What to do with this site?

Discussion in 'Websites' started by alext, Sep 8, 2005.

  1. #1
    So I have built this, uh, blog directory / blog aggregator, app but I am not sure exactly where to go with it.

    http://www.out-fox-the.net/rss/

    Essentially it is an aggregator - that is it collects rss feeds from the sites that I have in its database. It works on a category/subcategory breakdown, and displays the latest updates for each of the sources for the selected cat/sub-cat.

    It is all quite modular with carefully commented/organized code, so making changes is easy. The interface will be easily theme-able (when I get to that).

    I know it looks ugly - not worried about that at the moment. But I would like some suggestions about where to take it.

    For instance I can't even think of a name for it!

    Any guidance welcome.
     
    alext, Sep 8, 2005 IP
  2. ajentp

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    Hmmmmmmmm Let me think too
     
    ajentp, Sep 9, 2005 IP
  3. sisaiko

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    #3
    maybe put some image into it...
     
    sisaiko, Sep 13, 2005 IP
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    #4
    I agree with sisaiko. Some graphics will make it much better.
    Also, more description on your first page.
     
    shf01, Sep 14, 2005 IP
  5. plmerlin

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    #5
    If you can match the rss with the rest of your site it will be perfect.
     
    plmerlin, Sep 14, 2005 IP
  6. seant

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    #6
    it needs some more images. text-heavy sites are hard to pull off.
     
    seant, Sep 14, 2005 IP
  7. pilot

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    #7
    On top of adding images, you might need to do some clustering to group some of the relevant topics into one group. That will look more organized. :)
     
    pilot, Sep 15, 2005 IP
  8. alext

    alext Active Member

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    Thanks for the comments everyone. As I said I am not worried about the look of it right now, it is just for testing purposes. It will be different when it is ready to go functionaly. Later I will add user theme control as well.

    This is interesting. Could you give me an example?
     
    alext, Sep 15, 2005 IP
  9. pilot

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    Hi,

    There are countless blog directory around in the Internet. This is what I saw just a few minutes ago, http://www.blogalore.com

    You may take it as an example and start modifying your site from there.

    Good luck. :)
     
    pilot, Sep 16, 2005 IP
  10. Izo

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    #10
    Thanks, pilot but I don't think that blogalore is a prime example of a (general) blog directory since I focus on certain topics. There are some Big keywords missing. Alext, you might want to take a look at technoratis taglist

    http://technorati.com/tags/

    to find categorys where you can build your aggregator service around...
     
    Izo, Sep 16, 2005 IP
  11. ranoo

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    #11
    very simple.

    try to change something to be more inviting
     
    ranoo, Sep 17, 2005 IP