Tony checking in here. SBUGuide is slowly but surely getting there, thanks for those who is support us! Since May, I’ve been helping the Stony Brook Press revamp it’s web presence in turn for free advertising on their newspaper. I guess this is a win win situation, they get a brand new spanking new website which blows The Statesman’s out of the water and we get free exposure!
Be sure to check their website and my work out at http://www.thestonybrookpress.com.
The blog now looks like the rest of our website! The K2 theme was hacked to our look and feel! 
Next to be done, the WIKI!! There are still some problems with rendering on the IE platform for our blog, its minor but as a web designer, it’s annoying! So I plan on fixing that soon.
I’m going to start to push for everyone to use Mozilla Firefox here on out.
Everything should be finished after the summer! Keep in touch!
I’m pleased to offer this great service but we’re still working on it and it will launch in September 2008.
However, we have the forums up and running for all you accepted 2012 students. Congratulations!! WOOT WOOT! Please take a look at SBUGuide’s forums, you can ask any questions, I have setup a team of current students who will answer all your questions to the best of our ability. We hope you enjoy this great service, and of course, there is a lot more to come from SBUGuide, once we get everything up and running!
I just got back not too long ago from a visit to Binghamton. I sat on my computer all day waiting for my friend to call to go out but he never did, so I updated First Look and a little of the main part of the website as well as a little on the index page.
I thought it would be cool to have our faces posterized on the front page like Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. A second look at Facebook doesn’t seem to show his face anymore. But anyhow, it still looks cool!
Well, it’s been a while since we posted anything but we’re back! Winter break was great for most of us. At the end of last semester, development sort of halted because we were all just too busy with classes to be dealing with this. But this semester, Tony doesn’t have friday classes and he has dedicated this time to working on SBUGuide.
The new perspective launch date is now September 2008. Funny because our original launch date was September 2007, a year ago.
Currently we are most of the way done with some content but not nearly all of it. We are looking to hire or bring onboard a new member to our team to help us with some future plans we have for the site. We are looking for talented PHP/MySQL developers that currently attend Stony Brook University.
But things are so far going well. Hope to keep you updated soon!
Spent the last two hours re-designing the under construction page holder index. I realized from Chris that the previous page holder was misleading as to what our website was about and the quality of what it was going to be. So I whipped up something quick with some CSS and HTML.
The contact button I really like because it runs not on AJAX but just simple CSS and Javascript. It features the lightbox effect, thanks to Emanuele Feronato and Cadu de Castro Alves for their help on the lightbox integration!
So until the site is complete, you will have to get use to seeing that nifty page. Hope it doesn’t get too boring!
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Stony Brook University, Chris D’Orso has found out about our project and has posted a nice praise about our mission. We are glad to hear it so this is a response to the uncertainty of what SBUGuide will do.
SBUGuide’s primary goal is to fill in the missing gaps that exists in the admissions process. Our featured part of our website named “The Missing Guide To Stony Brook University” will guide students through the admissions process. We’re not saying you guys aren’t doing a good job out there Stony Brook, because you are. SBUGuide will provide the extra push that will help prospective students with college admissions.
For a prospective student, searching for the college is not all about the academics, it’s about social life as well. We will create promotional videos for Stony Brook highlighting all the positive things to do on campus. Those will be featured in the multimedia section. We plan to release weekly Podcasts with SBUGuide founders, Tony Cai, Andi Pepi, Joey Walters-Nevet and Adal D. Regis as hosts featuring guest speakers from common students to athletes from Stony Brook sports teams.
Our secondary goal will be providing resources for current students. A lot of students complain about having nothing to do on weekends, that’s simply not true, a well built community will allow people to post events and/or find out about events going on around campus, even if it’s just a small party or a movie night. SBUGuide will also provide academic resources as well as the social. Where to look for something on campus? We will have all the answers to that. Of course, this will mean a lot of research for us but SBUGuide is dedicated and we intend to do the research.
That was the staff generated content part of the website, now here is where things get interesting! User generated media such as pictures and videos will also be posted. Tony has created a process where users will upload pictures and videos, after it gets screened, it will be featured in the site. Exciting enough? Well just you wait! SBUGuide will also host Campus Wide Blogging, any Stony Brook University student with a Stony Brook email will allowed to register for our free service. Everyone can start a blog at blogs.sbuguide.com/username.
We are now in a era where Web 2.0 applications flourish, and social networking is huge! We have already setup accounts with popular social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook so students can further spread the word of SBUGude.
Student collaboration will be easy at SBUGuide. We already have the forums and wiki setup. Users can chat about anything related to Stony Brook with our forums and help our wiki system grow by adding content to the knowledge base.
That was a little sneak peak of what our website will look like, our current index page is there to through people off but this will be huge! 
So Chris, I hope this answers some of your questions. That’s basically our whole business plan in a blog post. Nothing in that screen shot is final especially the logo, that’s defiantly NOT final.
Today is day 3 of development, so things are just getting started.
We are three kids from Langmuir College, C2 wing . Making it BIG! One day we were in my (Tony) room chillin’ late at night last semester. We all agreed that we wanted to do something big but didn’t know what. I suggested that I wanted to start a community for Stony Brook and help prospective students. At that point I already applied to be a Stony Brook blogger but wanted to do something more. We all agreed to start this project next semester, and after a long summer, here we are.
Check back at our blog frequently to get more news about SBUGuide!
SBUGuide.com is online and ready for development. It is currently in it’s ALPHA stage. Stay tuned for more information and updates.
Everything is still in it’s early stages, my co-founders doesn’t even know I set up half the things required for a website yet. 
The launch date is somewhere in the beginning of September 2007.
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