Professionalism helps games 2 - Websites
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So you’ve finished your latest and greatest game with cool GFX, great sounds and a story line that could keep even a miser locked into it if he were paying £5 a minute to play. Your just about to upload this masterpiece but hold up, where’s it going, surely not that grubby old website that you only update once every 2 years.
If you make a great game you’ll want to give it a place on the web apart from The DC. The easiest and best way, put it on your current site. But far too many sites just aren’t good enough to be on the web at all.
How many sites have you been to that are Hard to navigate, have far too many broken links, bore the living life out of you, look crap or have loading times that put even the most patient of us off?
If you have a site you should make an effort to update it at least every half-year and check your emails at least every week But far too many of us don’t bother.
You can have the best game in the world but putting it on a crap site will just make it seem crap.
First impressions count, and before anyone gets a first impression of the game they get a first impression of your skills from your site.
So if you have a site, update it, give it a make over, buy a nice domain name, and give it some interactivity.
Half the problem with some sites is that there not hosted on real ISP’s just these free, sign up and we’ll give you a meg of web space things that add banners to your site and make it look cheap.
I have to admit I use a free web host but it is a real ISP and it gives me unlimited web space and emails and has no banners or ads. I use www.freeola.com but the only problem is that screenshots often don’t work on The DC with Freeola, although I have got them to work before, I forget how.
I won’t go on. My message is, make your site look professional and If you can’t there’s plenty of cheap software out there that can (although I avoid that kind of software cause’ it’s a bit limited.).
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