Article Writers Unite!

Ok....So....

I'm tiered of always waiting for something or something being down or something disiapperaing.

I've searched and searched to only find that theres always something I don't like about something. Can't please them all I guess. So I've decided to build my own "Article Site" and I'm going to build it my way, the way it should be.

Right now we're working on the layout. How it'll work and how it'll feel. The things we want to use and the things we don't. We're going to design this with the writer in mind. A writer first aproach. We'll design it to where you get paid in a timely manner and at a fair rate. It'll be simple but robust and full of "simple non-breaking" features. Fast to down load, free to join, no extra accounts needed. Thats always a hassle I think. I just want to sign up and write!

Then I started thinkning... How do I want to do this???? Whats the best way to get everything done. YOu have to have a great plan inorder to have a great website. So... I thought I would ask the most important people on the list. YOU!

The Website will be up and in betta in 60 days!
P.S. Other programers will see this and may decide to .... build on it... So we have to be fast about getting it done... It's in the open :)And also I don't mind one bit that you guys see how i'll make my money and how you'll make your's.... Thats the point :)

Here's what I have so far....(Chatting with the programmer)
the idea is simple, as your links shows:
1) a site that contain articles, where registered users write articles.

2) the article goes to a pool of pending articles, after checking that the admin will approve it and then it will be published.

3) articles are kept in different categories, while writting there will be some tags about the articles. can be sorted according to topic, date, tag etc.

4) user registration, login. user profile will be available and also there will be a user ranking based on their article rating or contribution to comments.

5) article rating system.

6) user can report violation if the article contain something wrong he thinks.

7) discussion about the article by users- whether they like it or not, what they think about it.

8) flexible searching->(target will be at first title, then target will be tags, then the content, and also the rating and comments will be important while searching).

9) there will be some other pages, like contact, some instructin for article writing etc.

10) newsletters for user. so that they can know any user anouncement or can know that if an new article arrives, or any comment or rating is done on his article.


about admin panel:
1) admin can add, delete, edit data from database.

2) will approve the articles. and if there is any problem he finds or others reported he will check that.

3) there will be some security actions: like tracking user ip, how frequently the login, track their activities.
so that the admin can track what is happing really,

4) admin will see all the activities in dashboard.

what is the benifit of users in this site?

ans: well we have two type of users: 1) who like to read articles, 2) who write articles.

now the first category will find some good articles so they will keep visiting that.

for category 2: these people will write articles. so if they are professional writers they can show to clients that his article has such amount response.

and as i will take care of SEO so the write will get a good publicity from this site.

2) what about usr interface?

ans: i am planing a simple interface, as an article site must have simple interface will less collor.

3) what will the user experience while using it?

ans: user will feel good.
because though it will have simple interface, but i will JQuery and ajax which will make user feel smooth.


Payment Ideas

let me tell you, how i think it can be distributed:
1) we make accounts in google adsense, amazon etc, and at the end of the month we collect the income and transfer it to our paypal account.

2) we calculate the total income and so the half of the income( as we are willing to pay that amount)

3) we insert the amount we wanna pay in admin panel in the decided field, and the script will calculate the amount of how much to pay to which writer.

4) the calculation can be done based on on the facts:
=> 5 points for each article submission, 1 extra point per 100 character( if the article is between 300 to 399 character then they get 3 extra point)
=> 1 point for each comment less than 50 characters, and 2 points for more than 50 character.
=> 1 point for each good rating, 2 points for each very good rating and -1(negative) point for a bad rating. (like for rating 1-4 point is -1, for 5-8 point is 1 and for 9-10 point is 2)
=> if a report is done against any article and you find it right, you suggest the writer to correct it. and they get -5 points(but it will be upto you to give him -5 point or not)
=> if a report is done against any article and you find the topic or the whole article is very sensitive, and can not be kept in your site, you cancel it and the writer get -10 points. (but whether to keep it or not in your site will be your decision. like you can keep a very sensitive and controversial article in you site as you are getting more traffic and comments and user contribution to it.)

5) so at the end of the month you calculate the earned point(it will be earned point only of the month only) of the writer, and based on that you distribute the money to the writer account.

like if the whole collected point but all writer is totally 10000, and a writer has earned 150 point, then he will get (150/10000) part of the total money.

for example: if
total money to pay = $500.
total point = 10000
point of the writer = 150

then the writer will get payment = 500*(150/10000) = 7.5

so he gets $7.5

6) then you do the payment to their paypal account. we will use paypal api to do the payment and payment can be done in a few click from admin panel

7) at 5th of the month you do the payment to the user paypal account. and the user will be notified by mail from your site.



Cast you're votes give me your ideas..... LET'S MAKE A GREAT PLAN AND I'LL BUILD IT!!!
I have the power :)

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