Hi,
Recently I've been into website coding (and because of that, development of TarsaLZP is still paused). Right now I'm finishing some project (in PHP) for some financial advisor, but I want to make websites in Java (or more specific: I want to make money on Java). Currently I'm learning Apache Wicket framework and I read that Spring framework is a good addition to it. So I would write the site in that technologies.
I have an idea to make site with following sections:
- for developers: information about popular algorithms and implementation characterisitcs, thus helping developers to choose appropriate library to append to projects such as databases, data transmitters, XML compressor and so on,
- for inventors: information about commonly used algorithms for example Huffman coding, BWT or CM, thus making it easier to develop new compression algorithm,
- for enthusiasts: very general and simplified information about data compression, for example: why we can't create algorithm that losslessly compresses everything, what is multimedia compression, difference in block based compressors and stream based compressors and so on,
- for my "fans": everything about TarsaLZP and my other compressors,
Features I'm thinking of:
- comments for articles,
- RSS and ATOM feeds for new articles,
- guestbook,
- accounts (needed for writing comments without deciphering CAPTCHAs and providing some benefits for users, but not required),
- benchmarks copies - gathering many benchmarks into one place (for example MOC, metacompressor.com, BlackFox's benchmark) and present them in consistent way with use of JavaScript-powered tables (dynamic column hiding, searching in table cells, drawing graphs and so on),
- blogs for developers - for example for encode, Shelwien or Francesco, so they can announce their new work, they can have their own syndicaters,
- categorized links - with ability to edit for privileged users,
- forum - encode's forum is popular already so I'll point there,
That's what comes to my mind now. I've found a website template that I'll probablu use for start: http://templates.arcsin.se/freshmade...site-template/
How do you estimate popularity of such site? I wanna to place some ads on it (Google Adsense and maybe something else).
And I will appreciate any suggestions of domain name. I'll probably buy some "dot com" domain, currently I'm thinking of datacompressionexplained.com.