Shoutbox

Hey,
Yes yet again I have started another beta on skoolfun, the idea was to keep it as it is but I am starting to dislike the design, and so are others. In this new beta everything will be optimized and made cleaner and quite frankly "cooler". The idea is to make it darker and as I said before cooler, I plan to do this by approaching the grunge web design.

It will have new features, old features made better and optimized:

• AJAX for; voting, the new game overlay, pictures, and comments
  
• New design
  
• Allow users to submit their own games
  
• Shoutbox
  
• A proper theme changer - to change the whole layout and not just colours
  
• Some cool effects (TBA )
  
• A system that consists of credits, with credits you can do extra things, and the more you get, you will unlock something. (ideas on what you unlock would be greatly appreciated)
  
• And features that any of you request

One of the main points is, if you request a feature - and I can do it, I promise I will make it.

[b]I have finished the website design, I would like your feedback on it, so I can finetune it


http://beta.skoolfun.com/designnf2.png click and opinions please


Just remember, without all of you contributing skoolfun wont proceed any further in becoming a better site

I hope you don't get pissed of by this thread, I asked tochjo in advance and he said it's fine, mods: please don't delete because i want to keep everyones ideas when im coding it so I know what to do

Will we need to login to upload a game? This may be a good idea if we need to edit the game information or so forth.

Most likely, I suppose I could do it by IP address but thats very risky and not very secure ... So yes I think you will have to login.

Well what I am asking is will it list all the games I have uploaded? and if so will i be able to edit them/remove them etc?

To cut it short yes

require credits to:
use a proxy
save themes for others to view and comment on

i dunno, you were asking for suggstions

Thats a good idea, though how would we earn credits, adding games and pictures?

Don't require credits...that's just going to make people not want to use the site. For example, I don't need to play games at school, but the proxy is really useful for me and some of my friends. Our school blocks all the proxy sites they can and skoolfun's is one that they don't know about. If we're going to need credits to use it, then we're just going to find another one

What kind of games can we upload btw?
It'd be better if users could upload all kind of extensions (example: .exe), so that we could also share offline games, but restrict to only game trials. ;D
The layout is a bit too dark, but it's cool though.

Edit:
More Suggestion[s]... ;P
Show the status when uploading; users could visually see the current status of the upload.

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Originally posted by deAd
Don't require credits...that's just going to make people not want to use the site. For example, I don't need to play games at school, but the proxy is really useful for me and some of my friends. Our school blocks all the proxy sites they can and skoolfun's is one that they don't know about. If we're going to need credits to use it, then we're just going to find another one

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Well I'm thinking of implementing the new proxy into the website so you can hide your page using the javascript right click.

I won't be doing to for proxy, and the credits might not be compulsary.