CB died. Options

[HeartOfPandora]

Tbh, I feel like CB's design focus is dying. The queue must be violently ill or something, 'cause there sure as hell aren't a lot of layouts being submitted and even fewer are making the front page.

I used to check every other day for inspiration, now I hit it up once a week, if that.



_{Also, I didn't know where tf to put this. Kthx.}

[brooklyneast05]

do you have any suggestions

[HeartOfPandora]

Any suggestions? Makeover. New features. Mass advertising.

Ya gotta make it feeeel cooler.

But then, we need whatshisface to do root shit, right? And he's never around? /shakes fist

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I submitted a rather horrible graphic as a joke not too long ago. Queue was empty when I submitted it, and it took a week for it to get rejected. Maybe new and impatient users are discouraged by the amount of time it takes for their graphics to get accepted/rejected?

[HeartOfPandora]

^maybe no one wantedd to sound like a dick and be like this and that suckss. ?

I got no issues being that bitch. I woulda written a lot of lulz in the rejected message.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

No, it was a shock image. I did it to f*ck with the design staff.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

No, it was a shock image. I did it to f*ck with the design staff.

Actually, now that I think about it, this kind of behavior might have to do with so much of the design staff stepping down.

[brooklyneast05]

design staff never gets the props it deserves

[none345678]

Way to ruin CB CJ. f*ck.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

I do my best.

[shawtiegotem]

my suggestions?
the top people who controls createblog
make a twitter, and update every time theres a new layout submitted
advertise CB
make a tumblr, start posting stuff there
people can reblog it, and people will check this site out

if these are good ideas, lets do it!

[karmakiller]

I think the twitter thing was brought up before. Maybe not, idk. But it's easier to just come to the website to find out what's new than go to another website and then come here anyways, y'know.

You wouldn't believe the horrible stuff people submit on there. Sometimes, it gets discouraging to go through all those bad graphics and rarely accept anything.

lol oh the queue. I remember when I was MS staff and first went into the queue I was like I don't know why people would submit photos of themselves.

[HeartOfPandora]

my suggestions?
the top people who controls createblog
make a twitter, and update every time theres a new layout submitted
advertise CB
make a tumblr, start posting stuff there
people can reblog it, and people will check this site out

if these are good ideas, lets do it!

The J Man already took the Twitter name and clearly we can't get in.
And some other bitch (or maybe Jun again) stole the Tumblr name.

I'd totally do that shit, though.

[shawtiegotem]

well i seen it, he only has 2 tweets
you can put "TheRealCreateblog" or something like that

and tumblr could be just like that.

[HeartOfPandora]

We could just do "f*ckyeahcreateblog" because it kicks ass.

[brooklyneast05]

but what would we post...i don't get it

[HeartOfPandora]

^ Good point. But then, I don't check some places unless I'm prompted too.

[shawtiegotem]

but what would we post...i don't get it

my guest is, stuff people has been submitted,
graphics, updates, stuff like that

and alot of people won't come to this site less it's interest's them
so posting stuff on tumbr, people will be interested about it and come
and no one reads the announcements...not in a bad way, just people are lazy

[Maccabee]

my suggestions?
the top people who controls createblog
make a twitter, and update every time theres a new layout submitted
advertise CB
make a tumblr, start posting stuff there
people can reblog it, and people will check this site out

if these are good ideas, lets do it!

I could not agree more. just give the login to all staff.
even though trolls, suck, we should try and get a bunch of newcommers!

[none345678]

I think the whole point is that more people would be exposed to it. Right now the only way people find CB is through layouts

[Maccabee]

maybe we should just advertise the forums! cause the forums arent just layouts or myspace stuff. in fact, we rarely talk about that.

[shawtiegotem]

twitter and tumblr should both have createblog in them.
advertise about the design support, graphics, etc,
and web help. cause myspace is dying. seriously

i think we should do this!!

[mipadi]

I think there are ways we could make the site more up-to-date. RSS feeds for layout stuff, for example. An RSS feed for forums. An interface so someone could make a mobile site for iPhones, etc. All this is entirely doable...but Jusun is the only person with the power to radically alter the site.

[shawtiegotem]

well lets still advertise the site. see tumblr has over million people on it,
at first, should try and follow alot of people, post some of these wonderful
graphics people made from createblog, on tumblr people can "reblog" the posts,
so all of there followers can see, if they like it, they would really go on the blog, and see that the tumblog is dedicated from createblog, they'll come to this site, we should start now, and tumblr has a submit box, so if people from there want's to submit something they can do it on tumblr, and with the staff here being able to post stuff on there too, we could make it to one of the top tumblog's. so we could put more of createblog on google.

now if jusun could come back, we should ask him to preview not just layouts,
but tutorials, and graphics, on the font of createblog.com, if he ever came back.

