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vong
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:23 pm    Post subject: The Star Wars Databank Reply with quote

So, I have wanted to buy my own domain for a while now and recently bit the bullet and bought my own domain with a hosting plan. Over the last few months I have been putting together a website idea that had been jumping around my brain for at least a year now. Some of you have already seen this in my early stages of debugging and it is my no means completed yet, but I think it shows what I want it to become.

I will need your help to make it a good source for Star Wars and Star Wars D6 information, so If you see something that I am missing (or something is wrong) on there, let me know and we will get it running. If there is anything you want to add to the site, again, let me know and I will see what I can do to get it up there!

I have been working with Gry for some time now trying to take his PDF books and put them into a database. The idea originally came from the Star Wars Character Creator that I made a while back, but has evolved into a web based application. Up to date I have only added the species book, but am looking at starting one of the other books soon.

Right now you can only search species by name, but I will add the ability to search by other criteria as we move forward.

So without further ado, I present to you the Star Wars Databank!

http://databank.yvong.com/index.php

Please provide feed back to help make this resource useful for everyone.

In the near future, I will be asking select members of the community here to help me manage this resource, so hopefully there will be a few more people you can talk with to get changes happening on the site faster.

Thanks for taking the time to look Smile

[PS: all the stuff from vong.unbrokenfellowship.com has been moved over to the new host, so update your quick links!]
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're doing a great job, but I think the tools section is broken. They aren't working properly for me.
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vong
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks.

you happened to click on the 1 link that didnt work.. fixed now Razz
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Gry Sarth
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great job, Vong. Can't wait to see this thing fully operational. This will be great!

But yeah, I tried the translator and it took me to a 402 error.
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hisham
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks great, Vong. I tried typing "Shard" and out came the Shard stats and write-up.
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vong
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gry Sarth wrote:
Great job, Vong. Can't wait to see this thing fully operational. This will be great!

But yeah, I tried the translator and it took me to a 402 error.


wow, that one file took the wind outta my sails thats for sure!

tested it and it works now, so give it another shot

I think i want to do Force Skills next for a secondary reason. I want to convert the Force Skills book into a summary type thing, so that multiple skills can fit on one page Smile Been running into game slow downs with force skills in my jedi campaign recently Razz
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Draylo Star
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe somthing like your species lists for planets would be really cool
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vong
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just checked on the site and was QUITE shocked to learn the following:

This site has served over 1GB of files in the last month! glad to see people are using it Smile

I thought of a quick and dirty way to put most of the informaiton up there, so I am going to try to find time in the near future to put the other books in the searchable database Smile
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Whill
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cool site!
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YodaWI
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice work. The site will definitely come in handy!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, this looks like it's going to be wildly useful. Thanks for building the website.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:21 pm    Post subject: Re: The Star Wars Databank Reply with quote

vong wrote:
So without further ado, I present to you the Star Wars Databank!

http://databank.yvong.com/index.php

Please provide feed back


May I suggest that you rename the site something us? The encyclopedic portion of the official StarWars.com is also called the Star Wars Databank. Lucas has historically been tolerant of unlicensed websites that are strictly non-profit, but there is no reason to push it.
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