Showcase / Site Ideas.

[Phoenix]

Ok, I PM'd him  So what's on the wishlist? Articles, showcases, comments/rating, maybe screenshot of the month?

[zawran]

I like the showcase idea. It might even push me back into making some demo-like stuff again. Its been quite a while since I did something last. I wouldn't mind trying to write a couple of tutorials also, if you decide to have a place for that as well.

[.:] Druid [:.]

Me I know jack shit about PHP coding, I'm relying on you guys

If we all share our knowledge and share the tasks, we could set up something really interresting in no time..but honnestly, the php-mysql thingie is not the biggest deal.  Design is, I think, the most difficult part...any designer offering help? 

[Phoenix]

Do you have MSN or any other IM, Druid? I use MSN; msvanis AT hotmail D0T com. It would be nice if we could talk

[Shockwave]

On the ideas for the Showcase, it's really nice that the peeps here want the showcase and it's even cooler that there are some members here, namely Druid, Phoenix, Blitz Amateur who have kindly offered to code it.

This is perhaps the single most important thing that can happen to the forum at this time, it's something that we will all benefit from and I for one want to make sure that it goes ahead. I've been involved in joint projects before and they need careful planning and organising. As Blitz Amateur is a member of DBF and has FTP access to the domain it is easier at the moment for him to go ahead and code a template.

In the meantime, if you have suggestions and ideas for the showcase, please do post them here, we appreciate them.

That's not snubbing your offer Phoenix, or Druid. If the showcase looks even a fraction as good as Intro Inferno I'll be very happy!!

If you post your ideas here, we can sort through them and Blitz Amateur can incorporate them into his program and if you are here to consult then I'm really sure that he will appreciate the help as the project carrys on further.

You'll all have the opportunity to debug the showcase and offer code suggestions as we get a working template together. Thanks you so much for being so positive about this and helpful too, I'm really proud of the members we have here, it's not like any other community I know of

[Shockwave]

In fact the 3 of you can have a Karma boost

[.:] Druid [:.]

i feel boosted thanks

[Clyde]

And for those of you who mentioned about a Tutorials section. I believe that is going to be implemented into the Showcase.

[Shockwave]

Yes, that is going to be a priority Clyde.

[relsoft]

I have some tutes in Pete's QB site. I could give it to you.:*)

[.:] Druid [:.]

btw, the intros/demos do not have to be hosted here, we could use intro-inferno: we put links here to II....dunno what you think about that?

[Shockwave]

Rel, thanks very much for the offer of the tutorials, I read some of your tutorials and they are among the best I have ever read, that will be really great!

Druid, it's really kind of you to offer hosting for the products
As far as this domain goes, we have about 600mb of webspace and roughly 28gb of bandwidth a month left at the moment.
I was thinking when this site was re-launched that it would grow slowly like the last one but it's exceeded all my expectations so far and I can't believe that we have over 50 members already and it's not even been 3 months.

Judging by the amount of traffic on this site from googlebot and other spiders I would guess that in the coming months we will get a good search engine ranking which might increase the membership even further.

It may come to the point where things will need to be hosted externally. I could probably stand the financial commitment of another 1.2gb of webspace and another 60gb of bandwidth so we should be ok for a while.

I am not even sure what the limits are going to be on uploading stuff yet.
Blitz Am is working on a showcase but I have only seen a very basic template so far and not anything that actually works yet so as it develops I'll have a better idea.