I just wanted to make a quick post ‘bigging-up’ Plogger. It’s a PHP/MySQL based image gallery that seems to take a lot of inspiration from WordPress. (more…)

While the event was a success in some respects, and I guess it did achieve the objective of populating the forum a bit, it was not in anyway what I wanted.

My team (Cos, Sofi and I), starting at 9:00 am, spent most of the day on the forum interacting with each other. We started threads, posted replies, and for the most part had a pretty good time. Before we knew it, it was 1:00 pm… but not a single other person had come to join us. (more…)

OK, so yesterday I submitted Unknown Tales to a couple of sites to get some feedback… The results were not good. The mascot image in the bottom right corner was a big focal point of the site, but was causing too much of a distraction. The advertising at the top of the page was a bit too overpowering and ugly, the colours are letting the site down, and people were not feeling encouraged to explore the site. (more…)

Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve added Unknown Tales to Concept Feedback. The idea is that people come along and review your design and give you feedback based on it. I’ve no idea what sort of feedback I’m going to get, but hopefully it’ll be positive – or at least negative, but with feedback constructive enough to fix the problems.

In other news, I’ve also submitted a screen shot to Five Second Test. This is similar, only on this site you get only five seconds to see the image, during which you need to click on everything that stands out, then label them. Should be interesting to see what people notice about the site in just five seconds.

If you’re able, would you be kind enough to check out the two links above and give me some feedback, as they say, every little helps. I’ll post the results as soon as I get any.

I’m trying a bit of an experiment over at Unknown tales. Meet The Unknown is my attempt to try and help populate the community a bit. The idea is that by hosting a specific event, a specific day in which people can visit the site and be guaranteed other people to discuss with, it’ll let them find out more about the site and what it has to offer. (more…)