[Coco] New tandy Website

[Jimmy Scott]

Thank you all for your encouragement!   I will come to you guys for more
info as the website progresses. I will be looking to make a all
encompassing site and if anyone would like to help (Actually knows some
php and such) let me know.




>
> On 1/25/2013 11:53 PM, Jimmy Scott wrote:
>> I am not discrediting these web sites or the CoCo Mailing list, but
>> there
>> were 100's of tandy products made and I own a mix of them. Many websites
>> aren't updated regularly and/or a 10 year old geo-cities style mess. I
>> am
>> proposing a full blown beautiful website devoted to Tandy products.
>>
>
> Jimmy,
>
> I'm not trying to dissuade you in any way from doing this. However, the
> history of my website may be of use to you.
>
> My site initially began as a project to hone my HTML skills (still have
> a lot to learn), but, grew from four basic pages to what it is today.
> Perfect? Not by a long shot. Complete? Not by a long shot. I created the
> forum, at the encouragement of a few other CoCo enthusiasts when
> coco3.com changed from a forum to a Word Press format. I would say the
> activity level didn't live up to the expectation I had when asked to
> create the forum; I never expected it to supplant coco3.com or the
> mailing list and that was not the intent.
>
> When I initially created the forum over on tandycoco.com, I included a
> separate section for Model I, III & IV, as well as the Tandy PC
> variants. During the first six months, not one single post to those
> sections was ever made. So I changed them around a little bit to their
> current format (Apple, Atari, etc...), and still, not one single post
> has been made to that section. The forum was mentioned several times on
> the CoCo mailing list, coco3.com and the TRS-80 Yahoo group, as well as
> existing in my signature on Atari Age.
>
> In fact, out of the 164 members, only 62 members have posted anything at
> all, and a good number of those fall under the less than five post count
> category - of which only 19 people have exceeded 5 posts. Granted, some
> of the single posters were spam and have been banned...
>
> The same thing happened to Cris Egger's website a few years back. He was
> quite active in the CoCo scene; he had a fairly popular website and had
> a blog site dedicated to CoCo collecting. He created a forum that
> received little to no traffic. Again, I'm not trying to dissuade you
> from creating an ultimate Tandy/TRS-80 website. Just make sure you
> temper your expectations with a realistic goal, as the active
> Tandy/TRS-80 people do seem to prefer a mailing list to an actual forum.
> Maybe it's due to ease of use - it's easier to check your email than to
> remember to go look at a forum; maybe there's just no need for another
> CoCo specific site; I can't say for sure.
>
> Whatever you choose to do, good luck with it!!!
>
>
> Brian
>
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