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Herald/Wing Portal Development Thread

October 6th:
Im working on the website now for us. I'll be changing this thread from "gauging interest" to the "development thread" for users of the portal to post comments and such on this thread.

a good idea my friend, but a question:
A webpage containing info for herald users, or a kind of startportal with links?
If so, that is a good idea, because there is portals, like htc's one, but it sucks big time, there is never any new stuff there, and the links provided is not so good.
I have done alot of webdesign myself, but im a better graphics designer then a coder so if you need help, just say so

Great idea, am also a web page designer and would be glad to update the page with new links as they found.
A few basics to start with would be good such as:
blogs in mobile version (engadgetmobile,gizmodo,msmobiles,modaco...)
not sure if its possible but some sort of e-mail client would be nice such as google has done with their homepage.
ofcourse you can't forget to add your fav vidz for the week or month (or atleast what you would type to search cuz everyone uses their own means for viewing videos)
of course everyone would love to see some apps on there (i'm guessing if this became widespread you could only add freeware)
the main one would be a link to the herald forum here on xda dev (im sure i ain't the only who would use this)
Thats all I can think of now, keep us updated and I'll b glad to help with anything that I can.
Great idea btw
cheers

Yes, more of a portal idea.
I'll get to work on it tonight!
Please share links you believe would be of value to have in this portal.

Suggestions anyone?

neptune said:
Great idea, am also a web page designer and would be glad to update the page with new links as they found.
A few basics to start with would be good such as:
blogs in mobile version (engadgetmobile,gizmodo,msmobiles,modaco...)
not sure if its possible but some sort of e-mail client would be nice such as google has done with their homepage.
ofcourse you can't forget to add your fav vidz for the week or month (or atleast what you would type to search cuz everyone uses their own means for viewing videos)
of course everyone would love to see some apps on there (i'm guessing if this became widespread you could only add freeware)
the main one would be a link to the herald forum here on xda dev (im sure i ain't the only who would use this)
Thats all I can think of now, keep us updated and I'll b glad to help with anything that I can.
Great idea btw
cheers
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I second those ideas! Joystiq.com blog would be awesome.

I can offer you webspace so you don't have to use your school's server. I can also register a domain. Let me know if you need anything. Send me a PM and we can discuss things. Good idea you have there.

id like to built a small, only herald based forum. if you got a webspace with php imma do my best to get a fresh designed mobile device board

xsillence said:
I can offer you webspace so you don't have to use your school's server. I can also register a domain. Let me know if you need anything. Send me a PM and we can discuss things. Good idea you have there.
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Sounds good man!!!
Can you rigester .com's?
In this event, I'd like to leave suggestions open for website ideas..
www.HTCPortal.com?
Whats nice is, this could be used by ALL browsers of XDA, not just us Herald guys.
Tha1nonly,
If you would like to design a forum that will run in 320x240 that we can post messages from our device, that would be AWESOME! Let me know what you plan on doing with that, and I'll be sure to include the link in my portal.

Yes, of course. Send me a PM

Possible FTP server offer to help here for some builds or so.

Hey all, I am debating using my host at www.darkmystics.com to open up a technical portal on my site. Which I toyed with for awhile.. (Since I do Ngage, Zodiac, Motorola etc) I saw ALOT of rapidshare going on here.. part of me is tempted to offer up some host and bandwitdh to help the community out to upload POPULAR items that are more suggested to use. I thought I would ask here to get the forum/site staffs thoughts and maybe some of the community is this has been tried/failed or desired. That or if I am missing a current place or IRC that has it already lol.
Edit: Nevermind, the HTC ftp that was linked around here... finally started working, kept timing out, I thought it was down. Still tho... if the idea of a webpage with a few common used items are wanted for easier finding, let me know. Otherwise I see the htc ftp is full of files lol.

{TOUCH-INNOVATION.com}Touch friendly programs for windows mobile! NEW Mob site + MORE

Okay you all know i've been working on this website for a few weeks now. This means staying up till 3-4am in the morning, coding non-stop. By the fall of this week, it will be released to the public as a beta for 1-2 days where bugs can be submitted so I can fix it up, to make it a pleasant experience for the user!
Okay so edit again And yes IT's ALL FINISHED!!!!!!
All that needs to be done is to add categorys and content via the admin panel, but i need people to help me out (its a big job)! If you don't want to help all the time, at least help me get through the forums so after i've seen them all I can keep on top, because atm i'm under a huge pile of stree (see what I mean)
Website is here: www.touch-innovation.com
See latest post for the new update

http://www.sprinttouch.net/

Thanks for letting me know about that ,
But it's not very advanced, and doesn't have a lot of stuff.

