India now on the front page! [Archive]

Jan

April 4th, 2009, 04:57 AM

With many spectacular projects taking place I moved the Indian forum up to the front page as one of the stand alone sections of a newly created Asian Forums section. Good job all, keep it up! :cool:

harsh1802

April 4th, 2009, 05:15 AM

^^ Grt news Jan!

:cheers:

harsh1802

April 4th, 2009, 05:17 AM

Thanks!!!

And cheers my fellow forumers! Grt work.....special thanks to the section Mods!!!

pratyushics

April 4th, 2009, 05:17 AM

this is fantastic......Cheers!!

Jan

April 4th, 2009, 05:23 AM

You guys also might want to think of a cool name for this place. Just India looks a bit plain on there doesn't it? :)

pratyushics

April 4th, 2009, 05:25 AM

yes...but we might wanna keep it short...I mean just a two-three word tittle...because the main focus should be india...

pratyushics

April 4th, 2009, 05:27 AM

Actually....I hardly see any section having a cool name in the main page....most of them have the tittle as Forum followed by the country name

harsh1802

April 4th, 2009, 05:31 AM

You guys also might want to think of a cool name for this place. Just India looks a bit plain on there doesn't it? :)

Well. I think India is just fine....i guess. :)

Like to hear what others have to say.

Actually....I hardly see any section having a cool name in the main page....most of them have the tittle as Forum followed by the country name

I guess Jan was more pointing us to using something similar or SCC in front.

India101

April 4th, 2009, 06:29 AM

Thanks Jan and other Mods!!

India101

April 4th, 2009, 06:40 AM

You guys also might want to think of a cool name for this place. Just India looks a bit plain on there doesn't it? :)

Yeah mayb we can. We should also add links to Metropolitan Projects, Regional and Urban Projects, Galleries and Creative Corner and the rest of them. What do you guys think?

Thanks again.:cheers:

sudheeshnairs

April 4th, 2009, 06:50 AM

Thanks Jan for the outbranching.

I am ok with 'India' alone.

IndiansUnite

April 4th, 2009, 10:35 AM

Awesome. SSC India has come a long way and this recent upgrade has been only possible cos of all of you dedicated members and awesome mods. :applause:

April 19 2008 was when we expanded from 4 subforums to 28 subforums and now almost an year later, we're up on SSC's main page.

Here's my suggestion about our appearance on the front page:

India - Satyameva Jayate
Namaste! » Metropolitan Projects | Regional and Urban Projects | Galleries and Creative Corner | Infrastructure & Transportation | Economy and Industries | History, Heritage and Period Architecture Discussions | Social Places and Forum Issues

:cheers:

RonnieR

April 4th, 2009, 11:26 AM

cool :)

zhiemi

April 4th, 2009, 11:34 AM

SSC India's happiest moment :D

I agree just "India" will be fine. I would however like to have sublinks to the different subforums like IU suggested above.

This is just great. Thanks a lot :cheers:

RonnieR

April 4th, 2009, 12:05 PM

SSC India's happiest moment :D

I agree just "India" will be fine. I would however like to have sublinks to the different subforums like IU suggested above.

This is just great. Thanks a lot :cheers:

I like Incredible INdia's ad on CNN and BBC. :)

zhiemi

April 4th, 2009, 12:21 PM

^^

I don't mean to boast, but I admit they are quite good. Glad you also like them :cheers1:

I have seen a couple of Wow Philippines ads, they are as nice! :)

erbse

April 4th, 2009, 12:27 PM

"India" alone would do it, sage ich ;)

Good to see you fellow mates on the front page now. Congratulations!

scorpiogenius

April 4th, 2009, 03:23 PM

Wonderful!!! :banana::banana:

Thanks Jan, and congrats to all fellow forumers.:cheers1:

Suncity

April 4th, 2009, 04:36 PM

This is cool. Thanks Jan.

:cheers:

kiretoce

April 4th, 2009, 07:03 PM

Congratulations SSC India! :cheers2:

From SSC Philippines! :colgate:

sudheeshnairs

April 4th, 2009, 07:45 PM

^^Thanks buddy:)

This saturday night fever dedicated to SSC India:cheers:

sakrishna

April 4th, 2009, 08:00 PM

:banana:

Let me take this opportunity to sincerely Thank Jan, all SSC mods, SSC India mods, all SSC India members, other well wishers, supporters etc....Words are not enough to express this happy moment.....

Mera Bharath Mahan......

