Let members have a sense of belonging-China Photoshop league webmaster Roven interview

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The China Photoshop Federation (www.photoshopcn.com) is a Web site designed to design software Tutorials , introduce design techniques, and design communication. Since the establishment of the station, has more than 400,000 registered members, a large number of original tutorials, attracting Chinese designers and design enthusiasts from all over the world.

China Photoshop Alliance was founded in April 2000, after more than 5 years of development, has become the Internet 's largest Chinese design class site. The site has been well-known media and web site has been reported, but also by Google, Baidu, Yahoo and other search engines included in these search engines search for Photoshop, search rankings are the first.

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China Photoshop League in the design of the class site is a long history, from the site name to see this site biased to Photoshop, I believe many designers have visited this site, especially in contact with computer graphics At the beginning of CG, we get a lot of help from PHOTOSHOPCN. Today we invite the Chinese Photoshop League webmaster Mr. Roven to chat with us.

China Photoshop League Webmaster Roven

Visual Alliance: Wenchuan, Hello, first talk with our readers about the Chinese Photoshop Alliance is the beginning of some of the situation?

Roven: April 2000 was formally established, the original purpose of the establishment of this site is very simple, I probably began to surf the Internet in 1997, the Internet directly after the establishment of a personal homepage, with netease 20M space. I've heard of Photoshop before, but I haven't used it carefully. In order to beautiful web pages, so began to learn to do some simple Photoshop image processing, and gradually have some experience of Photoshop operation, but also put some of their own ideas into the web, found more popular, So with an idea is to build a website, specifically to put Photoshop, so the domain name, from a friend to ask for some space, and then the site opened.

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Visual Alliance: Why did you choose the name "China Photoshop Alliance"?

Roven: At that time actually did not think too carefully the name, just in the mind of a flash, think that the name of the atmosphere, so I took the name.

Visual Alliance: What is the biggest difficulty in the creation of the China Photoshop Alliance? What other problems do you usually encounter during the development stage of the website?

Roven: First of all, the biggest difficulty is on the server, 2000, 2001, the price of the server rental is very expensive, each month to spend a considerable amount of money. In the future will also encounter technical, management, many problems, especially when the site developed to a stage, your technical support and Web site management, development model will become a bottleneck in the development of the site, to solve this problem may take you a long time.

Visual Alliance: At present, China's Photoshop league has more than 400,000 members, in the domestic design-related sites in front of the spear, how do you achieve such a large number of members? What positive measures have you taken?

Roven: First day search engine, a lot of web site links will bring us a large number of new users, but also to thank our registered members will also recommend to his friends our website. The number of registered members should be more than the first of our website content is rich, we can learn a lot of new things here, but also with others to communicate with each other, our moderators, webmasters are also more responsible.

Visual Alliance: What do you think is the most attractive for these members in the China Photoshop League? What is the biggest feature of China's Photoshop league?

Roven: We create a kind of human touch on the website so that members have a sense of belonging. In addition, we have a lot of original tutorials, including our design shows are very attractive to our members to participate in the site.

Visual Alliance: What is the future development plan of China Photoshop Alliance? How to implement these plans?

Roven: In the future, we will increase the interaction between designers and design companies, cultural enterprises, we strive to establish such a platform.

Visual Alliance: What do you think about the commercialization of design-type Web sites?

Roven: The website wants the development, needs the regiment to have the Fund to support, otherwise any website will not be long. We are ready to make the Internet as an industry to do, the industry in the site is a part of, of course, the largest part of our commercial considerations are around the site.

Visual Alliance: What is the current source of funding for China Photoshop Alliance? What will be the new direction of development in the future?

Roven: The source of funding is mainly advertising revenue and IDC business Income, the current revenue can fully support the normal operation of the site, of course, this income is also in our large number of visits to ensure that.

We will quickly solve the problem of the server in the future, I think the site will not be directly involved in too many commercial operations, the characteristics of the site itself plan to carry out a number of related training business and design business.

Visual Alliance: There is a message that there are venture capital enterprises on some domestic design-related sites have investment intentions, how do you think of this problem?

Roven: Investment is a good thing, is the return of the design class stationmaster, is also an encouragement. However, I think that the current site is still to do a good job of their own site content and service is the most important.

Visual Alliance: What do you think about the current status of design websites in China?

Roven: Now design more and more Web sites, but the pattern is basically the same, I hope that the design of the characteristics of the site will be more.

Visual Alliance: How to look at the future development of the domestic design website? What web site development model is worth learning?

Roven: Design Web site to develop, to grow, the previous type of personal webmaster responsible for the renewal of the model may not be able to grow the site needs, the company's way of business operations to enable the site to develop. Design of the Web site can be entertaining, professional, communication above the development of more. Can use a lot of web sites, domestic such as Flash guest Empire, Abbs, Flash bar, Blue Classics, visual China and other websites, foreign countries such as sitepoint, Photoshopuser, etc. are worthy of our reference.

Visual Alliance: How about users who have supported China's Photoshop Alliance for years?

Roven: Thank you so many years of support, but also with the support of our website These years has been a significant development. We will also use a better service to repay everyone.

Visual Alliance: Thank you for your acceptance of the Visual Alliance website, and finally, I wish the Chinese Photoshop League a smooth development!

Roven: I'm very glad to receive your interview! Thank you!

China Photoshop League Webmaster Roven (left) Vision Alliance operations Director Zhang Hainu (right)

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