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chris_fuel · Mar 5, 2008, 22:21

Okay, so recently I had been working on some General Posting Guidelines:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...2&postcount=37

to provide a way for users to create more meaningful posts. Then I was thinking about further information, including tutorials on basic debugging methods to help people with solving basic problems that simply require something such as pulling up the Error Console in Firefox.

However, with the large amount of technologies that the Sitepoint Forums deal with, I was worried there might be "information overload" so to speak. So that said, I sat down and pondered over some basic issues.

The first one that came to mind was the usage of "stickies". While stickies create a great way of making sure a thread is always at the top, I think they blend in too well with the rest of the threads, making it so that people simply skip over them before posting.

Also, stickies are not centralized globally, making it harder to call out overall important issues. There is the FAQ's, but I fear that some people assume "Oh it's just the usual don't offend others and/or do anything illegal" and skip over them.

That said, instead of these stickies, I was wondering if a sort of "Guides" page might be more appropriate. If possible, I think it would be best in the same area as the "Unanswered Threads" link, as it would stand out more to people viewing the site.

This so called guide's page would have a list of the respective forums categories (with subforums?) that a user could go through to find the appropriate guide. Guides could be a forums post, a Sitepoint article, or possibly external links. I say possibly because it's harder to quality control external links and prevent poor practice sites from trickling in.

As for how we delegate something as a guide, my initial thought was that mentors / admins would have to approve the "guides". Now, the viability of that actually happening would depend on if that's something the mentors/admins would feel like doing.

I could write up a few guides myself, and comment on the reliability of some guides, but certain areas of the forums I have no experience with (Java for example). I'm open to recommendations here, as I was only able to come up with one decent method for guide approval.

Also, I'd be happy to rummage through existing stickies in the forums and combine them into the guide. But before I do that, I just want to get an idea on how well received this would be.

Please forgive my wall of text

chris_fuel · Mar 9, 2008, 11:48

Sitepoint Forum Guides

Updates

Addition of Sitepoint Articles (50% done) ( 2008/03/15 )

Introduction

This page is meant to be a collection of different guides posted throughout the forums containing useful information, as well as guidelines on posting. The goal of this is to create a centralized location for people to easily locate the information they want to find, as well as handle any frequently asked questions. Note that some of the titles were shortened for easy readability.

General Posting and Rules

Blogging Guides

Content Writing Guides

Social Networking and Communities Guides

Audio, Video and Animation Guides

TODO

Photography Guides

Photography Links

Widgets, Mashup and Other Media

TODO

Just Starting Your Design Guides

Graphics and Multimedia Guides

Flash and Actionscript Guides

Web Design Guides

XHTML Guides[bookmark]

CSS Guides

Accessibility and Usability Guides

PHP Guides

Classic ASP Guides

.NET Guides

Javascript Guides

Java and JSP Guides

Java Servlets and JSP Resources

Coldfusion Guides

Perl, Python and Other Languages Guides

Perl Resources

Databases Guides

XML and Web Services Guides

TODO

General Development Issues Guides

General Application Design and Theory Guides

TODO

Web Security Guides

Web Hosting Guides

Server Management Guides

Where To Post Apache Questions

Apache Configuration Guides

mod_rewrite Resources

Domain Name Guides

Advertising Sales & Affiliate Programs Guides

Promotion Techniques Guides

Search Engine Optimization Guides

SEO FAQ
Articles and Resources
Google FAQ (1) (2)
Additional Links In Google Listings
Estimated Google PR Updates
Search Engine Optimisation for Web Developers

eCommerce Guides

Business and Legal Issues Guides

Careers and Education Guides

Freelancer Resources

Scripts and Online Services Guides

Web Development Software Guides

Software and Hardware Guides

chris_fuel · Mar 9, 2008, 11:51

So, there you have it, a giant wall of text, and hours of demonic formatting. This is all the stickies in all of the major forums that either define rules or contain useful information. Actually this is more of a start, as noted by the TODO's spread about.

The next phase is going through and adding various Sitepoint articles in here, then after that addressing posts that are not stickies, but have good information in them.

But for now, this should provide a good page for new users to go to for everything, instead of wading through stickies, which don't standout to people sometimes.

