\[design\] Feathercoin.com Website Redesign project \* Discusion
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[quote name=“ryan176” post=“41846” timestamp=“1386544004”]
I have an unused VBulletin license for 3.x or 4.x
Not the latest and greatest but many huge forums are still on 3.x
I will donate it to the Feathercoin community if it’s wanted.
[/quote]It sounds like the community would like a better forum experience so I will add this to the agenda. Thank-you for your kind offer and I will keep it in mind.
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Hi, it’s nice that you always want to keep the innovation going. At the same time, your homepage is quite nice already, it’s one of the best cryptocurrency websites. I guess it could always look a little nicer of course, I think megacoin has a particularly nice looking one. But your website is one of the reasons I decided to get into feathercoin versus other cryptocurrencies that had more technical innovation. I do also think it looks quite modern already and the video you put up looks very current, many adverts on TV look like that at the moment so it espouses professionalism and appeals to the masses. You should make a whole ream of these style videos on different themes IMO.
So by all means keep innovating but I’d be careful not to go too far and try to fix what isn’t broken and make a royal mess of it like Google is doing with YouTube right now.
BTW I think taking some stylistic cues from the classic infographics style would work well for feathercoin, it is a friendly style but can express serious subjects and I notice a lot of people into crypto tend to be about late 20s to mid 30s, the age group grew up with infographics (Usborne etc), plus the style has a strong British tradition. Example: Royksopp’s video for remind me
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws#]Röyksopp - Remind me[/url] -
[quote name=“chrisj” post=“41838” timestamp=“1386542151”]
[quote author=zerodrama link=topic=5671.msg41756#msg41756 date=1386532323]
I can do a mock up of what I think would work well. Also maybe switch backends. Give-Me-Coins use Vanilla: [url=http://vanillaforums.org/]http://vanillaforums.org/[/url]. We could also use NodeBB: [url=http://nodebb.org]http://nodebb.org[/url].
[/quote]Wow I love the look of Nodebb, but my goodness that is going to be a lot of work, no? Do you want to volunteer for that project? :D
[/quote]A switch to NodeBB would be a very welcome one. I’m happy to volunteer my time on getting it configured and running. It’s a fairly straightforward stack: NodeJS, Reddis, and Websockets (excuse me while I fangurl), so a couple of “apt-get install” and “npm install” should be all that’s needed to begin.
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As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.
But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
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[quote name=“mattmct” post=“42123” timestamp=“1386614291”]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Yeah, I gotta agree with that. I look at that picture every time, and all I can think is “I’m not saying it was Aliens”…
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If we are going for a site redesign you must incorporate the colour blue.
“Blue is a calming colour that is associated with terms like peace, truth, honesty, stability, confidence and wisdom.”
More on blue
[url=http://www.artfans.info/the-color-blue-in-web-design]www.artfans.info/the-color-blue-in-web-design[/url]
[url=http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/01/22/anatomy-of-colors-in-web-design-blue-and-the-cool-look]www.onextrapixel.com/2010/01/22/anatomy-of-colors-in-web-design-blue-and-the-cool-look[/url] -
[quote name=“mattmct” post=“42123” timestamp=“1386614291”]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
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[quote name=“iawgoM” post=“42256” timestamp=“1386628695”]
[quote author=Pyxis link=topic=5671.msg42244#msg42244 date=1386627998]
If we are going for a site redesign you must incorporate the colour blue…
[/quote]Exactly what chrisj and me were discussing yesterday… :-)
[/quote]+1 ;)
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“42253” timestamp=“1386628456”]
[quote author=mattmct link=topic=5671.msg42123#msg42123 date=1386614291]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
[/quote]If the YouTube channel hasn’t had too many views, you can only select between three pre-selected frames from the video, if you have more views you can upload an image. It can be a frame from the video extracted via video editing software, or another more custom “thumbnail”. So you might be limited to just the three right now.
Sure, I’ll send you a pm with my channel.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“42253” timestamp=“1386628456”]
[quote author=mattmct link=topic=5671.msg42123#msg42123 date=1386614291]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
[/quote]I’m just confirming the update.
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[quote name=“Pyxis” post=“42304” timestamp=“1386637177”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=5671.msg42253#msg42253 date=1386628456]
[quote author=mattmct link=topic=5671.msg42123#msg42123 date=1386614291]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
[/quote]I’m just confirming the update.
[/quote]Oh there is a massive delay in setting the thumbnail and it actually doing it. It is supposed to be the circuit board, not Ruth. *Facepalm*
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“42315” timestamp=“1386638980”]
[quote author=Pyxis link=topic=5671.msg42304#msg42304 date=1386637177]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=5671.msg42253#msg42253 date=1386628456]
[quote author=mattmct link=topic=5671.msg42123#msg42123 date=1386614291]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
[/quote]I’m just confirming the update.
[/quote]Oh there is a massive delay in setting the thumbnail and it actually doing it. It is supposed to be the circuit board, not Ruth. *Facepalm*
[/quote]I was wondering. I mean Ruth is very photogenic, but you didn’t exactly capture her best likeness. I wouldn’t mind Ruth there at all… just maybe not frozen mid-word? Or a circuit-board. Whichever. :)
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I’m a little late to this thread, sorry.
Having had my head under the hood of the SMF CMS… my first thoughts are porting to a stronger future proof CMS.
