Some Ideas for the Site
Now that we have a site that’s fairly easy to use and presentable, I’d be appreciative of some suggestions about how to further improve the site.
I’ve put a poll up (you’ll find it about halfway down the right-hand side) asking what features you would most like to see on the new site. I’ll run through these now.
- Your Own Weblog - by this, I mean a weblog service like livejournal.com or blogger.com. In the end, the idea will be for you to be able to create a customised weblog, and have it hosted under a subdomain of blogs.cairnscentral.net (eg. myblog.blogs.cairnscentral.net).
- Bulletin Boards / Forums - At the moment, the site supports discussion of topics using the comment system. There may be a need though to have dedicated discussion boards for whatever reason.
- Better Channel Stats - This is a difficult one. At the moment, the only channel stats we have access to are through the cairnscentral bot, which generates the web stats as well. In order to get better stats, I’d need direct access to the bot’s database, or I would need to get a new stats bot running that I could tweak myself. If there is enough demand for it though, I’ll investigate it.
- Web Based Email - This is pretty obvious. You would be able to sign up for an email address - yourname@cairnscentral.net - and an interface would be provided for you to sign in and check your mail, much like hotmail / gmail. This would most likely be under a webmail.cairnscentral.net. Another alternative, which is already being used by some people, would be forwarding addresses - eg. you would get an address - yourname@cairnscentral.net - and any emails sent to that address would automatically be forwarded to your normal email account.
These are just some ideas I have come up with. If you have any suggestions, please let me know either by posting a comment on this article, adding your own article, or discussing it with me in the cairnscentral channel.
Xenogenesis said,
August 18, 2005 @ 1:17 am
I’ve got an idea BURN IT! (It’s far too bright, needs some darker colours etc, the burning idea is to put forward a charcoal theme) hey! thats an idea, have it so users can customize their own theme’s for the site via cookies or whatever, cant remember how its done, but alot of forums offer it XD
|| said,
August 18, 2005 @ 7:29 am
Yeah selection of themes is in the works … once I have enough time, I’ll clean this design up, then use it as a base for other colour schemes. Once they’re done, I’ll add a theme switcher to the menu on the right.
Xenogenesis said,
August 18, 2005 @ 8:02 pm
Be sure to make a dark/black theme for me ;D
pinkish said,
August 21, 2005 @ 2:34 pm
i think, the pink needs to be pinker
but other than that… its hawt!! you rawk-sta ||
and also to enter comments, there should be coloured writing
|| said,
August 21, 2005 @ 11:42 pm
I’m sure I can arrange a pinker pink And yeah, I can sort something with coloured writing in comments as well!