Site: www.auctionofdoom.com
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Overview
Auction of Doom was an eCommerce venture I was involved with in the summer of 2006 (Dec, Jan and Feb). The idea was an auction site dedicated to MMO players.
As for my role in its development (and management), it mainly consisted of server support, programming support and site design. Branding was shared between myself and another member of the team.
Auction of Doom actually consisted of two sites, the main auction site and a secondary community-oriented site. The Community site was to be developed into a gaming hub consisting of gaming reviews and other assorted interesting stuff.
Post-Mortem
As a concept it suffered under the attributes of being a hard sell and having a severely limited budget (all of us who founded it were merely time-rich and not much else).
After an initial blitz the site has stagnated with those of us in the company going our own ways. The main auction site has been left up as a favour to a friend while the community site has been taken down due to an increasing surge of spam.
As of late 2007 two of those of us who founded AoD have moved on and will only provide assistance if the final founding member decides to do something with the site.
The Auction site
Main duties and jobs:
- Theme design
- CMS customization (editing settings)
- Icon/Logo design
- System configuration (reprogramming scripts)
- Testing and Debugging
- Maintenance
The site was built on PhpAuction EP, an Auction CMS. The system was quite temperamental, requiring a lot of prompting before certain things could be changed especially altering the theme. Most likely when it gets relaunched in the future I would have to build a brand new framework.
A final note on the system: AoD has remained dormant now for a number of months, since then my hosting company has changed their systems a bit making the already temperamental phpAuction break, again.
The Community Site
Main duties and jobs:
- Theme design (including Icons)
- CMS customization (editing settings)
- Development of Blocks and Modules
- Maintenance
The Community site was built on PHPNuke. For the most part I like Nuke, it works well though in the future I would most likely build a new system to run the site, espically to merge the two site systems together.
This site has been taken down (and all its content downloaded) due to an increasing rise of spam messages.