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[Rejected2]

Website Ideas

I'm deciding to take down my site, it's getting kind of old and boring, but I don't want to just stop with having a site.

I need some ideas for something that provides a service of some sort to people. There are millions of blogs, I really don't want to post about my life on a daily basis anyway.

All ideas will be welcomed, I can't seem to think of anything at all, so Im asking you.

What could my new website be about?

[electriic ink]

Rejected2 said:

There are millions of blogs, I really don't want to post about my life on a daily basis anyway.

And the likelihood is that people won't want to read them. Glad you're not doing that. Each site has it's own theme which fits in with what the user likes doing. Blogs are ideal for this but since they're so boring and half of them send me to sleep in the first half page, do something else. If you want traffic think of something interesting and original.

Base your site on your favourite sport or activity. You could base it on games but you do you need to attract visitors with something because I can think of a million and one games sites. Attract them with...

• No ads
  
• Great graphics
  
• A variety of types of games
  
• A good layout and clear navigation

On the other hand you could make your site a clan site (if you're a member of one) or a site which gives tutorials about php. Although there are many of those around aswell, few provide a massive library. Those many with just three or four don't attract many visitors.

These are just a few of the many things you can base your site on. When you do decide what you're doing, always ask yourself "If I were someone else, would I go on this site?"

[Saint_Michael]

well i am someone else but yeah its a good idea to find a craze everyone is into.

VIDEO GAMES!!!!

[DeathStroke]

You can make a site about babes, they are fun to make and you have a lot of vissitors if you make a good one.
But dont make it a lame porn site! Just a nice site about babes is always sweet

[snlildude87]

cmatcmextra, on Jul 24 2005, 02:55 PM, said:

Base your site on your favourite sport or activity. You could base it on games but  you do you need to attract visitors with something because I can think of a million and one games sites. Attract them with...

• No ads
  
  
• Great graphics
  
  
• ...

....

I disagree. My site gets 2000 unique visitors on weekdays and 500 unique visitors on weekends. I put ads on my site (there are ads on every single page), and my site is not that great graphics-wise, but I still get more visitors than what most could hope. As long as you don't overdo the ads, then you should still get visitors.

Saint_Michael, on Jul 24 2005, 03:07 PM, said:

well i am someone else but yeah its a good idea to find a craze everyone is into.

VIDEO GAMES!!!!

That's nice. Really nice.

DeathStroke, on Jul 24 2005, 04:35 PM, said:

You can make a site about babes, they are fun to make and you have a lot of vissitors if you make a good one.
But dont make it a lame porn site! Just a nice site about babes is always sweet

...you can't make a porn site with trap17 free hosting anyway, so that's out of the question.

[rustypaulin]

yo should make a website on whatever you are most interested in as it will make it far easier tyhan making a sitre on something you arent interested in as you would just end up getting bored quickly and not finishing the site

[biscuitrat]

Dude, just go with whatever you like, be it graphics or writing or whatever. It's your site - you can post anything you want within certain legal boundaries. Just have fun with it. Make a little bit of everything.

[steven]

First of all, I think you should use Microsoft Frontpage 2003 for creating your website because it gives you ultimate control of how your website should look. This will give your website a new attractive theme.

For graphics, you can use softwares such as Caligari Truespace 3.2, or Macromedia Flash. These softwares are downloadable from the net as sharewares or trials. This will give your website nice graphics.

For the content, you can choose to put whatever you want, such as: Religion, Sports, Entertainment, and a Game website. However, I think that game websites take a lot of bandwith, therefore, I wouldn't choose it.

There are a lot of ideas, but it is your choice as to what interests you.

Hope this helps.

[karlo]

I suggest making your website unique. Find new templates or create your own site design based on your interests. Example, your favorite color, and a wonderful color combination. Make sure that the links and colors of the texts are a little similar to your site's design. Also, your website must be 100% compatible in all browsers. Use PHP if you can, it will make your website coding much easier. You can also use 1 PHP file for all of you website's pages. Finally, if you can, try to use the new XMLHttpRequest, it saves you bandwidth and also, it will make your website really unique from others.

[biscuitrat]

steven, on Jul 24 2005, 07:53 PM, said:

First of all, I think you should use Microsoft Frontpage 2003 for creating your website because it gives you ultimate control of how your website should look. This will give your website a new attractive theme.

I recommend Dreamweaver over Frontpage any day. Frontpage has the tendency to ruin perfectly good sites. But round doesn't need to worry about the method of creation - that part's been intricately established through all the flash work.

I think you guys lost the point of the topic entirely :/ Round needs ideas ABOUT the site, not the technology used to make it.

But seriously, round, go with your own flow. Pick out colors that appeal to you and throw them into the works. It's what you did on your other sites and it definitely worked

[snlildude87]

I wouldn't recommend using Dreamweaver nor Frontpage. Code the baby yourself. That's how I coded my site. Your code will most likely be validated if you code your site yourself than if you use other code generators. Second, if you code it yourself, you know exactly what you put in it. With other programs, they might insert weird JavaScript code when you use a script or something. Surely you don't want that.

steven, on Jul 24 2005, 10:53 PM, said:

For the content, you can choose to put whatever you want, such as: Religion, Sports, Entertainment, and a Game website. However, I think that game websites take a lot of bandwith, therefore, I wouldn't choose it.

Tell me about it! I've ran out of my alloted 5 GB bandwidth 3 months in a row now!

biscuitrat, on Jul 24 2005, 11:54 PM, said:

I recommend Dreamweaver over Frontpage any day. Frontpage has the tendency to ruin perfectly good sites. But round doesn't need to worry about the method of creation - that part's been intricately established through all the flash work.

