[KHJ] wassup with SgTripleS
okay, i'd first blogged about SgTripleS here.yea, the singapore SS501 fanclub was set up on 1st may.
ever been there?
if yes, then the following cached pages would be familiar to you, ya?
i remember hating the overall look and feel of the website. and i remember hating even more the layout and the navigation. and oh man, the tagboard, the tabs on top... i practically hated everything there.
and mind you, black is my favourite colour.
the site just didn't look like it had a personality, and it wasn't at all user-friendly nor inviting.
i know i wasn't the only one who felt that way. quite many fellow bae-shillang-fans shared the same sentiments. in fact, i'd even come across a few who didn't quite figure out how to even work that site.
and haha, this young lady here actually said and i quote,
I am so excited for Saturday - Asta and the Album. Omg!!!!! ^^v. I can't help but keep mentioning it. 4 more days. I love quainte501.com. My daily dose of SS501 & Kim Hyun Joong.
Sgtriples.com is awesome too, I get my merch from there!! Btw don't you think their layout really sucks?? My hands are itchy to make a layout for them but im lazy.. hahahaha. Ah I miss my 'layout making days'...
and... truth be told, the young ladies who had set up the fanclub did not imagine that the number of fans would grow this quickly. yea, they'd set up in may, and in about two months' time, the number of fans who had registered on the website ran into the hundreds.
before long, the founders were finding it hard to manage the site the way it was. not only was it cumbersome, the hosting package that they took also didn't allow them to manage the members the way a typical forum would. this translated into lots of manual work for the poor girls.
but hey, they're not IT-trained, and never worked in any dotcom companies, and there's not enough money to hire someone to whip up a sharp-looking website complete with forum... so you tell me, what's a girl to do?
so they gathered a couple more people and with fewer than five pairs of hands amongst them, they tried to re-do the entire website. of course, they had to enlist the help of a man... haha, it's always a man coming to the rescue, ya?
anyway, this wonderful guy friend helped to install the forum for them, and that's cutting the story really really short... coz the girls practically had to abandon the original hosting package that they had, and had to sign up for another package which would allow them to upload and install the forum software.
and yea, that means along the way, they'd lost the original black, user-unfriendly site.
and yea, that means the girls have to rebuild the site.
and trust me, if you haven't done this before, don't think it's that easy. coz it involves reading up, completing the initial settings, deciding what sections (or forums and sub-forums) you want to create, choosing the colour theme and skins... etc etc etc.
goodness, and it's not like the girls are full-time fans, you know. so they're sacrificing their sleeping time, their weekend to do as much as they can. and still leave time for, oh, mundane things like eating, drinking and breathing.
yea, for now... while all you're seeing when you visit SgTripleS website is this under construction message...
in the background, there are a few girls working frantically to try and get the site up and running as early as they can...
here's a sneak preview...
of course it's green now... this IS the SS501 fansite, you know?
a little bird flew by and rested upon my window earlier... well, it had a message for us, that the SgTripleS site should be up very very soon.
early august, it'd whispered into my ear...
anyway, when the site is up, will need all of you to go help spice things up with lots of exciting contents, ya?
meanwhile, let's have a look at the super-cute boys at the airport... these pics ain't new, they'r taken sometime back, but so adorable that no one should miss seeing them.
haha, they've formed a conga line!
and i truly heart this one when the boys actually held hands in a circle when they came out into the arrival hall!
cute!
posted by bb @ 7/29/2009 03:32:00 AM
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