It's amazing how fast you can make a site...

[incka]

In 2 hours this morning I designed a site and wrote a few articles for a small site for a history project...

Got all the design, layout & articles done so fast...

Another surprising thing is black and white photos... I put them in paint, added a title from cool text, and saved a a GIF and they suddenly became color photos... In the correct colors too, amazing...

[MarkB]

Saving photos as GIFs is not a great idea ;)

[thebillionaire]

Originally posted by incka
In 2 hours this morning I designed a site and wrote a few articles for a small site for a history project...

Got all the design, layout & articles done so fast...

Another surprising thing is black and white photos... I put them in paint, added a title from cool text, and saved a a GIF and they suddenly became color photos... In the correct colors too, amazing...

When I usually make sites it takes me weeks, but when I had to do a french website as a project I built the whole thing in "Flash" in only 4 hours.

[michael_gersitz]

Originally posted by MarkB
Saving photos as GIFs is not a great idea ;)

Not much you can do in MSPAINT, saving as a jpeg will result in color loss and distortion.

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I go by if it is a graphic than make it a .gif

If it is a photo (like an actual real life picture), make it a .jpg

[MarkB]

Then don't use MSPAINT - download a free graphics prog (or buy one):)

[incka]

I can't at school... I use photoshop at home...

[Yoda]

I built The Cell Phone Safety Guide (http://www.cellphonesafetyguide.com) in a little less than a day...hour or two, slept, woke up, finished it. More or less.

[r2d2]

Originally posted by Yoda
I built The Cell Phone Safety Guide (http://www.cellphonesafetyguide.com) in a little less than a day...hour or two, slept, woke up, finished it. More or less.

Good work, are you just waiting for traffic to grow before adding advertising?

[Yoda]

Originally posted by r2d2
Good work, are you just waiting for traffic to grow before adding advertising?
Yeah. I'm doing that with four different sites right now, actually, in hopes that they'll all get into more link directories and make for more attractive link exchange partners. We'll see if it works. I'd forgotten how hard it can be to drive traffic to a new site, though. Building's way more fun. :)

[incka]

Well your movie forums has so much traffic... And I'm sure quote db has loads of traffic...

[r2d2]

You reckon I should drop Adsense from my house buying site for a while, while I build some link exchanges? Not sure really who to look for to link exchange though...

[Yoda]

Originally posted by incka
Well your movie forums has so much traffic... And I'm sure quote db has loads of traffic...
Probably not as much as you'd expect. Couple thousand uniques a day for each. The thing is, those are my two oldest sites right now. Just sticking around for awhile seems to help quite a bit, traffic-wise. If sites like Distance Learning NET got even a tenth of the traffic MoFo and QDB do, I'd be rollin' in it.


Originally posted by r2d2
You reckon I should drop Adsense from my house buying site for a while, while I build some link exchanges? Not sure really who to look for to link exchange though...
Hard to say. I haven't tried this for long, so I don't know yet if it makes a big difference. If the sites aren't making much money right now, though, I think it'd be worth the risk.

[incka]

On your traffic thing, I agree, it tooks ages but the sites that have been up longest generally have most traffic...

I notice you go for .com no matter what, I would be interested to know why...

[r2d2]

A few years ago I would have thought anything non .com or .co.uk was dodgy. Absurd thinking that obviously, but how many people type Google and Hotmail in SEs?

[incka]

Yes...

Even my dads cousin who is a web programmer thought .tv was an international domain name...

[Yoda]

Originally posted by incka
I notice you go for .com no matter what, I would be interested to know why...
I've always preferred .com. Anything else feels a step below to me. However, the first domain I ever bought was a .net, and I still own one now (though it's not in my signature).

I guess I feel like they're more respectable. I realize that it's irrelevant for SEO purposes, but it's something I can't help but feel, and I can usually find a decent .com domain anyway.

[incka]

I always repected .net as my old webspace provider, crosswinds.net (when they were ad-free) used .net...