I created a one-page site and added the following anecdote:
I was downstairs in the dungeon the other night, talking with Master Jeff just before trying a new cane on my slave. (She loves the cane.) He was telling me about last month's bondage contest. He wrapped a woman up in paper towels! With enough layers, she was completely helpless.
I turned to him with this delighted look on my face and exclaimed, "And paper towels are so flammable!"
He got this grin on his face and chuckled for quite a while. Jeff is a "sick fuck." He and I get along very well. :-)
Well, okay, your mileage might vary. But why not add small personal touches to your site? Maybe do a complete change of pace and see how it flies? That one page site, by the way, was supposed to be a circle jerk and hub site. It is, sort of... but it's not a real circle jerk, and it's not a real hub, and I use a different site as my filter page. I spent a whole weekend laying it out once I came up with the concept. As far as I can tell, that was all pretty much wasted effort.
Or was it? As I learn more, I can go back and take ideas from that site, and use them elsewhere. I can even take the anecdote and start a Chronicles article with it.
The point is, so can you.
Why not make the site a unique reflection of you? You don't have to tell them who you are. In fact, when I showed off the above-mentioned site, Morgana suggested I not identify it as belonging to Old Tom. Because it was intended as a trap site. It can be anonymous, yet still contain personality.
I want to build sites as quickly as possible. I'm not doing too well at the moment. Let's see... in five weeks, I've built one tit freesite, one tit avs site, one erotic story freesite, one anime site, and one tgp gallery. Five sites, five weeks, and busting my tail to do it. My revenue has gone down rather than up. How in the world can somebody kick out three sites a day?
Of course what I have produced has been linked and/or accepted on the first try. Each has had some unique character or personality. I've also made exclusive content deals with two partners, and written three essays for the Chronicles. I've also done the first fifty web pages for my newbie project. But I sure haven't done three sites a day!
Do I want to be doing three sites a day? Yes. Am I there yet? No. Will I get there? Yes - because I am listening to my mentors. I am not doing everything correctly. But as long as I am doing something, my mentors have something to work with, and can suggest improvements along the way.
The point is, so can you. Find mentors you can respect and listen to, and so long as you're putting in the work, you'll get to where you want to be.
Meanwhile, I am being me - not always a good thing - which means my sites will have some unique quality different from other peoples' sites. I try to take a straightforward approach, but stuff just happens. Somebody gets kidnapped by aliens, or paper towels become flammable.
And then, to top things off, I claim there is a point to this rambling. And what do you know... there is! You get ideas every day, and see strange things - use them! If the idea doesn't work out, well, stick it in a folder somewhere and you'll probably be able to use it again later.
Why not build a site inside out? Gallery One, Gallery Two, and then the menu page. Okay, bad idea. There's a reason nobody does it this way. But perhaps a screwy idea like that will lead on to some other idea that does work.
Think about what would be fun to try. If
you enjoy doing it, it's quite likely that people will
enjoy seeing it. Enthusiasm is contagious - why hold back? Your
enthusiasm will leak into what you're creating.
Last modified: Sat May 20 19:53:33 CDT 2000