Dan Schulz · Mar 9, 2008, 14:43

Holy cow Chris. You have WAY too much time on your hands.

chris_fuel · Mar 15, 2008, 21:23

Good Lord Sitepoint has a lot of articles @_@. Well, I integrated articles up to the CSS ones for now, I'll probably put the rest up tommorow.

After this I'll be doing some sub categories, as I didn't realize this site had THAT many articles...

Dan Schulz · Mar 16, 2008, 03:19

Yeah, you should see my SitePoint Articles folder in my bookmarks.

chris_fuel · Mar 16, 2008, 14:21

Hmm, I can't seem to edit my post anymore. Oh well, back to anime I guess?

Dan Schulz · Mar 16, 2008, 18:20

Just PM me with your updates Chris. I'll take care of them for you.

*wonders why SPHQ hasn't seen this yet*

chris_fuel · Mar 16, 2008, 18:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan Schulz

Just PM me with your updates Chris. I'll take care of them for you.

*wonders why SPHQ hasn't seen this yet*

Actually I already reported it and got a response. It seems like it's a valid feature, not specific to this particular post. There may be something that can be done, but I'm waiting on a response for that.

By the way, I'd also like to take the time to say Thank You to the admins. I've been through enough forums with enough dictator and "Logic? What's that!" type admins that it's nice to see reasonable admins.

But hey, it's a nice break

. After all that time I spent alone on getting just up to the CSS articles up, I probably needed one

.

HAWK · Mar 16, 2008, 19:55

You're welcome

AutisticCuckoo · Mar 17, 2008, 00:14

OMG! That's an impressive piece of work, Chris. Somehow 'well done' doesn't seem to be enough, but it'll have to do for now.

Well done!

Datura · Mar 17, 2008, 06:26

This is amazing Chris - man - what an organizational mind you have

chris_fuel · Mar 19, 2008, 09:00

Hmm, it looks like self editing isn't going to work out. That said, I have a couple of ways I can go about this:

Put it on my website, I can probably work with php's bbcode processor to do some conversions so I don't have to rework what I've done. This, however means that the content will be outside of the sitepoint site realm.
Put some kind of rss feed on my website, with a text version of the vbcode, and whoever wants to handle putting updates up for me can subscribe to the feed and know when I've updated stuff.
Submit it as an article. I'm not sure if that would work out. Haven't had an article accepted, so I don't know if I could edit at will.
See if the sitepoint web team would give me access to a single page where I could throw it up, then do edits whenever I please.

So if anyone has some ideas on how to go about it, let me know.

Matt Mickiewicz · Mar 19, 2008, 17:31

This is fantastic. Great initiative!

ShayneTilley · Mar 19, 2008, 18:37

Well done Chris!

As a start I'd at like to see th Sitepoint Forum Guides post in the introductions forum and featured. I've shown this to Matt Magain and we've spoken about a few other places we could link to the thread. We'll work on that. I'll also see if I can get the editing problem fixed. Nice work!

armchaircritic · Mar 23, 2008, 13:42

Chris, this is awesome! I only just saw this thread but felt the need to congratulate you on your hard work

chris_fuel · Mar 23, 2008, 22:49

Okay, I almost finished adding all the articles until I realized it was close to knockout time over here. For now I sent out the full update to the admins for someone to edit the post for me.

Got through a ton of articles and can type vbcode like nobody's business now

. Thanks to whoever gets to editing the post for me.

Once I put up the rest of the articles, I'll be going through and resorting everything. Some articles needed to be in other categories, and I was just trying to get the articles up, so didn't pay too much attention. After that will be some sub-categorizing. Then that should be it!

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:36

Apparently my post hit some kind of internal max character limit. Looks like I'm going to have to separate them out. Appologies ahead of time for the spam for those subscribed.

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:37

Sitepoint Forum Guides

Updates

Addition of Sitepoint Articles (50% done) ( 2008/03/15 )
Addition of more Sitepoint Articles (90% done) ( 2008/03/23 )
Sub categorization and moving around of articles and forum posts (60% done) ( 2008/03/26 )
All articles added and all guides sub categorized (100% done) ( 2008/03/27 )

Introduction

This page is meant to be a collection of different guides posted throughout the forums containing useful information, as well as guidelines on posting. The goal of this is to create a centralized location for people to easily locate the information they want to find, as well as handle any frequently asked questions. Note that some of the titles were shortened for easy readability.

