Making a PS3 Website

That Guy 901

Hello, Im thinking of making a website dedicated to the Playstation 3, the site will include Updates, news, downloads etc. and I think there is a very valuable market for a successful website if enough effort is put in.

Im dead serious on making this site, and Im asking/looking for help. Would like feedback, suggestions and comments regarding. Thanks for your help.

(sorry if this is in wrong forum)

aidan_walsh

Well, what do you have in mind? Hard to give feedback to squat, ain't it?

That Guy 901

Im thinking of making it kind-of-like PS3updates.com with a verticle news system and linear navigation, if this is what you mean.

Im looking for suggestions of what to call website, what code it should be in etc.

Gordon

Sounds great, what are you offering in return?!

That Guy 901

Gordon wrote:

Sounds great, what are you offering in return?!

Im not sure what you mean mate.

Just to make clear, Im not looking to employ anyone, just looking for someone who is interested on helping me on the project.

DOLEMAN

I agree there is a market for this. But what are you bringing to the table?

Design skills?
Technical skills?
Sales skills?
SEO skills?

Or... just the idea?

As a seasoned website maker person, I can tell you, having the idea is a tiny tiny tiny percentage of the battle!

I appreciate your wanting to create something, but it takes many skills to make a successful website.

Sorry if I sound negative, I'm just trying to find out where you're at...

Karoma

I see that you've given this much thought and consideration, and would be a valuable asset to the project. Sign me up for your newsletter.

That Guy 901

DOLEMAN wrote:

I agree there is a market for this. But what are you bringing to the table?

Design skills?
Technical skills?
Sales skills?
SEO skills?

Or... just the idea?

As a seasoned website maker person, I can tell you, having the idea is a tiny tiny tiny percentage of the battle!

I appreciate your wanting to create something, but it takes many skills to make a successful website.

Sorry if I sound negative, I'm just trying to find out where you're at...

Yeah mate, completely understand where your coming from. Im a new website designer but I know enough to get started and more and am learning more as I go. Im looking for someone with design (code) and technical skills. As much expierience as possible really to help me get this idea off the ground.

I see that you've given this much thought and consideration, and would be a valuable asset to the project. Sign me up for your newsletter.

No need to be rude.

That Guy 901

No interest then?

Rollo Tamasi

DOLEMAN wrote:

a seasoned website maker person

classic! so is the op an unseasoned website maker person?

CuLT

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

classic! so is the op an unseasoned website maker person?

Only if he unseasonably makes people websites!

Karoma

CuLT wrote:

Only if he unseasonably makes people websites!

Don't say I didn't help.




Present an any-way thought out plan of action and I'd give it some consideration.


ed: That wasn't me being rude.

Skyuser

When you set it up. Run a competition for a free PS3, that should get your website talked about all over the internet and plenty of clicks for you to sell to advertisers.

DOLEMAN

Skyuser wrote:

When you set it up. Run a competition for a free PS3, that should get your website talked about all over the internet and plenty of clicks for you to sell to advertisers.

Good idea!

Maybe a couple of PS3's... but you have to recommend friends for the website or something. Basically, an idea where it benefits the competition enterer (??) if he tells people about the website, rather than hoping no one knows about the competition... if you catch what I'm saying!

That Guy 901

Thats a great idea, but where could I get a PS3 to give away?

Im looking for someone who has a good bit of expierience in web design and programming if possible. A detailed announcements script perhaps, member script that maybe coincides with the forum script (WBB). Keep the ideas coming.

For the domain name, Im thinking of PS3nfo.net or ps3revolution.net. Thanks.

Skyuser

Pre-Order one as soon as they become available to so your gauranteed one.

That Guy 901

Im not willing to put thart much money in to the site from the start to be honest. Maybe when the traffic grows itll be a possibility.

EDIT

I was thinking of the domain name: ps3generation.net. What do you think?

coolcon

Sounds like a great idea. However loads of these sites are bound to pop up in the next short while, so try to get in there as early as possible and spread the word. Make sure you have it up and running before the release aswell. Dont be second-best to other sites. Good luck, i cant wait to see how you get on! PS. i dont have any experience in web design , but with an interest in the topic id be glad to contribute when its all set up!

Rollo Tamasi

That Guy 901 wrote:

I was thinking of the domain name: ps3generation.net. What do you think?

ps3.ie is the obvious contender and it rhymes....kinda, but not really

ChicoMendez

That Guy 901 wrote:

Im not willing to put thart much money in to the site from the start to be honest. Maybe when the traffic grows itll be a possibility.

sounds like your not too serious about this - if you want it to work the throw a few bob into it - or else it will very fast become just another has-been idea

Sounds like a great idea. However loads of these sites are bound to pop up in the next short while, so try to get in there as early as possible and spread the word.

looks like theres already aload ... and yes expect alot more !

http://www.EUROPS3FORUM.com
http://www.ps3forums.com/

Gordon

ChicoMendez wrote:

http://www.ps3forums.com/

www.ps4forums.com is also taken!

