An update, if a somewhat frustrating one. It feels like every time I get anywhere significant it feels like I hit a brick wall and end up starting over. That's happened half a dozen times now. I guess it's bound to when you've got really 18 or 19 websites you're looking at and massive amounts of sort of duplicated (but not quite really) content, etc. Plus the fact that there's five or so editions of HeroQuest now, depending on what you want to do with Japanese HQ and the multiple UK-rules releases. *shrug*
Before I get started over
yet again, I decided this time it all goes in git from the start, out in the open, and y'all can help if you want. No more restarts,
WE'LL DO IT LIVE! (Uh oh.

) There's some benefits to doing it that way.
First, it means everything is backed up. Any change made to it will exist [creepy child]forever and ever and ever and ever…[/creepy child]. Second putting it on github allows me to segment out the two sites that need to remain separate sites (agins-archive and phoenix) as their own repos. That means I can fix some particularly irritating bugs that break some modern browsers, particularly with the Agin's Inn archive. Third, having things in manageable chunks with development/planning wiki and issue tracker means that other people can help… Fourth, having access to the wiki and issues for planning and development, as well as others being able to contribute here and there will be really nice.
And the finaly benefit which kinda relates specifically to Agin's Inn which is where I'm (re)starting… At some point, I've got to deploy new stuff. That means take old stuff out and put new stuff in, right? And I'm gonna be doing this from git. This is both fairly simple and fairly complex because there's a remote possibility I might screw it up. We've got backups—drathe downloads one every day, and I make them now and then. But it's a lot easier to "oh lemony goodness!" when the site you're working on is < 300 MB than it is when it's > 16 GB. I can make sure the whole "deploy from git" thing works on Dewayne Agin's relatively small site when it'd take me just a few minutes to fix anything I break.
And since Agin's stuff uses no PHP and no "backend", I can actually do a fair bit of the testing using Github Pages as a staging area. In fact, I've already started doing that to fix some of the tag soup errors that break some modern browsers. I've uploaded the html files from the root of agins-archive for the purposes of testing. In the process I've converted them all to UTF-8 (fixing some mismatched character sets along the way) and fixed the most egregious tag soup bugs related to meta tags. Long way to go on it still (subdirs, images, art and other assets, etc.) but I don't actually intend to make significant changes to the Agin's Inn content—it's a historical archive, after all. But I can make it shine in all its 1998 GeoCities-era glory! There's stuff we could do with that, sure, but it's lower priority.
If you know some HTML/CSS, or even if you know just a little Markdown from Reddit and the like, you can help. Once I'm done getting agins-archive live here on the Inn, I'll jump into writing HTML content. Just plain HTML, no CSS or art or anything yet. Let's get what we want into the repo and make sure it's _where_ we want it. Once we have that, we can start figuring out how we want it to look and making pretty templates and all. I can help some folks who want to help learn a few of the tools if you'd like. Git is a little strange at first but it's not difficult to learn for those who have some skills with HTML. And it's not strictly needed for others.
URLs…
https://github.com/YeOldeInn - the umbrella "org" for all of this.
https://github.com/YeOldeInn/website/ - where the main Inn website will eventually live. The wiki and issues are sections are there now, but there's no actual code here yet, just a README.
https://github.com/YeOldeInn/agins-archive/ - where I'm working at the moment. A lot of files without a lot of organization and I haven't even finished the top layer directory. I've got kind of a rough todo list in the Issues section.
https://yeoldeinn.github.io/agins-archive/ - this is the staging area for the agins-archive repo. When this works and everything is where it's supposed to be in the repo, I can deploy it.
I won't be able to do the same with either phoenix's site or the Inn site since both use PHP. Not unless I convert them to static files or to Jekyll. Which wouldn't be a bad idea necessarily, I just don't want to spring any surprises on drathe.

Throw a PM at me here or on Discord if you wanna help. I'm also hoping we can get someone to draw us a cool avatar that might become the new logo for the Inn if people like it. Basically,

and

are pretty much synonymous with the Inn … I just love that the classic HQ oldhammer orc just looks so happy just to be here. To smash things/people sure, but a man—a fungus?—has got to make a living, right?
<InSpectreRetro> All hail Zargon!!! Morcar only has 1BP.