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.

          If there is one thing that your gaming website should be sure to have on it, it is information for beginners and newbs like me. Although I have been playing WoW for a few months, I am said to say that there is still a plethora of information that I don’t know. It seems that there is 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.

          You should set up a whole area designed for the submitting of templates of successful characters. This would help beginners within the community feel a bit more guided and secure. They would be able to make a good character instead of starting out experimenting and finding out that their character isn’t any good in the end, after wasting all that time on them. I used to play a game called Asheron’s Call that was a MMO and if you didn’t create your character perfectly you 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.

          Trying to avoid this on WoW is much easier because you don’t have to decide what points go into health/mana or 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 DreamCo Design – Video Game Web Design. Want to learn more about other types of web design? Visit us at DreamCo Design – Web Design.