With only 256 days remaining to rollout I have now completed one of the most advanced search pages you have ever seen.
It contains over 200 distinct data items and it is finally going to be possible for people to search for every single possible scenario and data item found on the website.
Clearly this is going to be far superior to how this was done in the past on our previous website the Swapper Network. Not only that but it is a simple interface that anyone can use and understand.
It has collapsible panels for each section so you only need view the items you are interested in. You can also save an unlimited amount of searches and recall them easily. Best of all, it is very fast so fast it is like a night and day difference from the way this was done in the past.
Getting a chance to re-write this stuff from scratch is very exciting. It allows me to re-think every aspect of how this should really work and I am no longer bound by the previous limitations of the website.
With the completion of the search page, I am now moving on to the next feature of the website.
To date, I have completed all of the standard features of the website. I will not go into detail about these features other than to point out a few changes.
The internal messaging system or your mailbox as many have come to know it.
In the past, there where many limitations with this feature.
The following is a small example of those limitations:
- No folder support
- No way to move mail in and out of folders
- No way to send a picture
- Unable to store every single message so history was lost
- Speed issues due to database design problems
- Limited history view
- and many many more
Well, I am happy to report this has not only been corrected. We have gone above and beyond just correcting these issues. The entire mail feature of the website works just like a normal email program. Complete with mail searching feature never before found on any website like this one.
This website will also have a forum that has been completely written from scratch. Best of all, it will be available through out the entire website. What do I mean by this? Think about it. Anywhere you might want a forum it will be there. Inside profiles perhaps? It will also include polling features so you can place a poll in your profile if you want.
You can make your forum private or public and not only that you will be able to allow others to post to it or not by setting up access rights. Kind of the way a private gallery works.
I guess by now, you should be getting the idea this is no ordinary website we are building. You could probably tell that just by how long we have given ourselves to complete all the coding. We wrote the Swapper Network website in a little over two months. Of course, we added features as time went on but the actual main feature list we completed in a very short time. This new website I have been working on just the standard set of features for almost eleven months so far. This should give you an idea of how much thought and detail that has been put into this thing. I know 256 days seems like a long time to wait for a website like the one I am describing but think about it this way. When it is complete, it will be something truly special in every way and it will be far better than any other website you have ever seen.
Well, I guess I am getting back to work now. I just stopped in to give everyone an update- on my progress.
Keep checking back for more details. I will probably be posting a new article every couple of days leading all the way to the day of rollout.