OfficeQuestions looking for feedback and advice

[kramer]

Hi all,

I am a long-time Access user and have used resources like Google and
newsgroups for years to help find answers to my questions about
Access, Excel, etc. My biggest frustration with using these types of
resources was that it is cumbersome to sift through search engine
results to find the answer I needed, and newsgroup threads make it
difficult to pick out the best answer among all of the responses.

So, I started a new site that I hope will serve the MS Office
community by providing an inviting platform for asking and answering
questions about MS Access, Excel and other Office applications. The
site is called OfficeQuestions.com and is based on the successful Q&A
engine used at StackOverflow.com

I am looking for feedback and comments from the MS Access community to
help make the site as helpful as possible. If you have a spare
moment, please stop by and let me know what you think.

Thanks

OfficeQuestions

 

[kramer]

Forgot to provide a link...

The url is http://officequestions.com

Thanks

 

[Keven Denen]

Forgot to provide a link...

The url ishttp://officequestions.com

Thanks

Wow, looks an awful lot like StackOverflow, just with an uglier color
scheme.

Is that an open framework that you can download and utilize to build
your own similar site or did you just customize a site to work the
same way?

Keven Denen

 

[George]

First, I'd like to offer my sincere best wishes for success in your new
venture.

Second, I can't help but notice your brand new logo represents several
other Office applications, but doesn't include one that we might consider
relevant here in the Access Public Newsgroups. Guess which one I can't see
there? I hope that is just an oversight and that you'll take steps to
address it quickly.

You might check out a few of the more established communities, like AWF and
Utter Access, for example, to get some different ideas about how best to
cater to your stated audience. StackOverflow surely has a lot of good
features, too, but I am still fond of the long-established communites as
well.

George Hepworth

 

[kramer]

Keven,

The platform that StackOverflow uses is in open beta right now and I
am using it, but with a focus of MS Office, rather than just
programming.

As for the color scheme, I am trying to utilize the colors from the
various MS Office applications to keep it consistent.

thanks for looking.

OfficeQuestions

 

[kramer]

Thanks George,

Point taken about the Access icon - i'll work on that

I also will check out the sites you mentioned.


sincerely,
OfficeQuestions.com