SO in line for a makeover?
Survivor-online.co.uk (SO) is a site that I created way back in May of 2001. It was designed as a fan site all about the ITV reality tv show Survivor. At that time Survivor was already on it’s second (I think) series in the US. It was a huge success and several US fan web sites were proving to be very popular. I therefore thought it would be a good show to create a fan site about with not much competition here in the UK.
SO was therefore born. It quickly became very popular with the messageboards (yes we used to call ‘em that) being particularly busy. The official site had a messageboard, but it wasn’t instanteous posting and your thread had to go into a queue for moderation.
Despite the show being shelved, SO continued as the community discussed other reality shows. The site is still going with about 800 unique visitors a day. However, I’m thinking that the site could do with a major overhaul. I’d like to redesign it completely, introduce a CMS and intergrate the forums more. Some members on the site have suggested a new name, but with the search engines preferring older domains I’m not so sure.
So once I get my prediction market project off the ground I’ll turn my attention to SO. Any suggestions as to the focus of the site and what should be included in the new design would be much appreciated!
Categories : H's Net Projects
