Graphic Design Community - Heart And Soul Graphics

Looking For A New Direction For My Niche

Just started on a new webiste for a Graphic Design Community. I thought I would take a more mellow approach with this site. I am going to use Affiliate links for specific products and not use Amazon or Google Adsense until much later down the road.

I really feel that I want to build my community first and have some group participation on my Facebook page and group. This is what I originally thought about when I started Graphic Spot, and then got caught up with monetizing my site before I really had any traffic.

I am going to keep Graphic Spot up and running for now, but in maybe a year's time, I will announce that Graphic Spot will be joining Heart And Soul Graphics.

Heart And Soul Graphics will be more for sharing project ideas and submitting designs to our Community Gallery. Of course there will be tutorials and such to help with the creation of the projects, but I truly want this new site to be a community type of site where my readers will share in brainstorming and completing projects that they will submit ideas to be considered and approved by the community. I could use polls or voting forms for these activities. I want it to be a community that my readers would eventually become members and also post articles, projects and etc on the blog.

Any thoughts, advice or tips on the subject are very welcome!

Virginia

I am an Affiliate for Adobe, Total Training and Creative Live, so I thought that I would incorporate only those links for awhile. (a year or so)