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Jan. 2nd, 2004 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rusty_haloInstead of a New Year's resolution, I made a website to-do list. Yeah, I'm a nerd.
I have no clue if I'll ever find the time to do any of these things, but they're all ideas that I would like to incorporate into my site.
Feedback would be useful--something like "Yes! Do that!" or "No! That's a waste of time!" or "That would be nice, but why not do [some cool idea that I haven't thought of]."
-Y'know how people are often making requests like "Can someone recommend Christmas fic?" or "Can someone recommend Fanged Four fic?", stuff like that? My site covers a lot of ways to search, but that's not one of them. So I'd like to have a new category, something like "Fiction by Theme." Possible topics would be Humor, various holidays (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, etc.), Fanged Four, etc. Whatever there seems to be a demand for, to make such types of stories easier to find. (I don't want to do "Fiction by Genre," because I'd find it impossible to classify every story into one or two genres, but "Fiction by Theme (or whatever)" seems possible.)
-List of beta readers--people can submit their names, experience, what they're good at reading for, what they'd prefer to (and not to) read, that kind of thing.
-New banner (same basic design, but different pictures)
-Updated code (combining repetitive elements, refining, etc.)
-Updated database structure (proper names for all tables)
-Move all design aspects to CSS
-Convert review system to use a database instead of flat files
-Updated search engine (to make sure it includes all stories)
-A new email program with which to send the daily email updates. The current one is kind of half-assed; overzealous spam-protectors often block emails to legitimate subscribers, and the increasing number of addresses on the list is starting to overload the weak little program.
-Author biographies or author Q&A's on author pages (optional for authors; might provide insight to readers)
-Update the links pages--get rid of dead links, add some new links
-Output all email addresses in unicode format to prevent spambots from harvesting addresses
I have no clue if I'll ever find the time to do any of these things, but they're all ideas that I would like to incorporate into my site.
Feedback would be useful--something like "Yes! Do that!" or "No! That's a waste of time!" or "That would be nice, but why not do [some cool idea that I haven't thought of]."
-Y'know how people are often making requests like "Can someone recommend Christmas fic?" or "Can someone recommend Fanged Four fic?", stuff like that? My site covers a lot of ways to search, but that's not one of them. So I'd like to have a new category, something like "Fiction by Theme." Possible topics would be Humor, various holidays (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, etc.), Fanged Four, etc. Whatever there seems to be a demand for, to make such types of stories easier to find. (I don't want to do "Fiction by Genre," because I'd find it impossible to classify every story into one or two genres, but "Fiction by Theme (or whatever)" seems possible.)
-List of beta readers--people can submit their names, experience, what they're good at reading for, what they'd prefer to (and not to) read, that kind of thing.
-New banner (same basic design, but different pictures)
-Updated code (combining repetitive elements, refining, etc.)
-Updated database structure (proper names for all tables)
-Move all design aspects to CSS
-Convert review system to use a database instead of flat files
-Updated search engine (to make sure it includes all stories)
-A new email program with which to send the daily email updates. The current one is kind of half-assed; overzealous spam-protectors often block emails to legitimate subscribers, and the increasing number of addresses on the list is starting to overload the weak little program.
-Author biographies or author Q&A's on author pages (optional for authors; might provide insight to readers)
-Update the links pages--get rid of dead links, add some new links
-Output all email addresses in unicode format to prevent spambots from harvesting addresses
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Date: 2004-01-02 11:31 pm (UTC)I would like to find a way to bring together those who want to beta and those who need betas, but you're right, it's complicated--like a matchmaker service. The reason I'd like to do it is that I often find writers getting into fanfiction through my site; many of them are quite talented, but don't have a clue about the community and wouldn't know how to find a beta.
I'll have to think on this....
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Date: 2004-01-03 12:46 am (UTC)That speaks very well of your site, btw.
Y'know, maybe you could make a LJ community for beta-ing... AAS_beta or something... people could post about their fic (rating, pairing, genre) and what they wanted help with (proof-reading, chartacterization, etc.). Then members could volunteer to beta. Or maybe it shouldn't be just an AAS thing, since you choose only what you want to post... is there a BtVS_beta community on LJ?
Also, even without community, LJ or otherwise, many people could probably find a beta among their RL or online friends... as long as they know somebody who's watched BtVS and has a good handle on language.
It's funny, I just realized none of the ficlets I've posted have been beta'd, and the only one I did have beta'd, I've yet to post. But I do beta for
caia
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Date: 2004-01-03 12:49 am (UTC)Actually, that's not true. I post something, and Rabid reads it and tells me I need to change a word or crop a sentence, and I do. So I guess it's like after the fact beta-ing.
caia