Ways to improve this website

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written 12/13/05 11:02 AM, published 12/13/05 11:02 AM

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So, after giving this a run for a while, I think there are some ways to improve this website. I'm no genious though, and I need your help to improve.

Rather then showing pictures where you click on a link and the image pops up, I want to show thumbnails of every picture in a story underneath the text. I think the notion of "tell a story, and click to see pictures," which works awesome on photographica, doesn't work well here.

What do you guys think?

What things can we do to help this site grow into a thriving community?

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phauna
12/13/05 3:13 PM

I can work your idea. See what comes of it.

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codepoit
12/13/05 5:30 PM

Not having much experience with Scoop, my only question is: can scoop do that? If so, I say run with it...the way you describe it, it sounds a lot like the photolog I used to maintain.

- I'm jamming the frequency

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Blizzard
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12/13/05 7:03 PM

Lets try it and see if it works well with the site. Also when I tell others about this website, they think I'm saying Artgraphica.org instead of Arsgraphica.org. I don't know if Artgraphica.org is taken, but if not it might be worth the switch. Just an idea or maybe I should just work on my speech impediment :)

- What's your point?

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fluffy
12/13/05 11:38 PM

More porn. Wait, I mean, making it easier to view multiple images at once (i.e. removing that darn close-on-defocus event). Also, maybe an 'upload from URL' option for those of us who already put our stuff online elsewhere (preferably which would scrape an entire page and grab all the images on it, and if there's a small image used as the link to the image use that as the thumbnail). Or maybe even an automagical whoosi-whatsis RSS feed scraper, though that's just crazy talk. Obviously that'd apply to Photographica as well. I'd like to post more stuff there but, you know, lazy. OH! But a more serious thing: how about the store thing like what's over on photographica? I'd love to sell prints of my stuff without the fuss.

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coryking
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12/14/05 9:28 AM

Hello All, 1) You silly X-Windows users... I have been learning javascript (really... it is like learning to weld!) and I just might implement a fix for that. 2) Fluffy, It's like you read my mind... I've been looking at how to leech images off flickr (they have an perl API I could use) but I like your idea of "just copy & paste a URL" as well. 3) And the store... yes. There are a few other gotchas with art that dont exist with photography that I will need to iron out. But this site needs to get bigger before I start whoring it out for money :-) 4) As for naming, I am really thinking arsgraphica.org is a poor name. It's too much to say and so nobody will tell their friends. I've registered *arts*graphica.org a while back but I'm not convinced that this site should have graphica in it at all. I've got one idea, but I need to get "authorization" from the guy who thought it up. 5) As for if scoop can do it... I do these sites as a full time gig. Arsgraphica & Photographica are down to an all time low of about 45% scoop, %55 my code. Scoop crafted with the finest language availble on the market today: Perl. It can do anything.

- i bent my wookie

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anahita
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12/14/05 10:17 AM

I realy like your pop ups,and with tumbnails it will look great and more interesting. May be this site needs to be more advertised so many people can know about it..

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coryking
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12/14/05 10:24 AM

What about ease of posting? How important would getting rid of any trace of HTML be?

- i bent my wookie

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fluffy
12/14/05 1:36 PM

Its not just X-Windows, it's also like someone else posted that in ANY OS it becomes impossible to keep an image open while scrolling down in the comments. In any serious art critique it'll be necessary to be able to do that. Not to mention keeping multiple images open at once. Anyway, how hard is it to just remove the "onBlur" handler from the popup? Jeeze. :P As far as formatting goes, I like phpBB's middle ground - support both HTML and a simplified code. I'm much more comfortable with HTML and really hate having to learn every individual site's stupid proprietary pseudo-HTML-y syntax for basic formatting. Scoop's autoformat is pretty good, though, especiially for a site like this (the problems I had with AutoFormat was just in terms of how badly it messed up programming code).

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