I'm in the process of building a DIY website and would like some feedback on some of the more important things that should be included on a site according to users like yourself. I'd also like to know what things could be added to make you consider using alternatives to just youtube and forums for getting information.
Thanks so much.
Easy navigation.
Spam/f###wit filters.
References to YouTube tutorials automatically deleted.
Means to stop the developers pratting about with the forum style, preventing simple navigation be implemented.
Ban Fritzing drawings.
SteveMann:
Ban Fritzing drawings.
+1
I hate surveys.
larryd:
I hate surveys.
I wonder how many users agree with you 
I looove surveys.
Fixing bugs should mean fixing bugs, not stoned developers creating more bugs.
makeshift_it:
I'm in the process of building a DIY website and would like some feedback on some of the more important things that should be included on a site according to users like yourself. I'd also like to know what things could be added to make you consider using alternatives to just youtube and forums for getting information.
This sounds like a monumental task that is far beyond the capability of a single developer. It sounds as if it will be an alternative to YouTube and WikiPedia and Forums like this.
I suspect your ambitions are more modest, so what is your proposed website intended to be? Without knowing that it is difficult to comment on what would be useful or detrimental.
As a general comment my strongly held view is that a person reading only the home page of your website should very quickly be able to decide if it will be useful to him, or not. Unfortunately the home pages of very many (most?) new websites seem to major on fancy pictures rather than useful information. The Arduino home page is as good an example as any.
I greatly admire the restraint of the developers at Google who have managed to keep their home page so sparse for so many years. Admittedly it does not actually tell you what it is for - though most people know already. You should not assume that for your website
A book worth reading (if you can still get it) is "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. (The Arduino home-page designers did not read it).
...R
Wait. A forum that is an alternative to forums? I don't get it.
SteveMann:
Ban Fritzing drawings.
+2
1 Love fritz dwgs ( really the wall of shame)
1 hate surveys
I wonder how many users agree with you 
Let's take a survey.......
- Luoouv surveys
At least Adobe Flash is dead.
aarg:
At least Adobe Flash is dead.
Whew!
Robin2:
This sounds like a monumental task that is far beyond the capability of a single developer. It sounds as if it will be an alternative to YouTube and WikiPedia and Forums like this.I suspect your ambitions are more modest, so what is your proposed website intended to be? Without knowing that it is difficult to comment on what would be useful or detrimental.
As a general comment my strongly held view is that a person reading only the home page of your website should very quickly be able to decide if it will be useful to him, or not. Unfortunately the home pages of very many (most?) new websites seem to major on fancy pictures rather than useful information. The Arduino home page is as good an example as any.
I greatly admire the restraint of the developers at Google who have managed to keep their home page so sparse for so many years. Admittedly it does not actually tell you what it is for - though most people know already. You should not assume that for your website
A book worth reading (if you can still get it) is "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. (The Arduino home-page designers did not read it).
...R
Yeah, it's difficult to explain my plan without completely giving the concept away, but yes you're on the right track. I really appreciate the feedback and if the concept is of any interest to you, I'd be happy to talk more privately about it. You provided the only helpful comment, so thanks.
ignore list is essential. in my experience, every time someone quotes someone on my ignore list, I see again why that person is on my ignore list.
a "find my past posts" button.
an option to ask the moderators to clean up a tutorial thread. there is always that guy that finds something to nitpick, and has to make it public. that guy never wrote a tutorial.
makeshift_it:
I'd be happy to talk more privately about it.
Sorry, no. I am only interested in public discussions where everyone can join in.
...R
"I'd also like to know what things could be added to make you consider using alternatives to just youtube and forums for getting information."
Read the datasheets. I don't use youtube for technical info.
CrossRoads:
Read the datasheets. I don't use youtube for technical info.
Don't forget Insructables. 
TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
Don't forget Insructables.
TheMemberFormerlyKnownAsAWOL:
Don't forget Insructables.
Wait a minute! Instructables are invaluable to the economy. they foster the purchase of tons of useless hardware and incalculable numbers of replacement microcontrollers (like arduinos). Not to mention the Chinese economy boost in the purchase of Arduino and peripheral clones.
Let us not forget the value as a prime source of useless projects and how not to do things.
shame upon thee venerated AWOL.
By the way,,, what, exactly, does this thread have to do with Arduino projects?
Shame indeed - sp. "Instructables".
Large slice of humble pie on order, and sackcloth and ashes put on standby.