Some new changes -plz help with showcase!
Permalink 1 user found helpfulIf 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 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
Like it or not, thats fine. Commenting sites or asking specific questions to it could be helpful.
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.
Chad
One of your better ideas to date!
Chad