[Annabean]

I submitted a rather horrible graphic as a joke not too long ago. Queue was empty when I submitted it, and it took a week for it to get rejected. Maybe new and impatient users are discouraged by the amount of time it takes for their graphics to get accepted/rejected?

How do you make and submit a graphic?
I'll commit to the cause, as soon as I find out
What to do.

[manny-the-dino]

I think this mainly has to do with Jusun because he says he's going to come back to fix or add something but never does. There's only so much we can do. Also the older members won't stop being mean to the new members that sign up which is why none of them stay. :/

How do you make and submit a graphic?
I'll commit to the cause, as soon as I find out
What to do.

You make a graphic in a photo editing program like Photoshop or Gimp and go here to submit it.

[Annabean]

Ok, Thanks. :}

[Maccabee]

I submitted a rather horrible graphic as a joke not too long ago. Queue was empty when I submitted it, and it took a week for it to get rejected. Maybe new and impatient users are discouraged by the amount of time it takes for their graphics to get accepted/rejected?

the time is always slow and how did you know it was empty?

[none345678]

when you go to submit a graphic it will say how many graphics are in the queue

[HeartOfPandora]

There's a number for each queue on every submit page.

IE on the layout submit page:

Layout Statistics
Total submitted 35,824
Total approved 8,815
Queued 0
Last submitted Oct 11, 10:22pm
Last approved Oct 11, 10:42pm

[shawtiegotem]

well www.createblog.tumblr.com is now deleted from tumblr,
can someone sign up and start using it for createblog

[karmakiller]

^ Ummm, what would go on the tumblr?

[HeartOfPandora]

Done.

[Joanne]

^ Ummm, what would go on the tumblr?

[none345678]

Updates, of new shit.

[brooklyneast05]

it's not an awful idea. ideas are what we need. we gotta remember that a lot of us here are cynical and are quick to dismiss anyone giving any idea if we don't initially see the end result working. it can't hurt to try shit though really. at this point the real plus to this is that we don't have to have f*cking jusun to do it.


now that i think about it, it could work. i agree about expanding exposure. to make the idea more refined though, maybe we could narrow down what goes on it. maybe our most popular recent layouts go on there, or ones that are just really nice designs. that would not only work to present the best of cb but it could also spark some competition and be an added bonus to those submitting. if you make a good layout and it goes on the tumblr or whatever we have as a way to promote cb then it will inevitably be clicked on more and they'll get more exposure. that kind of system would benefit both parties.

[none345678]

It could be about design in general, not just hey cb has a new layout". Kinda like the createblog magazine thing.

[brooklyneast05]

that's be even better. we could combine both of those ideas.


or if we wanted to do a lot of work, which we probably don't but you never know if we get more DS, then we could do two separate ones. one more geared towards designers and one that shows of the best new cb layouts that is more for people who just want layouts and don't care about design news/resources/ect.


becuase we have two different audiences. the designers who come here for design help and resources, and then the users who come here because they aren't designers and want designs.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

It would have to be about design in general. If it was just hey cb has a new layout, then what would stop it from just falling back into just another site like pimp-my-profile or some shit?


Edit: Although combining them isn't a bad idea at all.

[brooklyneast05]

It would have to be about design in general. If it was just hey cb has a new layout, then what would stop it from just falling back into just another site like pimp-my-profile or some shit?
Edit: Although combining them isn't a bad idea at all.

yeah i know, but i only say that because not everyone who comes and looks at the layouts is interested in designing things themselves.

i think combining them at first would be the best idea. but i can see some people who want to just see the "best" new layouts cb has.

[none345678]

It would have to be about design in general. If it was just hey cb has a new layout, then what would stop it from just falling back into just another site like pimp-my-profile or some shit?
Edit: Although combining them isn't a bad idea at all.

I bet shitemolayouts.com gets more people to there site then us though.

I no longer have a life so I'll do it. I just have never used tumblr before. Other people would be down to help out right? shiiiit.

[brooklyneast05]

yeah i'd be down to help and the good thing about tumblr is it will let us add people to have group access. that's handy for me at least because i'm on tumblr already so if i see a good design article or something then i can just post it straight from my home page to the cb tumblr.

