The following would be really awesome. colinpoh is our main website designer, but he's been away a bit so I thought I'd post this publicly in case anyone else knowledgable would like to pitch in:

(1) We're consuming a huge amount of bandwidth (8gigs/month!), which I'd like to keep in check if possible and in a way that doesn't sacrifice the quality of our awesome website. Freit mentioned sending a smaller version of our banner to colin, is our banner smaller now?

(2) Deity chart to point new players to is still desired

(3) Here's a big one: I want to automate our application process. I'd like it so players can enter their application into a form on our website, and that information will then be automatically posted in a thread that the DMs can view and access. We can review the information there, and the voting options (approve, approve with modification, reject, and veto) would all automatically be there. Players could also "check in" on the status of the application to see how many votes have been made and whether it's still "pending" or "approved" or "rejected." There should also be a way for a DM to change the status of the application from approved/rejected/pending that's different from the actual votes.

How hard would this be?

(1) Things are caching correctly, so the only thing I could point out is that there are two versions of that top logo people are downloading from the server. When viewing the forums, it's a different picture compared to the once on the rest of the website. (rightclick it, properties, then look at filesize/location)

(2) A simple chart can be easily made with http tables. In a simple form, it wouldn't be anything fancy: interaction would probably be limited to clickable links that hotlink to the fuller description of the individual dieties, but it would definately be functional.

(3) The automation here would be the tricky part, as I'm not sure of the tools phpBB offers for using form information to format a forums post, but I'm certain it would be possible. Someone would probably have to scan the phpBB website for a tutorial on how to do such a thing. Something else that could be done is to have a form to fill out on the website that sends an email off to Escapefromunderdark@gmail.com, but it would obviously bypass the features you're looking for. For the rest of your idea about the application process, again, it would be largely limited on the functionality of phpBB. Granting a user rights to view one single message in an already private forum may be difficult. Automatic notification would probably only come from PM's, but I know that that system is already a little limited. It might be worthwhile to bounce ideas off other people, so we can get to something close that you had in mind.

Alstromeria is working on a deity chart.

https://efupw.com/efu1-forum/topic/16/1636/deity-chart/index.html

I can make an ASP form for the application process if you want. I'd need a small bit of space on a public webserver running IIS somewhere if someone wants to generously step forward and donate it (my own webserver is now down permanently), and we can <iframe> it on one of the html pages of the site proper.

prestonhunt I can make an ASP form for the application process if you want. I'd need a small bit of space on a public webserver running IIS somewhere if someone wants to generously step forward and donate it (my own webserver is now down permanently), and we can <iframe> it on one of the html pages of the site proper.

1) Once I get my PC (hopefully next week), I'll redo the graphics so it's smaller in terms of filesizes. In my laziness and poor planning, I made 2 seperate headers, 1 for the website and 1 for the forums. I'm planning on doing a small website revamp once my new rig arrives. Freit sent me the smaller banner, yes, but I've yet to upload it.

2) Alstromeria is working on a deity chart.

3) I had plans to implement a form on the website for applications. I had extensive discussions with TroveLord about it, since he made an application form for another PW server website. It's not impossible. But our current hosting lacks script support (if i'm not mistaken). Unfortunately I lack the scripting knowledge of ASP and the sorts. I'm only a HTML junkie. So if Preston's up to making an ASP form and sending me the template, I can easily implement it into the website.