You know your project better than anyone – you can rattle off all its features, give a one-minute elevator pitch, or a quick five-second version. But does your project speak for itself? People need a quick preview to understand if your project is something they want to use. So make sure you enter a full description, short summary, and feature list on your project admin page. These page elements show up in search results, your project summary page, and elsewhere so they are essential!
Visual elements such as an icon, screenshots, and a YouTube video play a key role in attracting new users, so go ahead and upload yours now. And categories are crucial for your project to be found in the SourceForge directory, which spans hundreds of thousands of projects. If someone has to look hard for exactly the right tool, make sure your project is listed!
New features to better manage your project admin pages
Since the elements of your project page are so important, we’ve made a few changes on the SourceForge side to make it easier for you to fill in that information.
For example:
- We’ve moved the Features edit boxes from the Summary page to alongside all the other edit fields on the admin page. Now you can update all the information for your project in one place.
- We’ve added tooltips to many of the admin fields to explain what the fields are intended for. When you hover over key fields, you get some additional help to guide you as you describe your project.
- Finally, we simplified the text for the Icon field and made the upload link more prominent. Don’t overlook this important part of your project! Icons or logos are displayed through the site alongside your project name, so it’s a great way to identify your project.
That’s all the changes for now but drop us a note if you have other helpful ideas to improve your project page features at communityteam@sourceforge.net.
Happy editing!