Napbree said:
Hi,
First of all, I am a website designer & coder.
I have the biggest urge to make a website, dedicated for the HTC Touch, and provide people with the best registry hacks/tweaks. The good programs - and link back here to download them. Etc.
I'd provide a forum for support on all of this as well. I was wondering, who would use this site, and support it? And, is there a website like this all ready?
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If this website did get alot of support, and became popular, I would expand it further too other HTC devices
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What would the website contain?
- Home cooked ROMS
- Original ROMS
- Games
- Programs
- Registry Hacks
- Themes
(if you have any suggestions please let me know)
Thanks
Nathan
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What better site than the one your on?!?!?!?!?

This is a awesome site, it's just to cluttered, if you see what I mean. You have to file through them all to find things you want, and then when you find something you need, you dont know if it's the latest version etc.
And this isn't the only good site, there's ipmart etc. and this is my way of trying to merge them all together
It will have a way to add your own stuff, so it's like the users own little admin panel, except everything they do, has to be rectified by the admin
So I just thought I'd simplify the process.

Bump... Surely more people want this?!

If you look at the number of members and posts at SprintTouch.net, I'd say there isn't much interest in a stand alone site. By comparison, SprintMogul.net dwarfs st.n. Granted, the Mogul has been out longer than the Touch, for Sprint anyway. Phones come and go all the time, so I'd think you'd be better off creating a site that's manufacturer or OS specific.

Well that's because you have to register. The site I will make, you won't have to register. It will be simple and quick

iam in
heyyyy whats up man
i like the idea i was thinkin the same open website and i guess we can make good work i work programmer and i have 2 desingers and one for adobe and the 2nd flash
any way i would like to say iam with u from nw but the xda is the best and will stay the best if u dont mind gimme ur yahoo id and ill contact with you .

Hi,
It's good to know that lot's of people have wanted to do this It means there's a lot of interest. I have contacted you
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So far, I have dont the main page - everything's going to be dynamic, and fetched from the mysql db.
It's coming along nicely I think it should be done within 1-2weeks - if I put my mind to it!

you're a bit too late)) http://xda-developers.com

Does no-one read my first post
I am compiling a site, of everything here, and other forums. It is somewhere where you dont have to register. And you dont have to go through lots of messy threads
In the long run it will be better :0

Napbree said:
Does no-one read my first post
I am compiling a site, of everything here, and other forums. It is somewhere where you dont have to register. And you dont have to go through lots of messy threads
In the long run it will be better :0
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Lets go. Sounds good.

UPDATE:
So far, I have done the basics - news system, categorys, sub categorys, descriptions, and download/view details page. I am currently going over everything now, to implement more features etc.
It's coming along really nicely!

you say that you dont need to register to use the site, but if you want to download from say Xda-Developers, then you need a username and password!

Yeah I have that one covered as well!
Usually, if someone post's something, they supply a download link to say fileshare, I can provide that. And if I am allowed, and I give proper credit to this site, surely I can upload myself, and give a download link?

Napbree said:
Yeah I have that one covered as well!
Usually, if someone post's something, they supply a download link to say fileshare, I can provide that. And if I am allowed, and I give proper credit to this site, surely I can upload myself, and give a download link?
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How would you make sure the version you are offering is the most current one?

Well, I would keep everything updated, I roam these forums everyday, so I won't miss anything. And If the people who said they want o help are commited they can help.
I might create a php bot, to search for the highest number, shouldn't be too hard

So far, pretty much everything that the user see's is finished! I am just tweaking the rating system - for now, no comments.
But I still have the admin panel to do, but I can still put the website live and add everything via phpmyadmin. I don't like to keep people waiting.
If anyone has donations, then donating to my paypal would be great, and I will add you to my affliates which means more visits to your website
My paypal is booboonathan[[(at)]]gmail[[(dot)]]com (remove the ( and [[ )
Thanks!

