First StackExchange Platform Experience
Many are familiar with Stackoverflow.com — questions and answers for programmers. Not so long ago, they launched the StackExchange platform, on the basis of which everyone can build their own site of questions and answers on any topic.
StackExchange costs money (from $ 129 per month), but for the time of beta is free. I will tell you about the first impressions of the service.
Brief background. We have a website with articles for beginner web developers: WebCheatSheet.com. (cheatsheet is a cheat sheet, not what you thought).
Recently, I decided to start building a community on it. The choice stood between the forum and the site of questions and answers. The forum is somehow too Web 1.0, chose the second.
It took me a couple of days to tweak the CSS minimally to make it somehow more attractive. The default color schemes are pretty dull. Here's what happened: http://ask.webcheatsheet.com The
more complicated it is, you need to attract people and fill the site with questions.
To attract the audience a bit, I decided to donate $ 500 for prizes and arrange a contest. In addition to the actual promotion, it was still interesting to learn how competitions generally work. In addition to his prizes, he wrote to several other companies, offered to sponsor software licenses. Navicat, Webyog, Topstyle, CoffeeCup, Balsamiq responded, and he also threw it from his company .
The competition runs until December 7, then I will talk about the results. You can look at the prizes and conditions here. By the way, the prizes are real, participation is encouraged.
To summarize. In general, I am pleased with how this thing works. Google began to pick up pages in a few days and even sends a little traffic. If you have questions about setting up, the sensible community at http://meta.stackexchange.com will tell you, for example, how to connect Google Analytics or set up cross-posting on Twitter.
Think about establishing such a website for the niche in which you work. This can be a good help in attracting new customers. Here is a practical complete list of sites on this platform.
They do not have an international version yet. There were people who came up with a way to localizethrough the anususing javascript.
I cannot but say about the Russian version of the site of questions and answers for programmers - askdev.ru . The author did not just copy stackoverflow, but added some nice features of a social orientation and it works.
StackExchange costs money (from $ 129 per month), but for the time of beta is free. I will tell you about the first impressions of the service.
Brief background. We have a website with articles for beginner web developers: WebCheatSheet.com. (cheatsheet is a cheat sheet, not what you thought).
Recently, I decided to start building a community on it. The choice stood between the forum and the site of questions and answers. The forum is somehow too Web 1.0, chose the second.
It took me a couple of days to tweak the CSS minimally to make it somehow more attractive. The default color schemes are pretty dull. Here's what happened: http://ask.webcheatsheet.com The
more complicated it is, you need to attract people and fill the site with questions.
To attract the audience a bit, I decided to donate $ 500 for prizes and arrange a contest. In addition to the actual promotion, it was still interesting to learn how competitions generally work. In addition to his prizes, he wrote to several other companies, offered to sponsor software licenses. Navicat, Webyog, Topstyle, CoffeeCup, Balsamiq responded, and he also threw it from his company .
The competition runs until December 7, then I will talk about the results. You can look at the prizes and conditions here. By the way, the prizes are real, participation is encouraged.
To summarize. In general, I am pleased with how this thing works. Google began to pick up pages in a few days and even sends a little traffic. If you have questions about setting up, the sensible community at http://meta.stackexchange.com will tell you, for example, how to connect Google Analytics or set up cross-posting on Twitter.
Think about establishing such a website for the niche in which you work. This can be a good help in attracting new customers. Here is a practical complete list of sites on this platform.
They do not have an international version yet. There were people who came up with a way to localize
I cannot but say about the Russian version of the site of questions and answers for programmers - askdev.ru . The author did not just copy stackoverflow, but added some nice features of a social orientation and it works.