A few days ago I was contacted about a new site that targets the web design community. Design Bump is a niche social media site that was launched recently and is already building a bit of an audience.
Being built on Pligg, (My apologies. The site is actually built on Drupal) the popular open-source option for social media sites, Design Bump functions in a way that will be very familiar to many of you. The site has similar content and a similar audience to Design Float.
This blog has really benefited from niche sites for designers, like Design Float, so I hope Design Bump takes off as well. It will be interesting to see how both of these sites are able to attract and maintain users since they have essentially the same audience. Personally, I already visit Design Float on a daily basis and adding Design Bump to my daily stops shouldn’t be an issue.
Design Float was able to built part of its audience as a result of being featured in a number of CSS galleries, so we’ll see if Design Bump can do the same. I think Design Float has also grown as a result of offering bloggers the button to put on their posts that allows visitors to “float” the post. That helped to spread the word about the site and it continually encourages users to vote and stay active. At this point Design Bump does not have any buttons or widgets to use.
If you’re looking for a place to promote your own content, I can say that I have received some traffic from Design Bump to my posts that have been submitted. Of course, as a new site it won’t send floods of visitors to your blog, but I did see over 30 visitors the first day after I submitted a few posts.
If you haven’t visited Design Bump, I would encourage you to check it out and consider creating an account.
June 8th, 2008
Looks good, actually. It’s surprisingly active for a new site. I just registered and I’m about to start testing it out.
June 9th, 2008
The site looks cool. I have Design Float as my homepage right now in one of the browsers I use. I have to put this as a bookmark or something. Cool to see it’s built with Drupal and has a Drupal category.
June 9th, 2008
Design Bump looks really cool. I love Design Float, so I’m happy to see more resources geared toward designers!
June 9th, 2008
I think if there are some more screenshot then it will be more cool.Thanks for the good post.
June 9th, 2008
Great…More sites with the same stories!
June 9th, 2008
VR - If you don’t like seeing the same stories why don’t you submit something new? That’s the beauty of social media sites.
June 9th, 2008
Justin - Can’t even argue with that.
June 9th, 2008
I’m sorry for a mistake in the post. I said Design Bump is built on Pligg, but it’s actually built on Drupal.
VR,
You do have a point. That’s one thing that we’ll have to see with time is how much variety there is with two sites that have such a similar audience. I hope it works out well for everyone, but there is potential for a lot of duplication.
Justin,
Another good point!
June 12th, 2008
this is a good blog
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July 31st, 2008
Wasn’t aware of this one, I normally frequent Design Float, will have to bookmark this one as well.