Registered: May 2000
Location: Great City of Chicago.
Posts: 36

OK, you guys. I need your help. After a six week community college course on webpage design I finally graduated with flying colors. The problem is that I want to make a really well done website, but have no idea what to do. I have a few ideas which I think would be interesting to make, which are: Webpage design page, Gaming Page, Anime Page, and a Programming page (c,c++, Vb, and others). My little dilema with these subjects is they have all been done many of times, I think it would be very cool to do somehting unique with these ideas, something that has not been done, or has been done very poorly. Basically if any of you can put a twist on these ideas(low budget), or think of something completly new could you please post it here. Thanks.

[This message has been edited by DTD (edited 06-01-2000).]

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

The 6 week course, I assume, focused primarily on technique and implementation. These are critical elements, but, as you've found, you still need a few more elements to make it a complete concept...namely, THE concept.

As you've pointed out, topical sites, such as the ones you've mentioned, have been done to death. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do them.

If you are just wanting to create a web site...do it for yourself. Find a personal topic and make a site about it. Maybe you like fishing. Maybe you like the finer points of writing database interfaces withing Visual Basic.

Just find something that YOU like and do the site for yourself.

Registered: May 2000
Location: Great City of Chicago.
Posts: 36

No, I have done HTML for quite some time, and already have a handful of websites in my credit. I mean I know vb6, basic, c, so this wasnt just a technical course. It taught design. color mixing. Stuff to make a wevsite look really good. So a personal home page has already been done one or two times. But thanks, I understand that concept is a huge player in website design, that is why I think a topic that has been drove into the ground, but then brought back up with a new twist to it would be wonderful and immensly popular.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Enumclaw, Wa
Posts: 268

How about a website that has online games (shockwave, javascript, java, dhtml) and then tutorials on classic board games? and even possibly you could have some emulatation or palm os games. Come on you guys help him he needs it.

Registered: Mar 2000
Location: NJ
Posts: 517

How about creating some kind of story. Make an intricate website that a person travels through to find out what happens next. It has to be all graphics based, very little text. Not sure if it exists yet or not, the idea just popped into my head.

You could make it interactive too, if you wanted. Just the basis for an idea, go and be creative with it...