[Amos]

I'm creating a website (shortstoriescommunity.com) for sharing short stories and ideas for short stories. Hopefully some day we will grow to be a decent sized community. However, currently the site is in a sort of beta stage, so I'm looking for feedback and suggestions.

In particular, I'm looking for help in the following areas:
*The look and feel of the website. As you can probably tell from the lack of images on the site, I am a horrible artist. What do you think of the color scheme? If any of you have suggestions or contributions, or if anyone can design a better logo, that would be awesome. I am working on making it look more professional.

*Search engine optimization. Currently we barely appear on the tenth page of any related google search. Is there any way to improve this other than waiting?

*Feedback on any other feature on the website.

Feel free to post any short story you have written Or, if you know someone that is into short stories you could refer them to my site.

[Get Group]

Hey, cool site, but the voting widget could be better , you know !

[kuroneko]

You got a nice site, you just have to keep on adding more quality contents Good luck!

[Amos]

Originally Posted by Get Group

Hey, cool site, but the voting widget could be better , you know !

how would you suggest making it better?

[echo442]

i think if you made the navigation bar grey it will go with the other part of the site better and good luck with the site

[Amos]

Originally Posted by echo442

i think if you made the navigation bar grey it will go with the other part of the site better and good luck with the site

Don't you think it will be a little bland if almost everything is on a grey-scale? idk, you could be right though. The green doesn't really mix with the rest of the site. What do other people think?

[Amos]

People have posted more stories on the site
If you register you can comment, rate and vote

[kuroneko]

Things I noticed:
1. I think you don't check if the magic_quote is turned on or off. You have to check if magic_quote is enable and if not stripslashes the value before you put the content on your database. I checked up the source code of a certain article and it's a mess up.

This code my help you I hope you know how to implement it:

/**
 * Sanitize url request that fetch to database.
 *
 * PHP howto ・Sanitize database inputs.
 * @site http://www.denhamcoote.com/php-howto-sanitize-database-inputs.
 * @author Script created by, Denham Coote (http://www.denhamcoote.com/)
 * @note Removed 2010/10/23 because we don't need another validator.
 *
 * @returns data
 */
function frost_sanitizer( $value )
{
	if ( is_array( $value ) )
	{
		foreach( $value as $var=>$val )
		{
			$data[$var] = frost_sanitizer( $val );
		}
	}
	else
	{
		if ( get_magic_quotes_gpc() )
		{
			$value = stripslashes( $value );
		}
		$data = mysql_real_escape_string( $value );
	}
	return $data;
}

Or you can do stripslashes() or maybe str_replace().

2. You have to implement advance editor and I suggest using a popular one called TinyMCE (I use it and so is Wordpress) to fix your content's spacing.

Edit: I noticed you have editor implemented and that's good. I think your editor is not fixing the line you put into it. In Tinymce, each like becomes a paragraph (<p>&nbsp;</p>). I think you should look up your editor and fix the formatting.

Hope it helps

[Amos]

@kuroneko
heh, your right, some of the code was a complete mess. I disabled magic quotes, which should fix the problem for future submissions. Do you know if there is any easy way to clean up the code that has already been submitted?

I had previously considered Tinymce and for one reason or another i decided against using it, but on you suggestion i checked it out again and decided it was better than i previously thought. So now im using it.