Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:12:15 +0100 From: VOICE News Service Subject: [VOICENWS] General: New eComStation/OS/2 Warp web-sites ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: egDESPAM at DESPAMecomstation.ru eComStation.RU is interested to support *new* eCS/OS/2 web-sites. Are you going to found a new web-site related to eComStation and IBM OS/2 Warp? We have collected some recommendations: 1) Always use pictures, logos and screenshots. Major part of old OS/2 sites show text information only. Today people need full-features sites: with good editorial text, with pictures and videos. Conclusion: add picture to every article to attract the visitor read the details. 2) Exchange links and banners with other eCS/OS/2 sites. Support small sites, show links to this sites. Support the developers of shareware software (the foundation of eComStaion market), show banners with Ad of eCS software. // The sellings of shareware for eCS don't increase because there is no exchange of commercial banners 3) What is your foundation? Do you have a "generator"? If you build the site alone, without foundation, copy&paste news from other sites then your site doesn't attract the readers. You should manufacture some unique products (applications, services or video product) and use the web-site as add-on to your product, the channel of promotion. // Several sites closed because couldn't offer unique news 4) Always allow comment the news and articles of your site so the visitors have interest to return and read the replies posted by other users. // Several new sites with articles were closed because the visitors couldn't comment reviews 5) Don't try to sort the data manually. Post the messages day by day, add tags and keywords to every publication. Sort by date (datestamp). // Several OS/2 sites died because the authors have spent all efforts to re-organization. -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice.org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end ]