Thread: We need more members, please help!

i dont know about crits, thats what i think they should stay clear from, in all honesty im only one person but i dont want to just say well done to people, but help out, get help when needed, come up with new ideas. people fishing for compliments just annoy me to be honest. What do you think?

Thanks for your views guys, greatly appreciated. :icon_thumbup:

The critique forums are a good way to get members to join and post, if we don't have them then people will still ask for feedback and if there aren't sections dedicated to this then they will be posted all over the place.

With regards to the chat room, there are many problems with this, the main one being that most things will just be discussed in there, this means new threads won't be posted as often. Any good advice given in the chat room will not be available on the forum as posts for anybody else to find at a later date....also, being a niche forum I just don't think there will be enough members online at any one time, not yet anyway, maybe something for the future.

The tutorials are a fantastic idea, again, the problem is time, everybody is busy running their own businesses and do not have the time for this, however, if you are creating some for another project then by all means please post them up. At present they can go in here for Website Design related and here for Graphic Design Related. If they prove popular and many in number then I could create a dedicated "Tutorials Forum" in the Software Section maybe, what do you think?? I don't want to create a dedicated forum for them just yet as I just don't see many contributing.

I prefer negative comments as it usually helps me as a designer to improve. I'm not looking for adulation!

I also agree that getting help and advice is great but I'm thinking of designers with some degree of experience that need to get to the next level. I work as a graphic designer in publishing but I'm looking to expand my freelance work to get more varied work in my portfolio as it's mainly book covers so I feel the need to get comments from fellow designers on GDF to improve my work and I'm sure other members on GDF have the same objective.

Regards


Greg