by dollissimo
Hello 2011!
Just thought it worth putting a few words to keyboard on the progress over the last year and what 2011 holds. I realise, as the guy who thought this was a good idea, that dollissimo hasn’t necessarily worked out the way I’d hoped. I can have my dreams. I did plan to promote the place heavily and attend doll events to fill the place with content – and then encourage discussion in the various forums on all doll matters so that people didn’t have to go one place for Sybs, another for Tonner, and another for general chatter. However, somewhere along the lines I think I made it more, rather than less, complicated.
I spent a not inconsiderable amount of time wrestling with taking dollsearcher.com offline – as the platform wasn’t working at all well – and while I struggled on that, I designed this place – and made sure it went online before the other site went off. It felt easy to use for me – but, when you set a site up you get into the thick of it and the complexities get all blurred. I’m probably too familiar with the functionality to know what’s simple and what isn’t.
I would ask you to please help me out here. If you find something that doesn’t work – tell me. If you need support to better understand something – ask. If you think you should have access to something, but don’t – poke me with a stick until I do something about it. I sincerely would rather you bombarded me with queries, issues and requests rather than say nothing at all. I’ve never subscribed to the concept if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I’m not suggesting you get mean, but I am saying if you have comments or issues, don’t hold back in case my feelings get bruised. Providing you’re constructive and don’t simply suggest “Scrap it – it’s sh*t!” I’m okay with that.
On the matter of content, I’m always up for publishing event reports – short or long. I’m happy if you post reviews of dolls, outfits or events under the various ‘Forums’. And, I’m happy for you to invite friends along – providing they don’t try and sell me herbal medicines, ways to improve my ‘stamina’ or have an offer to make me on $340 million if I can just front them the bank transfer charges.
