CommunityNeeds
AboutUs can use your help in prioritizing what features and functions we're working on enabling in the near future. Below are some of the projects we're working on. Please feel free to add comments and thoughts on which of these you think are the most important to focus on. We hope to use this venue as a mechanism for prioritizing what the AboutUs Team is working on.
Current projects/features (in no particular order):
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Improved Help Sections
Including: Visual tutorials, better explainations, more "quick hints", etc.
- Please discuss.
Improved Home Page
A revamped version of our home page with more transparency, lists of who's using the AboutUs system, what pages have recently been created/edited and more.
- Please discuss.
Improved AboutUs Badge
Graphic for any website that shows mini-version of AboutUs page for that site and more.
- Please discuss.
More Portals
Using The LASIK Portal as an initial concept, we're working on creating more and more portals, and creating tools to make it easy for the community to build their own portals.
- Please discuss.
- Some Tools:
- WYSIWYG – see pbwiki.com, they have a "user friendly" WYSIWIG
- Sketch a drawing on paper, send it to a wiki page via fax
- Type direcly on the wiki page you read, without need to click “edit” first (no more edit page pop-up), then click “save” if you want to keep changes.
Site redesign
We're looking at trying to create a new "skin" for our website giving AboutUs a distinct look and feel.
- Please discuss.
Video and MP3 Support
Support for inclusion of media files like videos and MP3s from your AboutUs pages.
- Please discuss.
RSS feeds
RSS feeds for both featured content and individual wiki pages.
- Please discuss.
Improved Search Functions
Better searching. Find what you're looking for painlessly and easily.
- Please discuss.
Add You Own
You know what you're looking for or need. Let us know below.
- Please discuss.
