KarenArt — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:06:07 +0000

I hate to sound rude but why do you want a site?
Just to make money? ... good luck!

I'm in agreement with Megan here... if you're asking other people what to make your site about, you don't need a site.

Find something you want to share with others...
pictures of your hampster, funny stories about your in-laws (just don't give them the url), hobbies and obsessions, etc.
I'm into colored pencil art and have 5 of my own sites about that subject.

If you rely on other people to make your content for you, you won't have a unique enough site to want to visit.
Paint, draw, make movies or music, rant and rave, or stir up political debate... just be original.

A teammate — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:05:06 +0000

And i wont to to make an informativ site but i want to be able to make money from ads usnign adsense.

A teammate — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:03:48 +0000

Im A teammate

fusioncroc — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:00:08 +0000

i did find the article when i searched on google but i did ask and they said it was ok and i linked on there anyway

A teammate — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:19:37 +0000

thx for the help!

Megan — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:29:09 +0000

Great post, Abhi! I was thinking that if you don't know what you want to make your site about, then why are you trying to make a site? If it's just for your own recreation, there's nothing wrong with a blog/personal site type thing.

Otherwise, my only advice is to find a good niche. Get too broad in your topic and it gets harder to draw an audience and harder to keep up your site.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:23:16 +0000

djben80, are you A teammate?

Saurons Vault, did you write all that yourself, or is it an article by someone else? If you didn't write it, be sure to check if it's ok for you to publish it and if you have credit the original author for it.

A teammate/djben80, I suggest you evaluate carefully why you want to make a site in the first place. Figure out if you want money from it, or if you want a learning project, or if it's just for fun.

If you want a money-making site, you'll have to consider whether you want to sell a product or a service, exactly what that is, how it works, who your audience will be -- i.e. draw up a business plan and hammer out the economics before you get started.

If you want to make a site just to learn a new language or expand your skills/portfolio, then you could make a site for someone else for free, perhaps.

And if it's just for your own recreation that you want to build a site, you might set up a blog, or maybe an informative site on some hobby or interest of yours. Anything, really.

You have unlimited possibilities for the content of a site, really. Try to understand your motives for making the site so that you can choose a topic set aims for it.

Good luck.

djben80 — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:33:52 +0000

please

djben80 — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:30:42 +0000

I need more specific

fusioncroc — Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:58:44 +0000

~~Types of Sites~~

There are many different types of web sites. A short list of some of the different categories are listed below. Of course, your own site can be any one of the types below, and actually may include elements from some or all of them. It's your web site, so have fun and do what you want.

~~Commercial~~
Sites which exist to sell something. That's all they do is sell a product. These sites do not make money off advertising - they create the advertising.
Business
Sites which provide support for a business. Technical support sites can fall into this category.

~~Informational~~
These are sites which give information. Generally these sites do not sell anything, at least not directly. Often they are supported by banner advertising or other forms of indirect payment.

~~Entertainment~~
Sites such as disney.com which are oriented entirely towards entertainment.

~~Free Stuff~~
Sites which offer free services or products. These might offer free webmaster tools like site checkers or free services such as site submission.

~~Brochures~~
These are sites which are simply online brochures. For the most part these sites are not looked upon favorably by most people because they tend to be very shallow.

~~900-Number~~
I've pulled this out specially because there are literally millions of them all over the web. This was a fad started by who-knows and pushed by scam artists like Don Lapre. Buy a 900-number and put up a web site! Lo and behold, they will come and you will make money. Yeah, right.

[U]Money Making [/U]
These are the scourge of the web and include sites which offer only page after endless page of pay-to-surf program listings or breathless descriptions of the newest MLM program. Creating one of these sites is virtually always a bad idea - at least put some content up for heaven's sake.

~~Replicating~~
This is a strange idea. Go to a site and sign up to create an identical site of your own. Attract others to it, who also create identical sites of their own. Generally you will find these sites are in support of some silly money making scheme which benefits only those at the top of the pyramid.

~~Personal Home Page~~
One of my favorites is the personal home page. These can be anything and can contain virtually everything. I find it wonderfully refreshing to read about some grandmother's experiences with her dog or cat, or perhaps a 12-year old's experiences in school. These are usually amateurish, but often show endless hours of creation on the part of someone.

~~"Adult" sites~~
These are everywhere and fall into just about all of the categories. They are the plague of the net and probably the less said about them the better.