I’ve still been roughing some ideas for the new site. I designed a few more pages. Please don’t be afraid to give feedback on something you would like to see in the new design (ex. Greg Reed having a huge picture on the homepage -jk lol). Here’s are some of those roughs:

The Home Page

Video Player Page

Videos Page

Blogs Page

Discussion Boards

Just about ready to go!

Here’s a sneak peak of the design to come. This is the default blog look. I’ll be posting the new look for all the pages. I’m trying to do this slow and perfect so we will have an attractive site. Please feel free to comment about what you would like to see change, what you love about the new design, or anything else that might aid in the creation of the new design.

As I said before in an earlier post, I hate changing the site so frequently but with the new admin bar design possibilities have increased and functionality is better than ever.

So, the members seem to like to be able to change the look of their site. And I totally understand that. So to make this happen I’m going to start to develop a navigation bar at the top of our page to keep a consistency between sites. Similar to the one shown above in your admin section. This will give tons of freedom.

I hate changing everything again but this will be for the better. And I really want this site to be the best and right now it’s far behind. I’ve been learning a lot about wordpress and I’ll be adding tons more plugins soon.

The site won’t change for quite some time though, I’ll try to have everything tested and ready to go all at once.

Thanks.

So, you’ve probably seen the beta test of the MKC Discussion Board. It’s still in progress as of right now. There are still some design elements and functionality that need to be fixed. So if you run into any errors or design problems don’t be worried, they will be fixed in the alpha release.

Basic posting and minor editing to your profile can be done right now.

Thanks everyone!

I know there have been several requests for the blog system. The end of the semester has taken away much of my free time, and, thus, I’ve had barely anytime to add the features needed. For your knowledge updates that I will be working on over the summer will be:

• Universal Friend List (This list will be active after you login and will follow you as you navigate from blog to blog).
• Updated MKC Blogs (I’ve been working on this for quite some time, I’m trying to make it a widget. This will be similar to the original MKC updated blogs sidebar).
• New Themes (After figuring out all the updates for the site I’ll be adding new themes for the site).
• Video Page (Right now the videos page forwards to Google Video, I am planning a script that will use .flv or flash videos with an optional .zip download of the video.).
• Facebook Picture Import (I’m preparing a widget that will import all your Facebook photos onto the MKC site).
• Photos Page (For MKC photos).
• The Discussion Board (I’m almost finished with this, it will be an online discussion board for MKC members, you’ll use the same password login as your current Blog).

So there you have it, there will be many more features and add-ons coming your way.