Objective

Build a gallery website to show case student projects for AISF students.

Requirements

Must be a student or alumni

Site Stuff

  • Built in HTML? Flash?
  • User registration
    • Name
    • Major
    • Graduation Date (year/month)
    • Long Bio
    • Short Bio
    • Email addy
    • url
    • aim/yahoo/msn?
  • Sophisticated review system
  • Invisibile Commenting
  • User page
    • Gallery
    • Contact
  • Reject Pile ("Circular File")
  • Alumni Section

Review System

Pieces will be submitted per major. In such case as a fashion student does an awesome painting, they may submit it to the Art/Animation major for review.

Once submitted, the piece will be "peer-reviewed" by the major it was submitted to. If it gains sufficient enough votes, it will become a public piece.

Public pieces will then be featured on homepage/category pages for review for a time period. During this time period any person visiting the site may vote on the piece. Votes will be weighted differently:

  • Students in the major it was submitted to will have heavier votes (a 10 adds 20, a 2 adds 4)
  • other students will have normal votes (a 5 adds 5)
  • anonymous users will have half count votes (a 8 adds 4)

After time period a score will be assigned to the piece and it will then be filed in rank with the others.

Pieces will automatically loose points over time when displayed on the homepage so that newer pieces show up more often. Actual score will not be changed - merely change for sorting on the "what's hot" areas.

Reject Pile

Pieces given 75-100% rejected ratio at the first review stage will be placed in the "Rejected Pile" section of the site with a large red "REJECTED" stamp on them. A funny, yet very serious, way to show what we will and will not accept.

Invisible Commenting

Because this is a student portofolio site, I would like register users (students) to be able to comment on other pieces - but they should not be visibile to regular visitors (such as companies).

Alumni Section

Because alumni are a different breed than students, they will need their own section. Not exactly sure how to work this one out. Perhaps they are offered to simple show 1/2 pieces of their choice regardless?

Along these lines, would staff be featured? I don't think it'd be a good idea, but some may disagree?