[Tohopekaliga]

Hey everybody! Ever wondered, "what kinds of crazy things is Toho cooking up next?" Well, wonder no more! I have for you a general roadmap of feature additions & updates I will be adding to the site in the near future. At my current rate of development, all of these features together will take until roughly May or June. The exact length of time is hard to pin down because of various factors, including unforseen problems that may arise, and the fact that I need to start working a "real" job again soon, so I can keep paying the bills of this place (and my house!).

Anyway, without further ado, here goes!

This list is of what the updates are, I rate time to complete with stars, and give a little blurb of what's going in to that. Not all features are fully explained here, you'll just have to wait and see what they are. :)

• Header/Navigation update
  • Time: *
  • The header and navigation bar (home, shops, trade, etc) up top are kind of old, and need some love. We intend to give it just that. Love of the tough variety.
  
  
  
• Home Page Update
  • Time: **
  • The homepage with its little announcement blurbs and pictures could use some updating. Largely on the admin side for how it's done, but also in general presentation.
  
  
  
• Commons uploader enhancements
  • Time: **
  • Making new commons is a bit of a hassle, especially with our approach of having lots of color variations. We'll be making a new way for Galla and friends to upload, making item creation easier (thus more likely to happen!)
  
  
  
• New Shop Feature
  • Time: *
  • Adding in a new fancy purchasing feature to the shops. We'll explain it when it's being worked on and almost ready.
  
  
  
• Forum Home update
  • Time: ***
  • Change Who's Online to who's active today (users from the past 24 hours). Easy to do, and I hadn't thought of it until a few days ago.
  • We also plan on redoing how the forum home page (/forums/) displays all the boards and new content. It's pretty much just "basic vBulletin" right now, so it needs something. A fair amount of time for this task will be spent designing how exactly it should look
  
  
  
• Avatar editor & inventory update
  • Time: *****
  • The obvious bit for this is making the avatar editor have styling like the new shops. But the main thrust of what we want to do is a new feature to avatars (really, two new features) that I think everyone will like a lot.
  
  
  
• Newbie tutorials
  • Time: ****
  • Trisphee has a lot of stuff going on. It's easy enough for those of us who are used to it...but just arriving? Super easy to get lost. Therefore, a nice guided introduction when an account is created is in order.
  • We'd do this sooner, but given that a bunch of features will change in several ways, it's better to wait until then, so the tutorials don't have to be rewritten a bunch of times.
  
  
  
• Special Items Gallery
  • Time: **
  • A way to view monthlies, yearlies, and such from the past would be nice, wouldn't it? Well, that's the plan. It'll work like the shops.
  
  
  
• Item color sorting
  • Time: ****
  • The shops, inventory, and avatar editor could all do with a way of only displaying items that have certain colors. It'll take a bit of doing, but it will be great when we have it!