WinCustomize 2007 was mostly about building a more robust and stable foundation to handle our ever-increasing traffic and site complexity, with that accomplished we're setting our sights on 2008.  The WinCustomize 2008 project is heavily focused on improving the user experience of submitting, browsing and downloading skins.  We have spent the past several weeks internally picking over what we do and don't like about how the site works, and what we'd like to see improved.  As we work on finalizing features, page layouts and other design elements, I will be making posts like this one seeking community feedback and suggestions.

One area we've decided is in need of some tender, loving care... and a rather serious overhaul... is the upload system.

Our upload page has been largely unchanged for quite a while now.  And while it serves its purpose, it's neither as friendly, nor as robust as many what other sites on the net user to allow users to upload content.  The time has come to spend some time and energy to bring the upload system up to speed with the rest of the site, and with the rest of the web.  We've spent time going over sites like DeviantArt, Customize.org, Flickr, MySpace, Photobucket etc to see how they do things, and what we might like to use over on WinCustomize.  But, at the end of the day we're not the ones who will really "live" with whatever is finally implemented. 

So, before we start the deep dive into designing and developing a new upload process, we want your views and opinions on what you would like to see included in a new upload system.  It can be additional options, it can be technical features on the page such as batch-uploading etc.  We want to know what the artists and regular contributors most want to see in the submission system.