Potiential project

[KrAzE]

My normal job is in the IT field and my hobbies include graphic design and website design and coding. I am always developing projects for clients but every now and then I try to develop something usefull to others as well as give myself a chance to try out the new technology stress free.

I have a new idea for a community drivin site but I would like honest opinoins about the idea as well as criticism and ideas.

I am posting here as well as many other places to just get a good range of opinoins. Please be positive, negative or anything. Your not going to hurt my feelings and its all taken seriously. So if you have the time, please read my general outline of the project at my personal site: http://iamkraze.com/springfield-community-websitesite

Feel free to comment at the bottom of that page or here. I will be checking both. Thanks in advance!

 

[hofan41]

sounds like craigslist to me

 

[nameless_centurian]

i honestly despise when things follow me around when i scroll the page or move the mouse.

 

[mikeblas]

Like the title? Its a slogan in progress.

If it's changing, does it matter if I like it or not? If I like it, what I like will be gone later. If I don't like it, it might change to something I like later.

But, I don't like it. It's meaningless.

I haven’t been posting much because I have been either riding or at work.

Who cares? Who are you? Riding what? Wait: I don't care. Or is that something that will change, too?

only friends of friends. The basis of those social sites are all essentially the same they want to connect everyone with everyone.

You've contradicted yourself here; they're connecting friends with friends, or everyone with everyone?

Its a great idea but I want to try something a bit different.

Fix the grammar. What is a great idea? Connecting everyone with everyone, or connecting friends with friends? You pooped on connecting everyone with everyone, and you've also said that connecting friends with friends wasn't adequate. So, what's the antecedent for "it"? Different than what, specifically?

I have decided that I am going to develop and promote a social site dedicated to my small city as well as its “suburbs” which are the cities in a 50 mile radius.

What's your city? Nobody reading this knows that. Where are you? A fifty-mile radius from Maui would be pretty useless. A fifty-mile radius from Mexico City is about 20 million people. You're all over the map, literally!

The primary goal of this site is to get people out and doing things together, promoting communication within the city and having meet ups of different types.

Why wouldn't you delete the previous paragraph in its entirety, and start with this statement? The previous paragraph is pure drivel, and tells me nothing. Only at this point are you finally laying claim to an objective.

The idea sparked from me getting a bike.

Who cares? You're telling me irrelevant things but telling me about your idea.

I found that there were only two bike clubs online in Springfield and they were both so limited.

Why should there be more than two bike clubs? There are about thirty-five states that have cities named "Springfield" in the US, I think. So you're not narrowing things down.

The idea got even stronger when I was asked to develop a club site for a local vetrens hall.

These people have volunteered and fought for your freedom. Why not take ten seconds to figure out how to spell "vetrens"? Man, they must be terribly disappointed in their website! Or, did they have the good fortune of your denying their request?

For this to work I would like to start with the following features:

* A forum.

That's only one feature. Do you really think a forum will unite everyone and promote a social site dedicated to your city as well as its "suburbs" which are cities in a 50 mile radius?

At one point somones going to want quick communication, might as well add it right now

At one point, someone is going to want a quadruple bypass. Why not do that now, too?

* Personal pages for local businesses with the same features as well as an ability to offer coupons ect.
* An events calander that is public and allows anyone to add their event.

This is the heart of the entire operation, this allows for people to know whats going on in their community.

Why not delete all the other stuff you've written, misspellings and random "quotations" and all, and just come out and say this? I'm still wondering what you were riding. That you were riding something, according to you, is the germane point here. But you tell us nothing about what you were riding, or why it was relevant. "Calendar" instead of "calender", by the way.

A local weekly spotlight of something to promote activity.

A weekly spotlight of something? What does that mean? Do you mean you want a "spotlight on something" to promote it?

Im sure I will think of other things that need to be on this site but for now I have to think of:

Probably a good idea to figure out the goals before starting the project, right?

What are all these icons for? Are you trying to win some sort of ambiguous user interface contest, or something?

After reading the whole thing, I still don't know which town you're talking about, or if you intend to make a generic system that's town-localized. The premise doesn't seem too compelling, either way... nothing makes it jump off the page.

 

[KrAzE]

The city doesnt matter, its a concept and would apply to any city.

The bike is referring to another post.. the site is my personal blog.

I am horrible at spelling, but the contcepts what I was looking at input on, not trivial stuff.

Thanks for your input guys.

 

[KrAzE]

Probably a good idea to figure out the goals before starting the project, right?

Thats why I havent started it yet

 

[KrAzE]

What are all these icons for? Are you trying to win some sort of ambiguous user interface contest, or something?

Those are social media links. If you have an account with any of them, and your cookie still has you logged in. It will submit the page as a favorite of yours.

 

[MorfiusX]

Those are social media links. If you have an account with any of them, and your cookie still has you logged in. It will submit the page as a favorite of yours.

An how many people actually use them? It's a rhetorical question, the answer is not many. Instead of cluttering up your page by adding an icon for every single service, combine them into one icon or use something like AddThis or ShareThis. Here is an example (shameless self promotion):
http://synaptecllc.com/225-tips-for-preparing-a-professional-presentation.html

Even for the dozen sites I manage, use of the links is pretty low.

 

[mikeblas]

I am horrible at spelling, but the contcepts what I was looking at input on, not trivial stuff.

In your case, the "trivial" stuff is so bad that it makes the concepts almost opaque. I couldn't find a "general outline" of any project.

 

[maw]

An events calander that is public and allows anyone to add their event. This is the heart of the entire operation, this allows for people to know whats going on in their community.

..and is also a bad idea. I give it three days before it gets completely overrun by spambots and sleazy advertisers. "Hey, I'll just post this ad for my sex shop 400 times using all caps..for free!!" There is a reason why you don't find too many forums out there that allow completely anonymous posting.