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Originally Posted by jacob9706
I want to start a new site because a lot of ones out there already are sloppy, hard to navigate, cant find what you're looking for and are not tutorials for beginners at all. I have wanted to give back to the community for a while and I thought this would be a good way of doing so.
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Humble suggestion: define an initial amount of seed content (tutorials, articles, example downloads, etc) and complete those before you start working on the site. While you're doing that initial batch, you can be posting them on an existing site.
I only say this because if you're a programmer, then you likely enjoy programming a more than writing. If you're concerned about site features like searching and so forth, you'll get lost for the next couple of months coding up a spectacular site. At the end of those of that you'll have lost the starting energy on the project that you're feeling now, and then you'll be faced with the task of creating all your content. The tendency will be to keep optimizing and adding features to the site rather than halting development to go write the tutorials.
Either that or find yourself a partner to work on this with that's as enthusiastic as you, so you can "keep each other honest" and ensure that you are working on the things that actually need it.
At least that's been by personal experience
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Originally Posted by jacob9706
Also if you are interested in writing an article or tutorial for the site let me know!
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I've seen quite a number of "help the rookie" sites of various types pop up, especially this fall, requesting for people to create content. Unfortunately, if someone's willing to create content, they probably already have and posted it somewhere. The chance that they'll be inspired just because there's a new site is probably pretty slim. I would expect a high amount of requests and expectations and a relatively lower amount of help.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic.