Whats On Next

Logo Time

2004-10-18T00:53:00.000-07:00

Finally got around to playing with the logo...it's about time

Made it bigger and more colorful. It still has the zaney antenna look to it...but now in brighter colors.

I expanded the size a bit. Just so it's a little more readable. I think it adds a bit more of a fun factor to the site.

Maybe eventually down the road i'll play with it more, but this will do for a long while :)

Changed around the site a lot....

2004-10-15T13:59:00.000-07:00

Added a lot more colors....Added more forums for specific TV shows.

Whatsonext.com is definitely getting put together.

I'll probably be changing around part of the formats of the buttons and making things a little smoother. But i'm much happier with the site now and it's improvement since what it first looked like.

:)

Free Gmail Invites

2004-10-14T06:26:00.000-07:00

In case you need some more free gmail invites. Here are some more:

http://www.whatsonext.com/index.php?showtopic=95

You just need to register at the site and send a message to crofty

enjoy :)

Huge Site Update

2004-10-04T00:21:00.000-07:00

Major changes all over. Completed fixing all major bugs for the site.

A lot of the major graphics of the site were changed to give it a bit more of a blue color. Just to give it a more pleasing view.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out. All of the links and images work now, which makes it much easier to navigate

Whatsonext.com is fully functional now. :)

Header and favicon

2004-09-28T02:12:00.000-07:00

Took a bit more work, but i got the favicon for Whatsonext.com running. The icon image was scaled down from the antenna W from the header and then i did some editing of the pic.

I ended up having to Google the final information on how to create one. Apparently you also need to add some URL code to point the browsers to the icon as well. I forgot to do that in the beginning.

The header got cleaned up too. Nice and clean. Took out any of the little spots and lines out of the header.

The Whatsonext name was also edited. The spacing wasn't quite right, but now it looks perfect.

Getting close to a complete site. I'll have to do a tech upgrade to the final version of 2.0 soon that should finish out the site. After that, this site will be running for years to come. :)

Busy Week

2004-09-25T09:38:00.000-07:00

Took a little time off from updating.

Back into the swing of things this weekend.

Added a thread for the TV Tuesday Blog about Spin-Offs this week.

Site is back up!!

2004-09-17T11:53:00.000-07:00

hmm

2004-09-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

well...now the host has his site up. Good for him.

If only the guy would get to mine. lol

Site Down

2004-09-17T03:43:00.000-07:00

Well,

I guess the frustrations of being a website owner are now upon me.

Whatsonext is down!!!

What's even worse is that even the host companies website is down. So, there isn't even a way to find out what's going on. Hopefully this is some sort of server update or something of that sort.

I guess it's one of the problems with going with cheap hosts. You lack support for the site.

I'm a little frustrated...but it's just something new to deal with.

Whatsonext Store

2004-09-16T16:01:00.000-07:00

I'm thinking about adding in a Whatsonext store.

I'll have to look into the scripting, but it might be a nice little feature to the board that gets the word out on the site.

Changing color?

2004-09-15T15:22:00.000-07:00

Whatsonext.com is fairly black and gray.

I was considering playing around and subtly tweaking the color scheme. Possibly making it more black and white. It may make it match up with a TV theme.

TV Deals

2004-09-13T19:50:00.000-07:00

TV related deals should be solid content. I've been slowly updating with deals on ReplayTVs, TVs, DVDs, etc.

I haven't seen any other site with a topic that specific to DVDs, Electronics, and merchandise related to TV.

Whatsonext.com Deals

Cool TV emoticons

2004-09-11T23:29:00.000-07:00

This is a cool one that i added to Whatsonext

They had a Scary TV one too....but i didn't upload it.

Early

2004-09-11T21:29:00.000-07:00

Well....I finished the emoticon project earlier than i thought.

Not too hard to do.

I'll have to scour the net for some more cool one's to add to Whatsonext

Smilies and Emoticons

2004-09-11T18:54:00.000-07:00

Looks like that's going to be my project for the weekend.

The Whatsonext forum software allows you to add in emoticons and smilies.

There's some pretty impressive one's on the net. Should give the site a little bit more atmosphere and fun.

eh

2004-09-10T01:36:00.000-07:00

not much got done today on the site. Just updated some deals.

Pretty late

2004-09-09T01:06:00.000-07:00

I'm up late poking around some blogs. lol

Still thinking up stuff to add and rearrange on Whatsonext.

It's been a decent start to the TV season for sure. There's definitely some more shows to look forward to. Flipping through some of them on the old ReplayTV.

TV Tuesday Blog

2004-09-08T19:26:00.000-07:00

Found a new blog today. TV Tuesday Blog

Every tuesday the person who runs the blog asks questions about TV shows and people on other blogs answer the questions. It looks kind of fun.

I might see if i can build the questions either into my blog or maybe even into Whatsonext

Content

2004-09-08T18:36:00.000-07:00

Working on getting some content up on Whatsonext

Finally have some basic threads going.

