<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>RaptoRealm.Com was originally a website to get PC help, but the problem with that of course was I or my staff weren't exactly tech support gods and we didn't have anything to really keep people coming back or even a means of advertising (the one time we did, though, we got 100 hits in a day). It laid dormant and mostly forgotten for a while until @Home threatened to go belly up and leave me without an email account so I got actual hosting. I didn't feel right putting up the old website so I had up a little update page where I said I was going to update the layout...and to this day haven't. The problem for the passed 3+ years now has been coming up with an idea for a website. I even turned it into a contest at one point RaptoRealm's Name the Aim, I called it. Anywho, since then the site has become little more than my private webserver and email accounts.
At one point I almost had an idea...a site where a staff of writers would post rants on a weekly basis or so based on a topic. The problem was I couldn't get a feel for a layout and asking friends to have another deadline was kind of looney. But it hit me during class today for some reason-- what about a site where Anyone can come in and read rants, post their own, and rate others? The front page would consist of a "New this Week" list as well as a "Top 5" listing. There could be a lot more to it but as of so far I've already become hung up on the technical aspects-- this would be a site largely dependant on CGI scripting for posting new rants, organizing old ones, and putting them in the right categories/lists. I have no knowledge of this field...I wouldn't even know where to begin. The ratings script doesn't seem like it would be too complicated so I'm not instantly worried about that, but I'd like this idea to fly if I had any idea how to get/build the required scripts.
What do you guys think? Remember this is something I just thought up not even 2 hours ago and I'm still getting a feel for it.</div>
At one point I almost had an idea...a site where a staff of writers would post rants on a weekly basis or so based on a topic. The problem was I couldn't get a feel for a layout and asking friends to have another deadline was kind of looney. But it hit me during class today for some reason-- what about a site where Anyone can come in and read rants, post their own, and rate others? The front page would consist of a "New this Week" list as well as a "Top 5" listing. There could be a lot more to it but as of so far I've already become hung up on the technical aspects-- this would be a site largely dependant on CGI scripting for posting new rants, organizing old ones, and putting them in the right categories/lists. I have no knowledge of this field...I wouldn't even know where to begin. The ratings script doesn't seem like it would be too complicated so I'm not instantly worried about that, but I'd like this idea to fly if I had any idea how to get/build the required scripts.
What do you guys think? Remember this is something I just thought up not even 2 hours ago and I'm still getting a feel for it.</div>