Homepage & Site Changes

[Cosmic]

Hey all!

Today, we'd like to announce several improvements to the Forum Promotion website. These include a new homepage, a relocated blog, and an all-new guide on using FP.

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NEW! Forum Promotion Homepage

For more than a year now, the FP Blog has served as our homepage. However, to better emphasize what FP is about, we have decided to design an all new homepage. This homepage is now live, and can be viewed below.

Visit the new homepage

Note: The homepage is not yet fully responsive for mobile devices. That is coming soon.

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NEW! Forum Promotion Guide

The FP Guide is a new section of the website that includes helpful advice on using each major service and section on FP, while also consolidating information on rules, history, awards, and other interesting topics. You can visit the Forum Promotion Guide by clicking on the below link.

Visit the Forum Promotion Guide

There are also three new changes to note that come along with the guide:

• Site-Wide Guidelines: The guidelines are now part of the guide, instead of a global announcement on the forums. You can find a link in the top right corner of every page on the forum.
• Acceptable Content Policy: This is a document that goes into more detail on what we do and do not allow in websites that are promoted here. This new document does not change our underlying policy though. The rules are the same, just spelled out more clearly. read more
• Privacy Policy: We have added a privacy policy to our website. Feel free to take a look at it. Note that this privacy policy is generic for phpBB forums, so there isn't anything new in the policy itself to mention. read more

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UPDATED! Forum Promotion Blog

A few weeks ago, we announced a change in focus for the Editorial Team (now called the Review Team). As part of that, we have moved the blog away from the Homepage, and to a page that is parallel to the homepage, forums, and guide. We will continue to edit and publish member-submitted articles, as well as publish an occasional article written by staff. However, articles will be nowhere near as frequent as they were in the past, which will allow us to focus our efforts on other things.

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Conclusion

These changes are about one thing: focus. Fine-tuning the way in which we present what we offer. One of our on-going goals is to make FP simpler, so that we can better help you promote and improve your website. An important part of that is making a homepage that is clear about what FP is, and a guide that walks members through how to take full advantage of our site.

We look forward to your feedback on these latest changes. And thanks, once again, for being a part of our community!

The Forum Promotion Staff Team

 

[Deleted member 25872]

Some great changes! 🙂

 

[Anorak]

These are all awesome changes. 😀 Nice work, Matt.

 

[Thomasss]

Loving the changes! 😀 Awesome work on the homepage Matt!

 

[Cosmic]

Thanks! 🙂

As an additional note: you may need to clear your browser cache for the new homepage to look right.

 

[Mikaya]

The homepage looks amazing! nice job on the guide too. :great:

 

[ddoesmc]

Some changes are great and some I don't agree with. I love the new homepage and guide, however, I used the blog frequently to learn new topics and reinforce my prior knowledge as a webmaster.

 

[Cosmic]

Some changes are great and some I don't agree with. I love the new homepage and guide, however, I used the blog frequently to learn new topics and reinforce my prior knowledge as a webmaster.

Members will still be able to submit articles, and our old articles will still be available. Unfortunately, the blog takes a lot of effort to maintain, and it can draw away from the focus of what this forum is really about: helping people promote their sites. Unfortunately, there isn't all that much to write about pertaining to promotion, and a lot of the articles end up being about how to install MyBB, etc, which isn't vital to FP's purpose in my opinion.

If you are looking for a new webmaster blog to read, I recommend you check out the promotion directory. There are some pretty good blogs in there. 🙂

 

[ddoesmc]

Members will still be able to submit articles, and our old articles will still be available. Unfortunately, the blog takes a lot of effort to maintain, and it can draw away from the focus of what this forum is really about: helping people promote their sites. Unfortunately, there isn't all that much to write about pertaining to promotion, and a lot of the articles end up being about how to install MyBB, etc, which isn't vital to FP's purpose in my opinion.

Yes, I do agree with you in the aspect of FP and it's purpose in the community. Honestly, I'd rather have a really active blog or no blog at all.

If you are looking for a new webmaster blog to read, I recommend you check out the promotion directory. There are some pretty good blogs in there. 🙂

Funny enough you said that! In fact, I found FP in a promotion directory on another forum.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do, I'll still be here! :great:

 

[Migi]

Neat changes! We're working hard to find focus but still provide the community with other features you can use other than the forum. If you have any suggestions, feel free to message any of us anytime! 🙂

 

[Sharon]

Looks very clean and new visitors should have no confusion to what we're about. 😉 If so, well.. that's what the community team is here for haha! Thanks and great job Matt!

 

[Nebulous]

The new homepage looks nice from my laptop. 🙂

 

[Cierra]

Nice job Matt! 😉 I like the new homepage especially.

 

[Pranked]

From lurking to joining, the website is looking dayum nice! ^^