SZ's rules, at least for coding, are founded based on lots of years of experience. More or less, I looked at other rules that sites like SSD, SoCal, ZD, and PBS had at the time and took them as inspiration for my own rules set. After that, it's been lots of tweaking over the years.

The only major thing I can suggest though is making it so it's not too time consuming. For example, that's why we don't allow Info Center Remodel requests. They take a LONG time unfortunately. You can either ban certain types of requests to fix this, OR you can just limit the number of requests in a certain timeframe.

Wow, great tips, thanks. I don't mind time consumption, I just hate wasting time. I've kinda been looking for similar policies on the Interweb, but a lot (understandingly) are pretty strict, but I like a challenge. You learn stuff AND get satisfaction of helping others - what could be better?

Ages ago, I looked everywhere for a certain type of Flash program, it didn't exist - so I sat down with MX and looked stupid in seconds! - I know a thing or too now though

Curious; how come SZ doesn't have any Flash?


Last Edit: Jul 22, 2009 15:20:56 GMT by newfieldgrafix

Probably because there aren't too many designers here who dabble in flash.

I do =O)

Are you talking ActionScript or design wise? I've looked at both aspects personally, but gave up. It didn't really seem... worth my time.

As for SZ... not many people here who work with Flash.

Both, I had to learn in 12 minutes - and finished my first basic project by 20 minutes.

The design part is easy (I vector and animate all the time) but the AS, I'm no coder, I hate it. But I seem to be able to get by...

ActionScript -looked- very similar to JavaScript, so I'm sure I could catch on. I just hate animating things.