Errors

2004-09-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

I've been trying to update this blog all day.

Apparently Java had issues and it wasn't letting me post. I finally restarted and it's working again. How frustrating!!

New TV season

2004-09-08T11:39:00.000-07:00

The new TV season started already in the US. I listed a couple of the one's that i found over in the whatsonext forums.

Definitely a couple worth catching. Besides that I've started to add more content to the site. Adding the right bits of info that make a forum useful.

btw

2004-09-07T05:52:00.000-07:00

This blogging thing could get really addictive. lol

It's kind of fun going to random blogs. You notice all the different quirks.... sarcasm...humor that people have on the net.

I'm still messing around with my template. I'll have to see if there are some cool one's around here that i can upload.

ReplayTV

2004-09-07T05:41:00.000-07:00

My tv life has changed big time ever since i've got a ReplayTV.

Now i record stuff in advance...and i can skip through commercials. Lately, i FF through the crappy parts of shows....kind of skimming through a show. Makes for a lot less TV watching when you save 20-25 minutes per hour of programming.

This thing is the best purchase i've made in a year. Saves a lot of time and 100 times easier than a stinking VCR and those tapes. I will have to do some hacking to it. Although, I don't watch SO much TV that it ever gets full. But apparently you can put a bigger hard drive in it, and save more stuff. I'm a watch once and toss kind of person though. So....who knows. If I'm bored some time, I guess I'll do it.

Edit: I just remembered. A great site for help with ReplayTVs and most video hardware AVS Forum

random

2004-09-06T19:46:00.000-07:00

Since I'm probably going to have a little lag time....i think i'm going to add some random content to my blog and Whatsonext. Just to fill in some content on both.

What the heck....i guess i'm a little bored :P

tick tock

2004-09-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

well...i guess the biggest issues are always going to be membership or at least finding a couple people who like some TV shows like me. I guess i should invite a couple more friends and see if i can get the word of mouth going. Google is my friend. I should see if i can add my url to their site

I wonder what Whatsonext will be like a year from now........

Graphics

2004-09-05T11:57:00.000-07:00

The skinning of Whatsonext is nearly complete. A friend helped out with that. So, most of those site errors are gone.

The skin is uploaded. We've just been tweaking with the format and making it flow with a TV theme. Originally the top part of the site (header) was more of an alternative alien type theme. But now it's been shifted to a more Black and White TV Theme. The 1 or 2 people i've showed it to, seem to have positive comments about it.

We added the TV to the right and then the name of the site. The "W" in the title for Whatsonext has an antenna theme to it. We're thinking about adding a remote to it. Hopefully that'll give it a more TV theme. Basically, the last couple days have been about refinement of how people look at the site and giving it that TV flavor.

Whatsonext Site Errors

2004-09-04T17:31:00.000-07:00

hehe

Whatsonext has had issues for the last couple days during this labor day weekend. We've been messing with the top header section and now all the formatting is messed up :P

Hopefully once that part is fixed, things will be somewhat normal again. lol

Still messing around

2004-09-03T13:01:00.000-07:00

I think i made the site too complex...

So i scaled down the forums. If it's too busy, it won't be fun to use. I still have to think about what other cool forums to add. I think i have some of the popular stuff covered. I poked around a couple other sites to see what they have...so i think i've got a site people might visit.

Skin and Graphics

2004-09-02T19:48:00.000-07:00

Got the skin up. It's got a weird alien type theme at the top..... Take a look at Whatsonext

Not at all TV related......yet......i guess i'll have to mess with it for a while. It's an awesome look. The skinner (the guy who makes the design) really put some thought into it. I've going back and forth looking at it and can't find really any other discussion forums about TV shows that have near the graphics.

hehe...i love it

Starting up the site

2004-08-31T20:41:00.000-07:00

Registered the name of the site and found a place to host the software. That wasn't too bad. A friend helped out. It took a couple days waiting it out for Godaddy to get its' act together and do all the changes.

but basically.....we now have a website to play around with.

setup

2004-08-30T13:58:00.000-07:00

Since we got it set up....

I've been messing with placement of things. Figuring out how things should be organized. No idea what people will like. Well at least it'll be a start.....

Tossing ideas around

2004-08-29T13:45:00.000-07:00

lol...finding a name for this freaking site is damn near impossible.

It's taken a week to find the right name

Everything is taken. I tried like 8 billion combinations.

A friend of mine gave me some good inspiration and we finally found the last combination left on the internet. lol

cybersquatters suck

What a pain!!

Too much TV?

2004-08-27T18:51:00.000-07:00

lol

Do I watch so much TV that i had to create a whole site about it?

Well...at least there will be some Off Topic people to chat with....hehe

That should cut down the time killer that is TV :P

Whats On Next - A Start

2004-08-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

Well, I finally did it.

Decided to jump into the web world and create a website.

Whatsonext.com

Basically it's a TV discussion forum. Current TV shows for the most part. It should be a fun way to meet some people around the net.

This should be fun...I think.......lol