Skyuser

That Guy 901 wrote:

Im not willing to put thart much money in to the site from the start to be honest. Maybe when the traffic grows itll be a possibility.

You won't spend €500 to drive traffic to your website? What kind of shabby website are ya gonna make?

MartMax

if i were you... i would get started with my friends first... word of mouth helps a lot... as what i did with my discussion board 3 years ago, hundreds of visits a day, thanks to my friends.... anyway 2 years later it died, thanks again to my so called friends.. they bombarded with the site with spams and throllings... drove away the other visitors... bastid...

That Guy 901

Skyuser wrote:

You won't spend €500 to drive traffic to your website? What kind of shabby website are ya gonna make?

Nope, I will not spend that much on a website. I know ALOT of websites that are very very succesful without paying directly for advertisement. And for the fellow who said what kind of shabby website etc. How is not throwing €500 making it shabby? I dont see anybody else throwing that kind of money at it.

Im very serious on doing this website, Im just not prepared to throw that much money at it. It can be successful without any advertising and I know this first hand.

coolcon

That Guy 901 wrote:

Nope, I will not spend that much on a website. I know ALOT of websites that are very very succesful without paying directly for advertisement. And for the fellow who said what kind of shabby website etc. How is not throwing €500 making it shabby? I dont see anybody else throwing that kind of money at it.

Youre right, you dont really need to spend that much on a one off giveaway. If you have the content on your site , word will spread that its good. You might consider giving away a game or something like that. If the site does take off you might be able to get stuff for free from companies to give away on the site, in return for advertising their company.

That Guy 901

Yeah mate, your looking at it from my point of view mate. I did alot of brainstorming with a friend last night and came up with a few things like, maybe game reviews for content, walkthroughs, game of the month voted for by members, member of the month.....stuff like that.

I have a bit of the template done already, the buttons. Attached.

DOLEMAN

That Guy 901 wrote:

Nope, I will not spend that much on a website. I know ALOT of websites that are very very succesful without paying directly for advertisement. And for the fellow who said what kind of shabby website etc. How is not throwing €500 making it shabby? I dont see anybody else throwing that kind of money at it.

So basically... you have no design, development or coding skills, and you're not willing to invest any money. All you have is an idea for a website.

I've asked you this already, but what skills/anything are you bringing to this "project"?

Not trying to be negative... just realistic...

That Guy 901

I already said I dont need any monetary investment into this website, I do have a few skills with websites and have made a few, I work good with coding but I cannot write it myself. Im very good with graphic design.

I was asking if someone wanted to help me get it off the ground, someone to gather resources like news, and perhaps a bit of coding knowledge to help me out. Im very enthusiastic about this project and I know it will do well if I put effort into it.

ChicoMendez

Do you plan to make money from this ?
how ?

wheres me jumpa

Your target market will demand more than just a basic website. The people arriving at your site will be "seasoned" gamers who will spend alot of their time online and will inturn be turned off by amatuer sites.

Do you mind me asking how old you are? Im 23 and for the last 8 years, there have been nights I have been sitting round somewhere with my mates and concocting(never spelt that word before) ideas. Your idea is by no means an original idea. Therefore you need a site that will either offer something different or offer the best.

To offer the best you will need to splash the cash IMO. Seen as youre not willing to this I would recommend looking at your idea and picking a potential niche or even just focus on one aspect, e.g. just walkthroughs.

Your current idea is to create a one stop shop for ps3 gamers which you and your friend do not have the resources for. This could in fact be a full time job with a huge investment to begin with.

misterq

it sounds to me like your strength would be in writing the content rather than developing the site itself. Maybe have a look at a content management system such as Joomla or Mambo that would be fairly easy to get you started.

Even a blog would get your content up. You can then build the site as you learn the ropes.

Rollo Tamasi

a niche maybe to exploit the online gaming aspects of the ps3. i'm not that much in the know about playstations but i remember there been a lot of trouble playing online with the ps2 maybe you can create a community where people join up to play each other online. A PS3 Online Clan. There are loads of clans for PC based games but i would imagine that there aren't that many for the PS3.

That Guy 901

wheres me jumpa wrote:

Your target market will demand more than just a basic website. The people arriving at your site will be "seasoned" gamers who will spend alot of their time online and will inturn be turned off by amatuer sites.

Do you mind me asking how old you are? Im 23 and for the last 8 years, there have been nights I have been sitting round somewhere with my mates and concocting(never spelt that word before) ideas. Your idea is by no means an original idea. Therefore you need a site that will either offer something different or offer the best.

To offer the best you will need to splash the cash IMO. Seen as youre not willing to this I would recommend looking at your idea and picking a potential niche or even just focus on one aspect, e.g. just walkthroughs.

Your current idea is to create a one stop shop for ps3 gamers which you and your friend do not have the resources for. This could in fact be a full time job with a huge investment to begin with.

