Some new changes -plz help with showcase!
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Hey Gang,
If you're not blind you may have noticed a few things different on concrete5.org in the last week or so.
We've slowly introduced a Karma points system to reward active members of the community for helping. We really want to empower you guys to go out and promote concrete5 in your local communities, as well as continuing to provide great support in the forums, so Karma points are a way of tracking those contributions. We're also going to do a weekly karma reward thing which will be a lot of fun and I'll tell you more about later... Suffice to say, you want karma - check out more at:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/karma/...
Also, your profile has changed a lot. Click My Account in the upper right to check that out. Play around and let us know if something seems broken as this stuff is all very new..
Last but actually most important - we've launched a new automated showcase. Strangely we found that our old showcase (now casestudies) under about was one of the top 5 visited pages on concrete5.org. It seems like newbs are evaluating CMS's solely on what others have built with them already. We really need your help populating this new showcase with a wide range of great looking sites. It's free traffic for your sites and you get mad karma points for it.
If you've already connected your site to the community you can submit to the showcase from your project page, or if you'd like to just start from scratch there's a link to submit to the showcase from your new My Account area..
Please take some time to share stories about your work, fill out your profile so you can find more work through us, and tell us what you think
If you're not blind you may have noticed a few things different on concrete5.org in the last week or so.
We've slowly introduced a Karma points system to reward active members of the community for helping. We really want to empower you guys to go out and promote concrete5 in your local communities, as well as continuing to provide great support in the forums, so Karma points are a way of tracking those contributions. We're also going to do a weekly karma reward thing which will be a lot of fun and I'll tell you more about later... Suffice to say, you want karma - check out more at:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/karma/...
Also, your profile has changed a lot. Click My Account in the upper right to check that out. Play around and let us know if something seems broken as this stuff is all very new..
Last but actually most important - we've launched a new automated showcase. Strangely we found that our old showcase (now casestudies) under about was one of the top 5 visited pages on concrete5.org. It seems like newbs are evaluating CMS's solely on what others have built with them already. We really need your help populating this new showcase with a wide range of great looking sites. It's free traffic for your sites and you get mad karma points for it.
If you've already connected your site to the community you can submit to the showcase from your project page, or if you'd like to just start from scratch there's a link to submit to the showcase from your new My Account area..
Please take some time to share stories about your work, fill out your profile so you can find more work through us, and tell us what you think
I think the ability to comment would be fantastic as well on the showcase pages.
I have been tempted to comment on how great of a cause or contribution or design someone has played a part in.
Just a thought.
Chad
I have been tempted to comment on how great of a cause or contribution or design someone has played a part in.
Just a thought.
Chad
Well done!
Like it or not, thats fine. Commenting sites or asking specific questions to it could be helpful.
Like it or not, thats fine. Commenting sites or asking specific questions to it could be helpful.
we debated if the showcase should get real discussiony that way or not and ended up deciding that since a lot of it is creative design, its a pretty subjective choice...
What we would like to add soon is an easier way to see who submitted it and message them directly (duh)
and also a list of all the add-ons they used to build the site (big ker-duh since the easiest way to make these pages is directly from the project page where we already have that data)... I think that would really help other developers wrap their minds around our marketplace model.. i saw one guy on twitter a few weeks back say something like "just spend $400 on add-ons for concrete5, saved myself 6 weeks of development work" - THATS what we need to express better and having a clear "search by add-on used" architecture to showcases would be huge for that..
so that's next.
What we would like to add soon is an easier way to see who submitted it and message them directly (duh)
and also a list of all the add-ons they used to build the site (big ker-duh since the easiest way to make these pages is directly from the project page where we already have that data)... I think that would really help other developers wrap their minds around our marketplace model.. i saw one guy on twitter a few weeks back say something like "just spend $400 on add-ons for concrete5, saved myself 6 weeks of development work" - THATS what we need to express better and having a clear "search by add-on used" architecture to showcases would be huge for that..
so that's next.
I like that idea. although, how far off are we from having developer licenses to be able to connect to project pages? For example, when I do sites, I through in some of my addons as a complement to the design..as a "value add" for choosing Stratis to do their site design. So several of the sites I have connected have no addon visibility in that regard.
Chad
Chad
Developer licenses our on our todo list, but the showcase wouldn't be "hard" tied to our license records. It'd only be used to pre-populate the form if you were creating a showcase item from your site page.
Everything's looking great guys but there's one thing I cant seem to find now (and maybe I'm just missing it): where's the link to request payout for items sold in the marketplace? I thought it would be under 'My Account -> Transactions' but dont see it.
yeah, hopefully the account transactions link is coming back soon
One of your better ideas to date!
Chad