Site Progress

Hopefully you'll find our site is already one of easiest, friendliest and most powerful cosplay sites on the net. However we're not sat here resting on our laurels. We've got lots more ideas planned and we're already hard at work on them. Included below is a list of things we've already got in the pipeline that will start appearing one by one over the coming months.

However this site is yours as much as it is ours. So if you've got some great ideas that we've not thought about then drop us a line in the forum and let us know.

Coming Soon To Cosplay Island

  • Costume To-Do and Shopping Lists - Use Cosplay Island to keep track of the progress of your costume, with private and public lists to track what you need to buy and what you need to do.
  • Multiple Events Per Costume - At the moment costumes can only be linked to a single event but we know there's a demand allow you to link them to more.
  • Costume Order - Control how your costumes are ordered on your costumes list page
  • RSS Feeds - Subscribe to a variety of RSS feeds to see when we update with new news or content, when you receive new comments, or when your friends update their costumes.
  • E-Mail Notifications - Send out e-mails to let users know when someone has commented on their costumes.
  • Costume Categories - Is the costume anime, manga, j-pop, video game, or something else? We're planning to add a category type to make that clear.

Revision History

v2.0 - 5th May 2008

  • NEW: Completely overhauled site design (Includes major design changes to news, articles, costumes)
  • NEW: Accepting terms of service now a condition of registering for the site.
  • NEW: Friendly error pages (for 404 and 403 errors)
  • NEW: Completely new statistics page (now with charts!)
  • FIX: More reliable LJ and Twitter code
  • FIX: Problem with variable width forum posts now fixed (we think)
  • FIX: Time since functions fixed (e.g.'1 Days Ago' now displays '1 Day Ago')
  • FIX: Photos can now only be marked as reference when first added, this can't be changed later. (This is for moderation purposes)

v1.06 - 20th February 2008

  • Photographer Galleries Added

v1.05 - 6th January 2008

  • NEW: Improved editing menu for costumes and profiles
  • NEW: Reports section, including our first video report
  • NEW: Comments count on costumes list page
  • NEW: Shops section
  • NEW: Tab bar across top of site for easier content access
  • NEW: Birthday Shouts on Front Page
  • FIX: Improvements to site styling
  • FIX: Improved site security
  • FIX: IE5.5 and IE6.6 style fixes

v1.04 - 14th November 2007

  • NEW: New menu bar to improve navigation around user pages
  • NEW: FAQ page added
  • FIX: Events pages overhauled with logos and reports
  • FIX: Comments on news and tutorials improved
  • FIX: Forums restyled
  • FIX: Forum upgraded
  • FIX: Forum edit timeout restrictions removed

v1.03 - 4th November 2007

  • NEW: Page selectors added to members, costumes and photos directory.
  • NEW: Behind the scenes we now moderate all photos for security. This shouldn't affect the user experience
  • NEW: Extra messaging on photo upload so upload limits are clearer
  • FIX: & symbols in costume names now working

v1.02 - 3rd September 2007

  • NEW: Friends list replaced with recent friend activity
  • NEW: Recent activity now listed on overview page
  • NEW: User can now add a personal photo to their profile
  • NEW: Users can now submit new events for approval
  • NEW: Photos now appear using Lightbox instead of popups
  • NEW: Costumes Icons can now be deleted
  • NEW: Rotating banner images
  • FIX: Style sheet changes (smaller fonts)
  • FIX: Front page improvements
  • FIX: News Archive moved to main menu
  • FIX: Events are listed in order on costume edit page
  • FIX: Replacing costumes icons with same file name now works
  • and other minor fixes and improvements

v1.01 - 7th August 2007

  • NEW: Overview Page
  • NEW: Statistics Page
  • NEW: Gifts Page with Membership Cards
  • NEW: Legal Pages: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Contact Us
  • NEW: Reverse Friends List (Friend Of) on Member Profiles
  • NEW: Revision History on Site Progress Page
  • NEW: 'No Avatar Set' icon
  • FIX: Fixed Width Costume List Tables
  • FIX: BMP uploading blocked (BMPs don't work well with the site)
  • and other minor fixes and improvements

v1.00 - 25th July 2007 - Initial Launch

Site first launched with profiles, costumes, directory, private messages, friends lists, user interests, forum and events.