I'LL GIVE YOU LESSONS ABBEY

[brooklyneast05]

oh yeah and another plus is that a tumblr page can be followed via RSS too and we don't have to wait for jusun to enable that.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Jusun should just give someone he trusts root access.

[none345678]

We wont him to give it to Michael already.

[HeartOfPandora]

Holy shit guys, we could do the CB Mag on Tumblr.

[brooklyneast05]

exactly

[HeartOfPandora]

http://createblog.tumblr.com/
http://bestofcreateblog.tumblr.com/

blobularzine.tumblr.com?
cbmag.tumblr.com?

[none345678]

when people call magazines "mags" I can only think of porn.

[brooklyneast05]

any would be good. i'm partial to the second one but then again it's the one i use on my own so of course i'd like it. gives a lot of room on the side though where we can add links and junk.


the best option would of course be to have someone on cb design a cb inspired layout, but we'd just have to see.

[HeartOfPandora]

when people call magazines "mags" I can only think of porn.

Lulz I thought the same thing, but I was out of ideas. Zine instead of mag, then? It kind of has a nice ring to it. CBZine.

the best option would of course be to have someone on cb design a cb inspired layout, but we'd just have to see.

I could throw in a .psd if someone can code it. I probably could, but it would take forever and it probably wouldn't be very pretty coding considering I've never worked with all the Tumblr codes before.

[none345678]

cbmag.tumblr.com it is then.
So let me get this straight.

bestofcreateblog - we juist post the est of the best of the newest layouts submitted
cbmag - is the blobularzine that was here
createblog - issss...what?

[HeartOfPandora]

IDK what the main blog will be, because you can't actually have more than one person posting there unless you give them root access. Only "extra" blogs can have members.

f*cking lame, imo.

Best Of can be more than layouts, though. Maybe it'll be the best of everything ever submitted. Layouts, tutorials, graphics, etc. Maybe even f*cking sweet stuff from the Showcase Booth forum?

ALSO, here's an idea:

Ever been to teefury.com? They feature one new tshirt design per day, and every time something gets featured, they do a short interview with the designer about the design. We could do that to get more people to submit, and submit higher quality work all in efforts to get featured so they can get more exposure. Good for CB, good for anyone who get featured.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Hey guys, I made this for you.

[none345678]

^lmao@ his face

IDK what the main blog will be, because you can't actually have more than one person posting there unless you give them root access. Only "extra" blogs can have members.

f*cking lame, imo.

Best Of can be more than layouts, though. Maybe it'll be the best of everything ever submitted. Layouts, tutorials, graphics, etc. Maybe even f*cking sweet stuff from the Showcase Booth forum?

ALSO, here's an idea:

Ever been to teefury.com? They feature one new tshirt design per day, and every time something gets featured, they do a short interview with the designer about the design. We could do that to get more people to submit, and submit higher quality work all in efforts to get featured so they can get more exposure. Good for CB, good for anyone who get featured.

I like the featured designer idea thing. Idk I suck at ideas. I'm down to do whatever as long as it's something.

I think more than one of us should have root access. Like, if JC is the only one who has it but then he gets hit by a bus and can never move his arms or hands again we don't have to worry. THAT'S CALLED GROUP EFFORT

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Yeah, someone else needs to have root access so everything will be fine if JC gets hit by a bus.

[HeartOfPandora]

Biiiiiiitches too bad JC doesn't have root access.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

We were just using him as an example because it's a lot more fun to talk about JC getting by a bus than someone like Mike getting hit by a bus.


Now, I will go take a dump.

[HeartOfPandora]

^ Touché, touché.

And have fun, don't hurt yourself.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Man that dump was like three and a half inches thick, it was horrible.

[none345678]

I'm so glad we have good quality members like you

[HeartOfPandora]

Oh come on, I bet you've taken in bigger.

[brooklyneast05]

no we need michael to have root access. he knows a ton and could do a ton i think if he had the chance.

[mipadi]

bestofcreateblog - we juist post the est of the best of the newest layouts submitted

Whoever did that layout should switch the font ordering so that Arial comes after Helvetica Neue and Helvetica. Least common to most common.

[none345678]

Oh come on, I bet you've taken in bigger.

was that to me or CJ?

no we need michael to have root access. he knows a ton and could do a ton i think if he had the chance.

If he wants to then sure. I just wanted to make up a hypothetical situation where you got hit by a bus.

[HeartOfPandora]

was that to me or CJ?

Umm... @Buttsex...? Idk people's f*cking names. Except Nat, 'cause I <3 her, and JC because...well just because.

