leading to all the new pinned threads.
Jasko:
As we currently do on the front page, then. All included.Generally I would vote to do it similar there, include as much as possible.
How about Artisan's Contest? Same there? And Scribe's?
We can by the way make new front page entries when all of this is finished. Archive the old ones as you proposed, tjub, and then install new links leading to all the new pinned threads.
Admiral
cornixt:
Lowest overhead is this format:
1. Convert a Battle for Skull Pass Dwarf Warrior into a Chaos Dwarf
Announcement - Entrants - Winners
2. Convert a Model to represent Rykarth The Unbreakable
Announcement - Entrants - Winners
Given the number of competitions and entries, including too many pictures per contest will make it pretty overwhelming. Requiring too much preparation also makes it a bigger chore to their already long list of activities for running a contest. Maybe the three winners as thumbnails would be okay.
Admiral:
Good idea Cornixt! We’ll follow that format for the text.
And it is precisely the overwhelming/endless sense I’d like to steer away from with a Hall of Fame approach. We already have Carven Images (CDO 2007-2017) for the overwhelming feel. 
So top 3 only could be fine (but I’d like to hear more opinions on this; 3, or all?), with everything else easily reachable through the links. But the winners will not come as thumbnails. That’s too much work hassle. is more smooth to implement, and view. Plus many large contest entry images cannot be uploaded as attachments in the first place.
Perhaps we should include all entries, but put the non-winners within
brackets? They don't work on CDO's current software, but they will work whenever and if we ever get to update or migrate to a new site. And then all treasures must be easily available to copy over, without losing anything. The more I think about CDO's future needs, the more I think we'd better take this chance to salvage
tjub:
I leave that up to you or whoever does the job. More is better, thought remember its a hobby and should be fun. So don’t dig too deep, eh?
Anyway, Im sure it will be better than the current state with broken or outdated links. You have done a great job so far Admiral!
Jasko:
Ah yes, well being prepared for a potential Day X when all this content has to be moved is definitely a good motivation. And them I'd agree with you, if work anyway has to be done to recover old content now, then it should be done completely and in a way that such a move happens without loss of anything.
Good idea Cornixt! We'll follow that format for the text.
And it is precisely the overwhelming/endless sense I'd like to steer away from with a Hall of Fame approach. We already have Carven Images (CDO 2007-2017) for the overwhelming feel. ;)
So top 3 only could be fine (but I'd like to hear more opinions on this; 3, or all?), with everything else easily reachable through the links. But the winners will not come as thumbnails. That's too much work hassle.is more smooth to implement, and view. Plus many large contest entry images cannot be uploaded as attachments in the first place.
Perhaps we should include all entries, but put the non-winners withinSpoilerall the entries, in all the contests for ease of potential future migration needs.brackets? They don't work on CDO's current software, but they will work whenever and if we ever get to update or migrate to a new site. And then all treasures must be easily available to copy over, without losing anything. The more I think about CDO's future needs, the more I think we'd better take this chance to salvage
We should build not only for the moment here, but for the future. To not lose any real content from our past.
When the time comes, we'll make sure we lose not a single treasure if we need to transfer to a new https site.
Thanks a lot for the offer of help, Jasko! I'll think it over when preparing this. Getting back to you then.
Cheers
Admiral
cornixt:
I used the existing Golden Hat page to create this thread:
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=17860
Still needs ten more added on.
Admiral:
Great work cornixt! This will help, solid start. :hat off
I’ll call you in when it all starts, Jasko. Just pondering standard formats and filing stuff.
Cheers!
tjub:
cornixt: Looks great so far!
Zanko:
Great work Cornixt! :hat off
:hashut