15 Dec
Free World of Warcraft Wordpress Theme
Posted by JohnnyLocke as Wordpress Themes | 0 Comments
In here it uses a metallic color and it really looks realistic indeed. The use of silver and metallic light green is really an effective combination. It’s not that much of a design but still it looks intimidating and cool. And the use of the two colors makes it looks organized and futuristic in appearance. Overall the design is creative and organized in terms of its color combination and arrangement of design. This design suits for die hard gamers out there and even for gaming clan site.
In here it uses a metallic color and it really looks realistic indeed. The use of silver and metallic light green is really an effective combination. It’s not that much of a design but still it looks intimidating and cool. And the use of the two colors makes it looks organized and futuristic in appearance. Overall the design is creative and organized in terms of its color combination and arrangement of design. This design suits for die hard gamers out there and even for gaming clan site.
21 Apr
Staying Organized As A Clan Leader
Posted by JohnnyLocke as Articles, Clan Managment, Website Managment | 0 Comments
Running a gaming clan can get overwhelming for just about anyone. If you pile your clan responsibilities on top of school or work, sometimes it can get down right impossible. The key to dealing with this problem is making the most of your time. If you only have one hour a day to work on clan duties, make sure you work for that hour instead of becoming sidetracked with other things. Personally, I have a hard time staying on track, so there are a few things I like to do to keep myself headed in the right direction:
To-Do Lists. Write everything down. Have a plan before you go in. If you take care of all the thinking ahead of time, you can cut out the awkward “Ok….what now?” waiting periods in between different tasks. Make your to-do lists semi detailed, but don’t go overboard with it. Give yourself a basic outline of what you want to accomplish for that day.
Establish Priorities. Make sure whatever your working on is the absolute best thing you could be working on at the time. If what your doing at the time isn’t going to benefit you the most, change it up. Save the less important jobs for when you have a bit of free time.
Keep A Notebook (And up to date) You’d be surprised how much keeping a notebook can help. Just to have all of your thoughts there in front of you sometimes saves you alot of mental stress when you’re trrying to get things done. Write anything of any importance in the notebook.
Of course staying organized is really more of a personality trait than anything else, but if you’re trying to make strides in the right direction then there are always things you can do to help yourself out.
18 Apr
First Wave of Free Clan Templates Are Up!
Posted by JohnnyLocke as Announcements | 0 Comments
A few days ago we put our first round of our free gaming/clan templates up. We have several for both Starcraft and Call of Duty. Hopefully everyone takes a look. Keep in mind that we have many, many more on the way.
We are also still looking for designers who wouldn’t mind throwing some templates our way. If you’d like to become part of Clan-Man staff, please email me at RBozeman2@gmail.com.
Thanks everyone.
Mass leavings will always be a headache in any gaming clan leaders life. Sometimes it’s your own fault, sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. Either way, the problem persists and you shouldn’t spend your time kicking yourself over mistakes made, you should spend your time trying to correct the situation. A mass leaving will almost always be triggered by one person, or one group of people becoming upset with the current situation, and leaving to create their own clan. Of course, the idea of a high rank or other percs will excite members, and cause them to leave.
Don’t panic. Remember that these things happen alot, and most of the time they don’t work out and you’ll have those same members back within a few weeks. Most clans fail within their first month. But don’t just sit back and let your members desert the entity you’ve put so much time into!
Negotiate. Find out what their problem is, and what they feel the necessary changes should be. If it’s within reason, honor it. If it’s not, don’t, and tell them why it can’t be done. Try to have your members see things from your perspective.
Announce something. Sounds ridiculous, but trust me it isn’t. Right as the mass leaving begins, or just before, announce something of importance. Maybe it’s a new co-leader. Maybe you set up a committee to help implement the clan’s will. Doesn’t matter. Just do something to let your members know you are not going to sit back and let the clan fall apart because of a disagreement. This will also let your remaining members who weren’t part of the mass leaving know that it didn’t discourage you too much.
Turn Recruiting Up a Notch. With members leaving, you need new incoming members. You want it to seem to your on-the-fence members like the clan didn’t miss a beat. If they are considering leaving, and the clans situation worsens, you can bet they’re going to leave.
The bottom line is not to be discouraged. To start a clan from the ground up is a much harder task then dealing with a migration of members, and you’ve already been there, done that, right? Stay level headed and never become angry with those who are leaving. In fact, I like to go out of my way to let them know they are always welcome back.
07 Apr
Keeping your gaming clan interesting
Posted by JohnnyLocke as Articles, Clan Managment | 0 Comments
If there’s one thing that can really sink a gaming clan it’s monotony. Members generally join gaming clans to break away from the monotony of gaming alone, and join in hopes of finding new partners to game with, and a new place to call home. But what happens when a member starts to feel those same feelings toward their new situation? They change soroundings. People (especially the young gamer crowd) are not always so easily entertained. Your first challenge is gathering the members. The second challenge is keeping them. Here are a few ideas for shaking things up:
Tournaments (Prized preferably)
Tournaments can really shake things up and make them exciting for your members. Whether you offer a small cash prize, a medal, or just recognition on your website, it gives something for your members to do that they don’t see every day. Try to switch up the types of tournaments you run as well. Maybe run a 1v1, or 2v2, or best of 3, or best of 5 setting.
Competitions
One thing that has worked for me on various occaisions is to offer a cash prize in a recruiting contest. The members are more obliged to recruit because there is light at the end of the tunnel, meanwhile your memberlist grows.
Hold Meetings (That involve all ranks)
Listen to your members. Whether most leaders like to admit it or not, the members usually see what happens day to day, and know the inner workings. Your members should be your most important resource when making decisions that effect the community as a whole.
02 Apr
How to create revenue for your gaming clan
Posted by JohnnyLocke as Articles, Website Managment | 1 Comment
A Big problem alot of clans have (especially FPS clans who have to worry about server costs.) is coming up with enough money to support their clan. This can be a daunting task when you factor in all the probable costs of any serious clan. There’s web hosting fee’s, advertising, server fee’s, scripting fee’s, and any other web design fee’s a webmaster may come across that he himself can not deal with. Below are a few strategies that I personally have found effective.
Donations- If you are able to provide a fun, stable gaming enviorment for your members, there are usually at least 3-4 older members who don’t mind donating a small amount of money to help you out. Place a paypal button on your page with big, colored, boldened letters above it that say “DONATE.” Perhaps even ocaisionally make a forum post reminding everyone that donations do in fact go to the clan, and not into your pockets.
Make sure your clan members know what their donation is going towards. If they know their $15 are going toward website improvements or an expansion into a new game, they will probably be more likely to donate. I’ve spoken with many clan leaders that have paid for all of their clans fee’s with donations alone.
Adsense – Since Clans (usually) don’t draw huge amounts of unique visitors outside of the memberbase, Adsense usually doesn’t generate all that much money. However, it can’t hurt to have it. A few points about Adsense:
http://www.adsense.com
There are numerous other advertising agencies, but if for some reason Adsense is not suiting you (AKA you are banned from it 
), then I would suggest using http://www.adbrite.com
JohnnyLocke
