[Merged] Promote your own website

[scrotnig]

Here's mine.

http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/
Popular forum we've been building for two years now (Our birthday is the 19th May!).

Launched as an alternative to a larger forum run by a major ISP (not ntl!), after they killed their community with excessive moderation, we struck a chord with some peopl and have grown ever since.

Registration needed to view posts, but hotmail/yahoo addresses are accepted for those who wish to remain anonymous.

It's a mixture of fun & silliness with more serious heated discussion, going very well at the moment, averaging 300 posts a day.

It's bright yellow...if you find that a bit loud, use the colour changer (same place as on here, it's the same board software)

[Maggy J]

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/index.html




Incog.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Mark B

Registration needed to view posts, but hotmail/yahoo addresses are accepted for those who wish to remain anonymous.

Do you not think that very off putting - I would never sign up to a forum until I had spent time looking around it.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by Pem

Do you not think that very off putting - I would never sign up to a forum until I had spent time looking around it.

The problem is, when we used to have it that way, all we got was hardly anyone logging in, but load of guests browsing around and never posting.

Sometimes I feel I'd like to make it more 'public', but every time we've tried it, it flops and th site starts to die. I'm sure there are some who get put off registering because they cannot see the site, but it's far outweighed by the increased activity we get in the community by having it 'members only' so to speak. Despite this, we DO get quite a few new registrations.

As a sort of compromise, we did create a portal page which IS open to guests, and displays the most recent threads.
http://community.bowlandcentral.com.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/index.html




Incog.

How are you getting on with Iweb? FTP uploads easier? Better than the free stuff?

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by SMHarman

How are you getting on with Iweb? FTP uploads easier? Better than the free stuff?

Only finished uploading the site very early this morning.It is certainly better than the free site where the FTP is regularly b*ggered.

I'm an html girl so I'll have to take my time with all these shiny buttons....I wonder what this does?........Ah...I think I broke it



Incog.

[KingPhoenix]

If you need any help im sure theres many members here that can tell you what the buttons do, or just send me a PM

Dont forget you can also have your own e-mail address's

me@yourdomain.i-webhosted.co.uk or such like

Admin edit (Richard M) - Let's hope she doesn't have "catch all" email enabled eh? :pp

[Stuart W]

Originally Posted by Mark B

The problem is, when we used to have it that way, all we got was hardly anyone logging in, but load of guests browsing around and never posting.

Sometimes I feel I'd like to make it more 'public', but every time we've tried it, it flops and th site starts to die. I'm sure there are some who get put off registering because they cannot see the site, but it's far outweighed by the increased activity we get in the community by having it 'members only' so to speak. Despite this, we DO get quite a few new registrations.

As a sort of compromise, we did create a portal page which IS open to guests, and displays the most recent threads.
http://community.bowlandcentral.com.

Hmm... I had this trouble with http://www.mapediting.co.uk
It's just a forum about editing BF1942 maps.
When I first opened it, I wanted to force registration to build up members, but had no posts!
So, to get posts, I made the board free for all to view/post, then when the posts built up, I changed it to free-to-view, register to post.

Admitedly, I get thousands of 'views' and hardly any posts, but the people who do register end up being valuable members.

I guess it's one of those catch22 situations (as mentioned earlyer) a successfull forum has lots of posts by lots of members, but people don't join empty forums.... so you need to find a way of building up some usefull information to entice viewers, then give them the option to get involved after a free sign up.

It works for my site, because some people just want to know something simple, they can just look it up and go.
Other people who want to learn something, register and start posting.
They make more info available for people in future.

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by KingPhoenix

If you need any help im sure theres many members here that can tell you what the buttons do, or just send me a PM

Dont forget you can also have your own e-mail address's

me@yourdomain.i-webhosted.co.uk or such like

Admin edit (Richard M) - Let's hope she doesn't have "catch all" email enabled eh? :pp

Oi! I am here you know!!Stop talking over my head!!! :pp

Incog.

[jane]

mines all about how to earn money on the net by completing surveys and getting freebies!!

http://www.geocities.com/janeewing1/

[Maggy J]

by gum I'm creamcrackered.

I've added a whole new section to my site which is not art inspired.Take a look.

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/index.html

Incog.Have to leave the shiny,shiny buttons for lateeeeeerrrr........

[homealone]

I may be ready - it's very lame, but here i go

http://www.gazfan.com/website

[Richard M]

Looks nice Homealone.
I like the way you integrated the RSS feeds from Frank's site.

[homealone]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Looks nice Homealone.
I like the way you integrated the RSS feeds from Frank's site.

that is very welcome feedback, thanks

- Freaky Franky is not forgotten

[MadGamer]

My forum

Finally with no ads. I know its an old version of Invision but then thats what the site provide.