Mahratta

April 4th, 2009, 11:16 PM

Hooray! Congrats bhailog! Thanks Jan

I do like IU's idea...but just "Namaste" and the project links would be better

India101

April 4th, 2009, 11:38 PM

Here's my suggestion about our appearance on the front page:

India - Satyameva Jayate
Namaste! » Metropolitan Projects | Regional and Urban Projects | Galleries and Creative Corner | Infrastructure & Transportation | Economy and Industries | History, Heritage and Period Architecture Discussions | Social Places and Forum Issues

I like that. Maybe just:

India
Namaste! » Metropolitan Projects | Regional and Urban Projects | Galleries and Creative Corner | Infrastructure & Transportation | Economy and Industries | History, Heritage and Period Architecture Discussions | Social Places and Forum Issues

Mahratta

April 4th, 2009, 11:47 PM

^^ I second that.

KB335ci2

April 5th, 2009, 08:52 AM

I'm glad we're standing alone (without the rif-raf) now - good show! great job, mods.

Oh, and I prefer 'India'. Lets keep it simple, IMHO.

zenith_suv

April 5th, 2009, 11:09 AM

Lets add Namaste to it as IU had suggested - After all it's traditional Indian Welcome greeting .

Great day for SSc India :banana:

Anniyan

April 5th, 2009, 01:37 PM

Why not add Namaste/Salaam Alaykum/Vanakam ! ;)

I am surprised that no one suggested the name "India Shining" :tongue2:

cncity

April 5th, 2009, 04:30 PM

India - Namaste sounds good or even Jai Hind.

Fusionist

April 5th, 2009, 05:29 PM

congrats ! good thinking by Jan, and others if any who poposed the idea.

I too feel somethign should be added under the name Inda :dunno:

Maybe a link to the Metropolitan cities will give them more prominence ? People should get familar with Indian cities by now. Something like Forum Bharat : then followed by City links. I would reccommend this, as the idea is to get as many links as possible in the front page itself, so more viewers and publicity.

Or why not somethig catchy like 'Jai Hind. India Calling'

IndiansUnite

April 6th, 2009, 01:57 AM

^ I like your Idea about each city having a link.

Here's my new proposal:

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5641/s2b.jpg

I've refined/shortened the names of some of the subforums. Btw the name Bengaluru hasn't yet been given the nod by the Union Ministry. So should we rename it to Bangalore?

Fusionist

April 6th, 2009, 02:09 AM

^^ nice. Another point in favour of adding the Metropolitan city names in front page is at least this way visitors will get to know what the fast developing and active Metropolitan cities in India are... instead of thinking that 'Agra, Jaipur & Goa' are the 'real Indian' cities as per the usual tourist guides. Another point, people will also get familiarised with the new names like Bengaluru/Chennai, instead of Madras/Bangalore.

But I am not sure if 'chaibar & Forum Issues' is necessary in front page.

Also if you click on 'History,heritage Discussion' there is only 1 sub-forum inside. People will have to click again on 'Monuments Buildings' sub-thred to get to the actual forum. Not a good first impression.

Why not simply link it directly to Munuments & Buildings sub-forum or simply skip it in the front page ? Also same with 'Economy & Industries'. Is it that important ?, can possibly be skipped in front page ? This way front page wont be too long and can possibly fit into one or two lines.

harsh1802

April 6th, 2009, 02:36 AM

Here's my new proposal:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5641/s2b.jpg

That's just too much clutter there. Have the cities individually and for the rest we can just have More hyper linking to the India forum.

Hindustani

April 6th, 2009, 03:05 AM

thans Jan. Good idea. with so much stuff going on.

IndiansUnite

April 6th, 2009, 03:36 AM

Why not simply link it directly to Munuments & Buildings sub-forum or simply skip it in the front page ?Also same with 'Economy & Industries'. Is it that important ?, can possibly be skipped in front page ?

Both the History and Economy subforums are pretty important wrt India. I agree that the History, Heritage & Architecture Discussions link should be linked straight to the subforum.

How about this:

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)
Namaste!
» Bengaluru | Chennai | Cochin | Delhi | Hyderabad | Kolkata | Mumbai | Trivandrum
» Regional Projects | Images | Infrastructure | Economy | History & Heritage | Chaibar

NorthWesternGuy

April 6th, 2009, 03:37 AM

Congratulations Indian forumers!!:banana::banana: I´m sure that more international forumers will visit your country (including me, at least via Internet):)

harsh1802

April 6th, 2009, 04:06 AM

Jai

April 6th, 2009, 05:57 AM

Sweetness :)

SSC India has come a LONG way -- thanks Jan!

phaedrus

April 6th, 2009, 10:54 AM

brilliant! congratulations everyone - big step here.
thanks a ton Jan!!!

i do like IU's suggestion .another idea, to reduce the links further, would be for all the cities to be clubbed under a cities link. like this:

India
Namaste!
Cities and Regional Projects | Images | Infrastructure | Economy | History & Heritage | Chaibar

April 7th, 2009, 02:36 AM

Awesome!

