Do you plan on creating a website? If so, here are some tips when creating a website. Some tips may not fit to your way of doing things, but us at RetroFreak believe that these are the best things to do when starting.

01 Choosing a Name

When choosing a name, be sure to make it unique, easy to remember, catchy, and most of all, something you personally like. Making it unique will result in more hits for your site. If there are more than two similar site names, people might end up going to the other one and oops, that will give you less visitors.

02 Staying Original

Being original is always the best. You have your own style, your own personality, and best of all, your own you! “Often imitated, but never duplicated,” is a phrase that can be used in this, haha. Copying others is not the best way to go. You may go out and look at other sites for inspiration but do not go too overboard-obsessed, which might make you copy. After all, the best way to go is your own way.

03 Creating a Layout

When creating a layout, be sure to remember that some people’s screen resolutions may be as small as 800 (width) by 500 (height) pixels. Just because a layout looks awesome on your computer does not mean it’s going to be the same way on other computers; not to put you down, but it’s true. Having a layout about 1,000 pixels wide will cause srcolling to occur on some people’s computer and it will make it look tacky. Now we do not want that, do we?

04 It’ll Get Better in Time

When you open your site, do not expect it to be the best out there. It takes time to build up a website, with loads of content or things and activities for your visitors to do. Just because your hits may be low does not mean your site sucks. Look for free advertising and whatever you think will give your site more exposure. Spread the word by whatever means.

Feel free to drop any questions. These tips will be updated regulary so this will be an active post.