Member Administration…..

User Admin.  

User administration should be what everything else Falls Around. Now there are multiple ways you can go about this and I am going to give you examples of each and then further go into the component Level.

1. Single Site User Admin……

The goal for this type of site is ease of use integration and cost effectiveness.  We will start with the elements of a User. (All of these elements save a few will go for both types of sites) Some user elements I will deal with in the site design section.

1. Each user have a unique Identifier for game of Choice. In the Application setup the admin should be able to List the games the guild plays. Which in turn would display Check Boxes to the user, allowing them to select one or multiple games they are a part of.  They should also be flagged with a Join date and this field should be editable.

2. Users Should have to specify in the application which is there Default game(If a part of more than one game) This will allow GP to Make there starting News that of there Default game. It will also allow all the other games they are a part of to show up in a link box for news as a secondary game.
   
   
3. From the get go Customizable Rank system(Exclusive from the actual site administration ranking system) should be put in place. This will allow guilds to create there own rank structure. 
   
   This can be done in two ways. First you could have a rank system that is independent of the GP ranking system. This would then just display a secondary title. This would create a drop down in the members admin popup that would allow the GM to select a title for the user. 
   
   The second way for this to be implemented would follow the above guidline but implement the ability to assign GP ranks to customized Ranks. This would allow Admins to assign GP rank 3 to say 5 of there ranks. It just allows for more customization. A bit petty I know but Ranks are big in a lot of guilds.
   
   
4. Sponsorship System this is a nice feature that for a lot of large guilds with probation periods(And most of the large guilds have them) are able to create a sponsorship list. This list contains people from each of there games who are actually allowed to sponser someone into the guild for membership.  Again this would create a drop down menu on the application for the user to select from so that the game masters know this is not a random join and can check with the sponser if something is questionable.
   
   
5. Still on signup. The ability to have an Accept Rules and Regulation button In the application with a link to a guilds Rule set and lore is something I have seen in a few of my friends larger guilds.  They feel that it is a critical step since often a user will signup without reading. So having a link they have to click on and scroll all the way thru the rules before letting them choose accept is a way that some make sure that there members read the rules at least once.
6. The ability to Modify Participation points manually, and add Participation points to the medal system. This gives the admin and or game masters to add points for in game accomplishments besides just posting to a forum.

2. Multi Site Guilds..

This is where the user wants Multiple different sites Not styles. (Figured since you said multiple styles would kill the idea we go with multi sites. ) Some people ARE willing to pay for multiple looks and to be honest I like it too although after reading my ideas it may be easier to do styles

a.  Site Inter-Dependency… Each guild no matter what has to have a Primary or Parent page.  Unlike the alliance system though to integrate users I believe the easiest way to do that would be to Register all of the other GP sites Owned by the guild with the Parent. Once this was done it would automatically integrate the User list from the parent with these sites. (Note: This may wreak havoc with your top sites lists). By doing this either you choose one of two paths. A all members of the parent list are sent down and registered with the children as well.. Or the easier way the Parent guild takes over as the User list for all sites registered with the Primary page.

b. User Interface. Again at registration the User would have to select the Primary guild. However in this model they are re-directed to there primary site page…(This should be able to be over-ridden in the control panel to force all start pages to be the Primary guild page.)

c. In this model each guild within the guild may want a separate rank from the parent guild. This is what the title field should be used for. Admins should be able to set up the user titles in a list and just have a dropdown to assign titles in user admin.

d. The ability for the Parent site to do a Forced 1 read message. To explain  Joe user comes to the site and only likes to read the forums for the guilds SWG chapter. So he bookmarks the link there. This means Joe never ever reads the main page. The system should allow a SUPER ADMIN only to create a news article Or forum entry you decide which and mark it for One Read only. Once this flag is set the next time any user including Joe will be forced to the page with this message before doing anything else no matter what link on the site they follow.  This is a big thing for some admins of Larger guilds whose members never read anything but the forums for there game.

I put most of the things in here I thought you did not have. If there are any gaps I still have my original layouts.  As for other member stuff like roster and What not I am putting that under site Layout.

Roster View

In the Roster I think you have to account for multiple views I will list what I Think is needed.

1. View By Member.
2. View by Game.
3. View by Rank (Applicable if you do user ranks)
4. By Raid Standing
5. By Participation points (Admin only view.)

In General Roster views are very important. For people to see what’s up who is where in what game.

This would have to directly tie into the user flags that get set when the user registers and select the games they are playing. The user must also be allowed to specify new games as they come along.

Roster view by game could check against the rosters and you could do sort by fields so if you set the roster View to view by rank you could sort by game. This means that while the roster view is a set view you can still sort by different components such as rank, level, start date.

 

USER COMPONENTS

SITE LAYOUT

News. 

Events.

Links, Categorized Links, Info Sections, etc. 

Multiple Styles

Selection Process. 

Forums. 

FORUM SHARING.

FORUM CUSTOMIZATION

MODERATION.

IMAGE/Script Hosting.

INTEGRATION (Game info)