Zelaron Portal: Alpha version launched!

If we were to vote, I'd choose CNN. I've never even heard of Slashdot; maybe I'm a newb? Heh, I like it. Should we get more active members, it would give posters a nice incentive to act wisely and not be an asshat so that they could get on the front page. I like it.. like Spector said: sexy. Good job, I think this was a great addition to the Zelaron community.

Nice, very nice. I'm considering putting Zel as my homepage now.

As for the featured member, perhaps a poll every month or week?

Nice, very nice. I'm considering putting Zel as my homepage now. As for the featured member, perhaps a poll every month or week?

Is there anything in particular that you'd like me to add to the portal? If it's something that may be useful for most members on Zelaron, I'll do so (if possible).

A monthly poll sounds great, as it would motivate members to try to ameliorate our problems (e.g. increasing inactivity, low numbers of informative and/or content rich posts, et etera).

Is there anything in particular that you'd like me to add to the portal? If it's something that may be useful for most members on Zelaron, I'll do so (if possible). A monthly poll sounds great, as it would motivate members to try to ameliorate our problems (e.g. increasing inactivity, low numbers of informative and/or content rich posts, et etera).

something that would be great to the page is like new progrmas that are released aka major programs

Sounds good. Definitely the top priority to me would be allowing people to select their RSS too, and perhaps eventually sexifying it up a little more.

...and perhaps eventually sexifying it up a little more.

do you mean prn?

Sounds good. Definitely the top priority to me would be allowing people to select their RSS too, and perhaps eventually sexifying it up a little more.

Do you have any particular suggestions for its format? I'm considering to purchase the full, $47 version of CaRP, which is, as previously stated, very nice for just about all kinds of customization. I could probably build my own RSS parser as well, but that would be a very time consuming task.

I think the best way to do the custom RSS feed, for server stability and security reasons (considering that CaRP caches all of its feed requests on the server in a rather computationally intense process), is to let members choose one of several staff-approved feed sources from a pull-down menu. The RSS module on the Zelaron portal will then determine which of the selectable feeds to display for the individual user based on his or her choice.

The matter of adding new options would be trivial, so just about everyone who wants a feed source that isn't "Low_Blow's 30 most recent YouTube videos" will essentially be accommodated that way.

Wow, i'm loving this design of the portal now. Hopefully this can continue to be modified as well.

Wow, i'm loving this design of the portal now. Hopefully this can continue to be modified as well.

Start posting interesting news and reviews, and others will probably do the same!

Update: I have purchased CaRP Evolution for $59; a bit more expensive than anticipated, but nevertheless, this will be awesome!

We can now format RSS feeds any way we want, so start suggesting what you want to see on the potal.

Wow. That was even more straight-forward than Memento in reverse.

You can now select your own RSS feed from the bottom of the Edit Options section of the User CP. Basically, just select whichever feed you want, and it will be displayed on the portal.

I have added three RSS feeds for testing purposes, BBC News, CNN Top Stories and Slashdot. To see feeds of your own choice on the list, post your suggestions in this thread.


I will purchase the full version of CaRP in a few moments, so we can create the exact RSS formatting we want.

Also, I talked to WKFF last month about allowing things like replacing the useless "Zelaron Portal" text below the header menu with things like a RSS stock ticker that will marquee the latest results from the right to left in a Wall Street ticker fashion, which will very much be possible now!