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:38

General Posting and Rules

General Rules

Forum Specific Rules

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:40

Blogging Guides

Blogging Software

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:43

Content Writing Guides

Articles

Reviews

Profiting On Content

Site Content

Forms of Content

Customers and Content

Resources

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:44

Social Networking and Communities Guides

Building Your Community

Participation

Moderation

Making Profit

Interviews

Reviews

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:46

Audio, Video and Animation Guides

TODO

chris_fuel · Mar 24, 2008, 06:47

Photography Guides

Photography Resources

Photography Links

Mar 5, 2008, 22:21	#1
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	[RFC] Categorizing Useful Posting Information Okay, so recently I had been working on some General Posting Guidelines: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...2&postcount=37 to provide a way for users to create more meaningful posts. Then I was thinking about further information, including tutorials on basic debugging methods to help people with solving basic problems that simply require something such as pulling up the Error Console in Firefox. However, with the large amount of technologies that the Sitepoint Forums deal with, I was worried there might be "information overload" so to speak. So that said, I sat down and pondered over some basic issues. The first one that came to mind was the usage of "stickies". While stickies create a great way of making sure a thread is always at the top, I think they blend in too well with the rest of the threads, making it so that people simply skip over them before posting. Also, stickies are not centralized globally, making it harder to call out overall important issues. There is the FAQ's, but I fear that some people assume "Oh it's just the usual don't offend others and/or do anything illegal" and skip over them. That said, instead of these stickies, I was wondering if a sort of "Guides" page might be more appropriate. If possible, I think it would be best in the same area as the "Unanswered Threads" link, as it would stand out more to people viewing the site. This so called guide's page would have a list of the respective forums categories (with subforums?) that a user could go through to find the appropriate guide. Guides could be a forums post, a Sitepoint article, or possibly external links. I say possibly because it's harder to quality control external links and prevent poor practice sites from trickling in. As for how we delegate something as a guide, my initial thought was that mentors / admins would have to approve the "guides". Now, the viability of that actually happening would depend on if that's something the mentors/admins would feel like doing. I could write up a few guides myself, and comment on the reliability of some guides, but certain areas of the forums I have no experience with (Java for example). I'm open to recommendations here, as I was only able to come up with one decent method for guide approval. Also, I'd be happy to rummage through existing stickies in the forums and combine them into the guide. But before I do that, I just want to get an idea on how well received this would be. Please forgive my wall of text

