I know, I know, it isn’t really a Warcraft 3 related update, but it is (hopefully) the last Blizzard related update until June. I don’t know why I put so much effort into these things, especially when I could please all of you by just showing you this.

I really wanna make a Blizzard fan site, hell, this one practically already is. However it isn’t something I could do by myself as I would most definitely need a *GASP* staff. More on that later. Anybody can make a rarely updated site with a nice URL that just reposts news from battle.net and Blizzard’s forums, and while my site would list major community news in an updates section, it would focus mainly on more obscure things. Things such as insane Diablo 2 (and World of Warcraft) character builds which manage to be effective, unusual Starcraft/Warcraft strategies, and unique maps/campaigns. The site would also have some basic game information, forums, and a fan art/fanfic section. After all, it wouldn’t be a fan site if it didn’t have content made for the fans, by the fans. There are some major hurtles to overcome in order to create such a site though. Namely content. I couldn’t just start the site and have the content slowly trickle online, as I have done with this one. Instead, it would have to go live with most of its content already up and then be updated accordingly. This is where the staff would come in. I’m not talking about a team of dozens of web designers here, and I’m certainly not going to pay these fools. They would each write articles and report news in the main section, and serve as forum moderators. However, I would need to change the way my news script works into a style more akin to Infoceptor or ExpectNothing. The staff would consist of no more than three or four people, perhaps each with a specific specialty. Maybe one who writes lots of strategy articles or battle reports, one who makes maps or campaigns, one who is good with graphics and supplies the basic layout and pretty images, and myself covering your basic Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft crap. That’d be mad sexy. I could certainly learn perl (note: I actually couldn’t), and I could certainly find a few semi-skilled people to help out with such a site (double note: nobody would help me). However the most difficult part by far would be coming up with a good URL. That, my friends, is the key. After that I only need to update the site twice a month and get enough hits a day to be considered an official Blizzard fan site (like 20). Then the Blizzard betas come rolling in.