Starting my own website related to Asian Blu-ray/DVD titles

[FungManHin]

I really like the idea of it. I've had the same idea for the longest time but I'm just too lazy to start one. I help run http://www.filmsmash.com and http://www.filmsmasharchives.com and thought it would be great to have another website that focused on cataloging the different versions of movies. But since the majority of the work would be done by only me, just the thought of all that work was too much hehe. I may still attempt it some day tho.

In terms of the look of your site...I think it is nice IF you are only displaying info for one movie and one version. But considering one movie can have X amount of versions of dvds/vcds/vhs/laserdiscs, your current format isn't practical in my opinion.

For this kind of catalog site something simple would be best. Something along the lines of hkmdb.com in terms of structure. Maybe even add an index, like how I have on my filmsmasharchives.com site (tho index can come later after everything else is set up).

Getting help from others to populate the catalog is a great idea. However, from the looks of the site, it doesn't look very user friendly on the back end. Something like wordpress where you can set up users as contributors and they can add easily would best I think. If you are just using html/java, then that means you'd have to grant access to the cpanel of your hosting site and navigate to the files directly. Where as something like wordpress, users can log in on the wordpress site and post from there without all that backend stuff.