Yes, definitly get a forum. It will help alot.
Yea, definitely, but it’s pretty hard to run a good forum. Personally, I run a pretty rough forum. We have around less than 20 active people, and they make the majority of the posts. It’s rough because of mostly language and lots and lots of flame wars on my forum. But then it’s just a general forum, it has nothing to do with flash mostly. A forum like kirupa is very difficult to expand. You’d have to make something amazing or really attractive to make a good site.
Looks pretty cool. But your forum isn’t too popular it seems. Otherwise, I think content is whats basically attracting.
I know but it is alright I guess. I was looking at bigger tech sites and only some of them seem to have huge forums. Nowadays, I think people just want to read and that is it. No one has time talk about what they thought.
Tech isn’t much talk as to knoledge (mispelled). But I think theres too many out there to make one really successful. Some popular ones like Wired and such get big hits. Other than that, it’s really hard to attract people in this field.
I agree. First of all, your site needs to have some experience. You can expect your forum to get popular like websites. I know that my website receives over 25000 visitors every month but that doesn’t mean that my forum will become as popular as my website in month. Forums take alot of time to get popular.
Same with my site, it’s more general than a purpose. I’ve been asked man times what is the purpose of the site. Quite frankly, I don’t really quite know. Right now, I’m just using it for a place to mellow out and let people socialize.
By tech I meant computer hardware. I am not talking about medical tech or anything like that. Motherboards, CPU, overclocking, hard drives, heat sinks are all part of my website.
Plus, your site will become more popular if you offer services. Right now, the main attraction for my site is the few tutorials staff is poping out every once in a while. Also, I do much volunteer hosting for people, so basically, thats what the attraction is all about.
*Originally posted by overclocker23 *
**By tech I meant computer hardware. I am not talking about medical tech or anything like that. Motherboards, CPU, overclocking, hard drives, heat sinks are all part of my website. **
Again, there are too many other sites out there are more focused on specific topis. Such as overlclocking, www.overclockers.com (I think or something like that), that is a major one, and they’ve became really popular lately.
Attractoin for my website is reviews and articles about computer hardware. We talk about getting the ultimate performance from your hardware. We finished our first contest which attracted some people.
*Originally posted by overclocker23 *
**I agree. First of all, your site needs to have some experience. You can expect your forum to get popular like websites. I know that my website receives over 25000 visitors every month but that doesn’t mean that my forum will become as popular as my website in month. Forums take alot of time to get popular. **
You really need to redo your graphics. A lot of them have drop shadows with white backgrounds in a table that has a blue background.
Contests are big. But then you have to do rewards and such, right now, I’m on a low budget plus I’m not even old enough to get a credit card yet so I can’t afford such stuff. Other than that, I’m suprised how much people can stand this type of stuff. Every tech site (millions) do reviews and articles everyday about hardware. So, it’s a hard market to attract visitors like this because there are simply just too many of them. But then once you’ve established a unique point of view to your general audiences, you can expand on that.
*Originally posted by overclocker23 *
**Attractoin for my website is reviews and articles about computer hardware. We talk about getting the ultimate performance from your hardware. We finished our first contest which attracted some people. **
that isn’t original either. Go check out www.tomshardware.com. He is better because they get beta hardware that isn’t released yet.
*Originally posted by DigitalPimp *
**You really need to redo your graphics. A lot of them have drop shadows with white backgrounds in a table that has a blue background. **
Hmmm, where?
Again, there are too many other sites out there are more focused on specific topis. Such as overlclocking, www.overclockers.com (I think or something like that), that is a major one, and they’ve became really popular lately.
I agree but when the sites get big they stop to care about their visitors. They get biased about products and they only care about money and that is why people look for smaller sites who can provide them with true reviews.
*Originally posted by DigitalPimp *
**that isn’t original either. Go check out www.tomshardware.com. He is better because they get beta hardware that isn’t released yet. **
Good point, new stuff is crucial, but if you just write reviews and stuff after things come out and base it on what other people say, it isn’t really that much exciting. You need a budget that you can get new stuff yourself or your company to be able to know this stuff and write about personal experiences.
For now my graphics are fine.
*Originally posted by overclocker23 *
**I agree but when the sites get big they stop to care about their visitors. They get biased about products and they only care about money and that is why people look for smaller sites who can provide them with true reviews. **
Hmm, I’m not sure I can agree with that. Visitors are crucial to a site and I think most webmasters care about visitors than anything else, afterall, they do make the site popular.
I agree that tomshardware gets stuff before it is released but how do expect a new hardware website to get stuff that is released before it out in the market. We don’t base our reviews on other websites. We are all about truth. Once our alexa rating is under 40,000 we should get stuff before it is released.
*Originally posted by Maxtr0sity *
**Hmmm, where? **
Also, this image has a white bg but is in a table with a blue background.
