(Note: cross posted from J of K)
I took on board some of the feedback from last time when posting the new Help Wanted Picks to the front page. This time we’ve got screenshots, and the list of services offered at the bottom of the post is sorted into categories with a couple that I personally recommend for anyone interested specially marked.
Check it out and let me know if you’ve got any more feedback.
I also got the suggestion last time of highlighting one bad post as an example of how not to do it. While this would be both educational and potentially amusing I don’t feel it’s really in the spirit of encouraging beginners (even if they’re really bad now they might get better with some prompting), and doesn’t seem overly professional. As an alternative however, would people be interested in seeing short snippets giving tips on succesfully recruiting from some of our current and/or previous users?
(NOTE: Cross-posted from J of K)
Just a quick post to point anyone who doesn’t regularly visit the front page of the site in the direction of the second edition of what will hopefully continue to be a regular fortnightly news-item here at GDNet: Help Wanted Picks.
The basic idea is to handpick a few projects every couple of weeks which stand out amongst the others and give them a bit of front-page exposure on the site - hopefully it’ll get more skilled developers connecting, thereby attracting more promising projects which traditionally sometimes shy away from our beginner-friendly (and therefore sometimes unfortunately swamped with low quality projects) HW forum.
While I’m less confident about the success of my first and third choices for featured projects than I was the first time I think the chosen threads do clearly stand out amongst the rest, and still have the very-likely-to-succeed EDI project in there.
So, anything that could/should be added/removed/done differently? As a reader who might be looking for help, would it be worth it to you if I’d spent the time to sort and/or summarise the list of services offered at the bottom? Do you agree with my choice of projects, and with what I said about them? Have you recently visited Help Wanted and think I missed a brilliant project that should have been included?