To the Diy Drones Community from Joshua Johnson:
Which proposed improvements do you like? Which ones do you dislike? Do you have your own ideas on improvements that would put Diy Drones ahead of Rc Groups and add more resources for the community? Please share and collaborate this is a perfect time for the community to help shape and evolve this community in something even better!!!!
My List of Proposed Improvements for DiyDrones.com:
- Change background to black to fit in with the top banner and make the website more appealing but keep the very bottom of the website that displays the copyrights, who created the website, etc just a plain background. Editing the color text scheme so that links don't get lost will take 30-60 mins to fully sift through. )
- Add eye catching content to the home page like the High Tech Revolving Visitor globe that I embedded into the Diy Drones News Center! (Members will have access to website statistics to use for personal and business purposes)
- Add a Poll Center page and HTML embed a 3rd Party polling encoder to allow the community to vote on key issues and hot topics ( Maintain this section constantly adding new polls that the community will find useful and interesting at the same time )
- Instead of Video's add a Menu called: Diy Drones and the Drop down menu should include Options such as: Facebook(Linking members to the Diy Drones Facebook), Twitter (Linking members to the Diy Drones Twitter), News(Linking people to the Diy Drones News center I created), Groups(All Groups Link), And Rules(The Diy Drones Website Rules).
- Setup schedule to change 100 photo carousel (Same Day each month) at the top of the home page with 100 new photos and maybe even set up a contest where we take a poll and embed in a Diy Drones Poll Center and allow the community to vote on a winner and the winner each month will receive a prize based on the highest number of votes
- Video's and Photos should be pulled off the menu list and put into the Members drop down menu. Also the Members Drop down menu could be decked out with tons of features that can assist the members in different ways of engaging ( Could be links to the Diy Drones Skype Chat Group, an IRC Chat could have its own page and link in the members drop down menu which won't cause any lag for the website and will allow members alternative ways to engage. )
- Change Store to 3DR Store ( When someone is brand new to a website and they click on store to check out products getting sent to a different website usually makes people uncomfortable or people sometimes assume they got sent to a fraudulent website so changing the name to 3DR Store will give people a pre warning on where you intend on sending them )
- Getting Started Menu should be renamed For Beginners and should include like 10-15 drop down options ( This drop down menu should include a link to the website currently being developed by a Diy Drones Member that is map based that allows people to implement their local legislation's and laws concerning drones to a map. Also links to websites like the Academy of Model Aeronautics and any other useful Diy Drones or non Diy Drones pages that beginners would find useful )
- Forum drop down menu could have some important forum topics added and changed each month of discussions that the community deems important ( If something like the 3DR IRIS is a hot top that month create a page or link a current page to a new drop down menu option under Forum )
- Blogs Drop down menu should be the same thing as the Forum with links directly to important Blogs that are still hot topics or are of importance to the community ( Use this drop down menu to showcase the top blogs/news of the month that members would deem important. This could be updated weekly or monthly. )
- ArduPlane, ArduCopter, and ArduRover drop down menus should all be jam packed with useful links to pages, discussions, blogs, or website pages that are important or pertain to these menu subjects. ( The drop down menus could have minor schedule updating by a member of the Diy Drones Team with new links that members would deem important. )
- MyPage drop down menu could include links to MyGroups, MyFriends, MyDiscussions, MyBlogs, Etc
Comments
Tapatalk support. RCgroups doesn't have it and while their mobile theme is pretty nice (nicer than their desktop theme), it's not substitute for the fast & rich Tapatalk experience. My two cents
The members drop down menu lost a lot of its options when someone accidently deleted the members tab few months back. The members Tab was as such in order:
Hope this helps with things!
Matthew,
Idea is to Just stay focused on Diy UAV technology R & D while enjoying the same. Every one knows that You don't need to be the biggest to have fun or contribute to the task in hand. Choice or intention depends on each member/enthusiast.
JJ, Morli, you either want to be the biggest and invite everyone or you wish to stay focused on one brand. The name of the site and it's tagline are slightly conflicting with its behaviour. Either way, make your mind up and state your intent.
JJ,
"expanding the top bar with some other brands could help draw more contributors to ther site"
Side effects: It may or may not draw more contributors to this site but it sure will draw , support and help requests, issues reports for those brands here which we don't wish for right now, our own plates are full right now. Past experience shows this behavior.
I've also noticed that some of the drop down menu options open up on a new page and some of them open in the same window. It would be nice to have all the tab/drop down menus at the top of the page be set as "Open up in a new Tab/Page"
@Matthew Coleman; I think it might be that way to taylor to the majority of the members who use Ardu software... But maybe expanding the top bar with some other brands could help draw more contributors to the site?
Look at the top of this page. The banner has a list of ArduThings only. That used to be different.
So if 3DR cannot monetize their solution for building drones and applications, there are other solutions available that can be be used, and companies providing compatible systems.
As making it better than rcgroups, the main contributor that drives the APM thread is on this site (this is where the info comes from ;) )
I think from an implementation perspective NING sans fluff with better threading is what is needed. I think the amalgamation of blogging and forum works well. The news page is great, but better discovery of forum topics needs to be addressed. Search should have been fixed ages ago! It easier to use google and use site:diydrones.com specifier in your search query to only search this site.
I think the biggest improvement that could be made would be a switch to a more conventional user friendly directory/forum structure so we could find our away around the various forums. Go to the forum page of the group mentioned in your title, ignore all the advertising and use a similar familer structure.
Its simply to hard to navigate this site My .02
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