Just a quick post: We’re entering the final stages of our basic site setup.  Bone is currently working on finalising the review visuals, and I the system.  It’ll be a basic ranking out of 5 system, detailing pros & cons, with a thumbs up, thumbs down or the morally ambiguous “thumbs middle”.

Also still to come will be basic user accounts.  I’m still in favour of making comments easy to toss out there, but just so there’s no impersonation going on we really need to make names link to accounts.  This will also support our ability later to have contests, given that we know accounts will have verified emails.  Mark’ll be looking in to this soon.

After all that’s done with, we’ve one more super secret section of the site that’s yet to be completed (details closer to completion), and then we’ll be done with our Armchair Diplomat v1 rollout.

From there, well, Mark wants to get his hands dirty with code and begin a site resculpt.  I kinda agree with him, as while I do love our current set up and colour scheme, the theme we’re currently using is a bit clumsy and prone to visual/alignment bugs.  That’s still a while away however, so you can get used to the look of things for the time being.  If you do find any bugs in the site, by all means drop a comment (any post is fine, I read them all) and let us know, I’ll get the coding monkey Mark to take a look!

More details as things progress, folks!