Last night a group of Ekaweeka's leading users met up for a night of wine, cheese, tacos and fun. It wasn't an official event in any capacity but while catching up on our lives and filling our bellies there was discussion about our wonderful new project.
We chatted about some great experiences we had already had while using the site, and we discussed the new features like profile customization, and possible feature developments like the Eka pages.
Lots of great feedback there, possibly interesting direction for the Eka pages. As they are now, you start with a blank page, and add widgets to customize the page content. One suggestion was that they fit the format of the other pages, and have a customizable body, so one could give the page its own title, and enter whatever content/text/photos/html etc.
On styles, we found everyone was very excited about customizing their page. Yet the whole Social Network - Profile Customization phenomenon is largely supported by other people supplying users with style-sheets (CSS) to use. I've taken a slightly different approach. Considering that we don't have avid CSS designer's under our member's list yet I just gave a little direction and hoped people would figure it out.
CSS is by no means an easy editing method for non-web savvy users to pick up overnight, but I do think half providing help and half leaving it up to them to figure it out will only open up more doors and start a little Eka-styling buzz.
So let it be that last night was the first kind of sort of Eka - party. You better bet there many more where that came from.