I’m very sorry for the long explanation for this project. I know you are all pros. But I wanted to be clearer on what I want. This is my basic idea. If you can add more color/excitement to this project, you are always welcome.
I’m looking for a complete website (from the scratch) (back-end-front-end) (PHP MySQL) for an online movie review magazine.
The main page should have 4 parts (not frames) – Header, left, right and Main/Center area.
Main/Center should have 3 sections
Top section for news/articles
Middle section for reviews
Bottom section for voting
Top section: News/Article Section
Should have gist (not just links or not complete articles) of latest movie news/articles. Heading and 3 or 4 lines
from the article for each. There should be an option “..read full story” under every article.
By clicking the heading or “..read full story” or anywhere within that article the complete article should expand. By
clicking one more time it should compress (tree style). This section should only be managed by (siteadmin/webmaster).
There should be a content management control panel to update, add new articles easily.
Middle Section: Reviews/Comments Section
Many users can post reviews for the same movie.
For the time being anyone can post a review. But in future this should be limited to only registered users. This
mechanism has to be in place from day one but disabled temporarily.
Along with the review, user should be able to upload pictures/stills (limit to 10 not more than 100kb each) from the movie. Before submit, user has to rate the movie (0 to 10 stars) which should show as reviewer’s rating.
Once the review is posted no one can edit/modify including the review poster except webmaster/siteadmin.
Visitors who visit this website should be able to only read these reviews and post their comments for the review. They should be able to rate the review and rate the movie separately (0 to 10 stars).
(Default Display) – Only gist of 4 0r 5 most recent reviews (not the entire review, but only randomly few lines from the review) along with the reviewer name, reviewer rating, visitor rating of the review, visitor rating of the movie should be displayed with 3 or 4 corresponding visitor comments (a line or two from visitors comments) in the main/center area. Under each of this review/visitor comments should have link options “..read full review”, “..read all reviews of this movie”.
By clicking “..read full review”, that particular review along with reviewer name, reviewer rating, visitor rating of the review, visitor rating of the movie and “..read all reviews from this reviewer” (if there are any) and all the corresponding user comments should be displayed in main/center area.
By clicking “..read all reviews of this movie” it should display gist of all reviews (if there are any) of that particular movie along with the reviewer name, reviewer rating, visitor rating of the review, visitor rating of the movie should be displayed with 3 or 4 corresponding visitor comments (a line or two from visitors comments) in the main/center area. Under each of this review/visitor comments should have link options “..read full review”, “..read all reviews of this movie”.
By clicking “..read all reviews from this reviewer” it should display gist of all reviews (if there are any) from that particular reviewer along with the reviewer name, reviewer rating, visitor rating of the review, visitor rating of the movie should be displayed with 3 or 4 corresponding visitor comments (a line or two from visitors comments) in the main/center area. Under each of this review/visitor comments should have link options “..read full review”, “..read all reviews of this movie”.
Bottom Section: Voting Section
All visitors should be able to vote. Voting will be for the categories – Star of the year, Best Movie, Best Actor – for a movie…, Best Actress – for a movie…, Best Actor/Actress in negative role – for a movie….
(Default Display) – All these categories should be displayed with available options set by siteadmin/webmaster (radio buttons). Visitors should be able to vote on available options or also they should be able to submit a new option (not a new category) for under any of the available categories. For example they can add “abc” as a Best Actor for “xyz” movie. Once its added the Best Actor – for a movie… category should get refreshed and display old plus newly added (considered one vote) option. Visitor can vote only once on all the available categories on one calendar day from one IP address. Visitor can vote from the same IP address only next calendar day. Visitors should be able to view results at any time.
Left Section: Few navigation buttons, few links to reviews and ad space
Right Section: Few navigation buttons, few links and ad space
Header Section: Logos, navigation buttons and ad space.
The most important thing is all the pages layout/colors/readability should have pleasing effect on eyes, user friendly and easy navigation. The very most important is there should be an admin control panel through which everything including site, users, rating, news/articles, voting sections are easily administered/manageable even for non techie.
Thank you in advance for your help.