WDG Seeking Blog Authors |
WDG Seeking Blog Authors |
John Pozadzides |
Apr 16 2007, 11:17 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Greetings all!
The WDG is preparing to launch the new HTMLHelp.blog which will become a prominent and actively updated part of HTMLHelp.com. The new blog will be extensively hyperlinked from the rest of the site, and we'll be encouraging visitors to sign up for subscriptions and RSS feeds to keep up to date with what all is going on in the Web Authoring community. A few samples of things you'll find on HTMLHelp.blog:
I would anticipate that our new blog launch will experience roughly the same rate of growth - if not more - that we experienced with the launch of the new forums several months ago. Needless to say, this is an extremely rare opportunity to be considered for a contributing position that could potentially result in a high level of exposure in the Web authoring community. If you are interested in applying for one of these volunteer positions here is what you need to do:
You can either send me a PM through the forums, use the new Contact form on the Blog, or send an e-mail to john@ you know the domain name.com John HTMLHelp.blog, Editor in Chief |
Effovex |
Apr 17 2007, 12:37 PM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 251 Joined: 6-January 07 From: Sherbrooke, Qc, Canada Member No.: 1,477 |
I'd personally be interested in writing a "Structural web design" tutorial, covering good practices in standards-based web design from the ground up - I intend to write that over the summer (once I finish my last term paper, actually), and if the WDG is interested I'd like to publish it here.
This raised some issues with me since you had mentionned the blog would include tutorials, and I felt tutorials didn't benefit from that format - a blog is good to announce the tutorial to the world, not actually contain it. So thanks for the clarifications. I think the best way to accept new blog content providers would be to let people submit articles they've written: if the article is good enough, the person is given an account to publish it and can keep on posting things on the blog on whatever schedule fits them, until they abuse the privilege, at which point they lose it. I think attempting to find dedicated writers who will be expected to write regularly isn't in line with the sporadic nature of blogs, a finding a stable of writers who can write interesting articles when they have something to write about might be better. I'll see if there are subjects that interest me, and I'm sure I'll have lots of material over the summer as I come across stuff while writing my tutorial, but expecting regular writing is putting me off, personally, especially as there are periods during which I have much less time to spend on web stuff (mid terms and finals period, for instance) |
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