Three come to mind: Wordpress / Joomla /Drupal
Wordpress is great but is essentially a glorified blogging system with some ace bells and whistles now. Has a strong forum in BBpress [url=http://bbpress.org/]http://bbpress.org/[/url]
Joomla is a solid and robus CMS, easy to use once you get stuck in and has thousands of addons from cart systems to blogging and forums.
Drupal, I believe is almost the standard for CMS’s to aspire to be… I haven’t really got stuck in to Drupal.
Any of the 3 options will require a DB port to the new system, this may need to be written… but it may be already be available. I personally believe bridging forums etc if we move to a new CMS is a bad idea. So it is all or nothing for me if we port.
I can’t really get involved in skinning the theme till we decide on the CMS to be honest.
I would like to add that I have not seen a single SMF theme that begins to compare with themes available for Joomla or Wordpress.
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+1 Entimp.
Joomla is real nice. Drupal is fine if you want to do a LOT of customization, but it falls down in a lot of places really badly. Other than that, I agree with everything your saying.
I don’t know that a database port is a requirement, more of a nice to have. So long as you keep the old forums online, it’s possible to just start fresh.
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[quote name=“Entimp” post=“42505” timestamp=“1386688932”]
I’m a little late to this thread, sorry.Having had my head under the hood of the SMF CMS… my first thoughts are porting to a stronger future proof CMS.
Three come to mind: Wordpress / Joomla /Drupal
Wordpress is great but is essentially a glorified blogging system with some ace bells and whistles now. Has a strong forum in BBpress [url=http://bbpress.org/]http://bbpress.org/[/url]
Joomla is a solid and robus CMS, easy to use once you get stuck in and has thousands of addons from cart systems to blogging and forums.
Drupal, I believe is almost the standard for CMS’s to aspire to be… I haven’t really got stuck in to Drupal.
Any of the 3 options will require a DB port to the new system, this may need to be written… but it may be already be available. I personally believe bridging forums etc if we move to a new CMS is a bad idea. So it is all or nothing for me if we port.
I can’t really get involved in skinning the theme till we decide on the CMS to be honest.
I would like to add that I have not seen a single SMF theme that begins to compare with themes available for Joomla or Wordpress.
[/quote]Discussing platforms for the new site, I’ve made good experiences with Zikula. It’s not a well known as Drupal or Joomla, but very flexible and powerful, which also may be a drawback, as it also can be complex, if you use too many different modules.
There are also hundreds of themes available.But my major question is, if you think about including a wiki module to store howto’s, handbooks, and tips and may be a FAQ module to handle all these ‘what is the best power supply’ and ‘which GPU should I buy’ type of questions.
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OH GOD yes please. Wiki me baby. Please!!!
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I think this is a fantastic idea. There is inherent value in quality web page design which the brain only recognizes on a subconscious level. Make people value feathercoin just by looking at the landing page! hah. I dont even think bitcoin accomplishes this yet it is still wildly successful. Just wanted to say +1 to thinking outside the box and increasing the appeal of feathercoin!
Initial judgements are important and weigh heavily on ones mind after the fact.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“42318” timestamp=“1386639248”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=5671.msg42315#msg42315 date=1386638980]
[quote author=Pyxis link=topic=5671.msg42304#msg42304 date=1386637177]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=5671.msg42253#msg42253 date=1386628456]
[quote author=mattmct link=topic=5671.msg42123#msg42123 date=1386614291]
As someone else mentioned, the video is great. It offers a friendly / positive / intelligent group with a lot of hope in feathercoin. I’m sure it was part of what convinced me to join and mine.But having said that, the current still image (of the video) that is shown to potential new users is a random guy (to the newbies) with a near empty pint glass, maybe not the most professional image to lead with. You should be able to change this image in YouTube admin…and lets face it, this is what people will see when they first find feathercoin.com
I run a pretty popular YouTube tech channel about a million views, I think I’m pretty good at YouTube optimisations (keywords etc) and would be happy to offer my help with that.
[/quote]Hey thanks for your feedback. I just tried to change the still image and it hasn’t updated yet. I will leave it for a few hours and see if it updates.
Can you link me to your youtube channel, your help in the future will be much appreciated.
[/quote]I’m just confirming the update.
[/quote]Oh there is a massive delay in setting the thumbnail and it actually doing it. It is supposed to be the circuit board, not Ruth. *Facepalm*
[/quote]I was wondering. I mean Ruth is very photogenic, but you didn’t exactly capture her best likeness. I wouldn’t mind Ruth there at all… just maybe not frozen mid-word? Or a circuit-board. Whichever. :)
[/quote]I agree with Kevlar, please get me off that shot :o See attachment for a better choice :)
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Okay to get the ball rolling…
With Chris providing a dev workspace for the website reboot we will be able to get this train out of the station.
I will be setting up a Wordpress CMS and hopefully a Joomla one too.
Those who want to get involved please let me know by PM what experience you have with either or both platforms or if you can offer some design from a graphics point of view.
I will be heading this up as a joint project with Chris, iawgoM and myself taking lead roles in organisation and delagation. It must be stressed that this is a collaborative venture with all involved. So jump in if you wish to get involved.
The web servers and dev areas will be up and running in the next 24 hours.
Watch this space.
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[quote name=“Ruthie” post=“42678” timestamp=“1386706752”]
I agree with Kevlar, please get me off that shot :o See attachment for a better choice :)
[/quote]Well Ruthie, apparently your words have fallen on deaf ears because now you’re featured at the top of the page! ???
