UI

 >- A front page where we can list things like most recent reviews, most
 >recently added books, most popular Perl books, most popular computer
 >books, most popular general books,



 >These might be some sort of sidebar (kind of like the slashboxes on
 >Slashdot and use Perl).  The center could have a featured book >(something
 >the admins would set) and maybe a section for a generic news headline
 >where we might put something about a new perl book.

slashboxes:
	featured book
	quick links
	CPAN search
	Poll
	most popular books
	most recent books

 >>no need for that if we have some headlines and short paragraphs, etc. 
 >>i am not into busy pages like that.

hm, I actually think having a right and left colum is standard anymore?





 >- search form.  Search for books by:

 >-- title
 >-- author
 >-- publisher
 >-- ISBN
 >-- category
 >-- copyright year
 >-- checkbox for only books with reviews
 >>sort results by ranking, publisher, etc.



check



 >
 >- a page for a single book.  All the book's info (hmm, we need a way to
 >have cover images) plus any reviews available.
 >ability to rank book 1-10
 >>and we would want to be able to rank the rankers.  [:)]
 >>>Yeah, I was hoping we could use the friend/foe stuff from use Perl 
 >>>for that.  If you like someone's reviews you'll add them to your 
 >>>friend list. If you think they're a moron you'll remove them.  If I 
 >>>trust you maybe I'll simply add your friend list to mine.

I had been wondering about the cover pages thing,  does anyone know how 
that works legally?

Also can we get permission to use the camel in the logo?  If not I can 
think of something else, but the camel is my favorite =p

couldn't it be alot simpler and just add a 'ignore reviewer'?



 >- a form for submitting a new book

check



 >>bios/credentials of the most well known reviewers?

pr?



 >>
 >>book price searching? we could become an affiliate(s) with our cut 
 >>going to perl.org or YAS. easy way to support the perl community.

how does that work?


 >>keys to telling if a perl book is good? schwern had a couple of neat
 >>points he always checks for in the index. many perl books fail it. 
 >>call this page, how to judge a perl book.
 >>>This sounds like some static content we could simply link of the top 
 >>>page. Maybe an 'essays' section where we'd put that.  It certainly 
 >>>doesn't need to be dynamic since we're unlikely to get a lot of 
 >>>submissions of that sort and we can review them on a case by case 
 >>>basis.

how do we get the right to post the index?

what were these points?  (I don't think I saw that thread)