Mar 9, 2008, 11:48	#2
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Sitepoint Forum Guides Updates Addition of Sitepoint Articles (50% done) ( 2008/03/15 ) Introduction This page is meant to be a collection of different guides posted throughout the forums containing useful information, as well as guidelines on posting. The goal of this is to create a centralized location for people to easily locate the information they want to find, as well as handle any frequently asked questions. Note that some of the titles were shortened for easy readability. General Posting and Rules Welcome To Sitepoint FAQ Posting Guidelines Good Posting Tips (1) (2) Beginners Guide To Everything Useful Documentation Sites Web Hosting Rules Domain Appraisals Not Allowed Always Seek Professional Legal Advice Script Requesting Rules Blogging Guides Blogging Software Wordpress Plugins Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed Content Writing Guides Article Sites Content Writer Resources Criteria of A Quality Article Content Writing Tutorials Grammar Improvement Social Networking and Communities Guides 10 Tips On Fighting Forum Spam Building A Community Audio, Video and Animation Guides TODO Photography Guides Photography Links Widgets, Mashup and Other Media TODO Just Starting Your Design Guides Design Resources and Inspiration IE and Standards: Chris Wilson Talks Rebuilding Vogue.com.au The 60 Second Battle: Keeping the Visitor Databasing Your Site Webmaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Macintosh Toolkit Step-By-Step Site Planner Databased Websites from Scratch Secrets to Site Search Success The Company Website Crash Course The Importance of Web Standards Don't Duplicate - Differentiate! Web Development Process 1 - A Small Business Perspective Gathering Data Made Easy Plan a Great Client Login System Great Homepages Really Suck Web Application Development - A Guide to Success Practical Web Design - Speed Up Your Site Requirements Gathering Essentials How to Hire a Web Designer How To Stop Comment Spam Successful Web Development Methodologies Graphics and Multimedia Guides IconBuffet Trading Font Recognition Graphics Megathread Graphics and Multimedia FAQ Graphics Tutorial Posting Guidelines Sitepoint Design Blog Create Eye-popping Graphics with Photoshop Brushes Creating Web 2.0 Effects With Photoshop, Part 1 Creating Web 2.0 Effects With Photoshop, Part 2 Place a Graphic in your Photoshop File Creating Batch File Processes in Photoshop Macromedia Fireworks Review - Wildform Flix 1.52 Review - SWiSH 2.0 Easy Flash with Dreamweaver Animation in Dreamweaver Create Animation with Fireworks PhotoShop Shortcuts At A Glance Design a Website In Photoshop Introducing SMIL - Multimedia Presentation on a ShoeString Review - Swift 3D v3 Using QuickTime in a Production Environment Illustrator for Flash and Director Create A Collage With Fireworks Paste Inside with Fireworks MX Fade Images in Photoshop Using Layer Masks Create Vector Graphics in Illustrator and Freehand Create Imitation 3D Graphics in Illustrator and Freehand Create XP-style Icons Using Illustrator or Freehand Swift 3D 4.0 - The Web Designer's True Hope Controlled Image Sharpening with Photoshop CS2 Getting Started with Photoshop Flash and Actionscript Guides General Resources Flash FAQs “Click to Activate” Solution Flash Blocking DHTML Menus Solution Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash! ObjectSwap: Bypassing the ActiveX Activation Issue in IE The Best Structure for your Flash Site Build A Video Jigsaw Puzzle in Flash Get Flashed: Tools that Won't Break the Bank Flash MX vs. LiveMotion 2.0 Optimize Preloading with Flash 5 Flash 101 - Part 1: The Hammer and The Chisel Flash 101 - Part 2: Lights, Camera, Flash! Flash 101 - Part 3: Bouncing Around Flash 101 - Part 4: Don't Touch Me Flash 101 - Part 5: Spiralling Out Of Control Flash 101 - Part 6: The Final Countdown Getting Started with Coldfusion MX and Flash Remoting Flash Gains Instant Visibility Through FAST All-Flash A Fast Track to Failure Fast-Track Your Flash Site Co-ordinate Your Flash Site Online Games Development in Flash - A Brief History Display Download Status In Your Flash Preloader 100% Pure Flash - What Can Flash Achieve Alone? 12 Steps To Faster Flash! Perform Math Calculations in Flash Accessible Flash Parts 1 And 2 SitePoint Flash Scripts Flash Player Detection Techniques Unearthed Flash Vs. CSS/HTML: Which Will You Choose? Build a Shoot-em-up Game in Flash MX Introduction to ActionScript Animation in Flash Integrate Flash MX 2004 and Director MX 2004 Migrate ActionScript 1.0 to ActionScript 2.0 , Part 1: The Basics Flash Interface Design Made Simple The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript - Chapter 1: Flash Essentials The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript - Chapter 3: Animation Effects The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript - Chapter 5: Sound Effects Flash's Hidden Gems: The NumericStepper Component The Ones That Got Away: Image Loader and Random Link Apps in Flash Flash Panels - Inspiration, Creation and Implementation Web Design Guides Screen Resolution Guide Designing for the Mobile Web The Principles of Beautiful HTML Email The Principles of Beautiful Typography The Principles of Beautiful Web Design GIF, JPG and PNG - What's the difference? 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Dreamweaver 8 Reviewed HotDog Professional 6.0 (Sausage Software) Review – Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Software and Hardware Guides IE6 Standalone Getting Rid of Spyware Securing Your Computer Software and Hardware Forum Guidelines Review - Microsoft Visio Professional 2002 Looking Beyond Netscape and Internet Explorer Review - Netscape 6.1 You Don't Know Jack About Firefox! Beat Any Website into Shape with Greasemonkey Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 15, 2008 at 21:29. Reason: Additional Info. See Updates section

