Webdesginers, can you help me with some good websites ideas?

[SelnaS6488]

I will create my own website for my own company and its about photography. I was thinking about to use flash as an intro. For example with camera flashes. And i will make the website all in black background, and white font. I know i will make it really great but..Do you have any ideas for what i can put on my website, something that could maybe interest the site visitors and make them keep coming back.Also: the one who shares a good idea with me, (your name)will be mentioned and given credit to on the website.Trust me its really cool.Or even if you know some other websites i could get inspired by would be also nice!ThnQQ!!

[INDIP]

first of all start with a good website program and start from their with scratch and stuff

[waltsnider]

I'd say to make a decent looking website and offer free stock photography under Creative Commons so you have to be paid before someone uses it and sell premium stock photos later on after you have an audience.Don't add a mass of photos all at once, add like a photo per day.If you want to credit me, I'm Walt Snider and my site is www.WaltSnider.com.Good luck!

[Poolmanjim9358]

Think first of what inspires you. Then compare that to current web design themes and norms and you have a really good start.People want substance. They have already seen all there is to see, so they think. It is your job to give them that one thing they dont already have.

[BlueBoden]

You shouldn't use a black background and white text, its generally bad, dark colors are generally bad, and tend to make people leave fast. If you must, a darkish-brown would be better, intirely black is bad.And you shouldn't use a Flash intro as your front-page, it dosn't matter to have a Flash intro somewhere, but it shouldn't automaticly start playing. Usually the users dosn't care about such intros, and you may lose a lot of visitors who simply click their back button when they see the flash intro.You can on the other hand create a animated logo in flash, with none, or a absolute minimum usage of sounds; since usage of sounds and/or music, which automaticly start playing are some of the most fetal to use, often it makes people instantaneously click their back button.Nothing would be more boring then a "contest", and i can't get why some photographers like them, perhaps because they tend to draw visitors. I find them to be a waste of time, who to say which photo is the best?, define the best! If you finally must, these days anyone can take a picture, therefor it isn't the picture itself which matters; Its what you do with it afterwards.You would obviously need something to keep people ocupied, while on your site. A photo rotation script would be a abselute minimum, you can enhance the inpact, by allowing people to vote for, and comment on the photos when clicking on them. Perhaps even hold a user section, where people will be allowed to post their own photos.I could imagne a frontpage with several photos "rotating". Now you wouldn't want to go crazy with JavaScript, but rotating the photos on a more regular basic, would perhaps draw a few more visitors.For the Forum you would want a photo editing section, since its the final tuch ehich matters the most. And maybe even a section for those rare shots, people playing with their camera's focus Etc. Finally a section for filming, and video editing.I don't think you get around Filming, i find it hard to belive that anyone can actually earn a living from photographing alone, it seam so restricted.Another thing to watch out for, is all this so-called "professionel" equipment, usually its equipment from the 90ties, and belive me, even the old sony betacams, have a hard time competing with the new camcorders you buy today. Despite the low picture quality, they still go for a furtune. Funny enough, a DV-Camera dosn't cost more then around $200+ these days.Even with video, the final tuch matters more, then knowing how to manually set light, gain, or focus. Most editing softwares such as Sony Vegas, or Liquid Edition, can compensate for the differences between the cameras, using gamma correction, color correction etc, but generally it won't even be nessosery with the new sony camcorders.In video editing, croma keying, and usage of transparent pngs can create some pretty neat effests, therefor you may want to hold a section in your forum, for such techniques as well. Not the actual techniques, but a general forum for all these effects would be good.

[PatrickD6046]

There are many techniques you can use to get users to return on a regular basis. The best way is to get the users involved in something such as a contest; considering you are doing a photography website, I would suggest a photo contest:Each week you could post a topic (Ex: "Old Machines") and then challenge users to take the most creative shot of any old machine. Have all the users upload their submissions or link you to a place where they are hosted and then you can have a public vote of which one is best. Then, you could highlight the winning picture on your main page for a week. It not only gives you visitors, it gives you free content.

[expert7677]

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[dhsMm]

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