India101

April 7th, 2009, 07:48 AM

Illusionist

April 7th, 2009, 08:04 AM

congrats to everyone. i noticed the change few days ago but then i thought i was my mistake. go SSC India :)

Illusionist

April 7th, 2009, 08:06 AM

I like "Namaste India" or "India Rising", or just "New India"

or "INDIA/Hindustan/Bharat" that way people may know the other two names our our land.

india

April 7th, 2009, 09:36 AM

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)
Namaste!

Will do. You people need to learn to KISS.

erbse

April 7th, 2009, 09:47 AM

^ Indeed. Just do it like the Philippines (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1990).

castlerock

April 7th, 2009, 09:59 AM

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)
Namaste!

Will do. You people need to learn to KISS.

That looks good. namaste is a word everybody will understand rather than jai hind satyameva.... etc . How come nobody suggested Jai Ho India :-)

Jai

April 7th, 2009, 10:03 AM

oh please, no Jai Ho :)

I also like the simple "Namaste!"

desiguy66

April 8th, 2009, 03:26 AM

congrats to all who contribute!

I like "Namaste" too!

zenith_suv

April 8th, 2009, 08:16 AM

+1 , lets go with Namaste in the small caption

scorpiogenius

April 8th, 2009, 10:26 AM

Why no one is pitching for Incredible India?? Its our Govts official tourism campaign..:) I'd like India on its own though...

India!
Namaste

Metropolitan projects l Regional l Galleries l Infrastructure & Transportation l Economy l History l Chaibar

Aadil.Aijaz

April 8th, 2009, 03:25 PM

Congratulations from Pakistan to all the Indian members of SSC!

phaedrus

April 8th, 2009, 03:32 PM

^^cheers mate!

mihir1310

April 8th, 2009, 05:34 PM

errr guys , im sorry, but what exactly has changed .. could someone tell me :uh:

sudheeshnairs

April 8th, 2009, 07:44 PM

See this home page of SSC,

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/index.php

Here under the Asian Forums, now there are three sub divisions, 'Asian Skyscraper forums', 'Philipine Forums' and 'India'.

Earlier, India was in the Asian skyscraper forums where there are around 17 subdivisions including Japan, mainland china, taiwan, malaysia, pakistan etc.

Now because of the increased activity, India has been given a seperate Folder.

At this moment, India is being viewed by 127, Philipine forums by 131 and the Asian forum (which has 17 countries/divisions) by 330.

mihir1310

April 8th, 2009, 07:50 PM

ohh!! thats awesome :banana: how come i dont notice that

:cheers:

India101

April 9th, 2009, 12:52 AM

Now because of the increased activity, India has been given a seperate Folder.

I thought we got a seperate folder was because we have over 220,000 posts unlike many other Asian forums.

Illusionist

April 9th, 2009, 02:06 AM

^ ^ That what means increased activity . that and number of views.

todscreen

April 10th, 2009, 08:09 AM

Congrats guys...i am proud of you

skdubai

April 10th, 2009, 03:39 PM

nice.... and i agree, it looks a bit bland right now.. we need more infor under there like the Philippines sub forum!!!

+1 for the namaste....

kg4129

April 10th, 2009, 04:24 PM

Congrates to all indian forummers

mihir1310

April 10th, 2009, 05:59 PM

im pretty sure, every ,language in India will have its own version of Namaste or such greeting . we can change the greeting everyday !

todscreen

April 10th, 2009, 11:09 PM

its namaskar in bengali

kemcho in guggarati

namaste in hindi, marathi, telugu, kannada, and tamil

sabtam niyam piye in oriya and bhatok che in bihari

Jan

April 10th, 2009, 11:16 PM

Someone pop me a pm when you guys have settled on the title and subtitle. :)

Kewl Batty

April 10th, 2009, 11:38 PM

its namaskar in bengali

kemcho in guggarati :nuts:

namaste in hindi, marathi, telugu, kannada, and tamil

sabtam niyam piye in oriya and bhatok che in bihari

:lol: its Vanakkam in Tamil.. I guess its also different in telugu and kannada.

Its better to stick to Hindi I guess. Coz its spoken widely in India. So my vote goes to

Namaste + 2

pradeeptnair1

April 10th, 2009, 11:56 PM

"Namaste" to all forumeres...

I too wld side by India "Namaste"

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 12:04 AM

its cliched...which is why i don't like it...but i won't mind Namaste.

