Although Scratch has a great website, I decide not to use it as the focus of our work for a couple of reasons.
The official website only allows the sharing of whole Scratch projects and not individual scratch sprites. While the sharing of whole projects promotes remixing, the sharing of sprites means that programmers can assemble a project from a variety of sprites.
The official website doesn't have tags. Tags have become such a mainstay of sharing and discovering resources online that it seems to me to glaring omission.
So I dug out ccHost having previously used it in music creation and didn't have too many troubles getting it all going. The hardest part being customising the PHPTAL templating (which they are dropping as of version 5) is a bit difficult to get your head around which files are which.
I still need to find some code to extract the tumbnails directly from the sprites and whole projects (anyone??).
Given that Scratch is an open source project, I'd hope that future releases wouldn't hard code the upload feature so that files could be uploaded directly to any site from within Scratch. It would also be good if future version would allow the importing and exporting of Stages.
More on this soon....
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