Hey guys, as you may have noticed this is just a wordpress blog (which is still amazing and highly recommended if you are looking at starting a personal or company blog) but to give advertisers good exposure and make the site more interactive for visitors I want to redesign it into a proper website.
I would really like to get a tertiary institute to redesign it and make a cool YouTube video and blog documentary on the process of creating and building the site to promote that institute and their students and teachers.
NatColl has expressed some interest which would be really cool – but if anyone or even a web development company would like to do it as a way to promote their skills and services this would be a great way to do it and likely result in a lot of national and international attention. Once we get the site up I am going to push it even harder and it should get some pretty decent traffic (if the coverage so far is anything to go by).
Below is a list of the features I think would be cool but I am open to any suggestions:
- A 360 degree rotating animation of my legs (ajax or flash?) – with the tattoo’s which you could then pause, click on and zoom in.
- When you hover over the tattoo it would pop out and show the sponsors/companies who paid for that tat + the tattoo company and artist who did the artwork.
- The pop out would have the companies logo which you could then click on and take you to a page about them which they could then log into and edit, upload latest flyer etc.
- The sponsors could be sorted into category / industry and sponsorship type.
- A similar set up would be needed for media who cover the story and the article they write – so they can log in and edit their page (to encourage them to cover it and spread the word).
- A page of the tattoo companies + a blurb and link.
- An About page – why companies should sponsor etc
- An intro video – plus a video page with the YouTube Vid series.
- Site stats – unique visits, page views etc
- A twitter feed, plus links to the facebook group, YouTube channel etc
- A blog and feed to the front page
- Charities to receive the $50,000 when I make it to $1 mill – submit and vote for by community – top 10 get $5,000 each
- Artwork to be used for tats – and artist profiles from members from Art Klick. (who I pay $1,000 if I use their artwork).
- A forum with avatars and profiles for sponsors to talk marketing and promote their company.
- Competitions – with prizes from sponsors who want more coverage
- eCommerce functionality – credit card payment for sponsors and guerrilla marketer membership
- A nice CMS so I can add new sponsors, blog posts, competitions etc.
Few other ideas include:
- A drag and drop tattoo on legs – but not of high importance/necessity
- A media player
These are some ideas so far. I want to steer clear of Flash (except maybe for the rotating legs) as it isn’t visible to google and the links to sponsors wouldn’t be worth anything to them (This site is constantly increasing in power/authority in Google due to all the links from news and education websites which is another huge reason to become a sponsor – sweet sweet anchor text!)
If anyone is interested please give me an email or call and we can talk more how we can work together. Would love to get this going soon though!
