[The Geek]

Sorry Erwin - I tried to put together an intial Beta release to keep this thread here, however I have decided to wait until I am confident that there wont be any known issues when it goes out.

TCB - Hey King. Some of these are pretty do-able. Ill break them down here:

1 - The images are not hard to display like that, however the descriptions raise a slight problem.
I can easily alter the table to accept a description field (easy enough) but I really hate altering default tables (its always been my practice to make as little disruption as possible to existing systems which makes upgrades and things much easier).
I guess my question is - how critical is the description? Would you be happy with attachments displayed as you requested for a Phase 1 or Phase 2 and have the descriptions as a phase 3 or 4?

2- More visual way of rating article. Don't think this is too much of a problem. I looked into this originally when Geek Articles only changed the postbit and it wouldnt work there. Now that it is changing Showthread, it should be a bit o cake (Is there a better way that you can think of doing it than simply copying vBarticles?)

3- Think that shouldnt be a big deal. What if it isnt an image ? What if the attached media is a zip file?

4- I already have the byline function running on the demo I linked to in the first post. If a byline is included, the 'written by username' is omitted and the byline is used. I will most likely add a 'posted by username' when this happens and I am still debating to remove the avatar or not (maybe replace it with the thumbnail if applicable?)

5- The summary will be a phase 2 kind of thing. I have it in place, but I am still juggling how to have users enter it.
My Q to you would be: Does it need BB code ability? Whats the character count looking like (a simple 255 or does it need to be a BLOB field?)? Does it need to be searchable? Does it need to appear on the first page of the article?

6- As per the demo I linked to - I have sorted the multipage option... however:
I could do the page break option instead. Which is more intuitive? One long butt honkin article that gets truncated between page breaks or entering a new post for each page?
Each has pros and cons - The page break is certainly a much easier option than the multi page=multi post option I have done.

7. Thats a good point though it really really depends on the users design. I can look into making something like an optional sidebar for a phase 2 or phase 3 as it wouldnt be difficult to do.

Glad to get your feedback, I look forward to hearing more.

Both vBarticles and (as far as I can see) Cinqs systems seem pretty comprehensive and cool. I dont mind borrowing and trying to improve on some of their ideas, but I dont want to just recreate something that has already been done well. If there are any fresh and new ideas, Im am game to hear them

Thanks guys.