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Your website serves a niche population and imo design is not the problem. Try some advertising and get the word out about your site, people will overlook the d
by FaisalAbid 12y ago
Your website serves a niche population and imo design is not the problem.
Try some advertising and get the word out about your site, people will overlook the design if the utility and usefulness is there.
- tomkinstinch 12y agoAny suggestions for channels to target? We're too cash-strapped to try a shotgun approach with Google Adwords or similar. Our exposure at Maker Faires has been one way for us to get the word out to about 200k people a year, in person. The reception has been phenomenal, and we received Editor's Choice at this year's past Bay Area Maker Faire. Kids and adults (with a roughly even gender split) love to learn about how things work, but not much attention has come back to the website.
- mw67 12y agoCheck what type of audience Khan Academy's Reverse Engineering section has (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/discoveries-projects/Reverse-Eng https://www.khanacademy.org/science/discoveries-projects/Rev...). I believe you have the same audience. But I also believe that videos are much more effective to learn how things work than photos. Maybe you should explore that road. Good luck.
- tomkinstinch 12y agoI hadn't seen Khan Academy's Reverse Engineering section. It's awesome! Thank you! And we do support video uploads. They go straight to a user's YouTube account from our site, via OAuth, and are subsequently embedded. I'm far from a videographer though, so there aren't very many on the site currently. I've mostly been using them to illustrate particular steps more clearly (ex. https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/92 https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/92 ).