I am considering to establish a kind of virtual meeting place for the users of Andron. It’s the field of rather highly specialized typesetting in the humanities and I’d like to provide a forum dedicated to the users, where they can discuss experiences and questions, work samples and so on.
What might be the most suitable basis for such a site? Facebook? Google groups? A seperate domain?
Any thoughts welcome.
I've not heard of Andron, and Google didn't reveal many clues. I'm interested. Could you describe it a bit more, and perhaps give us a link?
Regarding a forum platform: Google Groups seems to work well for communication among relatively technical users. A Facebook group could be alright, especially for more technically naive users, but FB use tends to be seen as fairly personal and noncommercial. Another idea is a web forum, although I tend to hate the things myself. The answer probably lies in what the Andron user base already uses: you want to make a forum easy to access, with few barriers. That's more important than finding some supposedly perfect system.
--John
Thanks a lot, John. Yes, ease of access is a point.
Maybe I should ask the users themselves directly, what they would prefer.
informations about, start here:
http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=282&changelang=2
Andreas, whatever solution you choose, please indicate the link here. So people who like Andron but are not user (like me) can also follow it.
I begun to build a site with Adobe Business Catalyst. This solution is more expensive and would take more work to be made, but let you produce exactly what you need.
Hello again.
Today I have set up a new forum site for Andron.
It’s not perfect yet …
This is an experiment.
Contributions most welcome. See what you make of it.
http://andron-typeforum.xobor.de/
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