~Tips For Making A Website: Making Content Original~

Of course you want your site to look awesome, but copying content from a site that is already proven to be awesome, like Eonlight Valley, isn't the answer. Stealing is never the answer! So, the only real answer to making your site's content awesome is making the content original. If the stuff you put on your site has been done before, or someone else has already thought of it first, nobody is going to bother visiting your site repeatedly.

You'll want to start off with making your layout original. Make sure the layout is impressive and your visitors impression of your site will go up 5 points no matter what your content is. Choose eye-pleasing colours, matching graphics, and place the content, navigational links, and banner in a unique place.

Make sure you have a decent amount of pages. If you only have 5 pages on your site, your audience will get bored. If your pages don't have much on them, your audience will feel like they wasted their time going to those pages. So make sure that each page has a decent amount of content on them, but not too much. For really long pages, cut them in half. Put half on one page and put a link on the bottom to go to the next page. Large blocks of text can be rather intimidating, so avoid making paragraphs too long (which I have a bad tendancy of doing.)

Now, how can you think up new content that's original. Think about what you want your site to convey. What is the bottom-line of your site? What is the main goal you have? Keep that in mind when creating pages. Is your site for fun, information, gaming, graphics, or help to other sites? Perhaps, your site is a mix of everything. That really expands the horizon of what you can think of.

Here's how I do it. I go to other sites, and instead of stealing what they have, I think of what they missed. Maybe a page here or there really could have used one thing or another that isn't there. Like a great site may have a page that is decent, but lacks something. I try and think what it was that it lacked and then work on it. Then, I have a page that is unique from that other site's page. It helps if you have a friend think of ideas with you. You have twice the chance of coming up with new ideas that way. I work on most page ideas with Fex. I come up with the basic idea and Fex adds her own spin to it. Thus not every page is too much of me; it's a mix of both of us, which is our goal.

When coming up with graphics or guides, I like to do it by hand first. When I write it down, I can see it as a whole and let Fex add her own comments. Then, when I'm satisfied with the hard copy of the page, I put it in the computer.









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