Re: Ideas for a new A2 site

[Mew <mew24e@hotmail.com>]

On 23 juil, 06:12, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> In article <nemoSun072207084...@news.west.cox.net>,
>
> JCarlson  <jcarlson1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All.
>
> > I want to create a new website dedicated to our favorite platform (the
> > A2 of course! :) ) and would like to get some input as to what you all
> > would like to see on the site. This will be a slow process as I will
> > only be doing it in the small amount of free time that I have, but I'd
> > like to make it the best A2 site on the net. All input will be
> > appreciated.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Josh
>
> You can make your A2 site if you wish, but if you have no idea what to
> put there, and if you cannot spend very much time on your site, it
> will never become the "best A2 site on the net", as you say you wish.
> Your site will have another disadvantage as well: since it's a new
> site, people interested in the A2 will already be used to visiting
> other sites.  So your site will have to be really really good if you
> want to make these people used to visit your site instead.
>
> Basically, you have three choices:
>
> 1. If you really want your future site to become the "best A2 site on
> the net", then get yourself a really good idea of what you want to put
> on your site.  No, it's not as simple as asking here what people want
> and then do just what you are told.  It takes more than that.  Visit
> as many other A2 sites as you can: look at them, and figure out how
> you'd like your site to be better than them.  Yes, this will take much
> time - if you have too little free time then you have to rearrange
> your life so you will get enough time for your project.  Still, this
> is no guarantee that your site actually will become the "best A2 site
> on the net" - but with some luck it may be.  Also, you need to think
> about how to, some time in the future, verify whether your site really
> is the "best A2 site on the net", or not.  How do you intend to figure
> that out?  A poll here in comp.sys.apple2?  Some other way?  Just your
> own opinion isn't enough to settle that question, since a natural
> self-bias tends to make you think your creation is better than others
> may think it is.  You're of course not alone here - most of us tend to
> react in a similar way when judging our own creations.
>
> 2. Turn down your ambitions a lot.  Forget about trying to be the
> "best A2 site on the net" and instead aim at creating an interesting
> site among a lot of other A2 sites.  Decide what you want to put on
> your site.  Don't try to put everything there, instead you should
> specialise in something.  What about the A2 interests you the most?
> Do you have an interesting hardware or software project?  Or did you
> dig up some previously unknown part of the Apple II history?  Do you
> have an impressive collection of Apple II hardware?  Or just some
> unusual Apple II hardware item?  All of these things are obvious
> candidates to put up on your A2 site.
>
> 3. If you don't have much time, and if you don't have any good idea
> of what to put on your site, then forget about the whole project,
> at least for now.  At best, your site would then become some copy
> of other already existing A2 sites, and there are enough of them
> already.  Setting up an empty framework with e.g. a bulletin board,
> a chat room, and little else, and then expect others to fill your
> site with interesting contents, won't attract many users.  Even
> if you forget about your project for now, you can always take it
> up again later, if/when you get a good idea of what to put on a
> future A2 site.
>
> Putting up a new web site is a little bit like speaking to the
> public.  Now, if you want to make a good speech, there's some
> rethoric rules you need to follow.  The most important of these
> rules is: you should have something to say!  If you don't have
> anything to say but have to ask others what to say, then you
> should seriously consider to shut up and not make your speech.
> This of course also applies to new web sites.
>
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I would like to see reviews of each games with screenshots :)