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Josh:
Friends, users, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to you tonight to announce an upcoming feature of the donationcoder.com website!

What is it you ask? What could it be? What mysteries and nicities will this feature add to enhance your daily lives?

oh wait, its in the subject, so much for being dramatic.

The new feature coming soon will be a site tour section of donationcoder.com. This feature will be comprised of a series of screencasts demonstrating the various areas of the website. From registering on the forums, to donating, to connecting to the IRC channel, to entering a drawing.

We come to you tonight for help. We have generated a list of features we will be screencasting, but we want your input on what areas YOU, the users, would like to see. Since you are the most valued part of donationcoder, and you make the site the success it is, we feel it only right.

Here is a list of what we have thus far, along with a brief description of what each section will contain.

1. Exclusive Software
Show where the software exclusive to donationcoder.com is, the dif pages and dif authors.
Explain about software keys required for some
COMPLETED - 11AUG2006

2. How to Get a License Key
how to get a license key

3. Coding Snacks Requests
Discuss what coding snacks are
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

4. Reviews
Talk about reviews and minireviews and where they are, how to comment
COMPLETED - 15AUG2006

5. Links page and Blog page
Show links page and blog page and how each is organized
COMPLETED - 13AUG2006

6. Donating
Show the process of donating and activating
COMPLETED - 11AUG2006

7. DonationCredits
Show how to use and receive donation credits
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

8. Podcast Radio Show
Intro to the podcast radio show, and explain to users how to submit entries for it
COMPLETED - 13AUG2006

9. Discounts
Discuss the discounts and how to utilize them
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

10. Software drawings
Explain software drawings and how they are organized
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

11. Member kit
Show the member kit page and what you get in each kit
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

12. Programming School
Explain about programming school

13. Contests
Explain about our programming contests. Show the page for these contests.
COMPLETED - 13AUG2006

14. The newsletter
What it is, how to subscribe, unsubscribe
COMPLETED - 11AUG2006

15. How to help DonationCoder.com
Explain the following areas: donating, writing a review or minireview, telling your friends
COMPLETED - 15AUG2006

16. Irc chat channel
Show how to connect view web or irc client
COMPLETED - 18AUG2006

17. RSS
Describe what it is and how it is useful
COMPLETED - 12AUG2006

18. Forum Signup process
Signing up at the forum and activating your account
COMPLETED - 07AUG2006

19. The Forums
This will be a hodgepodge of the following broken up into smaller casts. This will be the LAST tour page put up as it will take the most work.
Show how to set a biography, signature, yearbook qupte, webpage, set avatar
Intro to the different forum sections, and ways of reading the forum
a) how to post images as attachments and refer to them
b) how to use the preset text templates
c) posting features (bold, italics, images, urls, etc)

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Anyways, thats what we have so far. Now, give us your input. I will give this post until Friday (11AUG2006) before it is finalized and we begin work on the various casts. Your input is valuable, so dont hold back!

LETS ROCK!

mouser:
i just want to say this would be sooooo incredibliy useful to the site, to have a Tour Page like this that people could visit to discover features of the site.

nudone:
great idea.

JavaJones:
Very cool and ambitious feature/project. This inspires me to do the same at work. :D

- Oshyan

Josh:
The tours page is shaping up nicely, 3 down. I just completed the 2 casts for donations (donating and activating). Gonna do the newsletter and exclusive software next. Tomorrow will come the donationcredits tours. After that, who knows whats next :) I do know that the forum stuff will be last as its going to be a huge project.

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