Hamish Gill
Tech Support (and Marketing)
As I'm sure a lot of you know I have been working more on my blog recently and less so here. I felt for a while that I had lost my way with the direction I wanted this site to go. I mention this as stepping back a little bit from contributing here has given me some time to think about this website and what I want it to be. What I have come to realise is that what I want is fairly irrelevant ...
In the very early days my ambition was huge... take on the ephotozines and dpr of the world with something more friendly...
The friendliness has been achieved, and through achieving it I have realised that really, it's all that I want from the place anyway.
Of course, time has eaten away at my naivety and I realise that taking on the big boys would be impossible anyway! (at least without £millions backing me)
So what of the direction of the site?
Well, thats up to you lot ... I'd really need some input in to what parts of the site you use and what parts you don't.
We will be doing a major upgrade to the site in the not to distant future, and the outcome of this thread will determine the platform the site is migrated on to. This perhaps doesn't mean a lot to most here, but for eg, the "blog" element of the site here is massively underused. And even the home page of the website acts (for me at least) as more of an archive of interesting threads than anything else.
Do we actually need this functionality?
I am no longer interested in what the outside world might or might not want, we have a community here that has become so well established that I want the site to be completely reflective of what it wants.
So, please tell me... what do you like about this website, and what features are most important to you.
If you just use the forum, and nothing else is of much interest then please tell me this as this is one of the possible directions ...
Thanks
In the very early days my ambition was huge... take on the ephotozines and dpr of the world with something more friendly...
The friendliness has been achieved, and through achieving it I have realised that really, it's all that I want from the place anyway.
Of course, time has eaten away at my naivety and I realise that taking on the big boys would be impossible anyway! (at least without £millions backing me)
So what of the direction of the site?
Well, thats up to you lot ... I'd really need some input in to what parts of the site you use and what parts you don't.
We will be doing a major upgrade to the site in the not to distant future, and the outcome of this thread will determine the platform the site is migrated on to. This perhaps doesn't mean a lot to most here, but for eg, the "blog" element of the site here is massively underused. And even the home page of the website acts (for me at least) as more of an archive of interesting threads than anything else.
Do we actually need this functionality?
I am no longer interested in what the outside world might or might not want, we have a community here that has become so well established that I want the site to be completely reflective of what it wants.
So, please tell me... what do you like about this website, and what features are most important to you.
If you just use the forum, and nothing else is of much interest then please tell me this as this is one of the possible directions ...
Thanks