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Fan-tas-tic! User Generated Galleries
It took me longer than foreseen, but after a couple of different approaches there is a final alpha version of my fan-tas-tic project. Although still in a alpha stage, I think a soft launch with this post is a logical move prior to a beta version: behold FAN-TAS-TIC! User Generated Galleries.
WTF is FTT!
FTT! is actually designed and developed as a pure personal project: a fantastic image gallery, with ‘fantastic’ covering the genres science-fiction, (heroic) fantasy/sword & sorcery, gothic, horror, anime and the quality of the art self displayed at the gallery.
So…yet another gallery?
Supervisually yes…it’s nothing more than just another gallery.
However some of the features what should make FTT! really unique compared to other galleries are:
Banner blindness prove:
- All sponsor/ad banners are blended in the design, so the users are ‘bothered’ as little as possible
- The banner spots are randomly generated to minimize the ‘blindness’ effect
- Also the single post banner is very visible, yet blended
Quality of the content:
- Advanced user submission form (to be moderated by admin for ‘quality control’)
- Only fan-tas-tic images are approved; no doodles here!
- All images are categorized, tagged and archived and are available via the statistics
- All uploads have (if available) a link to the original author and gallery and/or the source of the image
User friendly UI:
- Any image can be rated (and is automatically ranked)
- Also the less rated and low rated images are highlighted (randomly or via related posts)
- Different kind of archives are present: monthly, yearly, per category or per uploader/submitter
- Most and least rated post are relative to the current tag, category of the single post
- Simple navigation (sub)menu’s showing all submenu
- Statistics: Overview of the last rated images and the highest, lowest, most and least rated images
I’ve also left some additional features out, which were time consuming to implement…maybe they’ll make it in the next version
Still to do…
Although I need to work some details out and have to do a lot of code cleaning and optimization and the GUI is somewhat Spartan, the site is live and is ready to be (alpha-)tested.
Feedback?
Any constructive feedback for this alpha-version is welcome in the comments below…
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