Contact Us - News Items

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

TBH, i couldn't find the link at first, nor is there a confirmation tha the message has been sent.

I'll see if I can modify the code a little bit, just for you, Cad.

[cadaveca]

I've always posted stuff i found that i thought was interesting...just gonna take a while for me to change the pattern of habit.

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

I've always posted stuff i found that i thought was interesting...just gonna take a while for me to change the pattern of habit.

I understand, and there is no reason you can't continue to do that if you want to. It's just that I don't have time any more to read every thread, so there's a good chance I will miss something unless somebody beats me over the head with an e-mail.

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by cadaveca

TBH, i couldn't find the link at first, nor is there a confirmation tha the message has been sent.

I'm a little lost with this.

The form posts a message: 'Thank you for your e-mail' when it finishes, and then redirects you to another page. Is it not doing this?

[Gizmo]

Never mind, I see now.

If you submit a news item, you'll get a notice that says thank you for your e-mail right above the Contact Us header.

[Daniel ~]

I'm wondering if we don't need to add a specific "SUBMISSIONS" Button than would generate a page that does the following:

1. Outlines the types of materials we are interested in, ie
Hardware news and reviews. Software reviews, tips and release dates. Computer humor and general editorializing on the computer scene.

2. This might be a good place to post a suggested "Dummy" review. Something that outlines layout, covers the basic review bases, format, picture handling etc.

Whatever we can come up with to make review writing easier and clearer.

"Contact us", directs people generally, but SUBMISSIONS Encourages them as well as putting a big red sign up for Dave and me...I had to follow your posted directions to find it":O}

I'm just thinking SUBMISSIONS gives us an opportunity to do a lot of the things we want to do as far as outlining procedures and simplifying the process for our contributors. The Regulars like Dave are going to know, but the new guy I think, will have to ask us as things are now, as Dave had to do...
Thoughts anyone?

[Daniel ~]

PS
We might even consider a divison branch in submissions; one for articles and reviews and one for news?

[Gizmo]

Ok, it that a bit better. Still needs some work, but that's the basic idea, right?

[Daniel ~]

Yeah I think so! Let's people know how seriouse we are about this. That we WANT submissions rather than just accepting them...yes?

(Fast work Gizmo!!":O}

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by Daniel ~

Yeah I think so! Let's people know how seriouse we are about this. That we WANT submissions rather than just accepting them...yes?

(Fast work Gizmo!!":O}

Yeah, it's amazing what a decent infrastructure will let you do....

[Daniel ~]

And what you have to go through to end up with one hey? ":O}

[raphael2040]

I've just realised NOW that I could do this.

All this time I just used to post interesting stuff like AP, and hope some admin would pick up on it.

Oh, well, off to the news submission!~~ =D

[robbie]

www.tailrank.com one of the sites I was using. I'll do something on the google thing.

[aghastpumpkin]

Either:
1. You guys don't like the news I'm submitting.
2. I'm not submitting it correctly.
3. It's not getting through to you.

Submitted a couple of bits recently, but nothing ever shows up.

[Favu]

In my defence I just don't know how to access the news repository!