JoeLipinski Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 Hi everyone,I just wanted to tell you about something I made. This all started with me wanting to create a review system so that I know which shisha's I like and which ones I don't like. So I made a excel spreadsheet, but then I figured I could automate the process a little bit more, so I went to work creating a database and a website to work with the database. Well it ended up turning into a review site that anyone can enter a review. I will update the site a lot more in the near future. Just to let you know, I only started creating this site a few days ago... just to let you know how fast it is progressing.Basically I want your reviews. I also want your opinions on the site.So if you would like to take the plunge and try out the review site, it is at:http://joelipinski.homeip.net:81/HookahReview/If you want to submit a review you must sign up. I will never ever use the email address you supply outside of the site and the password you supply is encrypted using php's md5() function for security.Thanks,JoeP.S. to the admin: I don't know if this is against the rules to post this but, I would like for this to be incorporated into the site if people think it is a good idea and there is a way to incorporate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 26, 2006 Author Share Posted December 26, 2006 Bump... please check out my site, I am working my hardest to please everyone, if you don't like something about it drop me a message and tell me what is wrong and I will fix it. I really want this site to work. Also admin, what do you think about what I posted about possibly incorporating it into the forum. Please thou provide some feedback, good or bad, please!Thank you,Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shavo989 Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 QUOTE I am working my hardest to please everyoneHaha, heck yeah he is! He typed out every brand and flavor under the sun for the ease of the reviewer...(...I think he secretly thinks we're all stupid*)*Just kidding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerodynamic Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 when i get a chance, I would be happy to add my vast experiences of tobbaco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 um joe, not to discourage you or anything..but this exact thing has been tried, a few times, even before we HAD ouw own review section...he was the thread for one of them...http://www.hookahforum.com/index.php?showt...;hl=review+siteThis one dies a lingering death because everythign everyone wanted was already here, why do anywhere else? Again, not bashing you, just letting you know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 QUOTE (mushrat @ Dec 26 2006, 11:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>um joe, not to discourage you or anything..but this exact thing has been tried, a few times, even before we HAD ouw own review section...he was the thread for one of them...http://www.hookahforum.com/index.php?showt...;hl=review+siteThis one dies a lingering death because everythign everyone wanted was already here, why do anywhere else? Again, not bashing you, just letting you know... I am not taking it as bashing, From the looks of it, the last site, did not allow people to submit reviews as easy, they had to type it in, and email. Also, my site incorporates uniform reviews (like how you can only select very bad, bad, average, good, very good for flavor and other aspects of the rating). I also incorporated a live graph and am going to soon put a ranking the flavors based upon average rating. I have only started work on this about 5 days ago (which I feel there has been a whole lot of progress since then). Also I am willing to take the reviews that were posted on the forum and put them into the site, so people don't have to repost. I love the forum dearly, but I feel this site is a lot easier to rate hookah tobacco with. I am also going to be updating the site regularly (like every day or two). I agree with your opinion that this could crash and burn very easily, butthat is why I want your opinions on it so I know if I should continue working on it, or if I should just stop.thanks for the input mushy. I would still like to hear what everyone else thinks about it. Also if you wouldn't mind telling me about how long it takes for the site to load, that would be great :-) .also if you want to just test out the site before possibly signing up, there is a demo account:username: demopassword: demoI hope this can eventually become a valuable asset to the hookah community. As always thanks everyone for helping me out with this. I am going to pm dan and adrock to talk to them about the site too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bondal929 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 wow i really like that! keep up the good work! I was hoping someone would make a review site!**one suggestion - when it gets big enough it might be good to separate them by brands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyGuy Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 The graph is cool... but waiting on it to load blows and then clicking on it takes you to the software site. Would be cool if this got up and running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 the script that I used for the graph costs 50.00 right now, so I figure I would just use the free version for now. Also I am hosting this site from my home server over a DSL connection, so that is why it could take a while to load. I am going to be getting a hosting package from a 3rd party so that the site will load a lot faster. Also the reviews are separated by brand somewhat, because they are listed in order, but I understand the want for separation between brands in a more easier way and also possibly a drop down box where you can pick a brand and see reviews only for that brand. Seems like people like it so far, so I am going to continue developing it. I am also working on version 2 which will have many improvements. I am hoping version 2 to be out before the end of January. I am also going to start posting the reviews from the forum on the site under the name of hookahforum.com Reviews if that is ok? I will start that now and if there is objection to it, I will delete the reviews from the forum. Thanks for the input everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyGuy Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Ah, by speed I ment the actual action of the bars jumping onto the graph... takes forever and you just have to wait till the end of the show to see all of the responses... but you still have time to find a cooler way of doing this before final is up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 QUOTE (DizzyGuy @ Dec 27 2006, 01:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ah, by speed I ment the actual action of the bars jumping onto the graph... takes forever and you just have to wait till the end of the show to see all of the responses... but you still have time to find a cooler way of doing this before final is up I have taken out the animation so that it loads all the bars at once. sorry about the long wait :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 Nothing personal, really, but my reviews were typed for the forum here and I'd appriciate if thats where they stayed, atleast for now. I want to see how the site turns out before something with my name on it goes up. Since some reviews may have been written by folks no longer posting for the use here on hookahforum.com, you may want to wait and see who GIVES you permission to copy their posts instead of the other way around. Someone might NOT me happy to find soemthing they posted one place showing up in another without their permission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASUSEAN1 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 i think the graph is pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 Ok, I will delete all of the hookahforum.com review posts from the site and if anyone wants me to post all of their posts from the forums review area, I will for them. sorry about that mushy, I made sure I deleted your review first, I will be deleting the other ones very shortly (like now). Also thanks Asusean1, it took me like a few hours to get the graph going right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtemes Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 very nice. just a few things i think would be awesome would be to have different tabs for the different brands (which im guessing you've thought of already) and then all the flavors listed. Then once you started getting multiple reviews for the same flavor you should have an avg rating. Nobodies done that with shisha reviews before and could be very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 QUOTE (jtemes @ Dec 27 2006, 05:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>very nice. just a few things i think would be awesome would be to have different tabs for the different brands (which im guessing you've thought of already) and then all the flavors listed. Then once you started getting multiple reviews for the same flavor you should have an avg rating. Nobodies done that with shisha reviews before and could be very useful.Thanks for your recommendations, I am still considering how to do the display 1 flavor only (like what you said with tabs, or a drop-down, or some other method) but I should have it put there very shortly (like 1 or 2 days). As for the averaging the flavors when you have multiple, I didn't do that because I want people to be able to see a variety of opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvansLight Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Well joe i suck at doing, but i am a good idea man, AIM me if you want to chat bout it, you got my aim Nice so far, still think you need a custom design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLipinski Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 QUOTE (EvansLight @ Dec 27 2006, 10:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well joe i suck at doing, but i am a good idea man, AIM me if you want to chat bout it, you got my aim Nice so far, still think you need a custom design I am going to eventually implement a custom design... I just used the design from oswd.org because I wanted to get the site started and working so that people could test it and tell me what they thought about it. :-) . I will talk to you sometime about redesigning the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehookah Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 That is why I haunt this joint. No need to 'do my own'..-cheers-For the labour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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