Hi,

Thanks for your comments.

Yep, an RSS feed is in the pipeline, though I'd be interested to know from other people who would use this. We often get requests like this to find that only one or two people actually use them.

With regards to the forum, what we have at the moment is an experiment in try to generate a differnet type of discussion around our work. The design of the site didn't really point strongly towards this and so we've realised it's not worked so are in the process of moving the format towards something more traditional. However we're not using an off-the-shelf product for a variety of reasons, least of which is integration with the rest of the site's functionality. We're also not wanting to make the site focussed on a forum, so trying to keep away from a PHPBB application which takes over it ... after all much functionality is seldom used by most, only a few, and we aren't after technology elitists here, rather providing simple tools to encourage involvement in the process.

I tend to find most forum interfaces too visually overwhelming myself, with the standardised format having developed out of laziness and familiarity rather than evolution of design, but that's another story..

In general the site has been put up as a work in progress, not as a finished item, and we're planning on evolving it over time.

In terms of archiving live projects : unfortunately it's simply not possible to archvie everything with the small team and budget's we've got. We're trying to do everything, but the nature of live is, well, it's live. I'm sure you can imagine that keeping an archive of over 200,000 webcam images, occupying 100GB of diskspace, is simply not feasable in the offchance that someone missed something. This goes for a lot of the things that happen, whilst we can try and archive a lot of them we can't do everything, as much as we wish we could.

d.

Yeah, I didn't really mean a big fully-fleshed-out message board, just something a bit easier to use, you know, for the non-elite. The archiving thing was more wishful thinking than anything else.

Thanks for taking the time to listen, anyway. This site is great.

Yes, I would definitely use an RSS feed if you published one - lot's of people have RSS readers (like NetNewsWire, etc. on the Mac) so you can scan through a whole load of stuff as it comes in. I reckon it would be worth your while. Andy.

We discussed the feedback on the Forum yesterady at our site development meeting and everyone is open towards moving to a more standardised layout. I've done the pages, but we still need to do some more design tweaks and then, hopefully, we can put it up next week.

RSS will be a bit longer to come as there is a huge list of things for me to be doing in the meantime.