I wouldn't recommend using Dreamweaver nor Frontpage. Code the baby yourself. That's how I coded my site. Your code will most likely be validated if you code your site yourself than if you use other code generators. Second, if you code it yourself, you know exactly what you put in it. With other programs, they might insert weird JavaScript code when you use a script or something. Surely you don't want that.

Tell me about it! I've ran out of my alloted 5 GB bandwidth 3 months in a row now!


...these are ideas for rejected, not round.

 

 

 

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Use notepad, that will give you ultimate control over how your website looks. Frontpage will write code for Internet Explorer and I've looked and code created by this program (yes you can tell) with quite a few mistakes.



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Whoops, don't know how I thought it was Round. *sheepish*

Anyways, I do a lot of my random coding in Notepad, but it's nice to be able to see what your site is going to look like so you can get rid of immediate errors before you post. It also helps me remove random code pretty easily. For PHP scripts, especially, it's hand to be able to see how many lines there are.

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Well, you can create your own blog site. I know you said there are many blogs out there, but you could create a copy of blogger.com. This would allow you to control you own designs and allow other people to conenct to you through posts. It could be used as a new community meeting place.

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Well I would suggest you, have a blog but it should be kept in one part, some people want to read blogs all day, like me for example... SO this would also attract visitors to your actual website, if you are a good review writer, chose some softwares or websites on which no many reviews have been written and then post them, if you are good at writing songs or poems even post them on to your site, if you good at sketches do post them also.
Thats what I am doing, I am working on a new layout for my website before even the last layout was complete but I am going to put up my sketches, my songs, my graphics and everything I do up there so it would be cool.
If you are good at coding in some language or the other, put up small snippets you crated up there, people who need them will flock to your page and then advertise it at others places too.
Tell all your friends about your site, this surely will attract you visitors...

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Well, first up i gotta say that you are thinking the same way as i do .. I too am associated with offering some sort of service to the people .. To do that you have to decide and make up your mind about the kind of service you will be offering.

There are so many things you can do. Write reiews about products, put articles about your hometown , offer cool links to your visitors (kinda old idea but very effective...) .. All these stuff are quite easy to implement. Either you use forums to do it or a content management system like mambo ... I suggest a content management system.. I use php nuke for one of my sites, and am pretty happy with the way it works for me !!

If you plan to make it big, then you have to do something big.!!! MAybe you should be somewhat strong in php,mysql, and probably javascript... Once you are alright with these stuff,and manage to design your site with some neat layout, any idea of yours could sell !!!!

Here are some themes i would like

1) Tutorials
2) Resources (For webdesigning, or similar stuff..)
3) Renders
4) Discussion forum with appreciable amount of activity..

Well, whatever you end up doing, my good wishes !!!

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Well first of all I would recommend a great chat site. Like the ones that work with Macromedia Flash player. Then i'll add some PHBB Forums and some nice downloads. That's pretty much my idea, I'll also add some nice sevices and scripts

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if you dont like blogs .. then i guess a forum site would do .. you joined in here .. you might like doing a forum site

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i use a really nice background in my site, and it sounds simple, but it makes all the difference. you have to pick a theme, and then design the whole site around it. make every aspect of the site reflect the whole.

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It is needless to say that your website idea should be unique. Important thing is that who are the competitors in your field. You need to find out what they are lagging in.If your competitor is a BIG brand already,then also you have a chance.Add your personal genuine voice about something interesting. People tend to look for reviews they can believe.
Write articles on popular sites,answer in yahoo,participate in relevant forums to drive specific traffic to your site.
Last but not least do not forget to make your site search engine friendly and submit it to all major search engines.And CONFIDENCE and PATIENCE is key to success launching a site(specially if u r not funded by VC).

Good luck

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