[DEV] Feathercoin Web Site Development & Artwork

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Done a couple of updates, this is just brainstorming remember…

[b]Proposed new features[/b]
Link integration
Statement / Home Page
A global Internet currency with everyday purchasing applications, independent of any bank or institution.
[url=http://i.imgur.com/S0ij3zK.jpg]http://i.imgur.com/S0ij3zK.jpg[/url]
Extended Search with, for instance, Meta to Categorise forum data
A banner with 4 major news items
The front page needs will further change (as the membership expands), how can we make it easy to update?
Add Feathercoin Address to Website
Add “Listen to Feathercoin” to website

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[b]Summery of lizhi’s ideas[/b]

Related resources link is very important. eg: Trading website, Mining Pool, business link ,related electronic manual,Pictures and videos. This is a huge amount of work. :)

Maybe Chinese page, cn.feathercoin.com . ;)

[b]Summery of Wrapper’s ideas[/b]

[url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,5143.msg38287.html#msg38287]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,5143.msg38287.html#msg38287[/url]

This discussion is relevent, web site modes of failure discusion.

Now Feathercoin is becoming popular, we are starting to get over run by support requests. This could result in manual DDoS.

1. Simplify Wallet install
2. Simplify Download page - Downloads should be more prominent
3. Warn people not to download the beta test version unless they know what they are doing! Don’t confuse the versions
4. Put a separate download link prominently on the Forum.
5. Do not release until very high confidence everything is fine.
6. Find ways to encourage more support staff volunteers…
7. Improve guides section for absolute newbies
8. Forum newbie help effectiveness analysis by testing new users (at meet-ups)
9. Encourageing or facilitating more physical meet-ups and face to face training of initiators / helpers.

10. Edit the forum help to "Forum rules / requirements
11. Add an A.I. chatbot that uses old forum posts to answer questions about Feathercoin.

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An “FTC” icon, to use in Pool graphs and by other related web sites as … fontawesome BTC icon.

Extra functionality for members who hold a block chain, ie graphs of hash rate (Calculated from the Block Chain)

A Donations monitoring system such that it is easy to see how much a charity, or Kickstarter had given and where the funds go to …

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A Site index page, auto generated?

A Former User

[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“50459” timestamp=“1389107226”]
Extra functionality for members who hold a block chain, ie graphs of hash rate (Calculated from the Block Chain)
A Donations monitoring system such that it is easy to see how much a charity, or Kickstarter had given and where the funds go to …
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A Site index page, auto generated?
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All very good ideas. I like.

A Former User

[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“50160” timestamp=“1388992087”]
Link integration?
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Yes.

Is this been implemented?

Also yes to everything here.

Great work guys! Will be awesome to see the new page come to life =^-^=

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[quote name=“sradics” post=“50019” timestamp=“1388943331”]
Just thought about an everyday increasing overview about all areas Feathercoins are used already. Could grow in future with search functionality to check by categories, ratings by forum members, ads and random suggestions.
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Added:

[b]Ability of members to Categorise Pages.[/b]
(Note this is done by [Solved] and that could be extended.)

Note that this idea has been implemented by moderators or posters to change the header to reflect the outcome.

This is a case where training the membership is impossible so has ended as a job for moderators.

I know from what they say and their actions that Peter, Chris and myself want the members to operate the forum, if possible, automatically.

With the least necessity for moderation. ( I will add that to the specification as well) so automating the moderator categorisation would be double positive.

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Change the name of the Feathercoin forum’s to:

[b]The Feathercoin, Research and Development, Office and Training forum. [/b]

We could have a “Pub” for adults only (which is not permanently recorded).

uncle_muddy

Not sure if this can be done on a single cat but it might be worth looking at something like [url=http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3803]http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3803[/url] to add to the support forums

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Interesting article - Implementing a Github Hubot / On site chatbot. Shame you can’t just point it at the forum text and let it learn by earning Rep…

[url=http://server.dzone.com/articles/installing-and-running-hubot]http://server.dzone.com/articles/installing-and-running-hubot[/url]

A Former User

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let it learn by earning Rep…
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THAT, would be kewl…

chrisj

See attached what Geoff (@Entimp) created on my VPS.

