EpicAdvice.com

EpicAdvice.com is a website built to serve the World of Warcraft community by answering their questions. The existence of WoW (World of Warcraft) websites is astronomical, but none of them that we were able to find fit the Q&A needs of the community. There are hundreds of sites that supply news, products, discussion and information out there, and they are all sites we visit daily, but one key aspect was missing: Questions and Answers. We accomplish this on EpicAdvice.com using the StackExchange engine (like many others) and some slight javascript trickery for enchanced features, many kudos to Fog Creek Software for making this possible.

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Technologies used:

• (.NET) StackExchange Engine – Powers the Q&A Engine.
• (JS) “Reputation Leveling System” – Graphical representation of reputation in a level based format.
• (JS) Wowhead.com Item Linker – Enables users to link items easily from the editor.
• (JS) Social Media Sharing – Custom insert allowing users to share questions via popular social media.
• (PHP/JS) Expanded Profiles – Users are able to link their characters to their EpicAdvice account via a custom backend.

Contests:

• July/August 2010 – Cataclysm Question Contest – $1000 in prizes distributed as a traffic initiative.
• October 2010 – 1st Anniversary contest (to be announced)

For more information, please feel free to contact our team at team@epicadvice.com.