Cre8tive Flow

The week of May 4th through 10th was busy and interesting, with more threads of note than I had time to mention here. Don’t take my word for it. Come on into Cre8asite Forums and join the conversation.

While you’re in the Forums, refresh that browser and take a look at our lovely new Mother’s Day logo. Sweet!

Cre8asite Forums Threads

Here are some of our favorite threads of this week.

• Anyone On Satellite Internet?
  Are any of you using satellite internet in the work environment? If you offer web site services and are dependent on DSL or cable, would you consider switching over to satellite if if were offered? What are the costs and risks involved?

Welcome to the second edition of our Cre8tive Community Weekly Roundup.

Cre8asite Forum Threads

Here are some of our favorite threads of this week.

• A Question on Cookies
  
  Forum moderator Barry Welford asks and receives: how do cookies help your visitors? What can they do to make user interactions more efficient and intuitive? If you need information on the use of browser cookies, come on in and participate. This thread is off to a hot start at covering the bases, with cookie tutorials, cookie questions and cookie answers.

Cre8asiteForums encourages web developers to support “green” awareness and nonprofits. This first Earth Day since opening a forum dedicated to Green Marketing, Conscious Web Dev and Nonprofits, we’re trying something new. We’ll be celebrating Earth Day, April 22nd, with a week-long “green” focus. The most unusual facet will be that we’re temporarily loosening some of our usually strict policies about self promotion. We want to make it easier for the community to come in and share about how their projects inspire awareness of our environment and sustainable use of resources.

The momentum continues as Cre8asite Forums welcomes in another pair of talented and dedicated moderators. In the words of Kim Krause Berg, they are the “mysterious, delightful and brilliant, iamlost” and the “creative, ambitious, courageous online businesswoman, RisaBB.”

Getting To Know Iamlost

When I asked iamlost for some background information I could use in a blog post, he graciously provided this introduction:

After 20 years in B&M business, half spent mucking about with computers, I joined the early web development craze specialising in backends with a sideline in glitzy 3-D revolving product images. Following the bursting bubble I expanded into site architecture, optimisation, and full facial design: an holistic developer was born.

A moderator’s query about if Cre8asite should start a section specifically for ecommerce is leading to a small debate about how ecommerce information could be defined, found and organized for our audience.

Would an ecommerce area become a junk drawer, or could it serve as a clearing house? Diane Vigil of Developed Traffic weighs in:

Ecommerce, though, is another bird altogether, and there are many issues that aren’t really about design or programming. We do a fair number of shopping carts and, again, there are many issues that would benefit from their own forum. Right now, they’re strewn about in Usability, Web Design, Web Programming, marketing … etc. I mean, really, where would you put a thread about SSL certificates?

Cre8asite Forums welcomes two new moderators, Donna Fontenot (dazzlindonna) and Miriam Ellis (SEOigloo.)

Donna will be helping with two forums - SEO and Social Media. Miriam is starting out in the SEO forum and may later be adding our Nonprofits forum to her responsibilities.

Both are owners of well-respected blogs with an active community of fans and friends. In her blog SEO Igloo, Miriam has just rounded up a series of five interviews with experts on the evolving area of Local Search. Donna owns the delightful SEO Scoop, where she recently announced reinventing herself as an eBusiness Coach via her new site ebuzzcoach.com.

If you haven’t had a chance to meet Bill Slawski in person, travel on over to Webpronews and soak up a chance to meet via an inspiring interview about local search. You’ll see a video where Bill Slawski and Loren Baker are interviewed by Webpronews’ Mike McDonald.

One of my favorite things about these video interviews is seeing how people I’ve read for the last few years move and interact. So far, I continue to like us all quite a bit. We share an intellectual generosity and curiosity that I treasure.

Meet Joe Dolson, our newest moderator. When I asked Joe how he’d prefer to be introduced, I had to smile at his reply, “…as an accessible web designer.” Yes, our accessibility guy is himself accessible, responsive and willing to share.