mariiii wrote:H|F wrote:I wish we had something like dA for us, just for dolling =(
I was working on this. WAS
. When our server has been hacked we needed to delete everything. Luckily I had a backup of my site (which was down for a little while, too) but didn't have any backup from 'IheartDolls'. It was a community with the CMS 'drupal'. One already was able to upload a doll + a thumbnail; there was a personal profile, messages and a forum together as one. And I had so many funny ideas for activities and points, to make it a nice place to visit. Like Gaia a bit - my idea was to get points for games or contests; and points could be used to buy forum access (special threads), or special bases, or pixel goods for signatures or avatars. And if you give some good advices/critique you could earn points as well. The idea was to make the users 'want' points - in for points they need to be active.
Dolllers should have a 'home' like DA but just for non-traced dolls so the focus is on art...
Though there were a few security problems - maybe our server even has been hacked because of this. To prove that I'm not lying:
http://iheartdolls.com/ It's down (of course), but the domain was bought already (1 or even 2 years ago).
And now I don't have the time and motivation anymore, to build it up again. And I realized many of my ideas can't be created without any professional coders or investing money, sadly.
About displaying dolls:
I still like my old website eventhough it hasn't been updated for ages. It's something personal for me and I can say "I completely created this by myself". DA is good for comments but I prefer forums for critique. The last few times I was at DA I only read comments like "nice" or similar, and nothing really helpful.
Go for an own website
!
DRUPAL IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT USING! We're working with it now in one of my web design classes. Kind of. It's being introduced a bit, and we were supposed to do more with another class I'm in (They're supposed to be taken one after the other, but I got permission to do both at the same time), and we haven't really. So I only know how to use it through a site called Pantheon really. I'm starting to get the hang of creating themes for it with that, though!
Over the break or whenever I'm probably going to start self-teaching and see if I can figure out how to use it without Pantheon.
I've been thinking about servers and such too. I did a quick google a search a while ago and found some free platforms for making social media sites (Like freewebs for Facebook type stuff), and I was thinking about looking more into those once I'm past finals too and see if they might be the cheap answer to that.
What I was thinking about doing was profile pages, a forum, probably a page with a contest/pageant calendar and such.
In fact, if anyone wants to see the project I'm doing in school that got me thinking about this, it's currently a work in progress
here. I've only got the index page so far, and this one is geocaching-specific, so obviously it wouldn't be EXACTLY the same. Design and some content would change as necessary. I need to fix some positioning problems and get the last of the links on it, and then I'll be moving on to the rest of the site. In the end, not all the pages will work on this one because they're not required to for the project, too. Like, there'll be forms, but entering stuff submitting them won't actually do anything. It's just suppose to be a, "This is how it would look," prototype sort of thing.
Also, there probably won't be more added to it until Friday at the earliest. I think another site for another final might be due this Thursday >>; So I've gotta concentrate on that for it. It will not be shared because that design is ugly.
So ugly is physically pains me.
