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Send us your ideas how to improve AfterDawn -- win cash!

22 August 2006 4:50 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 34 comments

As we have been working on AfterDawn.com for almost eight years now, it quite often happens that we become "blind" to the site's features, navigation, etc. And as the most people who we deal with on daily basis, are regular users of our site, they've managed to develop the same problem, making it impossible to find out how the site looks like and appears to Joe Sixpack who happens to visit the site for the very first time.

In an attempt to "think outside the box", we have set up a competition that asks all of our users to innovate how AfterDawn.com should work. This can be small things, like bugs that simply drive you crazy that should be fixed immediately which we haven't noticed. Or better yet, a whole new concept how the material on the site should be arranged and made available. Or even a new layout.

There are no rules on what you can suggest -- you can suggest a whole redesign of the layout, an idea for a new section, a fresh way to find content from the quite massive archive of knowledge that we have on our site to small things, like font colors, etc.

The idea can relate to any AfterDawn's section, whether "my", the main site, the forums, the software section, guides, FAQ, etc. Just be creative, don't just improve existing stuff, think a new way how things could be done!

To spice up the competition, we have decided to hand out an official AfterDawn.com "goodie bag", including our official T-shirt, coffee mug, etc to all the participants who have suggested something that we feel would bring more value to our site.

But, to make it more worthwhile, the best idea will be awarded with cold hard cash -- 1,500 euros to be exact. That's appx. 1,920 U.S. dollars. Whoever wins, will get that cash wired to his/her bank account.

Obviously all the ideas submitted to the contest can (and will) be used for AfterDawn Ltd's business development without royalty, trademark or patent claims.

To participate and read the specific rules for this contest, please visit:

http://www.afterdawn.com/general/innovate.cfm

The innovation contest ends 31st of December, 23:59 EST.

