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By: A Shift For The Software | Guimkie

A Shift For The Software | Guimkie — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:53:15 +0000

[...] Software - It’s a long time since I have ever posted some new news for this site. I did mention quite a while ago that I was a bit confused on how to continue this site. It ended up that many of [...]

By: ea b

ea b — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:05:02 +0000

i’m just glad i found you and will happily pass you and your help along.
thanks!

By: Coming soon … iWebShowCase | Guimkie

Coming soon … iWebShowCase | Guimkie — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:37:35 +0000

[...] Apr ‘08 Filed under iWeb - I know, I know, I know! Instead of fixing up the existing sites, I am creating one new one after the other [...]

By: Max Karreth

Max Karreth — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:51:01 +0000

Good to hear that you seem to understand why Macinstruct seems dead to me. New material wouldn’t be that of a big problem - but I’m guessing that at some point I am going to get saturated as well…

Max

By: Mireille

Mireille — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:57:39 +0000

Hello guys,
I came here to see something else but I am glad I did. I am just in the early stages of a tutorial site for iweb (in French) as some of you know. And this post and comments give me much to think about too.
Cedric, I think a wikki might not get the traffic your site is getting, furthermore it is now well known, by the iweb community. I gave it on a forum again today, I would hate to see you move it.
Max, I kind of like the idea of a dual site the sold items on one hand and the rest of the stuff. As for Macinstruct, I go take a peek once in awhile and I am disappointed, but that is as much the lack of new material that is creating the lack of visitors.
I realised today that you have to remind people all the time that your site is there.
A woman whom I helped by email, she has seen my sit, she knows that I have tutorials, she subscribes to my newsletter, was asking in the forum about imap. I have on my site all the instructions about imap (in French) but she was asking in the forum what it was. I felt like pulling my hair.
Enough ranting
Whatever you do I am sure we will go along with you and like it.
Best
Mireille
clubiweb.com

By: Max Karreth

Max Karreth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:11:24 +0000

Yeah - allowing other authors as well is a great way to run a site as well Keeps a lot of stuff off your own hands. Thanks for your input Cedric

Trixit - I think the personal stuff and business is probably the way to go. I think this is what I will be doing.

Max

By: trixit

trixit — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:05:53 +0000

If I was you I would split your current design into professional and personal parts.

Professional part would include iMap and iTweak. iMap part would inlude everything relevant to iMap inluding tutorial and videos and a forum perhaps. The same for iTweak.

Your personal part could contain other interesting things about iWeb or whatever you are interested in. But I would keep everything under your http://www.guimkie.com domain.

For an example look here: http://www.beedocuments.com and http://www.beedocuments.com/aboutus/ and http://www.beedocuments.com/blog/

… hope this helps a little.

By: Cédric

Cédric — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:21:23 +0000

I was thinking about the same thing in the past few days…
And you know…
If I had to redo an FAQ site then I would do it as a MediaWiki so that anyone who registers could actually edit the site thus you wouldn’t have that responsibility “Damn I have to update my site!” because maybe someone else would take care of updating it for you… And if there’s too much spam on it you could create a Group in the MediaWiki with permission to edit…
I’m starting a Wiki for Lyrics translations next week… I don’t think it will get as many visitors as the iWeb FAQ but I hope it will and I hope someone will add some stuff to it… Well… That’s something new to me and I will see how it will go…

Regards,
Cédric