Mar 19, 2008, 09:00	#13
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Hmm, it looks like self editing isn't going to work out. That said, I have a couple of ways I can go about this: Put it on my website, I can probably work with php's bbcode processor to do some conversions so I don't have to rework what I've done. This, however means that the content will be outside of the sitepoint site realm. Put some kind of rss feed on my website, with a text version of the vbcode, and whoever wants to handle putting updates up for me can subscribe to the feed and know when I've updated stuff. Submit it as an article. I'm not sure if that would work out. Haven't had an article accepted, so I don't know if I could edit at will. See if the sitepoint web team would give me access to a single page where I could throw it up, then do edits whenever I please. So if anyone has some ideas on how to go about it, let me know.

Mar 24, 2008, 06:37	#19
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Sitepoint Forum Guides Updates Addition of Sitepoint Articles (50% done) ( 2008/03/15 ) Addition of more Sitepoint Articles (90% done) ( 2008/03/23 ) Sub categorization and moving around of articles and forum posts (60% done) ( 2008/03/26 ) All articles added and all guides sub categorized (100% done) ( 2008/03/27 ) Introduction This page is meant to be a collection of different guides posted throughout the forums containing useful information, as well as guidelines on posting. The goal of this is to create a centralized location for people to easily locate the information they want to find, as well as handle any frequently asked questions. Note that some of the titles were shortened for easy readability. Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 23:27.

Mar 24, 2008, 06:38	#20
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	General Posting and Rules General Rules Welcome To Sitepoint FAQ Posting Guidelines Good Posting Tips (1) (2) Beginners Guide To Everything Useful Documentation Sites Forum Specific Rules Software and Hardware Forum Guidelines Web Hosting Rules Domain Appraisals Not Allowed Always Seek Professional Legal Advice Script Requesting Rules Where To Post Apache Questions When To Post To The PHP Forum Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 21:35. Reason: Sub Categorization

Mar 9, 2008, 11:51	#3
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	So, there you have it, a giant wall of text, and hours of demonic formatting. This is all the stickies in all of the major forums that either define rules or contain useful information. Actually this is more of a start, as noted by the TODO's spread about. The next phase is going through and adding various Sitepoint articles in here, then after that addressing posts that are not stickies, but have good information in them. But for now, this should provide a good page for new users to go to for everything, instead of wading through stickies, which don't standout to people sometimes.

Mar 9, 2008, 14:43	#4
Dan Schulz In memoriam Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aurora, Illinois Posts: 15,648	Holy cow Chris. You have WAY too much time on your hands.

Mar 15, 2008, 21:23	#5
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Good Lord Sitepoint has a lot of articles @_@. Well, I integrated articles up to the CSS ones for now, I'll probably put the rest up tommorow. After this I'll be doing some sub categories, as I didn't realize this site had THAT many articles...

Mar 16, 2008, 03:19	#6
Dan Schulz In memoriam Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aurora, Illinois Posts: 15,648	Yeah, you should see my SitePoint Articles folder in my bookmarks.

Mar 16, 2008, 14:21	#7
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Hmm, I can't seem to edit my post anymore. Oh well, back to anime I guess?

Mar 16, 2008, 18:20	#8
Dan Schulz In memoriam Join Date: May 2006 Location: Aurora, Illinois Posts: 15,648	Just PM me with your updates Chris. I'll take care of them for you. wonders why SPHQ hasn't seen this yet

Mar 16, 2008, 19:55	#10
HAWK Renegade Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: New Zealand Posts: 5,930	You're welcome

Mar 17, 2008, 00:14	#11
AutisticCuckoo SitePoint Wizard Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Åsnorrbodarna Posts: 11,581	OMG! That's an impressive piece of work, Chris. Somehow 'well done' doesn't seem to be enough, but it'll have to do for now. Well done!

Mar 17, 2008, 06:26	#12
Datura So? Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Florida USA Posts: 5,565	This is amazing Chris - man - what an organizational mind you have

Mar 19, 2008, 17:31	#14
Matt Mickiewicz SitePoint Co-founder Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 2,841	This is fantastic. Great initiative!

