pwnwear.com has facts, opinion and guides on:
- tanking as a DK
- death knights in general
- guild and raid leadership
- including forums.
The site gets about 3000 unique visitors and 10K to 15K page views per day, making it one of the highest-traffic specialist WoW sites , and the #1 DK-dedicated site on the web.
About the forums
The forums are community-driven. We want to have organised and easy-to-find content, to achieve that we have a rule of one topic per thread and encourage posters to keep important threads updated. Everyone has their raid progression in their avatar, to help others understand the perspective they write from.
Our straight-forward site rules encourage knowledge-sharing and intelligent discussion. Registration is really easy and fast, with instant activation after you answer a fun little WoW joke.
We have over 400 members including many DK tanks from the top-ranked guilds in the world.
About the blog
The blog is often editorial on DK tank or leadership topics, or personal stories.
My name’s Gravity, and I’m the main blog author. I started pwnwear as my DK tank theory site in June 2009. I was an administrator at deathknight.info, making over 2500 posts before starting the DK tank forums here.
I’ve played a DK since WotLK launch and planned to play him for months in advance. I’ve played WoW since it launched, over five years ago.
I remain an enthusiastic tank, and a passionate warcraft player having raided MC, BWL, AQ40, Mt Hyjal, Ulduar 25 and Icecrown 10.
Contact
Twitter: gravitydk
About the site technology
Site details
This is wordpress, using Atahualpha theme. The forums are phpBB-SEO.
webhost recommendation
My webhost is LiquidWeb. If you buy services from them after following the below link, I’ll get a commission which goes towards my own hosting costs. I am really happy with their service or would not advertise them. I wrote a very detailed review and report on LiquidWeb which is valuable if you’re in the market for hosting.
If you sign up with them and want to be sure I get the credit, please let me know within 30 days and I can still put in a claim.
Why pwnwear.com?
I bought the domain years ago when I’d thought of selling cool gamer t-shirts online. Made some pretty nice designs but like a lot of internet ideas, didn’t put the effort into making it profitable.
Site technology
I have written a short article on the plugins I use, with some explanation. I also run wowhead-tooltips for its many advantages.
In August 2010 I disabled wp-united, which I’d been using since the forums launched. The link is a long article on the choices of forum technology a WordPress blogger has, and details on what wp-united is good for.
I share a lot of phpBB bbcodes and tweaks in my Garage, such as our custom Lightbox script, SEO phpbb tweaks, table bbcodes and so on.
The list of all plugins I had installed at June 16, 2010 are in this post.