[url=http://future.do/ftcreboot/]http://future.do/ftcreboot/[/url]
This is a template with no design just dumping content in to it.

Here is a brief walkthrough of the backend:
[url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing[/url]

That’s where the power is, in the content management. This would allow us to give people on the forum direct control of the Feathercoin domain so that people could take ownership of Feathercoin itself.

Now I would like to bring a designer in to deal with the branding and aesthetics because I think an outside perspective is always helpful. Not to compete with our own talents internally but to complement them. I have been let down by a few designers so far who have failed to get back to me so I am now getting on the phone and really pushing for this.

Please let me know what you think of the Word Press as a content management system.
I think Wrapper has pretty much nailed the content and functionality of the site
Also let me know if you want to create a new Category on the forum where we can work together on this

chrisj

Also to add to Wrapper’s list of pages we need one on Email Notification Settings. Like subscribing to the Newsletter or just wanting to receive emails when new software releases become available.

Thanks to Calem for bringing this up on Skype.

Wellenreiter

I think we also need the possibility to subscribe to threads and filter unread messages for subscribed threads.

It becomes complcated to keep up with the topics you are interested in, as the number of posts per day is increasing.

chrisj

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I think we also need the possibility to subscribe to threads and filter unread messages for subscribed threads.

It becomes complcated to keep up with the topics you are interested in, as the number of posts per day is increasing.
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Right, as a seperate project we have also discussed moving to different forum software like NodeBB which would be more modular and allow us to customise it. One of the key features I would like is a Friends list where you could subscribe to feeds from people that you want to follow and a better notification system. Also the ability to tag threads would also be good.

A Former User

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I would like is a Friends list where you could subscribe to feeds from people that you want to follow and a better notification system. Also the ability to tag threads would also be good.
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This.

+1

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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“51705” timestamp=“1389596855”]
See attached what Geoff (@Entimp) created on my VPS.

[url=http://future.do/ftcreboot/]http://future.do/ftcreboot/[/url]
This is a template with no design just dumping content in to it.

Here is a brief walkthrough of the backend:
[url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing[/url]

That’s where the power is, in the content management. This would allow us to give people on the forum direct control of the Feathercoin domain so that people could take ownership of Feathercoin itself.

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[b]I totally agree, this is the most important thing we have ever done. [/b]

Can you put the video’s on YouTube , in the News letter, and do a Feathercoin discussion Thread to update members how they can get involved?

How do I install wordpress?

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I would like to see a Github of the current Feathercoin web site. It doesn’t have to be totally deployable, but as a record.

I think it would be good to work from Feathercoin website version 2, it is easier then to spot technical omissions, when redesigning a feature rich environment. Members and staff spent a lot of energy discussing and implementing those features.

As everyone is now busy enabling the current projects, does any member have any advice, or comment on how to document the current website (Templates to Github) easily?

I’m going to repost this on main discussion.

Do we need a Job List in Newbie section?

A Former User

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Can you put the video’s on YouTube , in the News letter, and do a Feathercoin discussion Thread to update members how they can get involved?
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Video’s?

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The video of how you can start offering Template design options, towards Feathercoin Website v3.

[url=http://future.do/ftcreboot/]http://future.do/ftcreboot/[/url]
This is a template with no design just dumping content in to it.

Here is a brief walkthrough of the backend:
[url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzkGPz34o1cueEhPV2t3V3JWVWc/edit?usp=sharing[/url]

There also needs to be a video of where the “official Github” is.

How to clone the current working template to your hard disk, set up wordpress / IDE and push any patch back to the assigned GitMaster for that project.