Today I put the finishing touches on NJPB Live Maps version 2. What started as a Topozone.com replacement for my users has mushroomed into a pretty neat app that will let you view some historic aerial photography, topos, and upload GPX files that will display in the map.
Big thanks to Devin Heitmueller for giving me [...]
One of the most important parts of being a community leader is diplomacy. This is true if you’re the President of the United States, or if you run a community website. You’ll need to know how to intervene in fights, how to deal with “competitor” websites, how to defend yourself, how to moderate discussion, set [...]
Continue reading about Building an Online Community Part Three: Henry Kissinger Edition
Now that you’ve decided to jump in and build a community site, you need to figure out exactly how you’re going to do it.
Back in the early days of the web, people wrote plain HTML files and uploaded them to their web servers. Doing that has the benefit of the site being really fast - [...]
Continue reading about Building an Online Community Part Two: If You Build It, They Might Come
In this series of posts I’ll be discussing the building and creation of online communities, based on the experiences I’ve had running NJPineBarrens.com for the last five or so years.
I don’t advertise myself to be an expert at web design (I’m not), nor do I pretend that I have all of the answers or a [...]
Continue reading about Building an Online Community Part One: So You Wanna Build a Website?