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1. cart3r
   Member

   This is a sideproject I've been working on for a while that I put into production very recently. It's a web site for students where they can collaborate on assignments, share work, get work reviewed, ask questions etc. When I was an undergrad I always wanted a site like this; unfortunately, there really wasn't one available. So, once I graduated (about 2 months ago), I decided to start putting one together.

   The site is run on BBPress. The theme is completely custom, and it required lots of tweaking - both to template files and to some core files to get it to work more or less how I wanted. If you have any questions about how I did something with this theme let me know.

   Also, if I may plug it, I had an idea for a unique advertising model (I think) that I couldn't let go to waste - inspired by the million dollar homepage by Alex Tew... the entire background of the site is available as adspace for a measly $64.00 per square... the ads would create a mosaic that the content would overlay - becoming a part of the site's design.

   Posted 4 months ago #

2. _ck_
   Member

   Very nice clean design.

   Just a suggestion that you've got a bit much "above the fold" on that front page. People with regular 1024x768 or 1280x800 viewing areas may never see the bottom part. You may want to try to reduce the vertical height of the login/welcome/search box on top?

   Posted 4 months ago #

3. cart3r
   Member

   Thanks for the comments. I spent a good amount of time while I was designing this deciding how much I want to have above the fold. This article on Boxes and Arrows was what really did it for me, though: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of

   Posted 4 months ago #

4. onecare
   Member

   Agree with cK. good work, keep it up.

   Posted 4 months ago #

5. cart3r
   Member

   The notions about the fold and some other things finally got through me. I just changed things around further; requiring registration to see the content, among other things.

   I really like how easy it was with BBpress to make these changes possible - literally less than 20mins. To make things show up only when a user is logged in, I used a bunch of these:

   <?php
   if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
   include 'path/to/include.php';
   }
   else {
   echo ' ';
   }

   ?>

   Posted 4 months ago #

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