Vote on features
May 6, 2008
Seeing as the blog posts have been a great way of getting feedback from you guys about what direction you want to see 99designs going in, we thought we would create a UserVoice page to let you guys vote on exactly what features take priority.
Forums are also on the way, plus some neat new ways of informing designers about the state of contests and contest holders past history. Keep an eye out tomorrow afternoon!
Category Changes
March 3, 2008
With the upcoming launch of the new design, we are changing things a bit in relation to categories. Basically we are looking to simplify things for Contest Holders and to re-enforce the purpose of the site: design.
The categories we have settled on are:
- Logos
- Buttons or Icons
- Web Pages
- T-Shirt or Clothing
- Business Stationary
- Other
The notable removals are Flash and Coded Templates. Basically we are getting rid of the non-design categories, or at least the design categories that require coding or markup. What we are trying to emphasize is that we are a community of designers, not flash programmers or web developers. Graphic design can be represented with a screen shot, and can be assessed on a visual basis, whereas coding activities can’t, and this is reflected by the volume of complaints and disputes we handle in these categories currently.
We are investigating a number of options for converting web page designs to markup, such as services like xhtmlized.com or psd2html.com, or perhaps offering a marketplace for members to bid for this sort of work.
