Do you still remember me? I am a player who has played World of Warcraft for 4 years, and I am also the webmaster of the 163 World of Warcraft private server website. I think back to the day when World of Warcraft was shut down, and I logged off at the North County Abbey in a depressed mood. Then I thought about the fact that I was about to graduate this year, and I had a lot of emotions. A World of Warcraft player gets too much pleasure and sense of accomplishment from the game. But in reality, he also lost too much. I missed the best opportunity to study because I skipped classes, and I missed the good opportunity to date my girl because of team activities.
Now every day when I type in the address bar of the browser, I can't help but sigh. I want to share with you my experience in building a website on 163 World of Warcraft private server network. Although we can’t let go of World of Warcraft, at least during the shutdown period, we can use the website to help us pave the way and take the first step into society. The real Realize entrepreneurship.
1. The motivation for making a website.
In the beginning, my motivation for starting the 163 World of Warcraft private server network was very simple. Because World of Warcraft has been discontinued. Like many players, I suddenly became bored. Just because the official server was closed, many friends encouraged me to play the private server of Warcraft. At first, I thought this website could help my friends, so I was very interested and decided to make this website. I never thought about making money from the website. I simply thought that I would make such a website just to show it to my friends, and to show off a little bit.
Player friends, if you are interested in making a website, then what kind of website do you want to make, why do you want to make this website, who is this website for, who can it help, and whether you can get some benefits from this website. These questions must have answers before you can start building a website. Otherwise, it would be impossible for me to create a website just because my brain is overheated.
Second, how to make a website.
I believe that many gamer friends have a passion for entrepreneurship and want to make a difference in this familiar online world. So let's get started. We can't always let others say that we World of Warcraft players can accomplish nothing except playing World of Warcraft, right? The first thing to do when making a website is to choose a program for making the website. I chose the Dreamweaver content management system, which is dede. Don't worry if you have zero basic knowledge. If you know how to play World of Warcraft, I believe that as long as you spend some time, dede will be a breeze.
Search for dede on Baidu, and you can easily go to dede's official website to download his latest version 5.3 program.
Then just install dede. Here, I suggest that if you are interested in making a website, you should first buy a domain name and space. The domain name is similar to what netizens input. The space is to store your website files, which are dede's program files. If others point to the space through the domain name, they can access your website.
Why buy the domain name and space first? Because this can save a lot of time in configuring the dede environment locally. For players who are not skilled or have zero foundation, configuring dede's PHP environment is a bit complicated. If you buy a space domain name, upload the dede program to the space, and then install it directly on the space, the installation will be completed in 5 minutes, and you will immediately see the default homepage of dede. (Here is a reminder to some gamers and friends. When buying space, you must buy those that support dede database. To put it simply, when you buy it, just ask if it supports dede. If you still don’t understand, you can ask me. I can give it to you. Recommend one that I am currently using. Haha. I won’t advertise it here.)
As for how to install it, this is the easiest for World of Warcraft players. I won’t say it here. There are tutorials on the official website. After installing dede, he will prompt you to enter the background management. Then let's go into dede's backstage. Friends who have no experience in building a website or have no experience in this area at all may be intimidated by the interface in front of them. Don't worry, these interfaces are nothing. I would like to ask which friends have never played a blog? Have not played QQ space? To put it bluntly, the general functions of the backend management are the same as those of the blog backend, but with many more intelligent functions. For beginners, that is all possible. Ignored for now.
Now you have to spend some time to study the system management of dede. My suggestion is to click on those functions one by one from left to right and top to bottom to see what they do. Some of them are very unfamiliar and you can’t understand them at all. Just go to dede’s function description document and study it carefully. Treat him as a boss of wow to open up wasteland, and show the spirit of not sleeping until he FDs.
Regarding the modification of website templates, to put it simply, it is like changing the skin of QQ space. First, you can design and make a template yourself; second, there are many dede templates on the Internet now. You can download the template you want according to your own needs, and then apply it to dede. I recommend beginners choose the latter. Only after you are basically familiar with dede can you start making templates. Because the use of templates is already advanced content. I am good at making and modifying templates. After all, I studied art design in school. If your friends need my help in these aspects, you can contact me directly. In addition, I also published an article about using dede to build a website two days ago. Hope it helps everyone. hehe.
I believe that as long as you have confidence and patience, a default dede will soon be changed into a website of your own.
3. Website promotion
Of course I want more people to see the website I finally made and share the results of my hard work.
So how do you start promoting your website?
First of all, you should make use of your relatives and friends as soon as possible and tell them all the website addresses one by one. Let them know you've worked hard to create this site. Firstly, it brings some traffic to the website, and secondly, it also tells them that you are not an unemployed vagrant. hehe.
Then, use your online relationships, friends in wow, QQ friends, and various online friends, to send them the URL and ask them to check it out, and ask them to help you promote it. By spreading it from person to person, the website will get more views.
The next step is to mobilize strangers to visit your website. As for how to launch it? Go to the webmaster website, webmaster forum, websites and forums with content related to the website you make, write some emotional articles, and advertise your website by the way. If possible, you can also exchange friendly links with other webmasters.
After the above simple three steps, I believe everyone already has a certain understanding of website building. Maybe what I said is not very detailed. If you are interested, you can chat with me directly. Maybe I can help you with something. hehe. By the way, I’m selling ads for my 163 World of Warcraft private server network. www.wow1633.com If you want to create a friendly link, you can contact me directly. My contact information is on the website. hehe.