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Alright so I made this cheesy little guide to creating a successful Pokemon website. Comments and questions can be answered through AIM at: PokeDailyRazz
Now many of you may not know that a website is not only about how popular it is. It is about the heart and soul you put into it. Basically I go by this rule when making any website: the more effort = the more rewards. So, where do we begin? Well, first of all comes the website design.
1. Website Design
Any website that wants to be sucessfull must have a clean, organized, and fun layout. The design is what makes the first impression on the visitor. But it's not always easy to create it yourself. Many free designs are avaliable around the internet and are easily customizable to fit your desires. If a design is cluttered with hundreds of images and off-topic things, the design becomes to unorganized and messy. From my experience, people hate cluttered and messy designs. Easily navigated designs are the best for people trying to find what they want to find. Try to make your design have a
nice, clean, easily acessable design that is pleasing to the eye. There is nothing more annoying then seeing bright yellow and hot pink in the same design. Pick colors that go together well. Contrasting colors are okay sometimes, but not in large quantities as they hurt people's eyes and tend to turn them off no matter what the quality of your content is. I personally always use greys, blues, and soft basic colors for any peice of work that I do. Greys go well with ANY color. It does not matter which color it is, grey will work with it. So use that to your advantage. Remember what I ALWAYS say: More effort means more rewards!
2. Content and Information
Now, once you have a nice clean, and organized design, you are ready to incorporate content to it. The content is what keeps the visitors at your site and not at someone else's. Include pictures with content as often as you can because a visual and textual (is textual even a word..? lmao) references keep the visitor happy, and the point your trying to make in your content is clearly shown and prooved. Remember, stealing is a nono. It is absolutly ESSENTIAL that you do not steal sources from other websites, as that is an infringement of copyright law. If your are to lazy to write your own content, borrowing is fine as long as credit is placed. Stealing content will only lead to troubles down the road and won't bring you a successful website (Believe me I have had experience with this one... :chinese:). Make sure your content is free of spelling mistakes and gramatical errors because those can hinder your readers into doing something else. Try to include as much information as you can find because the difference between someone finding content on your site and someone else's will be the length and avaliability of it. ALWAYS remember: More effort = more rewards!
3. Features and Interactivity
Having site features and interactives is a great.. no, not great, AMAZING way to keep visitors at your website and for them to keep coming back. Now, exactly what those features may be is up to you, but some examples are polls, guest book, online games, music, and pictures. This is also a great way to involve your visitors and your website. Always, always have atleast something for your visitors to do other then read content. And remember what I have said 3 times now? More effort = more rewards.
Now that's pretty much what my 7 year experience in websites has led me to belive will make a successful website. If you have any questions or comments about more information on making a successful website, please contact me on AIM at: PokeDailyRazz
That's all for now! And remember for the fourth time: MORE EFFORT = MORE REWARDS. :P Cya!
Now many of you may not know that a website is not only about how popular it is. It is about the heart and soul you put into it. Basically I go by this rule when making any website: the more effort = the more rewards. So, where do we begin? Well, first of all comes the website design.
1. Website Design
Any website that wants to be sucessfull must have a clean, organized, and fun layout. The design is what makes the first impression on the visitor. But it's not always easy to create it yourself. Many free designs are avaliable around the internet and are easily customizable to fit your desires. If a design is cluttered with hundreds of images and off-topic things, the design becomes to unorganized and messy. From my experience, people hate cluttered and messy designs. Easily navigated designs are the best for people trying to find what they want to find. Try to make your design have a
nice, clean, easily acessable design that is pleasing to the eye. There is nothing more annoying then seeing bright yellow and hot pink in the same design. Pick colors that go together well. Contrasting colors are okay sometimes, but not in large quantities as they hurt people's eyes and tend to turn them off no matter what the quality of your content is. I personally always use greys, blues, and soft basic colors for any peice of work that I do. Greys go well with ANY color. It does not matter which color it is, grey will work with it. So use that to your advantage. Remember what I ALWAYS say: More effort means more rewards!
2. Content and Information
Now, once you have a nice clean, and organized design, you are ready to incorporate content to it. The content is what keeps the visitors at your site and not at someone else's. Include pictures with content as often as you can because a visual and textual (is textual even a word..? lmao) references keep the visitor happy, and the point your trying to make in your content is clearly shown and prooved. Remember, stealing is a nono. It is absolutly ESSENTIAL that you do not steal sources from other websites, as that is an infringement of copyright law. If your are to lazy to write your own content, borrowing is fine as long as credit is placed. Stealing content will only lead to troubles down the road and won't bring you a successful website (Believe me I have had experience with this one... :chinese:). Make sure your content is free of spelling mistakes and gramatical errors because those can hinder your readers into doing something else. Try to include as much information as you can find because the difference between someone finding content on your site and someone else's will be the length and avaliability of it. ALWAYS remember: More effort = more rewards!
3. Features and Interactivity
Having site features and interactives is a great.. no, not great, AMAZING way to keep visitors at your website and for them to keep coming back. Now, exactly what those features may be is up to you, but some examples are polls, guest book, online games, music, and pictures. This is also a great way to involve your visitors and your website. Always, always have atleast something for your visitors to do other then read content. And remember what I have said 3 times now? More effort = more rewards.
Now that's pretty much what my 7 year experience in websites has led me to belive will make a successful website. If you have any questions or comments about more information on making a successful website, please contact me on AIM at: PokeDailyRazz
That's all for now! And remember for the fourth time: MORE EFFORT = MORE REWARDS. :P Cya!