Scratch

fireball123 wrote:

If you are new and are slightly confused, thats ok, everyone has a first.

Some of you may have noticed the frontpage, and the great projects there, and you probably thought: man, I want to be up there someday. I did it too, maybe a little too much    Anyway thats not the point. Most of the people there have spent at least a year, honing their skills.

If you don't get noticed, remember that there are over 450,000 users, and you are just one of them. The easiest way separate yourself from the average joe, is to find a user, who is good at scratch, and ask them to take a look at your projects, critique it, and most of all, ask them questions (don't get annoying.) You'd be surprised how just a few simple concepts can open many doors.

You maybe think "what does this have to do with getting front page?" I'll tell you.
In a cause and effect, sense. Making good projects is the key, only after you make good projects front page might come, there are easier ways, but this is the best.

Just an extra message, dont go spamming the other scratchers, nobody likes that and makes you unpopular.
Most of us all start of rubbish, even the greatest on scratch did.

Jonathanpb wrote:

You can also look at the stickies in Show and Tell - they teach a lot.

The easiest way to get front-paged is by getting your project in the Scratch Design Studio's gallery. It's really easy - just make a project that's the right subject for the gallery, and ask for it to be put in (don't forget to give a link to your project). The projects that get on the front page in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are the projects in that gallery.
The projects displayed in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are selected randomly, and they're changed every few hours - and the chances are that your project will be on there at some point (it's practically guaranteed).
Then you can always claim that you've been on the front page.

But of course, thats not always enough for some people. Iv been on there a few times. Its surprising at how many more comments you get and can be pretty shocking. But then when you're no longer, you still get more for a while because people know about you.

i think, this is based off my experiences

Jonathanpb wrote:

You can also look at the stickies in Show and Tell - they teach a lot.

The easiest way to get front-paged is by getting your project in the Scratch Design Studio's gallery. It's really easy - just make a project that's the right subject for the gallery, and ask for it to be put in (don't forget to give a link to your project). The projects that get on the front page in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are the projects in that gallery.
The projects displayed in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are selected randomly, and they're changed every few hours - and the chances are that your project will be on there at some point (it's practically guaranteed).
Then you can always claim that you've been on the front page.

assuming your good at scratch...  hence new users

Jonathanpb wrote:

fireball123 wrote:

Jonathanpb wrote:

You can also look at the stickies in Show and Tell - they teach a lot.

The easiest way to get front-paged is by getting your project in the Scratch Design Studio's gallery. It's really easy - just make a project that's the right subject for the gallery, and ask for it to be put in (don't forget to give a link to your project). The projects that get on the front page in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are the projects in that gallery.
The projects displayed in Projects selected by the Scratch Design Studio are selected randomly, and they're changed every few hours - and the chances are that your project will be on there at some point (it's practically guaranteed).
Then you can always claim that you've been on the front page.

assuming your good at scratch...  hence new users

Projects in those galleries can be simple - if the subject is about lists, just make a project that uses one. Of course, you'll actually have to make a good implementation of the list. 

Obviously, if its like an invintory or something more advanced, they put it in, what would make them not put it in?