PlexPedia's vision is to be an organized, accessible database for all the knowledge in the universe - and to further that vision, PlexPedia allows you to create your own highly customizable, full featured versions of itself called "groups".

 

With your permission, PlexPedia automatically syndicates the information from your customized groups back to it's core interface - providing a symbiotic relationship that benefits everyone. You and your visitors get a powerful system for organizing, storing, and sharing your information; and PlexPedia's visitors benefit from the information that you share.

 

With PlexPedia, there is no distinction between the concepts of a blog, forum, or wiki: PlexPedia is each one of them - and more - at the same time. By simply adjusting the permissions of a PlexPedia group, it can perfectly serve in the roles of anything from your personal weblog - to a powerful Internet destination, with many people collaborating on a variety of topics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PlexPedia is currently at a stage of development where it can meet many needs perfectly, but it is still a bit of a specialized tool.

 

If there is a feature that would increase PlexPedia's usefulness to you, an ambiguity somewhere in PlexPedia's interface that doesn't quite make sense to you, or if you would like to discuss potential new business strategies - or even models, please let us know! You can contact PlexPedia's administrator directly - or even better, post your thoughts to the PlexPedia development group.

 

 

Want your own PlexPedia group? Once you have a PlexPedia user account - all you need to do is just fill in the details, press submit, and start adding content! Plexpedia takes care of everything for you - from web hosting to software configuration. PlexPedia is a self hosted service that just works.

 

 

 

This theme is super optimized, and should load just about instantly. It also includes a bunch of cutting edge CSS3 fun - such as rounded elements and browser calculated shadows.

 

I had so much fun designing it, that I even decided to set it as the default for my home page. 

 

Enjoy!

 

-Aubrey

 

 

Just an idea.

 

 

Somewhat simple, here is how I believe it should work:

 

 

 

ts.plexpedia.com/index

 

is the base.

 

First you put a dash, and spsearch instead of the usual plain old search, to specify a special search:

 

 

 

 

 

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-d-m-12-d-13-ty-1= equals date

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-d-m-12-d-13-ty-2 = before date

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-d-m-12-d-13-ty-3 = after date

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-d-m-12-d-13-ty-4 = between dates

 

 

when specifying between dates, you then use the same m,y,d specification after ty-4:

 

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-d-m-12-d-13-ty-4-m-12-d-17 =

 

between 12/13/anyyear, and 12/17/anyyear.

 

 

You can also set time.

When specifying time, all times are GMT.

 

to set a time, you can do tm (minutes) th (hours) or ts (seconds)

 

 

 

like this:

 

ts.plexpedia.com/index-spseach-th-4-tm-2-ty-4-th-4-tm-4

 

That means that it pulls up the post if it was made between 4:02 GMT and 4:04 GMT.

 

 

 

This system has one downside - miss-ordering the calls would mean a corrupted link. 

 

Either make a generator for creating such a link using this system (please), or try to find some other way of doing it.

 

 

Only being able to find things via tag can be a large downside to plexpedia, but being able to find it with such detail, such complexity, now that woudl be amazing.

 

Here is a simplified list:

 

 

• Able to find things by date
  • Minutes
  • Hours
  • Days
  • Months
  • Years
  • Before date, after date, between date
• Able to find things by name, tag, html, or content
  • Begins with
  • Ends with
  • Contains
• Able to add multiple parameters
  • By tag,content,date,time,name
  • Ors
  • Ands
  • Nots

And That's it, if your system can conform to that, it would be amazing!

 

Also some extra thoughts:

 

By length?

By style?

By font?

 

 

 

If one were to use "by title", and use "begins with" they could do a search based upon if the title begins with the letter a.

 

 

 

Here's some new features I have implemented in PlexPedia over the last couple days:

 

• Redesigned Group Customization system:
  Those of you who have your own groups most likely already noticed the group customization system redesign! Each aspect of your group now has it's own customization page, and all the pages are accessible through a streamlined overview page. Not only does this make for a much more intuitive and efficient administration experience, but it has also opened the door to many other new possibilities... 
• Themes:
  In the "Look & Feel" section of your new customization page, you can select any skin for your group effortlessly by clicking a radio button, and you can then choose any available theme for your skin. You can even create your own custom theme, and make your group look however you want it to! Themes are edited directly in CSS - and I plan to write some tutorials and example themes over the next couple days to give everyone a head start on the road to their own completely customized groups. Don't be intimidated at the idea of writing your own CSS - it's easy, fun, and very fast once you get the hang of it! Best of all, instead of using some proprietary design interface - you'll be learning to natively speak the language that the web is styled in.
• Personal Groups:
  In the "Group Details" section of your new customization page, you have to option to switch your group's type from "Standard" to "Personal". A Personal group is like your own PlexPedia powered blog - and unlike the boring old garden variety blogs of the past - Personal groups automatically populate themselves with everything you post publicly anywhere on PlexPedia.

• "Viewed" Tracking:
  While browsing, logged in users should notice the new "*" preceding all content items they haven't yet viewed - and the "+" preceding content that has been replied to or updated since they have viewed it. This is already a super useful tool, and I am working on some new browse modes that will make it even more so.

 

More features are in the works - including "Smart Pages", a bigger collection of built in themes, and a revamped content access permissions system.

 

-Aubrey

 

 

As PlexPedia is one of the future leading website platofrms (in my eyes) this might serve to your advantage; as it gets more popular, more people will come, hence other html designers will be here as well, they will be somewhat frustrated when they can not do things like redirects and image mapping (though image mapping is rather old).

 

 

My little scenario probably will not happen, but still, please consider making the html properties of PlexPedia more powerful : )

 

Thank You!

 

First of all, what about sub power groups?

 

How about if you start a group you become a true administrator? Hence, your power is boosted to 98 one below the rank for the administrator of all plexpedia sties. However your power is only 98 on YOUR group, no others.

 

then you could boost power of others, etc, the power changes do not effect the other websites.

 

 

 

Another idea would be more customization for your group; it is a bit of a three-parter, perhaps you would be able to create your own templates for things like headers, and backgrounds, like the customizability that the administrator of PlexPedia has over things like mars explorer. Now the simplest way to have such control would be to simply have access to more of the html controlling things like the headers. A more fantastic, and unfortunately, complex way of doing it would be to have it be visual, not GUI, being able to drag around the bar, adjust settings, like if you get too many tabs, it just makes it a double bar, then triple, etc, Now I happen to REALLY like the style of "high tech" but I want the tabs system of "clean". A great way to solve this would be instead of having premade settings with different combinations of organization, have the ability to make your OWN combinations, control over tabs, background color etc.

 

 

 

Finally, what about the ability to make your own custom RSS feeds, not very detailed, rather simple, and effective.

 

 

Well I am done spamming you with my ideas :P mack to Mars Explorer : )