LinkTogether – A Community for Web Designers
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Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web developer community called LinkTogether. I am of course leery of any community developed by a corporation, especially one that is so closely tied to their target audience. That being said, I am a sucker for anything that is targeted at web developers and designers so I had to check it out.
After an hour of investigation I have to say I am intrigued. The majority of LinkTogether is made up of already common tools like forums, tutorials, and a developer community. What makes it different is it has some other fantastic resources for web developers like a list of pre-developed legal documents, white papers, and downloadable tools and applications. In addition, they have LinkTogether Challenges where developers can win money for their applications. I didn’t have much time to explore the challenges section but it seemed like an interesting concept.
Overall, I thought this was an interesting community that offers some great free tools for small web development firms. From a usability standpoint there are some changes I would make, particularly the way they force your password format. It will be interesting to see how this community develops, and what caliber of web professionals you will be able to find here. At this stage, it is still a little weak from a content standpoint but I think it is worth monitoring for awhile to see how it grows. If you sign-up and try it out leave me a comment to let me know what you think.
Check it out: http://www.linktogether.com
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Thanks so much for writing about this. We recognize the password changes and will note it as we continue to make enhancements. We certainly hope the community grows, and want this to be a useful tool for the web designer and developer community. Please keep the feedback coming.