Looking for final year project ideas - What kind of new web site can I create?

I'm a third year computer/information management studies student and I'm looking for ideas for what to do as a final year project. Leaving it a little late, truth be told... I am good with web development, and have learned C# .net over the summer.


I actually want to create a web site/service that is of real use to people, rather than just showing off my skills.





So can people please suggest some (serious) things they wish there was a web site for out there, and perhaps I could build it.


Obviously legal and not free mp3's or porn or something silly like that.





Thanks!

Looking for final year project ideas - What kind of new web site can I create?
Build a search engine spider that indexes Yahoo Answers. Then build a web interface to it to allow users to search for different items. Additionally, build a RSS feed off of it so that a person could put new questions in their rss reader. Its been done by Yahoo and Google but for a student that would be pretty good.





Finally, if you have time build out some web services that do all the above to allow others to mashup the services into other web sites/services/applications.
Reply:A dating website where the person can view a profile and say if he or she likes that person. If the other person says that he or she likes that person also then they should be put in contact with each other.
Reply:C# is neat (even if it is just a hash between C and Java), but it's not really widely used in web publishing. You're best sticking with XHTML/Javascript (with maybe a tiny bit of Flash, but make sure you've got alternatives built into your site for those who haven't got the plugin if you use it), scripting languages like ASP/PHP and databases.





Shops are usually a top-scoring final year computing project. You don't need to get the framework for purchase sorted out, but providing a front end, a database interface, an admin/stock control system, concurrency control and a security system all together would make for an excellent demonstration of your skills.





Similarly, you might wish to try some sort of multi-user message board system (Yahoo Answers is a very good example of something you could do); possibly with some sort of complex scoring system or "Combat" system between users (a textual online multiplayer RPG, for example).





Mind you, there is always the "neat graphical gimmik" option since you know C#. If you can come up with some innovative algorithm for drawing visually impressive things on screen based on unusual input, you're set. I've met a guy whose project was to draw exportable landscapes in Java on the basis of a text-file input and the characters read in from the file. What's more, he then proceeded to pass all sorts of html pages into it from across the web, which was an awesome display.
Reply:there are thousands and thousands of us that don't have our own computer. we use computers at schools, kiosks, libraries etc.





this means all we can use for image manipulation is windows paint or something lame like http://www.myimager.com/ or http://www.gifworks.com/ that have extremely limited tools.





i would love to see a photoshop like java applet on the web. we now have java ftp clients like http://www.unlimitedftp.com/myftp (works as good as those you install) so why can't we have a decent FREE image editor?
Reply:hi. I currently work for the United Kingodom Youth Parliament (UKYP) in east cambridgeshire and the fenlands. we have a really bad website at the moment. if you would like to design and build it for us that would be great. we would pay for all the hosting costs and domain fees. if you do not wish to then thats fine. but good luck with the course and congratualtions on learning c++ coding, i gave one look at it and gave up.
Reply:As I work in education, I like websites where people can share teaching resources they have created.





However, there seem to be so many and all aimed at different levels of education. I would love to see one comprehensive, easy to navigate, easy to search website.
Reply:You could create interactive computer lessons.


You know, not liek the ones wwhere there's just a written tutorial, but one's that actually walk you through using the program or the language, and give you problems and ask you to solve them and tell you your errors...that would be pimp daddy....and we wouldn't need a computers %26amp; internet section on yahoo answers :]
Reply:Ive been enjoying my blog that I created on blogger. You could probably develop some kind of interactive blog if that is something you would be interested in. Maybe have a discussion board or something as part of your project.