Author Topic: Front Page Your ideas please! (Read 16384 times)

Shockwave · « **on:** July 22, 2008 »

We have a blank canvass at the moment, in about 3 weeks time I'll start to make the front page to this site so it seems like a good time to ask everyone what sort of things that they would like on the front page of dbfinteractive.

Obvious choices are links and shoutbox..

rain_storm · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2008 »

This months additions to the Showcase / Compos should be displayed I think

gooner · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2008 »

Something that encourages new members to post a little bit about themselves.I think yo'll find that once somebody gets over that first hurdle they are more likely to come back to see their replies and play an active role in the forum.They obviously like the site by registering in the first place so if you could come up with something on that first page i think it would make your site even more formiddable.

benny! · « **Reply #3 on:** July 22, 2008 »

There should definately some teaser content for hot
topics in the forum for now - since the forum is the
most used function of the site right now.

So teasing compos, hot threads, new user might be
interesting.

Also, thought about a little flashtro/applet - but this
could be boring if you see it every time !?

.:] Druid [:. · « **Reply #4 on:** July 22, 2008 »

Definitly hot posts & latest posts, next competition (if any to come).

Things like latest users, who is online, top users (most posts, more karma?), a random arcade taken from the list are also nice.

A java applet or a flash effect could become boring if displayed all the time. Now, it's a matter of taste.

Jim · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2008 »

A nice shiny logo.

benny! · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Quote from: Jim on July 23, 2008

A nice shiny logo.

Of course - why noone comes to this idea first. A nice shiny oldschool cracker
logo is a must!

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2008 »

How about a 15 second looping MIDI that plays "Dancing Queen" by ABBA?

benny! · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on July 23, 2008

How about a 15 second looping MIDI that plays "Dancing Queen" by ABBA?

Argh ... then we have no users anymore

Jim · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2008 »

combatking0 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Might be tricky to implement this one, depending on your database structure, but how about "the last 5 things that happened".
It could say "DaveedBeekham has joined the forum", "benny! has signed in" or "Jim has scored 5982 points on Chain Reaction" or something like that.

It might sound useless on paper, but if there's something popular going on, anybody logging in could see what it is and join in.

Shockwave · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Quote from: combatking0 on July 23, 2008

Might be tricky to implement this one, depending on your database structure, but how about "the last 5 things that happened".
It could say "DaveedBeekham has joined the forum", "benny! has signed in" or "Jim has scored 5982 points on Chain Reaction" or something like that.

The SMF database has a lot of tables, however not everything has a time stamp on it so unfortunately if I was to impliment this then it would have to be limited.. I dont want to be adding fields to the database really if I can help it. Cool idea though! Incidentally maybe something could be done with XML.

Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on July 23, 2008

How about a 15 second looping MIDI that plays "Dancing Queen" by ABBA?

Go to the back of the class!

Quote from: Jim on July 23, 2008

A nice shiny logo.

Yes.
I will ask some friends unless anyone knows a >really< good artist?

Quote from: .:] Druid [:. on July 22, 2008

Definitly hot posts & latest posts, next competition (if any to come).

Things like latest users, who is online, top users (most posts, more karma?), a random arcade taken from the list are also nice.

A java applet or a flash effect could become boring if displayed all the time. Now, it's a matter of taste.

Latest topics, definately, who is online is already implimented so that would be easy enough to do

Compos hmm see below too

Quote from: benny! on July 22, 2008

There should definately some teaser content for hot
topics in the forum for now - since the forum is the
most used function of the site right now.

So teasing compos, hot threads, new user might be
interesting.

Also, thought about a little flashtro/applet - but this
could be boring if you see it every time !?

Flashtro / Applet, are you offering your services?

Compos again..

Something definately needs to be done here.

Quote from: Gooner on July 22, 2008

Something that encourages new members to post a little bit about themselves.I think yo'll find that once somebody gets over that first hurdle they are more likely to come back to see their replies and play an active role in the forum.They obviously like the site by registering in the first place so if you could come up with something on that first page i think it would make your site even more formiddable.

I will re-install PM on registration to take care of this

I'll make the message extra friendly!

Quote from: rain_storm on July 22, 2008

This months additions to the Showcase / Compos should be displayed I think

Perhaps I could even moake a competitions page to show the winning entries off.

The way I'd like you to think about this is a multi-paged portal.

So on the first page it could be;

navigation
recent posts
who is online
shoutbox

Etc Etc..

It can be pretty much whatever we like.

gooner · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Quote

I will re-install PM on registration to take care of this Smiley I'll make the message extra friendly!

Thinking about this i'm probably going a bit off topic.I guess what i was getting at was when the new member registered they could be redirected to the welcoming commitee thread where you could have a template post encouraging them to tell us where they are from, what languages they code etc ect.I'm not sure if this is possible but just a thought anyway.Sorry for going off topic back to the challenge.

slinks · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Maybe have a 'feature of the month' showing the best demo/tool/game created that month, and have an archive dedicated to past winners. should get some more publicity to those wo deserve it, and encourage other to try for the top spot.

Shockwave · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2008 »

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Shit posts will be deleted from here.
Stay on topic please this is important.

Clyde · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2008 »

Maybe an idea to exclude the Hangar18 stuff as hot topics, and concentrate on displaying General sections and programming areas.

Pixel_Outlaw · « **Reply #16 on:** July 23, 2008 »

I don't know if this could be done but it might be cool to make a sinus scroller showing who is online. This would add a bit of style and be in the spirit of demoscene work.

benny! · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2008 »

Quote from: Pixel_Outlaw on July 23, 2008

I don't know if this could be done but it might be cool to make a sinus
scroller showing who is online. This would add a bit of style and be in
the spirit of demoscene work.

This could be interesting indeed!

@Shocky:
Of course - I can help where I can. Just drop me a line if you need
something and I'll see what I can do.

combatking0 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2008 »

Quote from: Shockwave on July 23, 2008

Quote from: Jim on July 23, 2008
A nice shiny logo.

Yes.
I will ask some friends unless anyone knows a >really< good artist?

If you're still impressed with the logo for the old YABASIC / Homebrew forum, I could make one in a similar style. I won't feel bad if you turn me down, but my drawing skills have improved a bit since then.

Shockwave · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2008 »

CK, If you can make something as good as the ones on Intro-Inferno, please go ahead

It needs to be really stunning though!

Benny, I will be in touch as soon as I start making the posrtal with some ideas

Author Topic: Front Page Your ideas please! (Read 16384 times)

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