Hey all,
In reference to this thread I need some opinions on how you think the CI Base design should be structured.
The basic outline is like this.
Homepage
Content: I’m not 100% sure what to put here. I’m thinking codeigniter news and user submitted tutorials.
Side: I really don’t have a clue what you’d like to see here. A search box seems a definate requirement, followed by a category list? Or would you prefer the way Cake Bakery do it where you have a page of categories with a browse tab in the top nav? Other than that you could have recent code (mix of new and recently updated code).
Browse Code
Content: Obviously a list of categories with descriptions.
Side: Same as homepage.
View Code
Content: Code title, description and author. Possible breadcrumb for which category it’s in. Comments at the bottom.
Side: Latest version, homepage, last updated and number of downloads.
Not 100% sure where to put the “favourite” and “download” boxes on this page.
New Features
Other than the new design I’d be looking to create a tutorials section where users can submit tutorials. I’m going to add email subscriptions. E.g. email when a favourite code is updated and email when someone comments your code. I’m also going to clean up the submit code page and make comments in news and code longer, 255 characters is too short.
Please, please, please let me know any other feature requests. I want to work on the whole site and launch it all at once instead of filtered out features which may contain bugs (local testing doesn’t mean there won’t be bugs :( ) and I’m sure users would get annoyed with constantly having to email me with bug reports.
