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Deciding on a new website

Which should I go for?

  • Language

    Votes: 8 66.7%

  • Personal

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Programming

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Total voters
    12
Stewart

Stewart

Active Member
I've done a history site and, for the moment, I'm going to leave it as it is and let it grow - maybe updating the home page going forward, keeping the contact channels open, and adding monthly content to help improve its online profile.

Now, with November upon us, I'm looking to start a new web project but I'm torn between which to do and I can't do them all yet because of the monthly expenses.

What do you think would be the best?

  • A language website - a discussion forum and phrase reference for people wanting to learn different languages (probably starting with French, German, Italian, and Spanish to begin with). I already own www.lingua-mile.com.
  • A personal site - all my stuff, writing, artwork (if any), games, reviews, essays, and whatever else
  • A programming website - a good programming reference full of products, tips, functions, essays, and articles on computer programming
 
programming's cool. maybe the coders in the forum will get together and show the world how a proper book catalogue program really works. :) for free. with penguin graphics too, if some of us are so inclined...

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Depends what programming - I'd probably stick to VB, VBA, VBScript, ADO, PHP, JavaScript, and C++ with the occasional trip into other related languages such as HTML and SQL.
 
You could dedicate it to me. And it's my birthday in November - see how it all makes perfect sense?

I'd try and deter you from making a site about yourself, unless you promise it will be really fun and unique and interesting. Quite frankly there are enough sites out there already, by self-absorbed twits who feel the need to inflict themselves on the world wide web.

I've no interest in programming, so that leaves the language site - that seems like quite a good idea. The language sites I've visited have never really impressed me, although it has to be said I haven't really looked at many.
 
Freya said:
You could dedicate it to me. And it's my birthday in November - see how it all makes perfect sense?
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Two little ducks?

I'd try and deter you from making a site about yourself, unless you promise it will be really fun and unique and interesting.
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The three adjectives that describe me best. :D


I've no interest in programming
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:eek:

that leaves the language site - that seems like quite a good idea.
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It's the one I like best though it would require people who know the languages involved taking part. I'd need to make a really good site to get me to the top of Google almost immediately otherwise I'd get loads of people asking for translations and nobody answering.

The language sites I've visited have never really impressed me, although it has to be said I haven't really looked at many.
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The best I've found has been Master Russian although not everybody wants to learn Russian. It has a nice extra section on its forum for other languages such as Polish, Serbian, Croat, German, Arabic, Chinese, etc.
 
Freya said:
Quite frankly there are enough sites out there already, by self-absorbed twits who feel the need to inflict themselves on the world wide web.

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Hah! As soon as I get a computer of my own at home I'm going to do a site just for me! And it won't just be self-absorbed I promise you it will be self-obsessed to the utter extremes of twitdom. And thus I will inflict myself on the world. And you're banned.
 
:mad: You'll be sorry Billy O... very sorry!

Abu, the Russian is simply a matter of tilting your head at the right angle. Simple.
 
Hello Abulafia,
I think you should do a personal, or maybe do a type of hobby you like, for example my own website is a hobby of something I like doing which is helping people: example
So like you could do a personal website about art, have your art work and other artists work and something about the artist saying why they wanted to be an artist, etc.
Just an idea, if you undersood everything I put :p
 
RainbowGurl said:
I think you should do a personal, or maybe do a type of hobby you like
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But languages is a hobby and programming is a hobby (as well as part of my job.) ;)
 
Hmm, well thats good :p I think its your choice of what your willing to work on more, which one you are intrested in and pay close attention to more and what your willing to find out alot of information on.
 
RainbowGurl said:
Hmm, well thats good :p I think its your choice of what your willing to work on more, which one you are intrested in and pay close attention to more and what your willing to find out alot of information on.
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Well then, it is me you shall dedicate your site to after all! :p
 
I wish there was a website where I could get more exercise.

Seriously, the best websites are those with the sharpest focus. Rather than general history, the history of prunes or the history of glass. Rather than mythology, origins of Greek mythology.

The second best are the portals that lead to the ones with focus. For example, one page with links to linguistic sites, or just one page with links to Greek mythology sites.

In my experience, professional programmers worth their salt are well plugged into lots of ongoing discussions of current bugs, upgrades, development tools, etc., and those sites tend to be very specific. It's like being a doctor---if you don't keep current, you're out of the game.

As for personal websites, that can be cool if you have something really unique going on. I used to read the daily diary of a vineyard owner/winemaker, for instance. Learned a lot. But there's enough opinion and bad poetry out there to keep everyone going for the next millenium. Anyway, isn't that the province of adolescent girls who equate melodrama with emotion and depression with seriousness?

Why (this is a real question) do you want to do another site? Do you just want to build a site, or do you want it to perform a function or make money or promote a point of view or promote some other business of yours? If you just want to build a website, lots of local organizations could use the help putting up really useful local stuff, like town planning maps or school homework or local libraries' information.

I would like a nonchatty gardening site that is zone-based, where you could click on a zone and have an encyclopedia of categorized plants that will grow in that zone. One that included microclimates would be even better. One with realistic pictures would be even better.
 
Abulafia said:
What do you think would be the best?

  • A language website - a discussion forum and phrase reference for people wanting to learn different languages (probably starting with French, German, Italian, and Spanish to begin with). I already own www.lingua-mile.com.
  • A personal site - all my stuff, writing, artwork (if any), games, reviews, essays, and whatever else
  • A programming website - a good programming reference full of products, tips, functions, essays, and articles on computer programming
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ummm, since you've already had that lingu-mile. com, why not put the other two in to the same website, as separate sections, or parts?

i would like to discuss on a familar language forum. so i can find a proper place to learn German.

As for the computer programming part, i agreed with NOvella, that it needs keeping updates.

To have a separate section of your personal stuff in the same site, umm, that would one reason for other people on the bookforum who are interested in getting to know you to go have a look.

plus, it saves money, i guess. though it might make your lingu-mile. com seem kinda mics, but since all the parts are your interests/ favorits, that still makes sense ( i mean, to make 3 in one), coz that is you, in who you are, in unique, funny, blah,blah.

Good luck,
 
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