This is an archive of the forums of the Pre-Epic Character Builds guild at the BioWare website. I stumbled across this guild and thought its archive would be a nice complement to my archive of the Epic Character Builders guild. I was not going to do search pages for any new guilds, but it was fairly simple to add for this guild, so there is a search function included.
Download and decompress the archive to wherever you want it. There will be three directories created -- builds, buildsearch, and images -- and all files will be in one of those directories. (This structure is to allow the files to be easily added to an existing or new website, in addition to being used for personal reference.) This can be decompressed into the same directory as my archives of the Epic Character Builders guild as well as of Part Deux. These archives will share a number of files, so for the most part, it does not matter if one overwrites the others, with the exception of viewtopic.js. To make the three archives play nice with each other, that lone file should be replaced with viewtopic_merge.js. (That is, delete viewtopic.js, then rename viewtopic_merge.js to viewtopic.js.)
After decompression, where do you start? Well, you need to open certain files in your favorite web browser. To browse the forums, start with:
builds/guild0.html
To search the (non-PRC) builds, start with:
buildsearch/PECB_search.html
To view an index of builds by author, start with:
builds/build0index.html
For those who are so inclined, the formatting can be adjusted through the .css files. (I went with BioWare's theme as a default.) The layout of the posts of a topic can be adjusted through viewtopic.js (most of those pages are dynamically generated so that they can be easily changed en masse).
Like I mentioned elsewhere, downloading and processing posts is not a big deal (since I already have it mostly automated), so creating these archives is no big deal for the guilds I can read.
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