Cre8asite Forums : Redesign, Feedback & Financial Support
Cre8asite Forums, the usability and SEO community governed by Kim Kraus Berg, Bill Slawski, Barry Welford, Barry Schwartz and Rand Fishkin (to name a few), has just gone through a major design and forum change (even more major than the Search Engine Journal redesign!). They have cleaned up the forum a bit with their new “blog-esque” design and have also switched over to a new forum software.
On the new Cre8asite Forums homepage, Kim explains :
Our forums have been switched to Invision software, and reside on a new (fast!) server. We have a new homepage, which leads into industry-related, supportive content such as articles and interviews. We’re moving to a revenue-based model that will permit us to financially support our growth.
Revenue based model and financially supported growth? Sounds exciting. I’d hate to see Cre8asite bow down to the pressures of adding contextual advertising or graphic display ads to their forums. Not that contextual ads are bad, heck I love them and they help to financially support the Search Engine Journal, my family, and our future projects. However, back to Cre8asite, some select and limited advertising may be welcome by the forum members.
On the other hand, as a long term but minimal posting Cre8asite member (this is one forum I highly enjoy reading, and which I do admit I should contribute more to), I personally would not oppose a member’s only forum paid subscription forum OR having to subscribe to the entire forum after a trial membership time period. Seriously, the valuable feedback and responses by Kim, Bill, the Barry duo, and Co. are worth every cent it would take for a paid membership. I’m quite sure that the Cre8asite folks have something up their collaborative sleeves which will benefit the forums both financially and aesthetically.
In the meantime, Cre8asite is looking for feedback on the new forums redesign at this thread: The New Forums – Getting Used to Them.
NOTE : Not sure how long this will last and the Cre8 team may whack me across the knuckles with a ruler about this, but I’ve noticed that the sig file links are now organic and not using a redirect script anymore.
Hi Loren,
Thanks for pointing out the changes to the forum. We’re all excited about our new design, and some of the things that we have in the works.
There are a number of different skins for the forum now, some more “blog-like” and some that are a little more traditional forum views. We thought that it would be good to offer a few options for members of the forum.
Selected and limited advertising is a good phrase to describe what we see happening in the future. We haven’t implemented much in the way of that yet, and will be trying to be as unobtrusive as possible when it comes to advertisements.
The links in the signature files presently don’t use a redirect script, but they aren’t being crawled. We are exploring implementing the redirect that we were using previously.
As an introduction to some of the changes that we have made, I would recommend people visit this thread:
Taking the Cre8asite Tour
Again, thanks.
The redirect scripts on links in Cre8asite are back in place.
With an international crew working on the “extreme makeover” of the forums, the changes and upgrades are going on around the clock.
And then Bill declared “upgrades are going on around the clock.”
Do you have an IV tube of espresso running from the coffee shop across the street?
Good news to hear Bill :)
Loren asked, “Do you have an IV tube of espresso running from the coffee shop across the street?”
Unfortunately, that coffee shop isn’t quite as good as we hoped it would be. We are rooting for them to get their act together.
Even better though, a crew of enthusiastic and talented folks from more than one time zone, have made the update much smoother than even we imagined it would go. :)
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