Video Game Web Design: Instant Attraction
January 9, 2008 12:56 pm         So you’ve created your own video game website. Most likely it is a community website of some type. Not getting used right away you feel 
fine, but a couple months later your website is still as empty and unused. A solution to this problem is to get involved! You should be doing things everyday to attract visitors to your website. The first thing that you should set up is a thread on your forum for people to introduce themselves as they join. This way you can go in every time you see someone new posted and welcome them to the community. It will make them feel good and excited to have joined a community where they aren’t just another member that no one cares about.
         You should have relevant content and it should always be interesting to the people who will be reading. If it is, they will come back to read more for sure. As long as you keep posting new information, of course. So make sure you do! Post new 
content all the time, as often as possible. If you can’t write or don’t have the time to, hire someone. It will be worth it to have your site visited by many people and in the long run will be beneficial to everyone. Even if you have someone else writing the content on you website each month you should still be contributing as much as possible, especially on your forum. People are going to want to see you and know that the owner of the website/forum is there with them just as much as they are. That he/she cares about their own site/forum and that they are looking through threads and whatnot. In fact, if you put an email address for yourself in your own signature for blogs or on the website somewhere, it will help people feel more connected to you.
         Another thing that you could co to increase traffic flow to your community site is to have some links on other websites point back to you. This means either link exchanging or whatever you have to do that will put links up out there. This will help in that when web surfers are visiting other websites they will see a relevant link to your site and possibly click on it to get more information. For more information on video game web design check us out at DreamCo Design - Video Game Web Design. For more information on other types of web design take a look at DreamCo Design - Web Design.
always something going on that I am totally out of the loop on. This is when I turn to my trusty internet and look up whatever it is that seems to be perplexing me at the moment. If I were the member of a guild/clan it would be even more beneficial if they had a website that had all that beginners information on it for me. Maybe not jumping into the really beginner stuff like how to install the game or setting up simple things. More like character templates or advice on what benefits a certain character has over the others.
would play them until level 60 or so and then find out that they were useless. What a waste of time. I got so frustrated with that game that I quit. Leaving my guild and everyone without so much as a goodbye.
other minute skills and attributes. It also helps that there is a ton of websites that have every known bit of information on the game. As far as beginners go, you should also have information about beginner’s get togethers and quests for people starting out. This will help develop a strong bond between the younger side of the community. You should never take your beginners for granted and treat them like they are unimportant and foolish. They are the building blocks to being the most loyal community members you will have and everyone deserves to be treated with some degree of respect. To find out more about video game web design go to 
reason that a website is up. That is true in some ways but the main reason a website is up and running is for others. Other people coming to your website to do whatever it is your website is there for. This is true for all website design including game web design. Even more so with games because there really is no instant benefits to making a gaming website. It purely because you enjoy the said game and you know that many other do as well. Game web design is more for pleasure than for monetary gain, at least right away. When you begin to design your website you should always have the potential visitors in mind. What are they going to want to see? What information should I have for them? What pictures should I use for this? How can I make this site easy to use for everyone? All these questions are what you need to be asking yourself when you create a gaming website.
t away there is no real-life benefit to having a website dedicated to a video game there are many in-game benefits to have one, especially if you are the leader of a guild/clan. Having a well designed website will show people a number of things about you. One being that you take your guild/clan seriously. You put enough effort into making a site dedicated to helping everyone else out so that they have somewhere they can go to when the need any information about anything. Also all the people involved will feel like a part of something bigger, instead of just logging 
onto the game to play solo. In turn, member of the guild/clan will take you more seriously. Another in-game benefit would be that by having a website built for your clan/guild you’ll be starting to make a name for yourself. The fact that your clan/guild has a website will interest people enough to look at it and check you out. If they like what they see they may join, just for that fact. Most people don’t really do much research before joining a guild/clan. Having a webpage will most likely sway a lot of people, if it built well enough.
 to make a name for yourself in-game and on the internet. The only problem is knowing the proper etiquette when moderating these gaming forums. I will you many a tip and more to start you on your way to moderating your own community/guild forum. Though there are a lot of pointers I can give you most of the time you have to play it by ear and really make decisions on the spot about some topics.
e people who ruin it all. These are the people you have to watch and possibly delete posts and threads from.
 community web site is like declaring yourself legally defective. This is tip #1 people. Trying to make a name for your community website without having this valuable piece of your gaming puzzle is never going to happen. So for those of you who are advanced in the world of community website design and gaming, you’ll already know how to go about making a forum. It’s easy and quick to set up but there are some guidelines I’d like to give about it before you go all gung ho on me.
make yourself the moderator/administrator/king of all your forum empire. As you start to build up members within your community more and more threads will appear and you may find yourself battling to moderate all the different threads. By this time you should have a few good friends within your game or on the website that you feel comfortable giving some moderator privileges to. This is something they should take seriously in that they will have to comb threads each day and delete spam and whatnot. Of course, you will still be at the top of the forum chain and if you need to replace a moderator, that decision is up to you.
ul information will always win people’s hearts over. And the more threads you have the more it looks like your site is used. This will draw others in to read what has been discussed (even if it’s just you talking to yourself). Not only should you be posting helpful information, you should also post about quests and get togethers within the game. Telling others what you are going to be doing and that they can join you is very inviting and makes you seem personable and a good leader.
