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[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

http://chiyeunglaureport.tk/

its like the drudge report but less news stories and only updated once a day, for one hour =D
news story probaly stay around 2-3 days
im just seeing if its actually good or not, because im trying to make a small site to get some news i think is pretty interesting or entertaining
ideas and thoughs =D?

[tycoonboy388]

Are you just posting stories, or are you going to be commenting on the news that you post. Right now, it just looks sparse, and the content is pretty empty. But keep going, don't stop so soon. Build off the critiques you get.

[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

yeah me and my friends are trying to start a site that people will actually like or want to read
we only have 10-15 stories up we find that are reliable and interesting right now

[Josh]

Your first step should be to ditch your *.tk domain. Unless you're doing something seriously illegal (and I don't even mean regular illegal, I mean the hard core stuff), then you shouldn't be using one.

A lot of ISPs block them anyway. RoadRunner didn't unblock *.tk sites until about two years ago.

[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

arghh
i used tk cause its shorter !
i would buy a domain but i dont have a credit card
all i need is like 5 bucks per month or something or 10$
well i guess ill have to find a site provider

[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

go daddy has cheap domains
found one for 3.19 for 1 year

[TheRainbowFalcon]

Story of the Week

Gun shooting at another school

WHEN WILL THE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT KIDS
ARE PSYCHOS! IF THEY SAY SOMETHING, THEY MIGHT MEAN IT

How did the guns past the detectors in the first place!?
Please AMERICA do something with all that money




I have no idea where to begin.

[Awad]

Work out the layout, it really is nothing right now.
Oh, and while it might get you into the search engines, it looks horrible to have your meta tags as your title.

Spelling and grammar counts if you're serious about getting people to look at your site. Period.
Also, if you are even just somewhat serious, get some cheap hosting and a domain. GoDaddy tends to email me with some new discounted offer every other day, usually starting right AFTER I buy a domain.

Fix your links. Some of your links just bounce back to the homepage.

And lastly and most importantly...your content. If you want to differentiate, then you better damn well have some interesting stories that I can't get elsewhere. All you're really doing now is reposting stories off Breitbart. And while the blogosphere is run by editors finding and reposting articles, the best ones are the ones that a) first post the news offer commentary on said news or c) both

[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

okay well
i want the layout to be simple though
Also about the godaddy thing, can you help me out? I dont really know what the process is!

So i should post articles that are interesting, post certain commentary etc?

[Awad]

GoDaddy makes things pretty simple (except when you're renewing, but that's another story...). All you really gotta do is find an available domain (preferably a dot com, as mentioned earlier certain TLDs have poor connotations to them) and register it. The fee is something like $8 a year on average plus hosting which can be shopped around or bought off GoDaddy as well. Actually my recommendation would be to stick to one registrar and host to save you the hassle of dealing name servers.

NHS uses InMotion hosting for their site and YEA uses DreamHost.

[Chiyeung DjChi Lau]

hmm
well its to much hassle to do much without a host right now =.=