Site Redesign: I have been slowly planning the next major site redesign. This should allow more news stories to be conveyed and discussed. The ultimate goal will allow me to quickly post the news stories that you submit, while maintaining the main blog as I always have. Essentially I would have two sections on the main page… one with the main stories that I cover as well as a section of smaller stories that you submit.
Forums: As many of you remember, I have tightened security after the recent attacks. One of the gaping wholes that I unfortunately had to remove was the forum. I am in the hunt for a new forum package, but it must be very secure which is difficult to find. If anyone has a suggestion, please contact me.
New Logo: Mikael from Sweden has finished the design for a new logo. My plan will be to incorporate it in the new site design and employ it on some religiousfreaks.com merchandise. More on that as I figure it out. Oh this reminds me that I need to pay him this week ;) Sorry Mikael :)
Videos: As some of you have probably noticed; I have converted most of my videos to Flash. I did this for a variety of reasons.
-To lower bandwidth usage.
-To use a standard interface
-To host videos that were removed from YouTube and Google Video for various reasons.
That 3rd point is getting on my nerves. If anyone knows of a good video hosting service that doesn’t pull copyrighted material (ie news footage) please let me know.
Suggestions: If anyone here has any suggestions for me with respects to the site (and not my religious beliefs ;) please let me know. I am trying to make the experience on this site a pleasurable one, but I need input from you guys. Whether you have a suggestion about the content, design, frequency of updates, etc… Please let me know. Do you have thoughts on where you would like this site to go? Do want to see some coverage that is currently missing?
Advertising: Lastly, this site receives decent traffic for now considering I don’t advertise. However, my goal is to achieve at least 5,000 unique visitors a day. But I don’t want just any visitors; I want to keep the standard that I have enjoyed thus far. Everyone on this site (with a few exceptions) has been fantastic. The quality of the discussions is better than I see on most sites of this nature and for that I am thankful. Having said that though, I am open to suggestions for getting the word out. Please share your ideas here or contact me in private!
Thanks!
gasmonso
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February 12th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Hello gasmonso,
I’m looking forward to the updates! Considering how much I’ve enjoyed the site through all of the changes, I trust your judgment on where you want to take it. I do miss the forums, but I have no knowledge of internet security, so I, unfortunately, have no way of helping you.
Is there a place to see a preview of the new logo?
February 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Oh, you so curious Sid…
February 12th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Site seems fine to me. Seriously, there’s nothing really missing as far as I’m concerned. Keep at ‘er!
February 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
vBulletin or IPB for forum software; when there have been sploits for each, they are fixed extremely quick.
Just setup a Youtube/Flash video script on your host for quick upload/conversions.
*These ones you have to pay for, but let me know and I can arrange them to be “trialed” for free. *
http://www.sonoho.com/viscast/
http://www.jagvideo.com/avtv.php
http://hotscripts.com *for free ones
February 12th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
What was the old forum running?
I’m a big fan of SMF myself. Fanboy, if you will. http://www.simplemachines.org/about/features.php
February 18th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Advertising really doesn’t bother me, as long as it isn’t hugely distracting it’s fine. I’m sure we’ll all laugh when the advert starts trying to sell us rosary beads or something.
As for video hosting, try dailymotion.com. There’s plenty of outright copyright violations there (er, so I hear. I mean I wouldn’t know…), so uploading this fair use stuff should be fine too.
Lastly, I have a feature request - is there any way to have a preview button? It would be very handy for checking our posts. By the way, are those bold, quotes, etc. in the posts just your standard html? I keep seeing them but never tried it out.
Keep up the good work, gasmonso!
April 18th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Hey Gasmonso, Am I one of the exceptions? Please?
Love your work.
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