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You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page.

You need to hire a designer for this. Cooking/recipes/food markets are really visually driven. You also need to define what a fork is right on the landing page. A fork for a cook is not the same as a fork for a programmer. What you should have is a good header area that has the application work flow explained in graphics. Example: Alice liked Juan's recide for thai rice. She wanted to create her own version. Alice forked Juan's recipe and modified it to fit tastes. In forkingrecipes, the act of forking is when you give someone else's recipe your own touch. Thus creating a new recipe for others to use and fork. I know a good designer who can help you with this, by the way.

dpick 14y ago
I totally agree, unfortunately I don't have money to pay one and finding someone to work with me for free hasn't been easy :(.
- Tyrant505 14y ago
  Send me an email. Working on something similar and am a designer :)
- benblodgett 14y ago
  I'd be interested in working on it as well, email me if you can't find someone.
dbaupp 14y ago
Possibly with a comparison like "like a fork in a road or tree".
cheald 14y ago
I'd like to second this, and also say that you should really work hard to establish "fork" and "forking" in contexts that make sense to non-developers. They're second nature for us, but non-technical cooks will probably either read it as "fucking recipes", or conflate fork (to diverge) with fork (eating utensil). That said, awesome idea.
- chewxy 14y ago
  Hi, I am part of ForkTheCookbook [0]. We actually actively face this problem, which is why in our FAQ, the 2nd question tries to answer that: http://forkthecookbook.com/faq http://forkthecookbook.com/faq [0]http://forkthecookbook.com http://forkthecookbook.com
  - eam 14y ago
    Tried going to the links and for some reason they are triggering my McAfee Site Advisor with "Warning: Suspicious Site".
    - chewxy 14y ago
      Hmm, I wonder why. Is there any way to check why? EDIT: According to Site Advisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/forkthecookbook.com http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/forkthecookbook.com), here are their criteria: Country indicates where a domain is registered | US/AUS Popularity indicates how many visitors a website gets | Not very popular E-mail indicates our overall opinion of a website's e-mail practices | We don't spam Downloads indicates our overall opinion of a website's downloadable files | No file downloads Online Affiliations indicates our overall opinion of a website's linking practices | We vet every link. Every write up. It could be one of our authors are having a malware issue. Not sure about that. Annoyances indicates our overall opinion of a website's pop-up practices. | No popup. Exploits are rare but extremely dangerous security threats caused by a website "exploiting" a security vulnerability in the browser. | Don't think we have exploits. Something to check Web reputation McAfee tests websites for web reputation using the TrustedSource™ system. | Totally not helpful Reviewer and Site Owner Comments | I see no reviews
  - stigi 14y ago
    Hi chewxy, Do you have any insides how much those recipes get actually forked? I'd be afraid, that forking might be a nice idea, but actually isn't that common. Thanks for your insight.
    - 14y ago
18pfsmt 14y ago
Perhaps showing a fork as an icon, and then a simple recipe of a different variation along each prong might help visually?

dpick 14y ago

I totally agree, unfortunately I don't have money to pay one and finding someone to work with me for free hasn't been easy :(.

Tyrant505 14y ago
Send me an email. Working on something similar and am a designer :)
benblodgett 14y ago
I'd be interested in working on it as well, email me if you can't find someone.

dbaupp 14y ago

Possibly with a comparison like "like a fork in a road or tree".

cheald 14y ago

I'd like to second this, and also say that you should really work hard to establish "fork" and "forking" in contexts that make sense to non-developers. They're second nature for us, but non-technical cooks will probably either read it as "fucking recipes", or conflate fork (to diverge) with fork (eating utensil). That said, awesome idea.

chewxy 14y ago
Hi, I am part of ForkTheCookbook [0]. We actually actively face this problem, which is why in our FAQ, the 2nd question tries to answer that: http://forkthecookbook.com/faq http://forkthecookbook.com/faq [0]http://forkthecookbook.com http://forkthecookbook.com
- eam 14y ago
  Tried going to the links and for some reason they are triggering my McAfee Site Advisor with "Warning: Suspicious Site".
  - chewxy 14y ago
    Hmm, I wonder why. Is there any way to check why? EDIT: According to Site Advisor (http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/forkthecookbook.com http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/forkthecookbook.com), here are their criteria: Country indicates where a domain is registered | US/AUS Popularity indicates how many visitors a website gets | Not very popular E-mail indicates our overall opinion of a website's e-mail practices | We don't spam Downloads indicates our overall opinion of a website's downloadable files | No file downloads Online Affiliations indicates our overall opinion of a website's linking practices | We vet every link. Every write up. It could be one of our authors are having a malware issue. Not sure about that. Annoyances indicates our overall opinion of a website's pop-up practices. | No popup. Exploits are rare but extremely dangerous security threats caused by a website "exploiting" a security vulnerability in the browser. | Don't think we have exploits. Something to check Web reputation McAfee tests websites for web reputation using the TrustedSource™ system. | Totally not helpful Reviewer and Site Owner Comments | I see no reviews
- stigi 14y ago
  Hi chewxy, Do you have any insides how much those recipes get actually forked? I'd be afraid, that forking might be a nice idea, but actually isn't that common. Thanks for your insight.
  - 14y ago

18pfsmt 14y ago

Perhaps showing a fork as an icon, and then a simple recipe of a different variation along each prong might help visually?