All posts by Jack YCO

Hey guys,

Yes, its that ugly 'A' word I keep using on here! But this thread is all about how we plan to advertise the wiki!

Advertisement is vital for any website, especially ours. There are lots of ways we can advertise this place. From a Wikia point-of-view, its covered. I've "promoted" our wiki, although I'm not sure how much of a help it is because in order to know what the YoVille Wiki is, they need to know what YoVille is. Wikia promotion will attract people to it and hopefully say "well this is a nice place", but it won't mean anything to them unless they play YoVille. So we need to focus our advertisement on YoVille players, and this thread is all about suggesting and discussing how we do that.

I have already done a lot of advertisement on the YoVille forums. I believe this has attracted quite a few visitors, which is great, but we need to think how to make people stay perhaps? Advertising in game for me has been pretty useless, because people come to the event, say they'll check it out, then that's the end of it... either that or they call me a scammer and say "DON'T CLICK THAT LINK!!!" -.-

I think its important for everyone on the wiki to advertise because the more people we have, the more people we can collectively tell. I would love to hear anyone's ideas for advertising! Thank you guys, I hope we can have a nice discussion like on the aesthetics thread.

- Jack

Well guys due to the new Mississippi theme I've made a new background for the wiki... shame because I liked the White House one. These inconsistent themes are going to mean a lot of background work.

I actually much prefer using NPCs for the background now! They look so much nicer than our avatars! Even if Zynga do start giving us costume previews again (I'm surprised they stopped really), I think I'll stick to using these! Its great and easy. All I need to get a lovely smooth image of an NPC is the character I want, and two White Room Overlays. Then just use paint and photoshop and hey presto we've got a lovely zoomed in NPC! 

Do you guys like the Mississippi background? I've started to think it looks a lot nicer with a picture in the background rather than just that gradient colour thing I did before. 

Another thing is that if anybody wants access to previous backgrounds (as if), feel free to drop me a message and I can send you a link to past backgrounds. :)

Hey guys, 

As I'm sure you are all aware, the growth of this wiki over the past month has been amazing! I can't believe we've got 625 pages to date, and almost 1000 photos! This is all down to you guys, the people who made this happen! I see a great future for the wiki and I thank every one of you for your hard work and dedication to this little place. Hopefully we can continue this fantastic form and more and more people will hear about the wiki! 

Great job everyone! :)

- Jack

Hey guys, this thread is for discussing the future look of the wiki. I think although the current colour scheme looks quite nice, we may need a change, depending on your thoughts. Use this thread to discuss changes to the look of the wiki.

Current Ideas

• Actually keep the format as it is, with new backgrounds for every new theme.
• Completely alter the colour scheme. It would be exciting to have the wiki no longer white and red, but black and red. Inspiration comes from THIS WIKI.
• Keep the basic colour scheme the same, but no longer have a new background for each theme, and instead have a permanent background.

I need discussion on this! Ideas will be updated once feedback is given! Please do take the time to consider how you want the wiki to look because your choice will affect the future of the wiki!

New threads coming soon, discussing many other important areas of the wiki! 

Thank you!

- Jack

That day has come, YoVille is now 5! In around an hour it will be the 8th May in San Francisco, marking the start of the anniversary!

Enjoy the background on the wiki to celebrate, too!

Official blog post coming later! :)

- Jack

Of course that special day is merely 9 days away now! Exciting, huh? Well of course here on the wiki we will be celebrating too! I've got a couple of nice surprises in store but what would you like to see on here on the big day? Make sure to get your wishes in now, because the sooner you post them the more chance that they might be able to come true!

- Jack YCO

*Closing this up because the anniversary is now over. Any new request should be made either here or the temporary option here.*

- EB

Hey guys,

You may already know, but I LOVE decorating! It gets pretty expensive though. :/ The only thing I love more than decorating is seeing other people's rooms! I've seen some fantastic rooms before and I want to see what you guys can do! You could have a room that takes my breath away, LOL!

Show me what you've got!

- Jack