Klydo / Have Your Say!

[Klydo]

@Luke: Anyone can submit skins to the gallery however they don't appear in the gallery until they have been reviewed by a member of staff. This prevents any pornographic or racially offensive skins getting onto a public area.

@NEW-START: I was thinking about allowing users to select from two types of site browsing called Default and Slimeline, where the header is slimed down even more if you dislike the larger header.

We've also thought about making it possible for users to select preset coloured headers to match their skins. This means if the blue header doesn't match a skin you've made then you can simply select a new colour from our selection. We won't however be allowing users to edit the look of the site for their own useage as that would just cause so many problems with things such as updats and compatiability.

[Bojangles]

I'd just put a skin changer in the top left of the site

[Klydo]

We're not having a skin changer for the site. We will only have the ability to change the top of the site in the process of making a skin. I just see having a skin changer for the general site as un-needed and out dated. Means a lot of coding for each skin too as there is a lot of CSS colouring.

[PriceTags]

Here were my ideas from the other thread, which appeared to get overlooked by the numerous little tiffs going on .

Customiseable personal homepage (the one when you log in)(as in pick which info goes on there and change colour scheme BBC style)
Some widgets I'd like would be a shoutbox/chat of some kind, a ratings system, a place to do some doodles, some quizzes (with some preset questions - like Bebo in the olden days), a miniblog (a bit like Twitter)
Plus, this is an absolute must for me, being able to set yourself to private and being unable to go on the random bar (which featured in your screenshot).

[Klydo]

Here were my ideas from the other thread, which appeared to get overlooked by the numerous little tiffs going on .

I do apologise for that, just immature people make it hard for us to keep track. Sorry.

Customiseable personal homepage (the one when you log in)(as in pick which info goes on there and change colour scheme BBC style)

This is a pretty good idea, like deciding whether you want to hear about maybe the latest blogs however you might not want to see the newest members and so on. I like it...

Some widgets I'd like would be a shoutbox/chat of some kind, a ratings system, a place to do some doodles, some quizzes (with some preset questions - like Bebo in the olden days), a miniblog (a bit like Twitter)

How do you mean by "shoutbox"? As each member already has a default comments system on their profile. Unless you mean for it to be elsewhere. A ratings system would be pretty good so that's a thought. The doodles is probably the hardest bit, we'll need to recruit a flash developer or so to help with things like that but good idea. Quizzes are pretty interesting, they seem popular on places like Bebo although personally I have not used them much and they can be annoying to others when people spam about their new quizzes, however it's a thought still. Miniblog is a definite from me, I love that. It's probably one of the best things around.

Plus, this is an absolute must for me, being able to set yourself to private and being unable to go on the random bar (which featured in your screenshot).

We will be allowing a bit more options when it comes to privacy. Places such as Bebo give you two options which is to have either a public or a friends only profile. We are wanting to offer our users a much higher level of privacy. Being able to decide where they appear and where they don't appear. So you're correct with this one for sure

[Hypertext]

Hire a flash developer...?

Just create a cursor that leaves a trail when mousedown, an r-g-b slider would be reasonably easy same with size, then it gets a bit complicated.. especially the saving an image. good idea! ;0

[Florx]

It's not impossible though.

[Klydo]

Hire a flash developer...?

Just create a cursor that leaves a trail when mousedown, an r-g-b slider would be reasonably easy same with size, then it gets a bit complicated.. especially the saving an image. good idea! ;0

Yes, why not hire something who can do a much better job than myself or Caleb? I most likely would be able to do it myself if I read up on a bit but I wouldn't be able to make it exactly how a want. Where as if we had a flash developer make it, it would be much better.

[PriceTags]

On the homepage, maybe a ticker with some of the newest posts in the miniblogs (if you are to have them) would be fun on the homepage? I suppose it'd only be people who set their profile to public, and it'd just be little things like "Watching TV lol" and "Eating macaroni cheese!!" and stuff.

I am so on here when it opens. Also, here or somewhere you mentioned the matching headers to the profiles, which is something I'd like.

By shoutbox I just meant a little widget where people could post little messages, just like comments, but could possibly gain the role of a chat.

[Klydo]

On the homepage, maybe a ticker with some of the newest posts in the miniblogs (if you are to have them) would be fun on the homepage? I suppose it'd only be people who set their profile to public, and it'd just be little things like "Watching TV lol" and "Eating macaroni cheese!!" and stuff.

I like that idea, would be quite handy. Could select to view all or friends only too and as well for the actual poster. If they want everyone or just friends to see it.

By shoutbox I just meant a little widget where people could post little messages, just like comments, but could possibly gain the role of a chat.

Hmmm, I'm not sure of this own. Shoutboxes aren't the best thing for websites anymore and they'd just make commenting pointless.