Now you’ve gone to the effort of creating and sharing a Nokia Developer project you will want people to see and use it, and you may even need help with its development.

One of the best ways is to make your project more visible is to ensure it appears on the Nokia Projects landing page. This page lists the most active projects, the newest projects, recent changes in any project, and the most interesting projects (as featured by the Project Moderation team). So if make any change or make a lot of changes, then your project will appear!

We’ve now added one more way to highlight your project: announcements from individual projects are shown on the landing page:

Announcements from all projects are shown on the project landing page

If you make a new release, win an award, or do anything else cool, then navigate to the Discussion section in your project and create a new topic under Announcements forum. The service will then pick up the announcement and display it on the landing page.

There are a bunch of other things you can do to promote your project, some of which are captured in the article Growing a successful project. For example, you can give your project more visibility in explorer by adding appropriate categories and being more active. And of course you can always promote your project by creating interesting articles in the main wiki covering aspects of the development, or using social media.

Featuring a binary release on your project summary page is a great way of making them available and obvious to your users. We’ve just made this a lot easier to do (along with the management of your other files).

Previously, featured downloads were uploaded and managed separately from other files in a “well hidden” section of the Admin tab. In the most recent Project’s update the downloads functionality has now been merged into the “Files tab”. This means that files only need to be uploaded once, and that its obvious how to feature them.

Existing projects have been migrated to use the new system, and any entered description and platform details for featured downloads will have been preserved (the version detail field no longer exists). Note that if you didn’t have a description before, we highly recommend you go and add one now.

In addition to new support for featuring, we also improved the file management tools: now you only “need” to use WebDAV if you have to upload a lot of files in a single session.

For more information see our help documentation and the enhancement ticket.