I have this idea

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and I need a few good men :)

What I'm thinking of doing is opening a GT zine website. My end scope is to have a monthly online magazine of sorts (with interviews, featured cars, real cars, etc), but also a website dedicated to this. Maybe this will explain it better

The website will be a hub for GT/car related stuff
- GT tuner interviews
- contests
- tournaments
- previews
- user submitted articles

things like that. I don't know how to exactly explain my idea. It will be a main GT5 related hub with all kinds of information, articles, and contests.

What I need though are a few people to help me bring this idea to life. I'm not terribly experienced in graphic design or coding but I can host the site and purchase the domain. The site would not have a forum, so it will not be "competing" with GTP. If you want more information PM me, but please only do so if you're serious.

I know this may seem like I'm attempting to do a half-assed job or I just have this thing that I'm rushing into, but I've actually put in a good amount of time into planning ideas and such.
 
That seem's like a good idea.. just don't be puttin' in a bunch of Tabloid stuff in there like a naked pit girl glitch and stuff like that y'hear?

I *might* be able to put in a few car reviews (albeit GT4, as I don't own 5: Prologue)... and of course, a column in the back pages :lol:.

What?? No more awesome smiely? ZOMG!!!!1!!!
 
If I can I would love to contribute to the articles. I don't know much about cars but I can always give it a try. I can also maybe give few tips about what software to use since I have built my own websites before(of course by using stuff other people have made for free).

@Daniel: put this url into
tags:
http://bit.ly/gtpawesome

So it should be like this:
gtpawesome
 
I'd like to do some writing for you if you need people for that. I will not be able to do anything until after the 20th or so, I've got enough writing at the moment with uni papers and exams.
 
If you'd like to get more details (and you have a gmail account), PM me your gmail and I can give you a Google Wave invite
 
Run a search on the forum, as we've had a few of these attempted in the past, so you can likely pull some ideas from there.
 
I'd be happy to help with the design and implementation (i.e design the whole site and get it up and running) provided the content was good. And I mean really good. If it's just average then the whole premise won't work and your site will sit stagnant - hence why I'd rather not be involved. I just wrote a hideously long post about what I think you need to do/avoid in order to actually provide a genuinely interesting read, but I've deleted it. Because I sort of turned into giant editor man, and I'm not in a position to be doing that.

Anyway, giant post summation: if you want a genuinely well written GT magazine site, you're in for a tough time. You're basically doing exactly what a well written magazine dictates you should not be doing. Your only source of articles is members of the public - in other words the last people who are actually going to write anything that's worth a read, in most cases. Your traditional magazine consists of a group of an editor-in-chief, an editor below him, and then another group of editors followed by a photography guy, probably. All being paid, all striving to please so they're not fired. What you'll end up with is an editor-in-chief, followed by a group of editors that you cannot control beyond the means of ego. Take nick09 here, for example. He's kindly come along and offered his assistance. But what would happen were you to - upon receiving his contribution - decide that it doesn't really fit with this particular style of magazine or something. Maybe he's written about the C5 Corvette when you were really after something about the Nissan Micra. You can't in all politeness tell him to go back to MS Word and spend a day re-writing it, can you? What authority do you have? What gives you the right to look a gift horse in the mouth? Not to mention that poor Nick has probably written said article in his free time, so missed this week's CSI as a result. And what if you did decide to challenge him and he (quite rightly) got a bit annoyed. What incentive is there for him not to simply say 'no way José' and stop writing altogether? Very little, beyond having an 'Editor' title he wasn't that bothered about in the first place.

My point is, you'd either have to be very lucky in finding a number of good quality writers who are happy to let you boss them around for no pay, or you're going to end up accepting every written contribution simply out of a sense of politeness - a system which a well written magazine does not make. So I'm going to declare myself out for now. Lovely idea as I think this is, I'd drive myself (and everyone else) mad by striving for perfection when it comes to content. So I'm not going to. Particularly because it's not my idea to boss around.

That said, if you want the massive list of stuff I think you'd have to do/avoid to be a decent read, PM me. Might as well go to some use.
 
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