New Idea for A webmaster site

That's basically the idea for our webmaster site.. Haven't had time to work on it much, but you can see the extremely early beta at http://www.modernwebmasters.com/beta/ (only webhosting that is somewhat complete)

It's a great idea and could attract many webmasters. Wish you the best.

I've thought about doing that in the past. I've even got a domain name for it (http://www.webmaster-center.com/). But I just don't have the time.

I can't think of any site that has all of that, but there are many in my bookmarks that come close. It would be *a lot* of work to do something like that well. Good luck if you decide to try it

Its a great idea!
Except you would have to have experienced webmasters help you in the Developement of the Site........

as far as faqs, check out http://www.irt.org javascript faq's

they do faq's how they should be done, giving you the code to do it and explicitly walking you through it.

regarding your idea, not a bad idea, and i dont mean to discourage you, but it's been done wrong 100's of times by over-anxious devs with too little experience. A student doesn't make a good teacher.
(Note: I know nothing about you, I'm just commenting on my observations of an over-abundance of this type of site written by amatuers)

Quote: Originally posted by zollet
http://www.modernwebmasters.com/beta/

hey i love that design, looks very sharp!

Quote: Originally posted by R0B
A student doesn't make a good teacher.

I would have to disagree with that, many teachers get to advanced for the complete newbie, when was the last time you managed to find one tutorial site on a subject you wanted to learn and didnt have to go elsewhere for better or easier steps to learn it. Sometimes students or amatures do gwt it wrong, sometimes even going in the wrong direction but they do start slow and basic.

Necrotic, good idea if you can pull it off, hardest part would be keeping up with upgrades, like HTML to XHTML, PHP with globals on, universal CSS ...

And as Rob mentioned many have tried and failed. Build it up slowly don't get in over your head and you'll get there. I was reading the other day how sitepoint is making a good living from their site now.

Good Luck

ROB,

thank you for your comment about the design

necrotic,

We used to own one of the first Macromedia resource sites and the reason our site got popular (between 6-10,000 unique visitors per day) was because I really spent A LOT of time working on the tutorials with decent screenshots and explaining the steps like if I was talking to a 4 year old. I also had a few people beta test them to make sure they could follow them easily. A mistake most people do is they assume that the reader knows something and doesn't explain it very well and that is where the users will get stuck.

Quote: Originally posted by Busy
I would have to disagree with that, many teachers get to advanced for the complete newbie, when was the last time you managed to find one tutorial site on a subject you wanted to learn and didnt have to go elsewhere for better or easier steps to learn it. Sometimes students or amatures do gwt it wrong, sometimes even going in the wrong direction but they do start slow and basic.

But that's exactly what a good teacher is - someone who can *teach* things to the target audience. It's not necessarily someone who knows a the most of about the subject matter (anyone who's taken a university level will understand what I'm talking about here). A good teacher is able to break things down and explain them in a way that makes sense. I think that this is what ROB meant.

If I do decide to do this I was hoping some people from maybe here, if they had any time and were willing to do it, could help with some tutorials or FAQs. If not, oh well. I'll be asking quite a few people that don't go here. Before I decide on doing this though I need to get a design and a host. The host part won't take much, I plan on using Sarvi Hosting. The design will take a little more. I want it to be user friendly, sharp, and look professional. I'll probably start on the Beta design tonight. Thanks for the great input, and I'll make sure I don't go in over my head. I'll start it out slowly and build it up more and more.

@Rob:
I'm still just a student... in High school 0.0. But everyday, weather it be from w-f.net or another site I learn more and more about my current language of study (PHP). After I can do most things in PHP I plan on moving on to Javascript, which I've heard is hard. But I'll find out for myself. I'd say for a 15-year-old who has only been programming for 5 months or so I've learned alot on my own.

I have Plenty of Tiem On My hands Since im Designing My Gamerz Central Layout slowely b/c i want it to be perfect

So if U Need help with anything I will be here, just ask and I will try to do

I could do some begginner tutorials on PHP..........
and on HTML too...........

I've got the basic design down. You can see it at http://www.anitrade.net/necrotic/design.gif .

Future plans: The left bars (Main, Tutorials, FAQs, etc...) will be flash. You click on the one you want and it moves to the top and the page changes (Will use either frames or Iframes). I need to do something with the background and make the layout a little larger. It's only about 500px wide right now. NOTE: I'm still workin' on it. If it doesn't look 100% that's why

Comments?

You would be better off keeping it basic, by basic I mean HTML or CSS, limit your use of flash and frames or iframes.
Flash has been abused by many first timers people tend to hate it as much as the animated graphic, some people even uninstall it (check out the opera forums). Frames aren't search engine friendly, people can't bookmark pages, can't send pages to friends ... iframes don't work on all browsers, can't be bookmarked ...

The choice is yours but if you are going to put the effort into all of this you might as well make it user friendly

And the seasoned webmaseter is pretty sick of all the bells and whistles. We're cynical - it's best not to try to impress us with the latest gadgets but rather concentrate on providing quality content.

yeah, i didn't mean my post to come out quite like it did. like i said i dont want to discourage anyone at all, best of luck.

I do think it is important for people to know what they're getting into with some of these things. That is quite a big undertaking and you're going to have to have lots of time & effort to dedicate to it. IME, creating a highly successful site is all about dedication.

Best of luck to you, anyway...

Alright, I probably won't use frames and flash then. As for dedication, I plan on working on this for at least 75% of my free time. And I'll make sure things are done right, not hastily. I've "finished" the HTML for the design. By finished I mean it's put togethor. Gotta do CSS and a few (One, maybe 2) jscripts. After I do that I'll start coding the pages, starting with the database design, ending with dunno what yet Thanks for all the comments/support, I'll need it.

@Rob: I know you didn't mean to sound like that, it's all good.

I've gotten alot of the HTML done. You can check it out here. I've got to do the image map for the side menu links, but that's the basic idea of how it will work.

loose the "Best Viewed in 800 X 600 or above, 256 Colors or more"

As "the Webmaster's Hevan" you should be setting an example.

will the tabs (seperate sections) be different colours?

The graphics need some work IMO

@Julia: I know, that's the rough draft.

@Busy: Yes, the selected tab will be darker if nothing else. And I will lose the "Best Viewed..."

*God I love school, people are so stupid*

it sounds like a great idea, but it hasto be unique and properly done, i tried to do a student site before but found without thetime it wasntworth the effort and all the ideas that i came up with were a waste, if you can do...do it. whats the latest.

Its nice...........

At least I Like it