:rolleyes:Use great graphics an good color which attracts the users/views eyes an capturers there attention which cuases them to view your website if its good enought they'll register.

Also use good images, links an have blogs an forums also start a referring website such as like this:

Visit this site and know all the info about the CHITWAN

http://hamrochitwan.com

Some thing like that would get more users depending on if the items in your shop are GOOD maybe like moderator for a week costing 100 referals or somethink.

Hey, welcome to the forums!

Can you suggest a good background color etc. for people to use?

It's a nice tutorial, but with more detail it would be even better!

The first thing you really need to do is work out if there is a point to users registering. At Trap17 the point of registering is to give you an identity, and to link your credits to you. Therefore, it makes sense for people to register and create an account. With my blog, there is no point in registering users. Even if I made it so registered users gained something extra, it would be pointless for me - there is no gain from having registered users in that situation.

Oookay... is it just me or is that hamrochitwan site down or "comming soon"?

Seriously, there used to be times when the Internet was all about information. The websites are there to serve the people, to offer them the information that they seek. Now, it disgusts me that it's all about ranking higher in Google or getting more visitors who, for all we know, may just be passing through, or increasing the number of sites that refer to yours or... the list goes on and on.

Personally, I really think that, to attract users to register to a site, the site must offer something worth their while. True, it will only take a minute or two to register but not all of us have the luxury of time. Take porn sites, for example. Why should I register with a credit card, or even if it free when I could just as easily get the same content elsewhere without the need to register?

I'd have to agree with rvalkass; online registration is a give-and-take transaction. Sure, registration makes it easier for webmasters to track their audiences or monitor traffic or earn something though (unsolicited, and, sometimes, intrusive) adverts. However, it is also the webmasters' (or content providers') obligation to give something back to their registered members. People don't normally register simply because you want them to. Anything that requires registration should, somehow, give sufficient content, ideally, exclusive ones, to their registered members. Otherwise, a lot of people will realize just how pointless it is and stop re-visiting your site. Sure, you may have lots of registered members but I doubt any of them really would come back

There are three things you need to make a good website. Content is the king, advertising is the queen, and the design is the jack. You need a good concept that sets it out from other sites in some way. Now you need to decide on a good system to manage your content. After that, make a web design. Don't overload it with fancy graphics. Fancy graphics do not matter. Maddox and Wikipedia can still attract users without excessive background images, javascript, and other filling junk because they have good content. Focus on efficency and user friendliness. This means avoid tables. Now that you have a good web design and a system for that web design to work its magic on, put in your content. Put in a lot of content. Make it as good as possible. If you have a forum, only have a small amount of forums so your forum looks bigger. Avoid the mistakes placed upon the HTML Hell page which can be found on Google as the first hit. That should make it attractive for the next step.

Advertising is very important. How will people know your site is there when it isn't linked from anywhere? Go around IRC channels with your target market. Link it in your forum signature. Put it in your social networking profiles. Advertise to your coworkers. Buy ads from Google. If people like it, they will come, and your site is a success. If people don't like it, you did something wrong. If possible, ask why they don't like your site and don't come to it. Fix the issue if possible.

I liked this one a lot:

The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.

From the html thing


Some particularly irritating designers have discovered the magic formula that causes your browser to spawn a new window when you click on a link — or worse, ways to make pop-up windows appear even if all all you're trying to do is exit their wretched hive of scum and villainy as rapidly as you can find the Back button. Stay in your own window, dammit! The Web is supposed to be about viewer control; designers who persist in rudely grabbing pieces of the viewer's screenspace without permission deserve to be lashed with knouts.

This one was really funny! Where they have the pop-ups coming wherever you click on the screen, whether it be the exit or not.


Surfers learn quickly that for every ten "under construction" signs that go up, maybe two will ever come down before the heat-death of the Universe. This is stupid. HTML is not rocket science and prototyping pages is not a slow process. Anybody who can't find the time to clean the construction signs off their pages should yank them and take up a hobby better matched to their abilities, like (say) drooling, or staring at the wall.

Okay, that is very true. It seems this always happens when you want to USE THE SITE! Why not have it be unavailable at 4:00 PM?


Well, I also think that content is the king, but advertising and design should be swapped. If your website has good enough design and content, you don't even NEED advertising, people will spread your site just because it's cool!

That's all I have to say -


This post has been edited by AskAndrewD: Nov 6 2007, 10:29 PM

Hi,

Just wanted to add this. You could easily state that you will give some special stuff once they gets logged in & lock off something from public. THis way the guest users will get tempted to get registred. You can also name some peculiar id to their acc, such as " Once you get registered you will get a "YOUR_SITE_NAME_ID". Just try this, you will surely be getting incresed traffic and forum registrations. You can also ask people to post a certain no. of posts to get some special service like trap17.com this web hosting is doing.

Dave

I agree. But you may want to make less ads on your blog for registered members, and set guest replys to "no".
For bbs(forums), you can post... get something (eg if your site is about games, you may want to have a prize and you can get 1 game excharge card number if you posted 50 post or have 60 points.. if it's about tech and web design, maybe you can have full acess to tuts for members.)