Cre8tive Flow

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.

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.

While I was away on business, an interview ran from questions I’d responded to prior to leaving. It all came about as a result of a clever puzzle game on a blog, in which the Cre8tive Flow blog was the subject and players had to guess at what web site the puzzle pieces were from.

I thanked the blog owner for choosing this blog as a subject and that led to an interview that covered my partnership with SiteLogic, an inside look at what makes Cre8asiteforums special, plans for the future and especially how we deeply value the “Creative (Cre8tive) Community”.

Or, to be more precise, adds a “Monetizing Your Website” forum. It’s a surprising thing to note that we didn’t already have one! Thanks for the suggestion, Whitemark!

If you’re selling text links, using Google Adsense, affiliate programs, or whatever other non-commerce based means for earning an income from your website, we’re now providing an area to address your concerns. Not that you couldn’t have asked the questions before, but hey…now there’s a place to put them!

The new forum is moderated by EGOL and Black Knight, so you can’t possibly doubt the quality of advice you can get. Join in the fun! Maybe you’ll earn a buck.

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.

This week we rolled out the red carpet for Donna (Swainzy) and Paul (Send2Paul,) two goodwill ambassadors who will be moderating our After Hours and Introduce Yourself areas. We’ve long enjoyed their wamth, humor and varried experience. You can find Donna in the USA on Cre8asite’s Frappr Map. Paul is in the UK. As Paul said, he and Donna “happen to be in considerably different time zones,” which gives Cre8asiteforums lovely multi-time-zone coverage and reminds me of the miles between us. So very often I expect members from Syndey to India to be close enough to meet up at a favorite bakery in my own town near Seattle.

One of my favorite Cre8asite Forums threads, which mysteriously disappeared, not once but twice, was rescued from Google’s cache, and is being reproduced here to celebrate Cre8asite Forums third birthday.

It began with a question from Send2Paul:

Send2Paul
Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:37 am

Morning all

Ongoing with my recent education in the Website Hospital , I find myself asking more & more questions the deeper I get into this “web design thing”… So, here’s a good one concerning page size & loading time….