Tweet Fleet & Goodies
A good many EVE players have made profiles for their avatars at Twitter, and over the past six months it has turned into quite a bustling community for EVE discussion. It could best be described as a meta-game 24/7 chat channel. Always something to read, always something to talk about.
Well as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, 00sage00 has done a great job of formalizing the “Tweet Fleet”—as it has been aptly dubbed—in some efforts on his blog. His latest bit of brilliance has been to take advantage of the new Twitter Lists feature, which compiles a set list of Tweeters into an easily followable list. So even if you aren’t on Twitter yet, joining and following the Tweet Fleet is a great way to dive right in.
To give an idea of how much it’s grown, I’d like to welcome the latest member of the Tweet Fleet: @ccpgames. CCP has actually had an account for a while and posted the occasional dev blog link from time to time, but in the past few days they’ve really upped their game and began responding to us capsuleers. It’s good to see them taking the time.
Badges
Now, If you’re viewing my site outside of your RSS reader, you’ll notice a little badge in the top-left of the site, and another in the footer.
As a small donation to the Tweet Fleet / EVE Blog communities, I’ve put together a few badges to be used on folks’ blogs that are either members of the Tweet Fleet, or simply want to help promote the community. All you need to do is input a few chunks of CSS and HTML in your blog layout.
Insert this anywhere in your CSS Style Sheet:
/*BLOG PACK BADGES*/ .badgecorner { position: absolute; left: -1px; top: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: none; float: none; } .badgenormal { margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; border: none; } .badgecorner a img, .badgecorner a:hover, .badgenormal a img, .badgenormal a:hover { background-color: transparent !important; border: none; text-decoration: none; } /*END BLOG PACK BADGES*/
For the top-left corner badge, insert this directly under your HTML Body tag:
<!--CORNER BADGE--> <div class="badgecorner"><a href="http://twitter.com/00sage00/tweetfleet" target="_blank"><img src="http://h.imagehost.org/0800/tweetfleet1.png" alt="Member of the EVE Tweet Fleet" /></a></div>
For the inline rectangular badge, insert this in desired location within site (suggested side bar or footer):
<!--INLINE BADGE--> <div class="badgenormal"><a href="http://twitter.com/00sage00/tweetfleet" target="_blank"><img src="http://h.imagehost.org/0568/tweetfleet2.png" alt="Member of the EVE Tweet Fleet" /></a></div>
Enjoy!
A few notes: I don’t guarantee this code will work with every site layout. If it doesn’t work easily, my best suggestion is to keep calm and move along. I also don’t have time to troubleshoot the HTML if it doesn’t work on your site, so please avoid sending me your support requests. (Though I’m a softie, so if you really need help…ah, what the heck…)
