Nobody's reading this yet, but I figured I'd keep all of you updated on what's happening, in any case, because eventually someone will read this, and they might find it passingly interesting.

I'm adding the content to the site, which is to say the episodic content, which is taking a while, as I've got to build a list of titles, descriptions, and content links. It's neither fun nor glamorous, but necessary. Also, the episode display page looks pretty good, I think, and will look better with the full list of episodes in it.

I am currently juggling two feature lists. One I'm referring to as "dotBoom 2 Site," which is my main list of thigns to do for this site, and the other I'm referring to as "dB 2 Post-Beta." (These are the project names I'm using in OmniFocus) dB 2 Post-Beta was initially a list of things I would do after I had enough of the site done to put it into the test environment (which is where it is as I write this), but now that the "beta" of the site is up, the list is becoming one of things to do after the site is made live.

And so right now I'm going through the list, seeing what I feel is necessary for the proper launch. I am adding more and more stuff to the "dotBoom 2 Site" list, partly because I'm insane, and partly because I want to make sure the good first impression is made: while none may scoff at a lack of advanced forum functionality (I built the forum myself, as I built all of it, so that I could get an "easy" unified login system), if there's no "Forgot Password?" button, scoffing will be the order of the day.

The main things left to do visually are the headers. Right now you can see that it's just a static image, but they will be short little animated pieces, without sound, giving a bit of spit and polish to the site (and probably playing host, mucho-post-launch, to some ads, if I get sponsors for this bastard). Beyond that (there are about four different headers to make, though many of them will be based on the "main" header) I've got some tweaks to the forum to make (currently when you post a comment, your user info/number of posts is displayed, but if you start a topic, no such information is displayed), in the text across the site (some of it is still FPO), some minor changes to the horror story submission system, and I need to add a Fan Club section of the site, because there's going to be a Fan Club of a sort, and while there won't be the full range of Fan Club content at launch, I want to give a tease about what's coming up.

Post Launch, it'll be a bunch of new forum functionality, and these very special keywords: ECARDS, WEBCOMIC, and TELETHON.

 

Posted by Brian Hogg about about 1 year ago. This post has 0 comments, and has been viewed 728 times.