I think you guys lost the point of the topic entirely :/ Round needs ideas ABOUT the site, not the technology used to make it.

But seriously, round, go with your own flow. Pick out colors that appeal to you and throw them into the works. It's what you did on your other sites and it definitely worked

...these are ideas for rejected, not round.

[electriic ink]

steven said:

First of all, I think you should use Microsoft Frontpage 2003 for creating your website because it gives you ultimate control of how your website should look. This will give your website a new attractive theme.

biscuitrat said:

I recommend Dreamweaver over Frontpage any day.

Use notepad, that will give you ultimate control over how your website looks. Frontpage will write code for Internet Explorer and I've looked and code created by this program (yes you can tell) with quite a few mistakes.

steven said:

However, I think that game websites take a lot of bandwith, therefore, I wouldn't choose it.

Register for imageshack.us, they host flash files so it won't cost you a kb in bandwidth to have games.

[biscuitrat]

Whoops, don't know how I thought it was Round. *sheepish*

Anyways, I do a lot of my random coding in Notepad, but it's nice to be able to see what your site is going to look like so you can get rid of immediate errors before you post. It also helps me remove random code pretty easily. For PHP scripts, especially, it's hand to be able to see how many lines there are.

[owbussey]

Well, you can create your own blog site. I know you said there are many blogs out there, but you could create a copy of blogger.com. This would allow you to control you own designs and allow other people to conenct to you through posts. It could be used as a new community meeting place.

[sylenzednuke]

Well I would suggest you, have a blog but it should be kept in one part, some people want to read blogs all day, like me for example... SO this would also attract visitors to your actual website, if you are a good review writer, chose some softwares or websites on which no many reviews have been written and then post them, if you are good at writing songs or poems even post them on to your site, if you good at sketches do post them also.
Thats what I am doing, I am working on a new layout for my website before even the last layout was complete but I am going to put up my sketches, my songs, my graphics and everything I do up there so it would be cool.
If you are good at coding in some language or the other, put up small snippets you crated up there, people who need them will flock to your page and then advertise it at others places too.
Tell all your friends about your site, this surely will attract you visitors...

[techclave]

Well, first up i gotta say that you are thinking the same way as i do .. I too am associated with offering some sort of service to the people .. To do that you have to decide and make up your mind about the kind of service you will be offering.

There are so many things you can do. Write reiews about products, put articles about your hometown , offer cool links to your visitors (kinda old idea but very effective...) .. All these stuff are quite easy to implement. Either you use forums to do it or a content management system like mambo ... I suggest a content management system.. I use php nuke for one of my sites, and am pretty happy with the way it works for me !!

If you plan to make it big, then you have to do something big.!!! MAybe you should be somewhat strong in php,mysql, and probably javascript... Once you are alright with these stuff,and manage to design your site with some neat layout, any idea of yours could sell !!!!

Here are some themes i would like

1) Tutorials
2) Resources (For webdesigning, or similar stuff..)
3) Renders
4) Discussion forum with appreciable amount of activity..

Well, whatever you end up doing, my good wishes !!!

[-bLiNd-]

Well first of all I would recommend a great chat site. Like the ones that work with Macromedia Flash player. Then i'll add some PHBB Forums and some nice downloads. That's pretty much my idea, I'll also add some nice sevices and scripts

[intiendes]

if you dont like blogs .. then i guess a forum site would do .. you joined in here .. you might like doing a forum site

[kraizii88z]

i use a really nice background in my site, and it sounds simple, but it makes all the difference. you have to pick a theme, and then design the whole site around it. make every aspect of the site reflect the whole.

[satyaparija]

It is needless to say that your website idea should be unique. Important thing is that who are the competitors in your field. You need to find out what they are lagging in.If your competitor is a BIG brand already,then also you have a chance.Add your personal genuine voice about something interesting. People tend to look for reviews they can believe.
Write articles on popular sites,answer in yahoo,participate in relevant forums to drive specific traffic to your site.
Last but not least do not forget to make your site search engine friendly and submit it to all major search engines.And CONFIDENCE and PATIENCE is key to success launching a site(specially if u r not funded by VC).

Good luck

Edited by satyaparija, 25 August 2007 - 04:23 PM.

[reconraiders]

snlildude87, on Jul 24 2005, 11:24 PM, said:

Your code will most likely be validated if you code your site yourself than if you use other code generators.

Assuming you KNOW what you're doing and know what the standards are.

[iGuest]

Don't use Dreamweaver or FrontPage. Learn HTML and code in either Notepad or a similar editor that wont append crappy code to your pages.

-John

[iGuest]

Replying to biscuitrat

Does anyone script themselves these days with html? I'm 15 and I have created many websites with just html alone. My latest website <a href="http://stufftodo.Tk">"Stuff to do Site" took me about 5 days to do. It is not the best I could do but I just wanted to finish it because halfway into it I decided I did not like the idea.

[FunkySurd]

To make a website, well
first u need to know what your interests are...
if you cant seem to come up with one then u need to try out different topics and see which one u most prob. fall interest for.
then just make a rough page with all the info and stuff abt that topic.
once ur done with that u will know what to do from there.. its pretty simple...
u keep adding new things to ur site and give it a gr8 look and design
cheers

[iGuest]

Good idea....
Give Me Website Ideas..

Do you like messing around with people...(I do)...Well make a free advice site that gives advice to people for free...

Tons of people have stress and so on...Hope you token some physiology ( can't spell) classes in high school like myself...I am making a site that gives advice to people, and helps people through ways a therapist would...(it would cost some money, if it token longer then like 20 sentences or something like that...

That's all I can think of right now, (which I am doing right now also, but I don't mind you doing what I am doing...Just don't tell others to do it)

-reply by k its me...