Renamed and moved a bunch of the thumbnail images for the ICE Product Lists in preparation for creation of the Database. Hopefully it didn’t break anything.

One of my long term plans for the ICE Product list is to move from being a set of static pages to being database driven.

A bit of technical background on the site, I’m currently using Wordpress on my site, although most of the page entries other than the ones on the main page are still either standalone php pages or Wordpress Pages that just contain an include statement that pulls in a standalone page.

Ideally I want to get to the point where someone using the site can pick which items they want to see on a list (i.e. All Rolemaster, RM2, English only, etc) and how they want it sorted (Product number, release date ascending or descending, alphabetically, etc.
It would also be good if they could choose which information would show on the list

Then they can generate a customized product list and still be able to click a link to get to the full product information page.

(more…)

It’s time to add some information to the Product List for Rolemaster Classic. Should also update my “What is Rolemaster” article to include a section on it. The choices are to add the items to the existing RM2 lists or to create a new RMC section. I’m leaning towards creating a new section, but if anyone has an opinion on it, feel free to post a comment.
When I do the update to the “What is Rolemaster” article, I should also log onto Wikipedia and add that section there since a good portion of that article was derived from the “What is Rolemaster” article.

Still looking for a good plugin for Wordpress that might be able to handle the Product pages as a database but haven’t found anything I like yet, will probably end up doing it as a seperate php-mysql set of pages. Any suggestions are welcome.

From the April 12th ICE Newsletter:

Spell Law:

I am very happy to announce that the Spell Law pdf is up and ready for sale at $21.Now, this is just a Beta version, and is missing a couple of things, but the final version will be done within a week or so. However, you do not have to wait that long. Visit the ICE forums — http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=3791.0 — for more information about the Spell Law Beta. You can purchase the PDF itself from the following link:

http://store.ironcrown.com/detail.jsp?itemId=2663143&category=162528

It is a beefy book at 280 pages and I think you will find that it honors the roots of the product while improving it greatly.