[WEBSITE v2] MusicBee website and forum redesign

[hiccup]

@hiccup, if you are still following this topic, i deleted one of your proposed boards the last time there was a spam attack. Do you recall the forum structure you originally proposed and recognise what is missing?

I believe that under 'General', the wishlist seems to have been removed. It was:
MusicBee Wishlist
description: Make a request for what you would like to see in the next version.

But I deleted all my pm's, including the final correspondence with Phred about the exact structure and their descriptions as we agreed upon at the end.
So perhaps Phred could take a look too so to make sure everything is as we had agreed on?

[phred]

I should have the PMs and will take a look in a couple of hours.

[phred]

I should have the PMs and will take a look in a couple of hours.

PM sent to Steven and hiccup

[Steven]

Anyone who develops skins, would you take a look at the new website and try the skin submission process?
I can create a user account for you if you havent already, or at least i will temporarily re-enable forum registration.

This is the new way skins will be available to the general public (you would still create a forum topic while the skin is in development)

http://test.getmusicbee.com/

edit:
i have re-enabled registration

[AvikB]

Few minor bug fixes and changes according to the discussion with Steven.

Fixed the issue where no top member and top addons are shown.

Addon author can now target minimum musicbee release, instead of
selecting individual release separately.

Few issues that are still remaining:
-imgur upload problem.(will fix later today)

[AvikB]

imgur issue has been fixed.

[Steven]

We will probably do the website/ forum upgrade tomorrow morning UK time pending resolution of one outstanding issue. I am not sure how long things will take (a couple of hours if all goes well i would think).

I am planning to apply the new forum structure proposed by hiccup and phred either sunday or next weekend (see test.getmusicbee.com/forum to get an idea what i mean)

We will need to load skins/ plugins into the new database so i would ask any active skin/ plugin developers to help out with loading your own skins.

[AvikB]

We will need to load skins/ plugins into the new database so i would ask any active skin/ plugin developers to help out with loading your own skins.

BTW, do not load them in the test site. Wait till the new site is uploaded and working.

[AvikB]

A new feature that won't be available from the day one. This is mainly for Admins/mods and in future could be expanded for addon devs as well.
Email Notification support, as suggested by Steven will come at a later date as a separate update for the site mostly v1.2 or so.

Here is how it will look:
in Gmail(looks the same in outlook.com):


BUT thanks to Microsoft's Screwing up with the latest win10 outlook app and it's rendering engine, it will look like piece of crap. I am certain it won't be any different in the desktop Outlook app such as 2007,2010,2013 (dunno about 2016 though)


i will probably fix the issue.

[phred]

Will those notifications also be sent as plain text? Call me old school, but I don't receive HTML email.

[AvikB]

Will those notifications also be sent as plain text? Call me old school, but I don't receive HTML email.

i will add plain text option as well. don't worry

[Electric]

Very nice !

[Bee-liever]

(very) minor typo at bottom of add-ons download page (http://test.getmusicbee.com/addons/skins/3/arsenic/)

Unless mentioned by the Author, all add-ons and screenshots are licensed undercc by-sa 3.0

should read

Unless mentioned by the Author, all add-ons and screenshots are licensed under cc by-sa 3.0

[springfire]

Just wow! The new design is rocking. I however request you to work on seo to help users easier to find this gold mine. MediaMonkey and Helium tops the google results even though they can't stand a chance with MusicBee.

[AvikB]

Very nice !

Thanks.

(very) minor typo at bottom of add-ons download page (http://test.getmusicbee.com/addons/skins/3/arsenic/)

Unless mentioned by the Author, all add-ons and screenshots are licensed undercc by-sa 3.0

should read

Unless mentioned by the Author, all add-ons and screenshots are licensed under cc by-sa 3.0

Fixed, will post update soon.

Just wow! The new design is rocking. I however request you to work on seo to help users easier to find this gold mine. MediaMonkey and Helium tops the google results even though they can't stand a chance with MusicBee.

I am not a SEO master or anything :S, but i did almost everything regarding good SEO. All needed meta tags are in place.(you can view using "view page source"), also included open search on addon page, twitter card, facebook's open graph and other social integration.

There are two thing i didn't do but planning on do is google analytics and site map submission on different search engine.
They will be done once the site is live as i don't want the search engines to index the test website deeply.