Heres how I would like to see it done:

INDIA-"thou art the ruler of the minds of all people"
Projects | Cityscapes | Infrastructure | Industries | Chaibar(misc.)

because the Indian forum is already divided up into these categories.
projects could have both urban and regional projects
cityscape could have all general pics of different cities
infrastructure could have rail, air, highway, bridge, seaport
industries could have stuff about the economy, healthcare, business, and such

and chaibar could have the chaibar

lets vote on this.

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 12:07 AM

anyway i got the quote from the national anthem

O! Dispenser of India's destiny, thou art the ruler of the minds of all people[8]
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindh, Gujarat, the Maratha country,
in the Dravida country, Utkala and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
it mingles in the rhapsodies of the pure waters of Yamuna and Ganga
They chant only thy name.
They seek only thy auspicious blessings.
They sing only the glory of thy victory.
The salvation of all people waits in thy hands,
O! Dispenser of India's destiny, thou art the ruler of the minds of all people
Victory to thee, Victory to thee, Victory to thee,
Victory, Victory, Victory, Victory to thee!

i like the bolded statement too

mihir1310

April 11th, 2009, 04:56 AM

Namaste is cool !! but why not have a rotating policy , say on a weekly basis !! !! Its not too hard is it ???

just a suggestion anyway

Suncity

April 11th, 2009, 05:09 AM

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 05:20 AM

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 05:21 AM

sudheeshnairs

April 11th, 2009, 06:32 AM

Fusionist

April 11th, 2009, 06:39 AM

^^ well not even a single non-English word on the front page ?

sudheeshnairs

April 11th, 2009, 06:56 AM

^^I feel it is not necessary. English alone is well & good.

Jai

April 11th, 2009, 08:40 AM

I agree with Sudheesh's categories

But there is some merit in having at least one non-English word, especially as one as worldwide recognized as quintessentially Indian and as a word of welcome -- namaste. I would strongly recommend against any nationalistic phrases and sentiments.

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 10:59 AM

Images don't make any sense. People are more inclined to click on cityscapes than "images" in a skyscrapercity forum. Please change it to cityscapes.

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 11:00 AM

todscreen

April 11th, 2009, 11:01 AM

lets start voting amongst the two popular theme!!!!!!!

let me go make a polling thread. love democracy even though its kinda slow.

india

April 11th, 2009, 06:06 PM

Some of you (incl. the mods) seem to love clutters. So be it.

Again, my vote goes to -

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)
Namaste!

shockw4ve

April 12th, 2009, 08:33 AM

Awesome! Thanks Jan! .. and Congrats fellow Indians :cheers:

It feels great to see Indian section so active.

Again, my vote goes to -

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)
Namaste!

And Mine too. :)

Jai

April 12th, 2009, 10:28 AM

harsh1802

April 12th, 2009, 11:42 AM

Fusionist

April 12th, 2009, 04:22 PM

The point of having all the subsections listed on the main page is not only to popularize the depth of the Indian forum and invite non-Indian participation, but to provide a clear layout of SSC India to any interested perusers

So not having any subsections listed would be selling SSC India short.

I would tend to agree. I also prefer the idea of a multi-door entry to the sub-forum.. so people can connect through areas of interest more easily.

Jodhpur2

April 12th, 2009, 09:44 PM

kem cho is not hello in gujrati is it?? i thought it was how are you... and toadscreen there you are forgetting the languages of north-east.... but anyway i like the india namste! idea...

Kewl Batty

April 14th, 2009, 04:35 AM

India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450) - Satyameva Jayathe!
» Bengaluru | Chennai | Cochin | Delhi | Hyderabad | Kolkata | Mumbai | Trivandrum
» More (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)!!!

I don't see the point of having the rest of the categories there since we already have classified them clearly in our section. And Namaste! sounds corny to me.

:nono: No no no satyam plzzzz.. :lol: juzz kidding

This is wat I prefer. :)
India (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450) - Namaste!
» Bengaluru | Chennai | Cochin | Delhi | Hyderabad | Kolkata | Mumbai | Trivandrum
» More (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=450)!!!

todscreen

April 14th, 2009, 04:57 AM

India101

April 14th, 2009, 05:44 AM

todscreen

April 14th, 2009, 11:38 PM

^^I didn't decide that. The forummers of India ssc did. besides...individual cities in india need name recognition. India is no longer just about Taj Mahal.

mihir1310

April 15th, 2009, 02:35 AM

^^ thats fine,, but then why do we have to exclude any cities?? There are many prominent cities that deserve to be there, & it will be difficult to decide which cities should make the list & which shouldn't.

gvijayan

May 6th, 2009, 04:29 AM

Thats nice. I noticed India listed on the front page, and thought it was done silently. Just got a chance to look this thread. Nice to see SSC India taking shape with lots of information!