How To Make A Habbo Fansite.

Powerful · 11-05-2010, 06:33 PM

Please Note - Making your very own Habbo Hotel Fan site, will take a lot of work it could take months just to find a half decent template. Get the staff, a radio if it is going to be a radio fansite but most of all what seems to b important these days is a forum it needs a good managed forum the visitors can have fun on and enjoy. This guide is basically to give you an idea what is required to run a successful site like habtips

A lot of web hosts provide their very own site builder do you can design the site and it will automatically be published to the web! But Others require you to make your site yourself Using Coding such as HTML or PHP! Don't be put off by this! It may sound very complicated right now! But Once you have a go you will find it much more simpler! We recommend you try a free host to start with, Any work your way up! Please Note Most Free hosts will have adverts! Below Are Some Free hosts and some Pay Hosts that we have taken the time to check!

Freewebs.com - A great website to start your own site if your new to making websites. They Provide a site builder and you can register Free!

Geocities.com - This is also a Great site If your new to designing websites! They provide a cite builder and you can register Free!

250free.com - This site Provides everything you need to get your very own site Online! This site supports HTML & PHP. They also provide you With 250mb Space & 250mb of traffic to your site Per Month. You can sign up free!

JJR-Servers.net - This site provides a wide range of packages for you to sign up for. It Supports HTML & PHP & provides other features such as My SQL & You can have your very own email accounts! All packages on this site Cost, But are very good value for money!

Finding A Domain

If your looking for A domain such as Habtips.com you could get for between £5-8 or $12-19 roughly (don't hold me to it) you can get a variety of domains like
.co.uk , .net , .com , .us , .ca , .org and many more

Dot.tk - Offers free re-directing domains, and you can select whether you want banners to appear on your site or not. It also allows you to register free re-directing e-mail addresses.

ShortUrl.com - This site Provides Free Url-Redirection you will also have extra features, allowing you to see how much traffic you are getting! The Small Catch is that you will need to have a small advertisement on your site!

Sharpehosting.com - Provides .Com & .co.uk Domains For Only £8 For 2 Years!

Finding A Template And Making Content

If you want to use HTML , you need a template to make your site look good! Here are some Sites that provide Templates...

FreeLayouts.com - This site provides Hundreds of Templates that you can use!

Zymic.com - Provides Professional Templates!

Basic HTML Codes! Code:
<title>Site Title</title>
- This code will insert a title into the blue bar at the top of your browser!

Code:
<body bgcolor="Insert Colour">
This code will set the background colour of your site! (Use Normal Words such as Red & Blue or Use Hex Codes)

Code:
<font face="Font Name">
This code will let you to choose your font!

Code:
<img src="linkurl" width="150" height="150">
This code will let you insert a picture to your site! (When Uploading Make sure you also upload the picture)

Code:
<a href="www.habbohut.com">Habbohut</a>
This code will insert a link to other sites! Such as habbohut

Please Note - The sites listed in this guide are not owned nor operated by habtips.com and habtips is not responsible for the content on these sites

For more codes try at the following sites....

DynamicDrive.com - A Great site for Cursors, Clocks & Other Professional codes for your site!

Web-source.net/html_tips.htm - A Great site to try for basic HTML Codes

Content
For content you want to make it interesting and easy people don't really want something really hard and complex to read they want simple and easy, with colourful unique pictures that make you go in oako's words "OMG!!!" and some useful info like this pictures are they key to most fansites it draws your attention if its nice and full of pictures.

The Forum
1. Good management and leadership.
2. Each admin has his own role in the forum.
3. Good moderators that moderate the forum and keep it active.
4. Interesting topics posted on the forum so that when someone new registers, they have lots to read and reply to .

Moved by danzooo (Forum Moderator) from "Designing & Development"