forum8fox
08-19-2009, 05:57 PM
I talked to my web developer friend today and got the ball rolling on the colorado cave database idea! I'm so psyched, it sounds totally feasable.
It might cost me $20 a month to do it like I want (allowing users to upload photos) but I think I can manage that or get friends to pitch when I'm strapped. Eventually when the site gets going and has enough traffic I will look into advertisment to cover the cost of the site so it will be free for all.
Now comes the fun task of getting some community feed back and ideas.
I'm pretty sure I mostly want to model the site after www.mountainproject.com
Striving for people to use their real name instead of a handle but allowing handles to protect peoples idenity. The purpose of this IMO would be to strive for a highly respectful user group where people should be held accountable for what they say to another person.
On top of that to be a user you will have to fill out some extensive identification to prove who you are. How that's going to work I'm not exactly sure. Any ideas?
I would like to be able to track usage by user so that people can be contacted if something bad happens in a certain cave (vandalism mostly).
As far as the layout of the site goes; I want a forum, I want a section dedicated to education, links obviously, simple user profiles aswell as having the site be an active user contributed database. The ability to rate a cave with stars and some sort of rating system so people can know vaguely what to expect before actually viewing the cave description page(IE when they are listed by area, beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert will probably suffice).
Thoughts? What am I missing (I know there must be a ton)?
It might cost me $20 a month to do it like I want (allowing users to upload photos) but I think I can manage that or get friends to pitch when I'm strapped. Eventually when the site gets going and has enough traffic I will look into advertisment to cover the cost of the site so it will be free for all.
Now comes the fun task of getting some community feed back and ideas.
I'm pretty sure I mostly want to model the site after www.mountainproject.com
Striving for people to use their real name instead of a handle but allowing handles to protect peoples idenity. The purpose of this IMO would be to strive for a highly respectful user group where people should be held accountable for what they say to another person.
On top of that to be a user you will have to fill out some extensive identification to prove who you are. How that's going to work I'm not exactly sure. Any ideas?
I would like to be able to track usage by user so that people can be contacted if something bad happens in a certain cave (vandalism mostly).
As far as the layout of the site goes; I want a forum, I want a section dedicated to education, links obviously, simple user profiles aswell as having the site be an active user contributed database. The ability to rate a cave with stars and some sort of rating system so people can know vaguely what to expect before actually viewing the cave description page(IE when they are listed by area, beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert will probably suffice).
Thoughts? What am I missing (I know there must be a ton)?