So we have a WordPress installed, with the theme everyone wanted. Now comes the next stage of customization: deciding on look and feel.
There are several things that will need to be decided with the new WP arrangement; getting these sorted out soon would be wise.
1. Site subtitle. This is the "Just another WordPress site" tagline that appears with the title. When deciding on this, bear in mind that this is starting to shift the emphasis of the site; we may even want to consider changing the site's name from the RPG Duelling League to something else (like Data Library). Not saying what should or shouldn't be done, just something to keep in mind.
2. Blogroll. The title can be changed, but this is a list of links that will appear on the sidebar. It's best to keep one around, but the question is "what sites are we linking?" We can link member-affiliated sites such as gensokyo.org or Tide's blog, or we can link to more utilitarian sites such as GameFAQs. Coming up with specific links is only part of this question; the other part is "what's our justification for having links/what makes them important to link?"
3. Site widgets. These are the side subsections like the Blogroll or Meta sections (Meta will be going away soonish). There are a bunch of standard widgets, such as a calendar to show when posts have taken place, a category tree for searching posts, a longer-range calendar to show posts from a particular month, etc. There are also custom widgets that can be added, such as a poll widget (see gensokyo.org main page for some examples); you can browse through
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/widget to get an idea of what's available. Adding new widgets isn't hard, but it's best not to clutter up the site with a bunch of 'shiny'-looking stuff unless you think it'll actually see use.
For this overall, we'll need to consider what widgets we want to display, and whether we want to add anything to the standard set.
4. Site graphics. The overall header graphic and the widget headers use a custom graphic (the 'sunrise over Earth'-looking thing); we can change these to use our own graphics, but in order to do so we'll obviously need graphics to use. Deciding on whether to change these and what to change them to is also a need.
5. Post content. There's been some work on this in other topics, but you'll need to decide on what posts will contain (such as reviews, news about stat topic updates, whatever you think is important/valuable for people to know about) and get people ready/willing to write those posts.
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The answers to the first four questions will probably need my input/help in implementing, as currently I'm the only administrator on the WordPress (and thus the only person who can make changes to the look and feel of the overall blog). Number 5 is purely up to you guys; the only thing you'll need me for is to set up the folks who will be the editors, and thus have the ability to approve or reject post content from the folks actually writing it.
With that said, let's get some questions settled.
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