Okay - I had to postpone due to family issues and such, and well i've come back but I don't know if I should waist the rest of my time doing this website. Its practically done - Minus a design and just need to implement a few cool effects such as ratings, comments and screesnhots etc.
I have big planns for this website (no wait, rephrase. I had big plans) But I need to know if any of you would use this website? It will be a simple layout, and much easier to get access too.. It will also have news feeds to it's far easier to be able too check if something has been updated.
Hasn't that ever annoyed you? When you see a cool program and you isntall it but you don't realise it's had an update - and you have to go routing through the messy forums (sorry, but it's true - this is a forum, they're all messy) and look for the latest one?!
Either way please tell me if you would use it, it would be free of course
Thanks

Free mirror/upload space

Hey guys,
As i see some messages about custom roms becoming possible let me bring the following back to your attention.
I've been using XDA developers for ages and lately I've been getting more and more annoyed with the fact rapidshare is used so much. The waiting and the speed are just not what you would like.
My hosting offers me 7.5 terabyte bandwidth to waste a month so I've set up an ugly but hopefully effective file-upload script on:
http://bjornbrala.com/downloads/
If you register you will be able to upload files. FTP access is also possible, but that i will need to setup separately. PM me (or email me preferably) for an account.
I hope dev's will start and use this, it free, and fast and a lot better for your users.

wow thanks man! I'm a rapidshare premium user but a free alternative is always a better solution
really really hope chefs will start putting their cooked roms there...
thanks again!!

A note, i often get questions if there are download statistics available. Yes there are

Another bump. If you want a category made for your rom, message me and i will, when you register i will make you moderator for your own category making it easy to upload and confirm file uploads.

thanks - thats sounds really good
regards
anja31

7.5Tb, that's plain ridiculous. Thanks for offering it to the community.
Hope it's backed up or there'll be some serious tears!

I hope people start using this, because rapidshare sucks.
7.5TB o_o

I make no claims what so ever about backups But in the 4 years i have had this account there have never been any serious problems so i guess it should be ok.
Anyways, i'll post up a little step plan for registring as a new uploader. Because you can upload files but cannot create your own categories, i will need to do that. Just register and PM me the name of the category you like to have and i will make it and make your account moderator, then you can upload files and confirm them yourself.
Also, if anyone knows of some nice scripts for uploads/handling of uploads please suggest, this RW Download was the only one i could find that is free

Post ROMS to Usenet

Hello everyone,
I've been with XDA for over a year now (almost 2 years) and I was thinking about how I could contribute to this awesome community. I really don't know anything about creating ROMS, or scripts, or kernels....but I do know some things about Usenet. So, my question would be, should I create a newsgroup for the EVO, and then post the roms to that newsgroup? I would ask permission from the ROM creators first, and then I would post the NZB files so people that have access to Usenet could grab them.
Thoughts?

Why? What we do here works fine.

Hello Im a noob great well not really, but to posting yes, Id like to post in the dev section, but I guess too many idiots ask stupid questions so I guess Ill get my post count to 10, lol here's 1

bkrodgers said:
Why? What we do here works fine.
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To answer why: Most ROMS are posted via Rapidshare or something like that. I don't have a rapidshare account, nor do I want to get one. I do have access to newsgroups, and because my download speed is unmatched on newsgroups, that why I would post there. Also, once it's posted, the retention is a long time (1100 days for my usenet account).

FVUK yes.
up it to usenet....
WAY FASTER speeds and better organized
If you do it, please upload the server address
thanks

Well, I was thinking about doing one better than that and just posting/hosting the NZB files

Well, definitely check with devs first, as I know some take tracking download counts seriously. As for Rapidshare or any of the other file sharing sites, I don't have an account on any of them, but I download stuff just fine.

I download from those sites as well. What I'm looking at is a way I can contribute to the community....If I can spend time uploading different ROMS, and if it helps spread the word.....then I feel like I did something.....

Do it. Please.
Setup an nzb site and organize the rom's and radio
If you do it, ill donate some. $$ for your troubles.
Usenet would be awesome. And fast.
I really despise file sharing sites..too slow

I received permission from Myn to post Synergy RC1 to Usenet. I posted the ROM to alt.binaries.android. Attached is a zip of the .nzb file. People that dabble with Usenet, please download and let me know if it's all good.
Thanks!