I had registered a new domain name and web-hosting plan, been building the new site, testing it on local machine, etc. making sure its going to be absolutely worth moving. Started with just the Forums, but more features. But, it has come a long way out.
Not only tuned for game-developer community, its going to be far bigger in scope than just a bulletin board. In fact, bulletin-boards(forum) will only be a sub-section of the whole site, a part of a full-fledged Community & Social networking portal.
Website domain name is registered as
http://desigamedevelopers.com
Some of the new features are
- Many additional profile fields specific to game-developers
- Members' detailed profile will allow full HTML and can as be flexible as a blog-page.
- Enhanced WYSIWYG text editor.
- Gallery system will allow each member to post as many pictures of their works, and maintain them as Albums. A a discussion can begin as comments to each pic/album ( Similar to a Wiki/CMS)
- While posting, the forum will detect youtube, google-video, links and auto-embed them into the post.
- Bigger attachments, flexible signatures, etc.
- Embed Flash Objects in posts. ( Helpful for Flash-Coders to present their games). It is possible to embed static images, animated GIFs, Flash elements from web. Hot linking is also supported.
- Public Shout-Box and Real time Chat between online members.
- Favourites. Bookmark specific posts or threads.
- Full RSS, to get notification of activity on the forums without having to visit it repeatedly.
A WHOLE LOT MORE... :)
Preview
Here is the Main-page structure of the forums
Forum Structure Expanded to full tree. With description text.
Please post suggestions as comments to this blog-post.
5 comments:
Looks good! You seem to have the sections all sorted out! Go for it!
good idea.. +1
quite an effort seems to have gone into it. pls. roll it out.
This looks great!!
Some thoughts:
1. Let us not have so many sub forums to start with, lets keep it to bare minimum, if need arises we should make more branches.
2. We should break studio listing in terms of cities and not platforms.
Other than these, i think you are rocking!
Thanks everyone for the positive responses.
Sumit, both your pointers were absolutely useful and I had made those changes..
My entire weekend, I have been wrestling with DNS records, may be even automated networks are lazy before christmas :)
We are ready to go, and site is already uploaded, except an issue with DNS record updates that take upto 24 hours to propagate.
Should be up by accessible by tomorrow morning, but I will do some final tests and announce it by evening or the next day..
Rock n Roll fellas..
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