nims Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 i want to design a very basic personal webpage for myself but i dunno what kinds of stuff to put in it. some things that i came up with are: main (site news) about shout files gbook links my system contact and i dunno what else to put in there. suggestions or examples or personal sites would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nims Posted April 27, 2003 Author Share Posted April 27, 2003 anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 To me. it sounds like a million other web sites NOT to visit! Saying that, it is hard to think of original things to put on a web site. When I am updating my own, I look around following links endlessly to find sites with good ideas poorly done. I have no problems about nicking the concept and improving it for my own needs. You need something that will bring people back to your site over and over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nims Posted April 27, 2003 Author Share Posted April 27, 2003 You need something that will bring people back to your site over and over again. some suggestions would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 chrispederick Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 Why create a site if you don't have anything to put on it? People will only want to visit a site if they find the content interesting, and if you can't think of anything interesting even to yourself why would they be interested by it? Too many people create websites with the standard guestbooks and shoutboxes, but no accompanying content. If you can think of something cool, then go for it, but otherwise why even bother? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 theprotege Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 it depends on what kind of site you want it to be...do you want to post news every day? make it a family site? make it a site about you? a site about your car? your dog? (get the picture)? find sites like the one you want to create, see what they do, how they do it, then draw your own conclusions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nims Posted April 27, 2003 Author Share Posted April 27, 2003 thanx for your help theprotege Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 some suggestions would be nice. Don't want to sound too brutal on you, but if I come up with any new ideas, I would not be giving them out to people! I know how hard it is to come up with ideas, I've been there and done that so many times over the years I've been doing my web site, but usually ideas come out of the blue to me (usually after spending hours staring at a blank screen). Ask your mates if they have any ideas, maybe ask them to be contributors to keep the site updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 theprotege Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 thanx for your help theprotege it will at least give you some ideas. its how i started...also, do what Khephren says, get friends to help start your site, they'll give you helpful tips for free...and they'll take it easy on you :) i started with family and friends....and i save every "version" change that my websites go through, without them (looking back at my first site)...i'd probably have won worst website on the web 10 years running...all i had was an about page, a welcome page, and some stuff with IM links etc...i even went with the cheesy free background (different one on each page) etc...no organization just jumbled text and smiles...and to top it off, hosted on aol :) heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 theprotege: I think my first web site would have given yours a run for it's money. 512k of web space lol a photo and really bad text. best thing was the background! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 theprotege Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 theprotege:I think my first web site would have given yours a run for it's money. 512k of web space lol a photo and really bad text. best thing was the background! :woot: , 512k, holy crap that was huge...i had less than 200k among 3 pages and those horrible borrowed animated gifs from animatedgiffactory.com or some crap. my friends thought i was the coolest guy on earth for being able to do a webpage, i had requests out the arse to do sites for them...and i did a few... those poor ******s... :blink: i should have a backup of it somewhere at home, i'll take a screenie and post it tonight...but i'll warn you...that page gives that peter pan guy a heavy weight challenger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 pml !! 200k!!!!! that is pathetic lolololol sounds like a geo****ies web site! I'm even more curious that you "backed it up". you have no shame LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 theprotege Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 lol it was aol, close enough :woot: i don't have a backup of that one so there is an extent to my shame, heres a screenie from 98 :x at least i could do logins back then...as you can see, i moved away from the animated gifs...this was right about when i started playing with tables...hence the boxy look. all those pages and this site was around 300k...probably cause there wasn't crap on the pages haha EDIT: link is a mouseover effect on the table... PS - i don't mind if anyone uses that template but please let me know if you do...thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 Hey that don't look so bad for 1998, here's mine LOL I'm cringing as I look at it still :) I do it for a living so I'd like to think I'm a little better now :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Khephren Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 Much to my shame, here is my site from 1998! Utter rubbish!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 theprotege Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 not bad khephren...at least you had graphics going...note the lack of graphics on my page-o-shame. I actually didn't figure out how to do my own graphics until I found macromedia fireworks (graphics for dummies). i do some work off to the side, so i too like to think i've improved, at least for prides sake...heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dougkinzinger Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 it's a neat little box design ... you're off to a good start. Check out my sites, http://www.boogsoftball.com and http://www.dougkinzinger.com ... maybe they'll help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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i want to design a very basic personal webpage for myself but i dunno what kinds of stuff to put in it.
some things that i came up with are:
main (site news)
about
shout
files
gbook
links
my system
contact
and i dunno what else to put in there.
suggestions or examples or personal sites would be great!
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