Im 17 for your info. I have alot of friends in the knowhow of PS3 and Playstation in general, theres my content. Walkthroughs was me just brainstorming and not the finished idea yet and these were'nt the most specific idea's. they would still bring content to the site.

I am going to post up to date news and rumours regarding the sony project and I know theres a market for this. Perhaps game reviews but theres no games out and Im sure by the time there is, Ill have a few members willing to help me out in this area.

My primary concern will be getting traffic to my site and I know this is probably the hardest bit to the site (NI SEO) but I know how the internet works and how word of mouth is one if not the biggest factor to traffic IMO.

I may not be able to write it directly but after alot of practise (last night eg) Im really getting the hang of HTML by editing and modifying it.

And that clan idea from Rollo is excellent. Maybe this can be implented in the later future, but not yet. These ideas give me perspective as to what way I can expand the website.

I know you may think Im just a kid wanting to do a site and not having thought it out and think it will just be successful straight away, but Im not, Im very enthusiastic about this site and hopefully it will make it successfull with alot of research and hard work.

P.S Im not in this to make money in any way, ads are there for the server and costs only.

That Guy 901

I have the template half done btw. Its not nearly finished though. Still working a few kinks. This is on my old server.

www.halo2gen.com

DOLEMAN

Well, you certainly have to give it a shot anyway!

If it fails (and I hope it doesn't) at least you will have learned some things from the experience.

That Guy 901

Cheers mate.

Rollo Tamasi

the only way you can learn is by going out and doing it for yourself. You'll soon learn that html can only get you so far and you will need to learn a scripting language, but one thing at a time. I wouldn't rule out starting up with a blog or a CMS and then developing from there. A lot of clans use PHP-Nuke if i'm not mistaken btw.

DOLEMAN

I would focus more on marketing and sales than html and scripting.

For example, myspace.com is terribly designed, yet it's mega popular.

Getting people using your site will be the battle!

Rollo Tamasi

DOLEMAN wrote:

I would focus more on marketing and sales than html and scripting.

that makes very little sense to me. I would do it the other way around. There needs to be a product that is capable of attracting people to the site before some bs marketing. Best bet is to start of small with friends, word of mouth is your most powerful tool, the search engines will pick up on your site eventually. Once your site is capable of rubbing shoulders with its compeitiors then you should concentrate on marketing and seo and the like. Get a forum up and running asap. I would recommend avoiding the cheap-ass PHPBB and go for a professional one with VBulletin and Invison the leaders for message boards...the forum will be the most active part of your site for the most part so you might as well get it right first time around. VBulletin has some rather nice features.

anthonymcg

It's a tough market to get into as most of the initial audience of the ps3 will be hardcore gamers who already have their favourite sites for news, reviews etc. To be honest, it's particularly tough to run a games site like that so I'd go with the forums idea if you can do it. Investing in vBulletin is advisable alright as I work with both phpBB and vBulletin on a daily basis and vBulletin is better in a number of areas.

That Guy 901

Ive been working with Woltlab burning board (full license) and I love it. Its very easy and powerful. Im thinking of using this as the forum.

That Guy 901

I want to buy the domain asap but I only have £4 in my paypal account Is there any way to pay by bank account? Thanks.

Rollo Tamasi

just transfer the money into your paypal account?

if i was you i would soley concentrate on the Irish PS3 market as the international one would be too much of a jungle to compete in. Therefore ps3.ie is a front runner for a domain name IMO.

That Guy 901

Your not able to transfer the money into the account sadly, at least I cant for some reason. Do .ie domains cost €60???

Rollo Tamasi

i'm not too familar with paypal to offer any help on that but ie domains cost around €35 per annum now, there has been a massive price drop. Blacknight.ie were the first to bring down the cost of ie domains. The one stumbling block with ie domains is the manner in which they are regulated, you need to be a business/social club/society to get one but its not hard to setup a social club!

edit.

Unincorporated Association Name:
A self-issued letter from the applicant on the association's letterhead stating that they are an
Unincorporated Association and require the domain name to reflect their organisation's name.
More Details - http://www.domainregistry.ie/UnincorpAssocName

Taken from http://www.iia.ie/downloads/iiawhitepaper_domain.pdf

That Guy 901

The price of PS3.ie is €45. But tbh thats a little too much for me to be spending on the domain. If anyone wants to help me financially? lol :P

Im getting along with the template now, have a look and tell me what you think.

www.halo2gen.com

Skyuser

That Guy 901 wrote:

The price of PS3.ie is €45. But tbh thats a little too much for me to be spending on the domain.

Ah here, this is a joke. I didn't realise you were some kid tryin 2 pass the time. I thought you were gonna set up a proper website.

That Guy 901

Im not a kid trying to pass the time, I just dont have that much money to throw away like that.

Rollo Tamasi

sadly thats the wrong answer

That Guy 901

where was the question?

Mimikyu

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