New habbo fansite planning.

[akeel$]

I also agree with pasta, you'll probably need to be an active player within the community for this to work. People aren't going to sign up to your forum and run it for you without any knowledge of who you are. It probably needs some sort of following to become established.

How would you advertise the site once it was complete? I know an advert on here wouldn't get my interest.

I totally agree with this. If you intend also to become an official Habbo fansite chances are you can't because there's already like five active and good ones including Habbox. It is a lot of work and without the right amount of time put in it I reckon you may not be able to pull it off.

[Kuybii]

I've been in charge of a fan site before, it's pretty easy and it does take time but the biggest think of all is genuine enthusiasm to succeed and getting the right staff. Getting the right staff that will do their jobs to a level which is of a high one and sustainable is the key to a thriving website.

As bother tip, don't try and become habbox overnight. Straining yourself with content filling and endless lines of code. Things get done when theyre required and when your fan site is achieving 50 hits a day. There just isn't any point, but make it clear to the people that do arrive at your fan site that it is an ongoing project and maybe a link to the fan sites pipeline.

dont necessarily agree with that you have to be super habbo active, same again, just staff that are willing to drum up business on the client instead of you trying to be the one man band. Everyone has different talents, and getting a group of people that covers the spectrum is the absolute key. For example, you want a guy that is a good coder, a guy with a good personality, one who wants to be the next xxmattgxx, an rxperienced radio manager (if your getting a radio) so you can ensure they get the right staff at the start and finally a great forum manager as apparently, the forums are the most important thing at the moment.

I'd probably still own my fan site if it wasn't for the main coding guy going off to university. He said he just couldn't handle the work that was required so don't think it's a "oh once the lines of code are done, I'ts done" kinda thing.

good luck man.

[Zak]

I don't see how you can own a fan site if you don't know how to code it.

[Kuybii]

Since when does, lets say the owner of a large retail store stack the shelves, wish people have a nice day, visual merchandise, delegate staff and so on? Its called responsible delegation. As long as you have a team which is responsible for upholding a website taking into consideration fail safes, it is very very simple.

My definition of "owner" = A person who came up with the original/unique idea, shared the idea and brought people into the discussion to make the idea a product. Relentlessly liaising with staff to ensure the creative outcome is the one which is projected with general decision making abilities.

Shoot me down, do what you will, i owned a fansite and it worked for me but something happened which i've now learnt from. Learning from your mistakes. Aslong as you have genuine friends around you driving to the same outcome, whether you code or not is irrelevant.

[akeel$]

All the same good luck with this I wouldn't count too much on it btu it'll be interesting as I said to see the outcome.