Qualities required in Design Portal
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- muidlatif
Sorry for disturbing on this wonderful Xmas season :P but I got a question and hope some can 'enlighten' me. Thanks!
Question:
What are the qualities required for a big design portal (example K10K, DIK, FWA, Linkup, Media Inspiration, Computerlove, CoolHmPages, 360, etc) ?DO we need to become famous,
Do we have to get clients like Sony, Nike, and huge clients?
Do we need to work in large advert. firms? do we need to be somebody who we are not suppose to be? Is design world really requires perfection.. ?Just curious....
- muidlatif0
btw, does it have to be phonography? is that it?
- jevad0
Phonography? The study of records?
- muidlatif0
whoops..my bad... I mean pornography... ?
- jevad0
ha ha
- jevad0
sorry for pissing about!
I think it has a LOT to do with the editors and link quality - if both suck - you're screwed.
K10K, pixelsurgeon, NT, threeoh, linkdup (although badly needing some attention) are all great portals because of the quality of the design and editors.
Nothing to do with being famous or what clients you work for...helps to know people who are running in the right circles....
- muidlatif0
but then again, what exactly the kind of quality there are into? Aren't unique is one of them? you do we have to be so stereotype in design?
- agent_lulu0
Good Content will draw the traffic.
To be famous is not to be famous.
- muidlatif0
thnx Jevad & Agent Lulu.
I get what you mean... but anyway, any more that me or we should know?
- unknown0
fresh content with regular updates
and do everything a little different and keep it interesting
oh and always keep it honest
- jk0b0
Too many design portals around anyway, if you wanna do the community a real favour you should find an existing one to contribute to instead. There are plenty of em that could need a little more attention (and/or content)
- spartahkus0
that term 'famous' makes me very uncomfortable and reminds of crapness and cheesiness like the movie 'gigli'
if a design portal wants to gain fame and become famous like you say, then i'll avoid it for damn sure because it's being selfish focussing on becoming 'famous' rather than serving the community...etc etc..
famous?! pooohhfff...what ?!
- jox0
You don't open a car dealership on a street where there are 15 of them already. But hey, if you got 20% off - they'll come to you. Nameen?
Think different.™
You won't get other portals' visitors just because you got a nicer border around your news iframe, but if you have, let's say broads with boobs there - you will. Swap "broads with boobs" with YOUR idea and say it out loud to yourself 200 times. If it's still as good as you first thought, give it a shot.
- backspace0
i think its all shite. i used to care alot about where i was being linked/respected from, but it's kinda pointless now. the whole spirit is kinda gone to be honest.
i miss uploading and kiiroi. what the fuck happened to christian? or dustin vannatter?
fuck i'm 21 and i'm already an old school bitter man, dammit
- paulrand0
muidlatif, do you mean to be a design portal , or to be linked on one?
- JazX0
well that's a funny question and I don't think there is a right or wrong answer, but you will need to have good design skills, back end integration using something like PHP, CFML or ASP or JSP tied in with either a MySQL or MS SQL DB for starters. Plus hosting concerns such as bandwidth and total space. :)
- i3i2and0n0
content.
but thats obvious?
- agent_lulu0
Designer Superstar wanna be ?
- agent_lulu0
BTW, I don't understand the pornography part. Do you mean use porno as part of sucking people into a design portal ?
I don't see any porno here thou beside Transfatty half naked pic.
- muidlatif0
whoa... much respect from all of ya guys! all opinion make sense.
I mean, some of the reason i started this post is because I did submit some work at a design portal and they totally rejected my work and give some excuse of 'high and quality of work needed' ..something like that. So, I wonder, what kind of quality they want? I mean I did full research on Asian based culture elements for almost 4 month, come up with some different flavor and visual approach, been working real hard to give something unique and still disqualify. So that's why I ask NT citizen, what kind of quality they want, cause I'm not a pro, and I cannot do something like Joshua Davis or what Onyro did, it will take years to do work like that. I really admire their enthusiasm and creativity.
I'm not saying that my work really that unique, but I manage to stay far a bit from the stereotypes.. so what's wrong being unique rite?
Thanks for your opinion guys.
- rasko40
you can never create another dreamless, that was THE best ever forum or whatever you wanna call it, it had The best people, The best crits, The funniest shit (08), The most genuine chaos, The most genuine userbase and will Always be the legend... other than that look at NT for the best forum because its the quickest/easiest to use and nothaving different sections means that sections like "technical' dont get ignored but for pure linkage look to pixelsurgeon for being the best because the guys are genuine and maintain a sense of humour - they post random shit aswell as design, they take it easy and its cool like that.