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First, you should invent a distinctive new color and make everything on your site that color (ie, this infamous shade of blue.)
Then you should copyright your color, giving it the name of your site (ie, 'Poemranker.com Blue') so that every time people refer to it, they have to use its proper name, which will make them think of your site. You would also do well to try to have it made a GAP seasonal color. If everyone who shops at The GAP goes around for a few months saying stupid things like, 'BlindForum Yellow is the new forest green!' you'll be bound to get more visitors. I hope this has been some help. Good luck!
I read about poemranker in a newspaper. So write to all the newspapers you know. Or start one, or buy one. The Daily Telegraph is for sale, I believe, if Richard Desmond hasn't got his grubby pornographer's hands on it yet.
When I said buy a newspapers, I meant actually buying the company, not just one copy. Then you could make the journalists plug your site every day. It would be a bit like Citizen Kane.
Ah, well... I'm not much of a color kind of guy. I think grey and black are suitable colors, huh? - And I don't think I can create my own color and make it into a CSS Hex color code - could I?
As for the newspaper boy, hm... newspaper is a thought - but I don't want to sound gloaty and go all out 'Visit BlindForum for awesome critiquing - and yadyadyada' ... First off: It would be lieing. My forum is almost empty in the story/poetry section. Just me and my friend commenting on each other and crap. Second: I repeat, I don't want to sound gloaty... 0_o; Third: Well, the first reason is all I can come up with at this point. oi...
Are you aware that your comments are almost illegible?
And it's oy, not oi. 3 million Jews along with countless gypsies and homos let themselves get rendered so that Americans would say oy. The least you could do is get it right.
sorry all-knower of life... oi
Illegible? wtf? It's not as bad as some of the others here...
If I were an all-knower of life (which I'm not) you would hardly be in a position to know, wouldn't you? I mean, if you were standing next to someone a few inches taller than you would you say, that person's head must touch the sky, just because you can't see the top of it? No, of course not. It's not even a very cool sarcastic thing to say.
Wasn't trying to be 'cool'... as it may be impossible for me to be 'cool' in this place, I suppose. 0_o;
I just assumed you knew a lot if you knew that 'oy' came from gypsies, Jew's, and Homo's... I guess 'all-knower of life' was a bit to... exagerate'ish...
Oy comes from Jews, like the interjection 'Oy, vey!' signifying surprise, frustration, or 'Look, here's my reuben!' It has become pretty ecumenical in America because Jews are extraordinarily influential in almost every aspect of American life.
My mention of gypsies and homos was more-or-less incidental - though the 5 million non-Jewish suspected gypsies and homos interred in concentration camps during the Holocaust probably wasn't very incidental to the Nazis, gypsies, or homos.
But there are different types of oy / oi. Sometimes it's spelt oi, as 'Oi! Stop jumping in my fucking flowerbeds', or something.
Is that the British-punk-kid oy? I always thought that was related to the Jewish one.
UPDATE: 'oi, interj. oy.' 'oy, interj. (used to express dismay, pain, annoyance, grief, etc.) Also, oi. [1890-95; < Yiddish]' [Random House Webster's 15-pound Unabridged Dictionary ('If there's anything we don't know, you're probably talking out of your ass!')]
Have you ever considered going to apostrophe college to learn how to use them correctly? For a start, try not using them when making plurals.
Does it help to say that I'm only 13 and suck at school?
*shrugs* So... What? You guys expect me to defend myself with weird stories, like ya'll do? ... I say OI to that... or Oy... or whatever you guys want it to be...
Yes. The weirder the better. I'd say start as a cabin boy on a South Seas tramp steamer but someone here already nabbed it. How about eunuch cabana-boy at the secret L.A. hills estate of supposedly-deceased disco-owner Steve Rubell?
It's a start, anyway.
No it does not help to say that at all. There are a handful of very simple rules which dictate how you use the apostrophe. It's not difficult to find out what they are. You can look them up in countless books on puncutation or grammar. Googling "apostrophe" produces 279,000 results.
The first rule of apostrophes, in descending order of not making yourself look like a total dunce, is not to use them when constructing plurals. When you add "s" to make one Jew into several Jews, you do not use an apostrophe. Even "homo", with its final terrifying "o" making you embrown your jodhpurs in fear of having to pluralise it, does not need an apostrophe. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. You obviously want to "learn the craft of writing" or some claptrap like that, so for the love of Christ, please spend the next five minutes reading about how to use apostrophes. You will be tested shortly.
The accepted figure is actually six million. And the term homo is pretty offensive. As actually, is the term gypsy - Romany is I believe the preferred word. Apart from that, you're absolutely right.
And Florists - don't forget Florists.
Has "pikey gippo" become unacceptable? Good Christ I hope not.
Don't forget Nicholas is Welsh and therefore 50% pikey and 50% gypo.
Whereas you're 50% inbred, 50% quendo and 50% extra free.
Whereas you are a 100% ginger motherfucker, with legs like large flans.
*breaks wind*
Actually I'm only half Welsh. The other half is English. Bloody identity crisis since birth.
My heartfelt commiserations, to taste the joy of being parted of the sacred race but remind yourself each day with your fake Pakistani accent that you are only 50% perfect.
Key elements: make it easier to see, read, and use. Give it a 'hook'. As to how I acheived these things... I think it's a combination of the above, and good luck. It took two writes and several months to get this off the ground, and being linked on yahoo and various other sites were a big part of that. How I got on yahoo, I don't know. But the idea was novel, within a niche, and so was talked about, and the talking spread. I'd like to think the layout is not so hard on the eyes, the options are relatively simple to find, and it's easy to while away the time browsing, or voting, or whatever. That, and it was targeted: poemranker is for _poems_. There are other places for stories, other places for visual art, etc. Each of those niches, while 'artistic', have different modalities and different crowds. Attempting to cater to all of them at once is difficult, and you have to look at what you're competing with.
Actually, the best question to ask, is "why _is_ Blind Forums?". Why would someone post (for example) their stories there, as opposed to http://critters.org, http://imaginaries.org/, http://critiquecircle.com/, or (the list goes on). I'm not saying "don't try". I'm saying, "consider this". |
And how'd you get this on yahoo? gjsdhlkhg help?
thanks.