Developement

ANIMEMEX developement roadmap.

Development stage is: Alfa (at your own risk!)

Prototype

Achieved results

• Set up
• Feasibility test
• Content type creation
• Custom content presentation templates
• Image handling / scaling
• Custom PNG compression (256 colors) on scaled images thumbnails
• Content creation: 36 anime added, 97 characters added
• SIMILE timeline

Detected anomalies

• Upload malfunctions (Image field, attachments)
• SIMILE integration bugs

Prototype Phase 2: "Diane"

• Theme and layout redesign
  • Anime teaser + image
• Massive import from Wikipedia: automatic XML import through parsing
• Make content insertion easier
  • WYSIWYG / edit buttons
  • Edit while reading
• Contributor's hub
  • Member to member contact page
  • Profile page / blog
• Wikitext / tools debug
  • Broken interlinks on special characters
  • Redirect on single positive search result
  • Link through alternative titles
• Mecha content type redesign
• Relations between characters
• Distinct timeline page or AJAX loading (see Performance)
  • Timeline in category pages (Studio, Demographic)
  • Aims to
• OP / ED reference
• Garderobe, costume reference
  • Character / costume association
• Statistics
• photo sharing services (e.g. Flickr) cosplay costume search
• SEO URLs
  • Transliteration issue for Japanese titles
  • hiragana / romaji (Hepburn) alternative field + hiragana to ASCII file -> SEO URL
• in Classica: anime and classical music reference
• Previous / next title preview (Balloon for anime type)
• indexable author names (within nodes) and sorting system
• Performance
  • Use PHP5 via FastCGI (persistent process) instead standard PHP5 DONE
  • moved to a more reliable webhosting service DONE
  • Javascript aggregation and minification DONE
  • Gzip components both dinamically (HTML via PHP) and statically (CSS, JS, for lower CPU usage against on-the-fly compression) DONE
  • Use internal JavaScript and CSS for Timeline (timeline bug) to reduce DNS lookup and to aggregate the output DONE (using 1.2 api)
  • File caching for anonymous users POSTPONED
    • Erratic logout issue
    • ".html" punctuation characters mis-parsing issue
    • Statically Gzip file cached pages? dynamic request through dynamic gzip // statical cached page gzipped statically on creation (instead on-the-fly)
• Major version update: updated interface and engine, new (temporary) theme. All articles and users should be imported.