Allow users to submit their Gravatar email address. Use the Gravatar image for profile photos (or company logos) next to usernames on ScriptLance.

Gravatar is a service used by Wordpress to display the same avatar pic on all websites.

Forcing NEW buyers to post projects limited to verified and certified freelancers will decrease the chance of failure for the buyer's first project.

This could apply to buyers who signup up within X days, or only for their first Y projects posted.

Buyers must post all their projects with pre-paid status. Except for maybe the first 1-3 postings...?

This would allow you to display a status message on your profile (like on social media sites). You could post things like away messages announcing when you will be back online (after sleep, vacation, illness, etc). Your status message could also be shown to other users when they send you a message, or directly in their news feed if you are on their favorites list.

The status message should come with privacy options, allowing you decide who will see it (public, favorite users only, etc).

What if users could submit any site's RSS feed to ScriptLance, for inclusion in their personal news feed? You could stay up to date on multiple items, whether thats tech news or updates from other freelancing sites, whenever you login to ScriptLance and view your account news feed.

You could also stay up to date on more SL content: by importing the feedback site RSS, the blog RSS, project RSS, etc.

The user's local currency could be approximated and shown on mouseover, or under dollar amount.

When placing a bid, freelancers could provide a list of items to detail exactly what they are bidding for (optionally). This list can then be shown to buyers to clarify what they are getting when they select that winning bid.

Example:

Bid of $500 in 7 days for:

• Logo creation
• Graphics
• Website design of 5 pages
• Contact form
• Setup site on client server
  

A version of ScriptLance that is optimized for mobile phones and handheld devices.