krash_io — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:27:17 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for the link, I'm getting some ideas now. Also pat your cousin on the back for the site, I wish I would have thought of it!

Mark Hensler — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:13:11 +0000

krash_io,

You may wanna check out http://digitalart.org for some ideas about giving your submitters more exposure. It's a digital art gallery, but it kinda works off the same concept of user submitted content. The site has information about the artists including a list of all submitted art, short bio, etc. (example here)

(My cousin owns/opperates that site, so I'm giving him a plug.)

krash_io — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:02:28 +0000

Mark Hensler,

Good point about people showing their stuff off. I was kinda thinking of something like that. Maybe when a recipe is displayed, the user will be able to click on the name of the recipe submitter and see more information, like a personal page or something?

Do you or anyone else have any ideas on how to incorporate something similar into my site?

I appericate any feedback!

krash_io — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 04:57:46 +0000

Busy,

You're right there about not starting a battle of the browsers. You're also right about not limiting my users. Up until I read your post, I thought my site worked 100% correctly – besides some CSS errors – in Netscape. But then I view my site in NS again and none of my JavaScript that I just added works! I do want to support NS users but I thought all I would have to do is change the CSS file that is imported into every page.

Reasons like that make me dislike Netscape. Its not that I have been totally assimilated into the Microsoft drones, its just that IE follows the standards set forth by the W3C and other similar organizations more closely, plus IE is the most popular browser; I figure it should be the winner. Either way, I like some things about NS and some about IE, I don't really care which one prevails; I just want standardization so we developers don't have to hassle over writing the same site twice.

Amen.

Mark Hensler — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 04:50:55 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
do you cater for them?

Was that meamt to be a pun?

I think that if you display the contributors name for the recipe, that more submissions would come in. You know how people like to show off their cooking...

Busy — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 04:37:13 +0000

Welcome to TWF

sorry cant help with the service you require
but as for looking for non copyrighted recipes, I think they all are, some are just free, others arent, even that song/tune "happy birthday to you" has a copyright. If your site is a success you'll probably find your visitors giving you there grans secret recipes

Quote: -Not recomened that you view this site with NS, of course I'm in a web developers forumn so I'm sure only the newbies are using NS over IE.

You need to read some of the other sections in this forum. I wont get into a browser debate (everybody sighs with relief ) but limiting your target to only IE users your site wont get far, what about Mac, Opera etc users, do you cater for them? If you give people a user friendly site they will reward you by telling their friends who tell their friends who tell their .... but sadly bad news travels faster than good

If youd like some help making your site "universal" check out the other sections here, maybe even get a critqic on it.