Mar 19, 2008, 18:37	#15
ShayneTilley Team SitePoint Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,058	Well done Chris! As a start I'd at like to see th Sitepoint Forum Guides post in the introductions forum and featured. I've shown this to Matt Magain and we've spoken about a few other places we could link to the thread. We'll work on that. I'll also see if I can get the editing problem fixed. Nice work!

Mar 23, 2008, 13:42	#16
armchaircritic 8.12.13.18 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Silures Posts: 2,723	Chris, this is awesome! I only just saw this thread but felt the need to congratulate you on your hard work

Mar 23, 2008, 22:49	#17
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Okay, I almost finished adding all the articles until I realized it was close to knockout time over here. For now I sent out the full update to the admins for someone to edit the post for me. Got through a ton of articles and can type vbcode like nobody's business now . Thanks to whoever gets to editing the post for me. Once I put up the rest of the articles, I'll be going through and resorting everything. Some articles needed to be in other categories, and I was just trying to get the articles up, so didn't pay too much attention. After that will be some sub-categorizing. Then that should be it!

Mar 24, 2008, 06:36	#18
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Apparently my post hit some kind of internal max character limit. Looks like I'm going to have to separate them out. Appologies ahead of time for the spam for those subscribed.

Mar 24, 2008, 06:40	#21
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Blogging Guides Blogging Software Blogging Software Wordpress Plugins Blog Software Smackdown: The Big 3 Reviewed Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 21:59. Reason: Sub Categorization (not really :P)

Mar 24, 2008, 06:43	#22
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Content Writing Guides Articles Why Write For Another Site? Article Sites Criteria of A Quality Article Writing for the Web Reviews Review - Macromedia Contribute Review - Essential Blogging Review - Hot Text: Web Writing That Works Review – SiteWorks Professional 5 Review - Tinderbox Content Management System Profiting On Content How to Sell Content in a Free-Content World Capitalize On Your Next Contest Making Money From A Content Site Forget Ad Sales - Sell Search! Site Content Building a Content Rich Website Optimize your Web Copy Case Study - Online Branding? Yes Sir! Develop Content for Communication The Web Developer's Copywriting Guide Web Content: from Fabulous to Frankenstein Forms of Content What is a Wiki? Get Off Your RSS! The Blogger's Primer Podtastic! Professional Podcasting for the Rest of Us Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You Adrian Holovaty on Mashups and Microformats Customers and Content Don't Lose Your Foreign Visitors by Insulting Them! Stop Asking Me That! Use Your eNewsletter To Handle FAQs Resources Content Writer Resources Content Writing Tutorials Grammar Improvement TrackBack To The Future: Next Generation Content Referencing Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 22:47. Reason: Sub Categorization (that's the rap w00t!)

Mar 24, 2008, 06:44	#23
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Social Networking and Communities Guides Building Your Community Where's Your Online Community? Building A Community Building a Community with Discussion Forums Community Building Primer Flip a Web Site Fixer-upper Participation Membership has its Privileges Lifetime Loyalty: Do you have it? How To Turn Lurkers Into Posters Moderation 10 Tips On Fighting Forum Spam Manage Guideline Violations on Your Community The Purpose of Visitor Registration Super Moderator Guide Keep Your Forums Friendly The Forum Moderator's Guide To Life - Parts 1 and 2 Making Profit Make Money From Your Content Site Make your Community Pay Case Study - Flipping a Site for Profit Interviews Interview - Derek Powazek on Design For Community Interview – John Percival from vBulletin Interview - Jim Cashel of Online Community Report Interview - Wayne Luke, SitePoint Forums Administrator Interview - Matt Mecham of Ibforums Interview – Kier Darby of vBulletin Reviews Review - vBulletin 3.0 Review - Sqwark! The Book Forum Software Roundup Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 22:40. Reason: Sub Categorization

Mar 24, 2008, 06:46	#24
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Audio, Video and Animation Guides TODO

Mar 24, 2008, 06:47	#25
chris_fuel SitePoint Wizard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ventura, CA Posts: 2,837	Photography Guides Photography Resources Photography Links Last edited by chris_fuel; Mar 27, 2008 at 22:32. Reason: Sub Categorization

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