I am building a new site, mostly to learn about it, and also to give us all a place to go and talk no matter the flavor of OS you use.

I plan to make forums for Amiga classic, OS4, MorphOS with a OSX and linux area as well.

I need mods, graphics artists and some good Xoops users to help me, its basic now and still the default look. Come help out! I also need a good name for the site!

The site is located at www.acill.com

[ Edited by Acill on 2007/5/31 8:02 ]

If anyone knows Xoops and can help with a theme, logos, button graphics and setting up the site so it looks like a normal xoops site please msg me!

I want to get this done ASAP so we can start using it.

Hi Acill

I think you need some unique twist that differentiates your site from the others; I think that can help make it interesting too.

good luck

koan

I can confirm that. You will need to offer something exceptional. From past experience I know that it's very difficult to persuade people to use a portal offering more-or-less the same content as an already established portal. Even if you offer the same but better, you will not likely attract the majority of users. People generally do not have the initiative to go for anything new - even if the alternative is obviously of a better quality/ standard.

Also, you have to consider that your competition (because that's what it will boil down to at the end of the day: competition) will also already have the "key" members. These are the relatively few developers, manufacturers, etc, that the masses swarm to on forums, particularly product based portals. If you can't attract the key guys, the Lemmings will not follow.

That aside If you do plan to go ahead with the project I advise you not you use Xoops. It's a pain in the ass and full of bugs. I'd recommend Joomla! or Mambo. Sure, you can tell a Mambo based prtal a mile off as they all have "that look" but it's a solid regularly updated system that wont give you so much aggravation.

I had joomla installed at first, but the forums that I used with it were crap, at least as far as I got them working they were.

For the most part I just want to make a site to play with. I think in the end I will make a More Mac related site. There area few Mac portals, but nothing like the Amiga sites. Who knows, since I havent had any offers to help with the site design yet I am not sure what direction to go.

Acill,

I'd say its way to early to give up. I am sure there is someone(s) who will help - I wished I could help with development. Perhaps you could find someone lurking on Linuxquestions.org - for instance- that might be interested - lots of ex-amiga users on there as well. If you like - I will ask around.

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Thanks, I have decided to call the site Alt.Org and its now up at www.acill.com untill I can find a good domain name to match it that is actually not in use!

The site features areas for all alternative OS types. Go check it out, its actually starting to look quite nice.

Thanks to Ken for the great site logo!!!

Great looking site you got there, I will check it out!