SadGeezers Guide will soon be a Sci Fi Portal – What would y

[SadGeezer]

As a couple of you already know, the SadGeezers Guide cult TV Sci Fi is nearing the limit of it’s usefulness as it currently stands.

It started a few years ago as a fansite for Babylon 5 and later LEXX and later, other guides were added.

Now we recieve around 3000 visitors a day loading 10,000 web pages and sucking down aprox. 1 Gigabyles of data.

To improve functionality and provide a better website for you guys, we added a better bulletin board and a news section… But that’s it so far.

There is much more we can do to make the site more useful to you. Some of these things include the development of a polling and voting system and other little features to make your stay here more enjoyable.

The decision to become a portal site was taken at the beginning of the year and we (myself and NewKate) have been looking for the right software to enable us to do this. We think we have found all we need and the folowing new features will be included in the next major re-development:

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Directory and Search Engine
A Yahoo style Directory system that will enable you to search for external sites that have even more info on whatever sci fi related topic you would consider useful. It will include a rating system and a facility for you to add your own website to the directory – it will be edited by humans and initially contain 2000+ links. It will be accessible from the index pages.

Voting – Polling System
This will allow visitors to rate a show that has been reviewed and to be able to see (on the same page) how others have voted. It will use a graphical interface and also will have a system to make sure that people can’t vote for a show more than once.

Discussion links to all main review pages
For each review or biography, there will be a ‘Top Discussions’ box on the page which lets visitors see what is being discussed in each of the related forums.

CGI Chat – and or direct links to on-line chatrooms such as the #lexx.

Simple RPG (role playing games)
A feature for each of the Guides, it will allow visitors to contribute to a story/script… a paragraph at a time (I’ve seen a few of these and they’re a lot of fun!)

Sci Fi Merchandise
Links to most of the main sci fi merchandise sites, including opt-in email merchandise information (we will probably use MailTrack which is pretty reputable).

Greeting Cards and Message System
This will enable you to send people Cult TV Sci Fi related greeting cards for most occasions.

Linking features
The usual stuff like email this page to a friend and join our mailist and bookmark this page etc.

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But – is this the sort of stuff YOU want to see. As a visitor to the Guides, is there anything else that you would like to see that would make your visit more enjoyable? It would be a GREAT help to us to get some feedback on this.

Also, I get emails from people who tell me that the graphics are naff and slow loading – and I get emails telling me that the graphics are great?! What do you think.

Your help would be really appreciated! If you have any views on what you would like to see (or what you WOULDN’T like to see), please post a response.

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[This message has been edited by SadGeezer (edited February 19, 2001).]

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