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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.

Spring means rebirth. At Cre8asiteforums, in celebration of any excuse to celebrate, we focused on “green marketing” this week in honor of Earth Day. Testing interest by the Cre8tive Community and web site owners of earth-people-friendly web sites has been fascinating.

We made some new friends and opened our doors to those who feel strongly about making positive contributions to the planet and people. Since the forums are about web site development, it made sense to showcase web sites that wanted to take advantage of our relaxed promotion rules by submitting their web site to the Cre8Green Directory.

We wish you all a happy and peaceful Easter holiday.

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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?

As part of our ongoing look at the world around us and our contributions to it as web site developers, a new topic was started in Cre8asiteforums called In What Ways Can You Contribute To A World Of “Better Websites For A Better World”?

We’d like to explore your impressions and thoughts on what you’ve learned over the years. Do you think that your company is interested in contributing something positive to the world with its products or services?

Is there talk of being more consciously aware in development and if so, how/where/where/what/why?

Granted, I thought this was spam at first, but it turned out to be a legitimate question asked at Cre8asiteforums - How Would You Get 20 Pr6 Links Fast? You may thinking, well, whatever you’re thinking…based on your experience as an SEO/M. Ammon Johns looked at it from another possible angle:

Well, I’d call in favours. Yet another darned good reason to be a generous soul in this industry - it can earn you credit you might just need one day.

How is it reasonable or even possible for widely different cultures to communicate on issues of bias, using the same language?

A recent post by a non-native English speaker will inspire negative reactions that have nothing to do with his intended topic. Dollars to doughnuts the writer didn’t know he was stepping into anything more controversial than correctly formed English grammar. You could even argue that posting an article like this is a form of spam, ripe for the delete button, but our moderators spotted potential for discussion and moved the post to our members-only social area. As is often the case when a post gets under someone’s skin, there are wider issues at stake.