[Mikeplyts]

Umm... @Buttsex...? Idk people's f*cking names. Except Nat, 'cause I <3 her, and JC because...well just because.

andddddddddddd? O_o





^_~

[emberfly]

do a twitterrrr that sounds more fun than a boring tumblr.

but I agree; cb is seriously dying.

[HeartOfPandora]

andddddddddddd? O_o





^_~

Oooookay, yours too lovey! :D
But everybody knows it, so it's kind of like cheating. D:

[none345678]

twitter sucks balls.

[none345678]

We could make a twitter. It is easy and everyone has one. Name?

jusun is a d bag for taking twitter.com/createblog

[emberfly]

tried

/createblog
/cbtweet
/cblog


they're taken

/createblogtweet
/createb
/officialcreateblog
/jusunsucks

are free.

[brooklyneast05]

wtf jusun took it but then doesn't let us use it. it's like he never leaves us alone. every time we try to do anything he has to be there as a reminder that we can't do what we want.

[Mikeplyts]

Uhm, how about other social networking sites? Facebook, perhaps?

[none345678]

CreateblogUpdates? kinda long though

[Mikeplyts]

^ CBupdates?

[emberfly]

The Facebook idea was a good one. Lots of organizations and websites are creating facebook fanpages. Make a CB one.

lawl
http://www.facebook.com/createblog

[none345678]

We should probably focus on the Tumblr and twitter first

[Mikeplyts]

http://www.facebook.com/createblog

fiddy g's say that mofo is one of jusun's minions.

[HeartOfPandora]

If we make a Twitter, we never even have to touch it unless we want to. Tumblr can automatically send updates to it, ftw.

[emberfly]

good idea. do that.

[HeartOfPandora]

What should we call it, though?

[none345678]

I think we should go with CBupdates. I'll make it now unless you guys have a better name?

[emberfly]

I like it.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Oh come on, I bet you've taken in bigger.

Yep.

[HeartOfPandora]

Meh I had an old account I never used, so I just renamed it. All done, then. CBupdates it is, and shall be linked to which Tumblr, or all of them?

[emberfly]

"all of them"? What do you mean?

[HeartOfPandora]

Well there's like three lulz. The root one which we don't know what to do with, the Best of CB, and then the mag.

[none345678]

there's three of them. I think we should just link to all of them

[synapse]

We need to change our angle, and redefine our audience. Right now, it's for people looking for layouts, graphics, and the tracker. Aside from that we have the forums. But due to the lack of involvement, they're not exactly top search material. The magazine would really help cb's presence on the web if it were updated very regularly. Not even like an entire matter of 15 different things at once, but like maybe 1 to 2 different publications per day. I think of smashingmag with this idea.

With myspace dead like it is, not as many people wanting an unique layout.. we have to turn to a different audience.

[HeartOfPandora]

All connected to Twitter, then, but we never officially decided on a zine name? Gogogo.

[synapse]

All connected to Twitter, then, but we never officially decided on a zine name? Gogogo.

The publication was named the Blobular Zine...

[brooklyneast05]

I think of smashingmag with this idea.

that's what i was thinking too.

[emberfly]

Haha as awesome as it is to pick on Joseph, I don't get it... there are so many other members who use the wrong words all the time, but they never get called out for it.

With myspace dead like it is, not as many people wanting an unique layout.. we have to turn to a different audience.

Joanne made me.

[synapse]

Joanne made me.

sorry for not proofreading for typos. Not like I said an unique.

[karmakiller]

I like this idea, and I'm glad that people have come up with ideas of what to post on the blog/twitter/tumblr/whateverweuse, but I think it would probably be better if we start out with just one. It sounds like you guys want more than one, but I don't think we should do that right away. It'd suck to see these good ideas start out with a lot of momentum and then become a burden. Having one that features multiple things will be easier to update, imo.

Why not just have one twitter that updates people on current contests, new features and changes, etc.

[none345678]

I think we could pull off two with the magazine and then one for just updates, interviews, resource suggestions ect.

[Mikeplyts]

oh wait, how about http://f*ckyeahcb.tumblr.com/ for tumblr?

[HeartOfPandora]

Think about it, though - the 'zine would be so much less stressful if you didn't have to do HUGE issues all at once, and could just break it up one or two articles a week.

[karmakiller]

I think we could pull off two with the magazine and then one for just updates, interviews, resource suggestions ect.

Yeah, that sounds good. I was thinking that people wanted a "best of", an e-zine one, and an update one.