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BurningAs (Senior Member) 22 August 2006 14:58
when i first joined here back a year ago i almost got banned for screaming for a new forum system but here is my chance [ + quote]
neurokasm (Member) 22 August 2006 15:27
I think users could benifit from a spellchecker and a "preview" button right next to the "post" button. I would... [ + quote]
tocool4u (Inactive) 22 August 2006 15:51
Guys I think your supposed to posts your ideas here: http://www.afterdawn.com/general/innovate.cfm [ + quote]
darthnip (Moderator) 22 August 2006 18:43
we have coffee mugs?? why wasn't i told about the coffee mugs?!?!?! [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 22 August 2006 18:51
darit I blame the catnip it always makes me confused.....but it also makes me alright wth the world.....otherwise I'd be like...crap poeple.......OMG TEH sun...and such things...... hehehehehe [ + quote]
ireland (Inactive) 22 August 2006 20:37
Only thing i see that is needed, Add Tags:(BUTTONS)in our reply box.. for bold image atalicize underline strike through align left align center align right quote.. [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23 August 2006 6:25
aabbccdd (Inactive) 22 August 2006 21:50
the saftly valve could use some work. to many useless threads are started or threads that start trouble. i think before a new thread can be opened in the SV it should have to be ok(ed) by a mod or staff member od aD this would cause less problems. Lian-Li V1000 Full Tower/Antec-TruePower550-Watt/ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB Socket 939/ Seagate160GB Barracuda/ Westeren Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata/NVIDIA Geforce-7800 GTX KO ACS-3 Edition/ CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 433(PC 3500)/AMD Opteron 175 Demark Dual Core/Zalman CNPS-9500 LED Cooler/2-Plextor PX-716A Drives/Lite-On SHW-160P6S/View Sonic-VP2030b 20.1"LCD 1600x1200 res.8ms Respone Time [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23 August 2006 10:07
21Q (Senior Member) 23 August 2006 8:11
ireland thats good idea but I thought mods couldn't post ideas??? [ + quote]
ireland (Inactive) 23 August 2006 10:03
21Q i wanted that for a very long time as thats why i posted my ideas here...so others will know... [ + quote]
21Q (Senior Member) 23 August 2006 10:24
do you mind if I post it for you in the contest page??? but state it your idea and that I strongly agree with it??? [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23 August 2006 10:54
tocool4u (Inactive) 23 August 2006 11:17
21Q I already did before Ireland posted it. [ + quote]
21Q (Senior Member) 23 August 2006 11:37
oOo [ + quote]
Chee5e (Junior Member) 23 August 2006 14:45
Make A Chat of some sort..Like where the mods of all the diffrent category's can just chat to the perosn that needs help right there and then..So you don't have to keep coming back over a period of time to see if some one posted a post to your thread..A Chat where each main person in the forum ccategory's can sit in there room and then when someone needs instant help they can be right there ready to help..This way maybe more people can get quicker help.Like me :) [ + quote]
echto (Newbie) 23 August 2006 18:31
How about a steering wheel for navigating the pages and if you want to change the page honk the horn. [ + quote]
aabbccdd (Inactive) 23 August 2006 21:17
Chee5e , we have a chat room here http://adbuddies.ccsau.com/ Lian-Li V1000 Full Tower/Antec-TruePower550-Watt/ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe MB Socket 939/ Seagate160GB Barracuda/ Westeren Digital Raptor 150 GB Sata/NVIDIA Geforce-7800 GTX KO ACS-3 Edition/ CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 433(PC 3500)/AMD Opteron 175 Demark Dual Core/Zalman CNPS-9500 LED Cooler/2-Plextor PX-716A Drives/Lite-On SHW-160P6S/View Sonic-VP2030b 20.1"LCD 1600x1200 res.8ms Respone Time [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23 August 2006 21:18
zippyd (Senior Member) 24 August 2006 0:16
How about instead of ending the contest on Dec 31st, we end it mid Nov and then take the 6 remaining weeks to implement the new ideas as a New Year's kickoff...... [ + quote]
Andrew691 (Senior Member) 24 August 2006 2:55
hehe zippyd thats a good idea thought december was a bit long for it to run for, you should submit it as an improvement. [ + quote]
dRD (I hate titles) 24 August 2006 4:05
zippyd: We're actually already implementing some of the ideas received from the contest. You might have noticed some of them, we'll shortly publish a news blurp about the various tweaks we've added to the site. [ + quote]
lawndog (Member) 24 August 2006 16:06
Hay all been awhile, but figured I'd Q in on this one just to disagree......to a point! @ aabbccdd About the "i think before a new thread can be opened in the SV it should have to be ok(ed) by a mod or staff member" I somewhat disagree with this idea. When I first learned about afterdawn a couple years ago, I could post a question on forums, and get a response in about 20 min. I feel that unless the mods are monitouring 24/7 that feature will quickly disapear. I do believe though in possibly harsher penilties. Also sometimes a person may not be sure where to put a peticular post..... Alot of console games now are in DVD format. So lets say I have a modded XBOX and want to finger out how to "backup" a game, would I post it to the "XBOX forum" or should I use the DVD+/- forum? Ok maybe bad example......and before I get a whole bunch of answers..... I truly don't care but a true "newbie" might not know. But in conclusion(I think) the main reason I love afterdawn and refer it to everybody I know is because of the rapid response in the forums. I do have adea though..... What about........ ha like I'll tell yall so you can win the money and gifts. LD [ + quote]
nitrous3 (Senior Member) 24 August 2006 17:54
You should give newbies, junior members, members, senior members, and afterdawn addicts different privalages. Like more customization on there profile page or something else [ + quote]
lenses (Newbie) 25 August 2006 19:05
i haven't had a new idea in 20 years, but then again no one has put up cash for one--wow!! [ + quote]
hot_ice (Senior Member) 31 August 2006 17:09
You guys forgot edit post and spellcheck, that would be great directly on the post itself. [ + quote]
ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 31 August 2006 17:51
hot_ice that would require brain remembering to hit the spell check button,brain doth not compute well. besides no point in fixing my spelling when my grammar hurts :P soemtiems better to not understand what the isnane say :P I have a brain...I think...... I fuzzy braind mew =0_o= FIGHT THE M.A.F.I.A.A. "Music And Film Industry Association of America.." "Hollywood the 4kids of comic moives." [ + quote]
ouisi (Newbie) 31 August 2006 21:19
While I don't have specific ideas for changing the site (I like it the way it is) I'd like to suggest if you do succumb to the urge to make changes that you do it slow and do it for good reason. People don't like change for the sake of change. [ + quote]
pollution (Member) 15 January 2007 5:02
So what ideas won? TEXAS [ + quote]
lawndog (Member) 2 February 2007 13:04
I would like to know who won [ + quote]