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MYX:
Are you taling about the current links that we already have, or the projects that are submitted in the future?

I think that where I started to go (I had a total migration of thought), may be where the BYOAC site goes. Allow the user to input the info listed above, this builds a 1 page spread about their cab. This would appear and be hosted on the BYOAC site. This would prevent loss of links as they live here. Then a babysitter can take the new link and add it to the wiki page. (and perhaps this belongs on the site discussion thread)

As far as adding a 1 or 2 line description about the stuff we already have would be very labor intensive. This means going in and looking at every page then doing a write up about it. Yikes. The uprights alone took me many hours just to look and see if there was a site. Now, grabbing pix and writing up a short description...

Now, that all being said, perhaps Saint has all the submitted info when folks submitted their projects in the first place. I have no idea what kind of info it is or how to sift through it, but it might provide info that could be weeded out via one of Fractals or your utilities. This would ne so much easier to sit around a table and talk about. Watress, More cokes over here!!!

Space Fractal:
If we could get all aviable pictures from saint in a zip file, it would been a lots easier and to complete. I think this tread now going a ping pong along wich examples Discussion? (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=55082.0). It now going to share idea between them.

We could doing in all other than upright page first, because they do not have SO many links, and wait with upright to the last.

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Have now linked or added pictures to all hall of fame links. One pictures is all it need to being fine (even if a link would been defucted, you can still see the picture).

All linked pictures is on arcadecontrols.com domain, but it seen to support external pictures as well. But is NOT recommed links to outside pictures (think about, if they defucted too?)

A description is not really need at all!
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A idea is to add a new tab with newly added cabinets with full detail.

Buddabing:

--- Quote from: MYX on June 29, 2006, 03:32:03 pm ---
Now, that all being said, perhaps Saint has all the submitted info when folks submitted their projects in the first place.


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That is a freaking brilliant idea. There is some kind of form where you submit your project. If we can get the form data from Saint I can cook it up into some kind of searchable text.

I'll PM Saint.

saint:
It's stored in a mysql database and is all still there. Interfacing with is something I wonder if Sirwoogie could cook up a solution for?

Kremmit:
If the project database is getting re-vamped, be it retro-active or just for new projects, we ought to add more categories that can be flagged by the builder.  Right now, all we've got are the ones on this page:
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/projectsearch.php

Right now, it's got:


* "Upright", "Coctail" & "Desktop Controller", but not "Cockpit", "Bartop", or "Other"
* "Arcade Monitor" & "TV", but not "VGA Monitor (CRT)", "LCD/TFT", "HDTV", "Plasma"
* "Interface Type" could easily have checkboxes for the most common Ultimarc & GGG interfaces, as well as the AKI, SJC, Druin's, MK-64, etc., instead of allowing the builder to type in the interface type.  You know people will spell things differently, so that a search doesn't work right:  "I-Pac", "IPAC", I-Pac2", "Ultimarc I-Pac"...
* And I could go on through the rest of the categories. 
Saint, if you want somebody to take a stab at updating the categories, I'll do it.

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Totally seperate suggestion:  How about allowing site viewers to "Rate" a project, 1-5 stars or somesuch.  I know, some people might get their feelings hurt, but it would also allow database searchers to skip a lot of the ho-hum projects. 

Or if not an outright rating, maybe the ability to flag a projects they think are extra-extra-groovy.  That way, nobody gets a stinking "1 star" rating, but the really good and/or interesting projects still get some recogintion, and searches could target these cabs.  Hmm, maybe even a few separate flags, "Cool", "Innovative", "Unusual", etc. 

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