How To Make A Fansite! [Naked]

[k]

OK, welcome to Naked's guide of -
HOW TO MAKE A GOOD FANSITE.

In this guide i'll tell you;
How to make layouts
Best programmes to use
What to put on your fansite
Domain names
Hosting recommendations
Making cash for your fansite
Domain reccomendations
And more!


1. Viewing;
Viewing fansite's is a great way to know what you want to achieve.
If you look at all different website's like the following

Habbox.com
ClubHabbo.net

And you'll see how much they've achieved, and your aim is to think:
i want to be just like them!
It's not a simple task though, it's really hard.
They don't just set up a pants layout and think done!
I'ma tell you how to be like them now.

2. Layout prefrences;
Most people like layouts with alot to view on them

The best programmes to make them on are:

MS Paint (if you've got the skill)
Photoshop
Gimp

Heres a rough of what you want on it, (inluding images!)


3. Making a banner;
Making banner's is pretty easy
Just go to your summer/winter/etc habbo room and take a picture, crop it on your layout maker programme and put some pretty text on it.

4. Text;
Most people struggle with finding text's it's really not that hard
Just go to www.dafont.com then go to top 100 and browese to see which ones you like

5. Visitors;
Most people like viewing site's with potential eg;

Good layout
Good audience
Aged based
No advertisements
Good domain

You're never going to get there if on the content you put;

w3lc0m3 t0 my l33t s1t3 lul.

You need to write perfectly, eg

Welcome to (sitename) here, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

6. Programmes;
Most people like on fansites alot of things like

Usersystems
Radio
And all this sort of jibberish

I'd advise you if you couldn't get these to go www.habboring.com and browse through what they've got

7. Host recommendations;
www.ss-host.com
www.pycan.net

OR
If you're wanting free

www.**********

8. Domain services;
SMS :
xeodomains.mobi

PAYPAL etc:
namecheap.com
karlhost.com (recommended)
xeodomains.com (recommended)
1and1.co.uk

FREE:
www.co.nr
www.uk.tt

9. Forum
If you've got enough go to www.vbulletin.com or buy one in the web market section
Or if your super into it
www.invisionboard.com

Free boards:
invisionfree
SMF
mybb
phpbb2

And many more getting made by this forum.

10. Advertising;
Don't advertise like spam.
On habbo do regular giveaways to those who register and say..post?
And if you do i'm sure you'll get there

Or advertise on different forum's.
But don't spam - they'll get ANNOYED.

11. FINAL: Domain Names;
00chips opened a book on names, read through them

Thanks,
Naked

Edited by Bomb-Head (Forum Moderator): Moved to Tutorials, well done

[Rockstar]

nice guide +rep

[k]

Thank you, returned.

[Samishlol]

That is very useful i must say +rep

[k]

Thank you, returned

[chrisgocrazyH]

OK, welcome to Naked's guide of -
HOW TO MAKE A GOOD FANSITE.

In this guide i'll tell you;
How to make layouts
Best programmes to use
What to put on your fansite
Domain names
Hosting recommendations
Making cash for your fansite
Domain reccomendations
And more!


1. Viewing;
Viewing fansite's is a great way to know what you want to achieve.
If you look at all different website's like the following

Habbox.com
ClubHabbo.net

And you'll see how much they've achieved, and your aim is to think:
i want to be just like them!
It's not a simple task though, it's really hard.
They don't just set up a pants layout and think done!
I'ma tell you how to be like them now.

2. Layout prefrences;
Most people like layouts with alot to view on them

The best programmes to make them on are:

MS Paint (if you've got the skill)
Photoshop
Gimp

Heres a rough of what you want on it, (inluding images!)


3. Making a banner;
Making banner's is pretty easy
Just go to your summer/winter/etc habbo room and take a picture, crop it on your layout maker programme and put some pretty text on it.

4. Text;
Most people struggle with finding text's it's really not that hard
Just go to www.dafont.com then go to top 100 and browese to see which ones you like

5. Visitors;
Most people like viewing site's with potential eg;

Good layout
Good audience
Aged based
No advertisements
Good domain

You're never going to get there if on the content you put;

w3lc0m3 t0 my l33t s1t3 lul.

You need to write perfectly, eg

Welcome to (sitename) here, I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

6. Programmes;
Most people like on fansites alot of things like

Usersystems
Radio
And all this sort of jibberish

I'd advise you if you couldn't get these to go www.habboring.com and browse through what they've got

7. Host recommendations;
www.ss-host.com
www.pycan.net

OR
If you're wanting free

www.**********

8. Domain services;
SMS :
xeodomains.mobi

PAYPAL etc:
namecheap.com
karlhost.com (recommended)
xeodomains.com (recommended)
1and1.co.uk

FREE:
www.co.nr
www.uk.tt

9. Forum
If you've got enough go to www.vbulletin.com or buy one in the web market section
Or if your super into it
www.invisionboard.com

Free boards:
invisionfree
SMF
mybb
phpbb2

And many more getting made by this forum.

10. Advertising;
Don't advertise like spam.
On habbo do regular giveaways to those who register and say..post?
And if you do i'm sure you'll get there

Or advertise on different forum's.
But don't spam - they'll get ANNOYED.

11. FINAL: Domain Names;
00chips opened a book on names, read through them

Thanks,
Naked

Very Nice, But since im in a nice mood if u give me a upload site, well ill upload IPB fourm (OLD VERSION) and give it to ppl who PM me OR i might post it

[k]

Isn't that illegal?

[iTechnical]

I believe someone has posted this type of guide before? I'll just find the post now.

The guide to making a good fansite - By Jack (Arsenal)

I've put this together to help people make thier site. I really hope this does help some people!

First Ideas

- Make sure you have a clear idea about what your going to base it on.
- Make sure you have enough money to set up your site.
- Make sure you have enough time (Dont start if you have things happening at school e.g GCSE's)
- Make sure you have the full knowledge to make and set up your site.

Helpful Tips

- Have another person to help you (Make sure you trust them!)
- Base it on a large audience (E.g dont aim it at people who play the recorder because it wont get poular)
- Have a friendly community (if its just started you cant be to strict because people will lose interest)
- If its a website add a forum or some sort of chatting program onto it (This will also make the site more active)

When starting to make the site

- Get a domain that can be remembered, and not to long
- Get hosting thats been reccomended from a friend, or that you know are reliable and cheap.
- Get a layout which is attractive and bright (makes you feel happy:p).
- Think of something to add onto your site which will make your site special with someone no-one else has.

Finishing your site

- Make sure it looks good and will bring alot of visitors.
- Make sure people are going to stick around by adding things like games, news etc.
- Offer jobs, so the staff can bring thier friends to the site, but not to many!! You dont want the only people to visit the site is the staff.

Security

- Make sure the passwords e.g hosting are hard to guess, include numbers and letters. You dont want the site to get popular and then get hacked!
- Dont give the passwords to anyone unless you trust them 100%

Increasing Popularity

- Tell everyone you know about the site.
- Advertise everywhere.
- Don't advertise to much in the same place, it will annoy people and give your site a bad name.


The End!


I hope this helped! Comments please?

[chrisgocrazyH]

Isn't that illegal?

well i payed for it and its now Really old they have new ones out so **REMOVED**

Edited by Bomb-Head (Forum Moderator): Please don't avoid the filter.

[k]

Josh, i made my own one from scratch
and erm i dont know.