[Quacnar]

A wonderful christmas I got this year was a website(killercoz.com). As estactic as I am about having my own website, therer are 2 vital problems:

1. I dont know how to create a website(but I have creating a website for dummies so I should be good)

AND

2. I don't know what the web site should be about(I would like suggestions)

I think I want to do a forum or someway people can communicate with each other, but im not positive on that idea either. Does anyone have any good ideas that they think will suit me?

[Split Infinity]

Make an alternate reality game. Then you'll be famous.

[Toasty]

First, toss the "Makeing a Websit For Dummies" book and go to www.w3schools.com
It's a website made by the people who make the internet standards, and they have GREAT tutorials on everything from HTML, to CSS, to PHP. Which are the three main languages you should know before attempting to make a website. HTML and CSS are ESPECIALLY important, as you wont be able to make a site at all without HTML, and you won't be able to make it look any good without CSS.

After you've learned the languages, try looking at the source code of other websites for ideas on how to streamline your code and make the layout of the page half decent. But don't copy the code, because that's just cheap.

At first, the languages will probably seem confusing and hard to understand, but just give it time. Seriously. I'd quit trying to code stuff for periods of time because I just didn't understand it, and then after a while at the most random moments, it'd hit me and I'd suddenly understand perfectly.

If you still can't understand it, well, give the book a shot. I might not hurt.


And if you decide to have a forum, don't even try to make one yourself. We have Invision Free (IPB is the non-free version, and also what GSSF uses) or PHP board for that. Though you should still have a main page.

[Folcon]

you can use the site for a lot of things, post pictures of yourself, post artwork you've made, use it for bussness, just about anything. I plan to start my own website once I get more experence with the basics. I plan to use it to post stories and stuff that I write, and eventualy expand it to excepting enteries for others for stories, poems, and artwork. Of course, for the most part, everything will be video game related.

[Quacnar]

I ant a website that would be interesting/fun/helpful to other people. Thanks for the website DoW.

[Split Infinity]

Just beware of copyrights if you try to do something big. Yes, they exist on the internet.

[Eugine]

hmm. Tough to say since I have no idea what you're interested in. Do a site on a topic that interests you...

[Quacnar]

But there are so many! Cards, video games, theatre, riddles, etc.

[Eugine]

1) Which interests you the most currently?
2) Which interested you the longest?

blah, all the questions I can think off.

[Folcon]

Start with one topic, then slowly expand it to cover more topics that intrest you.

[Quacnar]

Good idea Escout and Eugine it is not necessarily have to be what interests me, it is what will get people to visit my website.

[Eugine]

Then you'll get bored of your site.

[Toasty]

killercoz, on Dec 28 2007, 11:46 AM, said:

Good idea Escout and Eugine it is not necessarily have to be what interests me, it is what will get people to visit my website.

Videogames. Out of the list of things that interests you, people who play video games usually spend more time on the internet, I think. Heck, everyone here plays videogames, so it's a safe assumption.

[Split Infinity]

Don't be silly, Toasty. A game on a video? Like that's going to happen.

[Quacnar]

Dude of Wind, on Dec 28 2007, 08:54 PM, said:

Videogames. Out of the list of things that interests you, people who play video games usually spend more time on the internet, I think. Heck, everyone here plays videogames, so it's a safe assumption.

This is true, but what should I do specifically? Reviewing them doesnt seem like a bad idea...