Ok, here’s the deal. I gotta a web site and the ability to do some neat stuff, but I don’t have a topic for it to be about. I find it kinda difficult to do a web page when you don’t know what you need to do.
I’d like for you to give me a topic on what you would like for my website to be. The one thing I will not except is sexual stuff (Sorry to dissapoint you :)).
Thank you very much.
Sex, definitely sex.
(Hey, you said you wouldn’t “except” it! Which means you’ll have to “accept” it.) 
Not the best of spellers am I?
ahem
I won’t accept sex.
Thanks, EagleEye.
will you give sex?
No!
Should’ve known this was a bad idea.
The colors make it tough to read your site. I think you could check out hotwired’s web monkey site and just click throught he topics which interest you.
First, pick a working color scheme, second, focus on a general theme, like, maybe, This is my life and I’m making a run for it!!! Or, I like funny things WHEN they happen to other people. I don’t know, most people are free associating when they plan their entire lives, why should your web site be any different?
Then again, I’m working on a few pages of my own and they are taking forever…so don’t take my advice!
Hey, I just came up with my own theme. No one takes me seriously anyway…
I think it should reflect your personality and interests. Maybe you can get ideas from http://lynda.com/
Here’s a site I really like because of the character:
http://www.stink.com/
good luck!
[Lisa Simpson]
A webpage is supposed to be a personal thing. You have to offer people something… a joke, an opinion, an idea.
[/Lisa Simpson]
EagleEye, far too many personal webpages are random collections of junk ripped from other sites, with no original content beyond “Hi, this is <teeming million’s> webpage; here is a link to by best buddy Cecil’s message board!!!” It’s not 1996, and you shouldn’t have a page just so you can say you have a page.
Instead, think about what makes you unique, what ideas you can share, no matter how seemingly mundane. Lots of people host journals, others (myself included) describe in depth hobbies and challenges they’ve faced in life. It’s your chance to broaden a stranger’s knowledge, and let them understand you.
Lastly, when finally do find a topic to write about, keep your page design simple. Black text on a white background is very easy to read, and it’s not to hard to use CSS to add little splashes of color here and there, while keeping everything looking clean and tidy. Look at this site, at my site, at Yahoo!, at any major news site… words and images don’t need to hide behind glitzy layouts.
Good luck!
Thanks guys. That was helpful, and believe it or not, some sort of a relief. Thanks for giving me the honest answers. Telling me my site doesn’t need to be all colorful and stuff.
Still accepting reccomendations.
I know you haven’t asked for comments about what you have done so far but I’m going to offer one very important piece of advice:
Don’t ever listen to what friends and family say about your site. Why ? – Because they either won’t want to offer constructive criticism (“Yes, it’s wonderful, dear”) or they don’t know very much about web site design (so aren’t qualified to comment).
OK, If you want to take things to the next step I’d suggest doing three things (apart from, as suggested, looking at how colour wheels work):
Explore nested tables to break up the page layout.
Start playing with graphics packages and images (photos).
Develop a strong sense of objective judgement about your own work (understand the art of presentation)
As for a topic…I think it has to be something about which you have a natural interest – something you want to talk and present information about. Could be anything…a hobby, family history, you and your friends, your city…?
But you have a good start. Best of luck with it !
This is kind of like saying, “Okay, I’ve got a typewriter, and some paper. Now tell me what to write!”
The point to a web page is to convey information. If you have nothing interesting you want to tell poeple, you don’t need a web site. Not just interesting to YOU, but to other people. We really don’t need another page on the web which just lists your favorite hobbies or the contents of your rock collection (unless there is something unique about it).
As for design, the best design is one which allows you to convey the information you need to get across, AND NO MORE. The design should never, ever get in the way of the content. That means no patterned backgrounds. Colors should be chosen not because they look ‘cool’, but because they enhance the presentation of the material, by offering unified themes, good contrast ratios, etc. No Yellow text on a green background, please. If you must have a colored background, make sure it’s something very soft on the eye. A good background color to go with is something like ‘snow’, which is barely discernable form white, but which can give your page a bit of character.
Oh, and make your page SMALL. If your entire page, including graphics, clocks in at much more than 50K, you didn’t design it well. Forget animated GIFs - never have a continuous animation on a web page. It’s distracting.
Basically, the elements of a good page are:
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[li]Navigation - A multiple-page site should be logically laid out, with obvious navigational elements which let people get around it easily.[/li][li]Consistent theme - Choose a color set and layout, and carry it through each page so people maintain a sense of reference. The web is a large collection of hyperlinked documents, and you need to make people aware of the fact that they are still on YOUR page and haven’t followed a link somewhere else.[/li][li]Minimalist Design - A mark of an amateur is a cluttered page full of graphics, patterns, lines, and text splattered all over the place. But go have a look at some web sites developed by companies that have professional web design departments and web budgets of millions of dollars, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Look at ebay, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, Intel, etc.[/li][li]Keep the information fresh and interesting. Anyone can create a web site that their friends and family will look at - once. But if you want people to keep coming back, you have to give them a reason. That also goes back to the minimalist design - if your page is full of huge graphics and needlessly complex so that people have to click through several levels of pages to get to the good stuff, they won’t come back. Oh, that means no ‘entrance’ pages. If I go to your site, you know I want to be there. So you don’t need to put up a splash page that says, “Click HERE to enter”. You already know I want to enter, so why make me do it again?[/li][li]Go to http://www.useit.com, and follow Jakob’s advice. He’s the man.[/li][/ul]
Um, a dictionary?
The key to a good website is the MIDI music. All great websites have some pleasing to the ear, tinny MIDI music…and frames…and pop-up windows…
How about a website dedicated to showing how evil Bert from Sesame Street is…