That is the intention, the Tutorials and Reviews will be about anything in general, obviously categorised and tagged for easy searching and navigation. The added ability to talk about things in our own forum will be essential, especially if it is totally unrelated to HFS or our own templates issues. I'm hoping to increase the number of templates, and the quality of templates for HFS. I miss the days of different templates and designs popping up on the forum. I think it is because they get lost in the forum, that there is no place for people to host and show off their own templates, is what is causing the lower level of template creation. I am hoping that there are other people out there that use their web design and developing capabilities with HFS, some may shrug it off due to 'real' servers using php, sql, etc. But I love HFS for its simplicity and power, and that's what I think a lot of us enjoy about it.
I hope that people can make new templates, by learning from their experience using our templates, their own, and extending on ideas. I'm all for creativity. I don't like carbon copies of our own templates with just a delete function tapped onto it, unless of course the user releases it in the form of a Tutorial instructing a user how to install such a feature. We will have a quality standard for hosted templates.
Of course we don't mind if our template is modified and released under the same license we use, as long as it has some sort of noticeable changes... I don't like it when people host the entire template archive of say... 'RAWR-Template with Delete' on the forum, people hit those download links and the data is not recorded at our homepage, we lose track of the amount of people using our templates this way, there isn't enough different about the 'RAWR-Template with Delete' to define it as a new template. At least with the files hosted on our own CMS we can monitor and show file hit counts, with the ability for people to rate templates with a star system and comments. Numbers are a key purpose to keep the project alive. Without numbers or donations, the project will stagnate and we will eventually abandon it entirely as we move forward with our life.
It might be just wishful thinking that this website upgrade will make us a permanent and recognisable part of the rejetto HFS community, more-so than just template providers. I want our website to be THE place to go for HFS templates and template deviations, a fun place for people to get creative and innovate with HFS templates.
Remember, the templates we HFS users create are the external interface and an advertisement of HFS for the friends and family using these personal servers to transfer files. So be proud of what you create, dress up your HFS in a way that reflects the quality of the product hosting it.
I am hoping to speak with Richard tonight, hopefully he has the time to read the thoughts displayed here. So far I have 3 possible moderator candidates and 1 confirmed, Foggy will be a resident moderator and poster on the new website.