Immortal GFX - Guild Inn

Conserve · 28-12-06, 18:37

I have recently made my own GFX site.
http://www.immortalgfx.co.nr/

I would wish to affilate with GI, cause this site is teh pwnsrs, and advertising never hurt anyone.

It is still under constuction.

~Doom

Draygonia · 28-12-06, 19:04

Its a nice site, but remember... I have a hard time getting members and I have been around for 2 years. I wish you luck though

GFX sites are becoming really popular...

Conserve · 28-12-06, 21:23

Yea, I hope people will join!

II am currenty lookingfor more features to add, as the RPG did work at all

~Doom

**RaMarcus** · 29-12-06, 09:03

You can add yourself to the affiliates sections (small "Add site" at the bottom). Let me know when you have a button.

GFX sites can be a lot of work and are hard to get members to start with. With almost a year gone since this place started its going well. You just need to make some nice tuts and submit them to PSlover.com etc and members will come. One of the biggest factors of a sucessful site is the team behind it, dont go for the most skilled people, go for the people who are friendly and reliable. The team here are all on the same page and work together really well.

I have loads of advice but I will stop there

Dogz · 29-12-06, 14:18

And also a gay sig like Marcus's helps interest a different demographic of people which may be left untapped when it comes to gaining members.

**RaMarcus** · 29-12-06, 14:25

lmao, this is coming off this weekend. Got to keep my fans happy you know

Dogz · 29-12-06, 14:28

Yeah,more video tutorials from you with that lovely english accent

Conserve · 29-12-06, 19:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by RaMarcus

You can add yourself to the affiliates sections (small "Add site" at the bottom). Let me know when you have a button.

GFX sites can be a lot of work and are hard to get members to start with. With almost a year gone since this place started its going well. You just need to make some nice tuts and submit them to PSlover.com etc and members will come. One of the biggest factors of a sucessful site is the team behind it, dont go for the most skilled people, go for the people who are friendly and reliable. The team here are all on the same page and work together really well.

I have loads of advice but I will stop there

Added, though is there any way, on a later date, to change the button?

~Doom

KingPyroe · 29-12-06, 20:21

I signed up for it!

Conserve · 29-12-06, 20:26

Thanks mate! Evry meber counts!

~Doom

rav009 · 30-12-06, 11:41

Good luck with it mate...looks nice BTW

Draygonia · 30-12-06, 16:29

From my website experience, I learned a few things:

1) Make domain name simple... people keep typiing in chasmonline.com AND THATS NOT MY SITE! I actually talked to that guy and he says its a company he is parking the domain for.

2) If you make a site, dont make a site that is too similar to others... you wonder why youtube and myspace are popular? You couldnt find them anywhere else at the time they were made.

3) Dont ask members to sign up if they wont post, its pointless and you have to do member purges, half inactive members on a board is bad

4) Have something unique to bring to the table! Most sites that dont have something unique fail, look at gaiaonline.com... they are the biggest forum in the world and its because they have a unique dynamic avatar system.

5) Hiring a lot of admins and mods to start with helps out because thoes are the ones that usually post a lot.

6) Add fun things to do while they browse the site like music or videos and stuff.

7) Dont pay too much for the site... I have payed probably more than ramarcus has paid for this site (Unless he purchased vbulletin full). I poured over 300 dollars into my site and it was a failure because I did not do enough for it.

PSLOVER wont accept anymore sig tutorials, sorry and good-tutorials wont accept anything really because guildinn submitted most of the useful tutorials and so he wont really accept anything new unless it is a new style.

9) Dont over-email your members, it annoys them, I learned this

10) Always work hard... if that site doesnt work, change the theme of it to something else... popular sites are those that offer something people want. I am changing my site to a piracy site for television episodes like muffindomain.com.

Hope that helps

Ramarcus probably will give you more tips if you poke him enough.

Conserve · 30-12-06, 17:33

Thanks for the advice Dray.

I have just added a music player to the site, and I need to know if it work we'll so C&C is appriciated.

~Doom

Draygonia · 30-12-06, 18:51

Warning you... dont allow guests to upload songs, they can max out your bandwidth, upload a virus or close your site... Check your settings for everything.

Dogz · 30-12-06, 19:47

Yeah some really good tips there. I left the whole website design business as quite frankly it was eating up waaaaaaaay too much of my time and cash and to be honest the only return you get on your investment is people enjoying your site. Sometimes thats just not enough