cotonti.com : How do I change the background of my site?

Kilandor

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:24:01 -0000

In all honesty, Welcome to the real world where you need money for anything and everything (pretty much)

Its a simple fact, free stuff like hosting/subdomains that you get for free will only take you so far, you will never have a super popular site with free subdomain site. Nor would it hold up under free hosting.

As for Tekken i'm sure I can find hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of other Tekken sites out there. If you want a popular site you got to work for it, mean how do people even know about your website right now?

I can prove to you how money makes or breaks a site. I have a site www.ffximc.com I started as a modding community for english users, as there wasn't one. I had all the means to lead people there and got them there and be popuplar, as I helped with major breakthroughs for the community.

But I didn't have money, I used some borrowed hosting from my brother, and domain, it was going ok, but the host had problems/cheap/unreliable. I lost members, I got a new host came back up, converted the forum system to seditio, bought a domain, got a special deal from someone on hosting. More problems, cheap, downtime. Then when I finnaly got back up and stable it was to late most moved on, even though I was still a major player, and my site was 100% better than the others (more features etc) it came down to money etc.

So if you ever hope to have a good site, bottom line get some money, learn HTML/PHP/MySQL. Unless you can become super rich and pay someone to do everything

Now that this is way off topic already it might as well just be closed....

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:23:27 -0000

OKAY.NO MORE.SEE.HOW THE H*** AM I GONNA GET TO THAT WITHOUT MONEY?

Lombi

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:21:11 -0000

I have around 290 cotonti-powered sites, hosted on a dedicated server. My top visited site that SuperCache was programmed for has 3500 unique visitors daily (with around 93.000 pages). My own site is a little lower than that with about 1900 unique people daily. I mostly dont allow registrations since I dont want that functionality but a site we stopped working on three years ago has 3891 registered people with over 3000 registered by email (after we stopped registrations). I have a cotonti-powered site that holds 430.000 pages (music related) and I have a cotonti-powered forum that holds over 280.000 posts (travel related). I have a 500.000 (this time an exact number) page site that holds information on 500.000 movies.

There's no quick way to calculate total visitor data since it's spread over several google analytics accounts.

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:13:13 -0000

I don't win anything.Nothin'.How many visitors do you get on your site on average?

Lombi

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:11:40 -0000

Okay, sorry, you win

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 03:09:05 -0000

A lot of people like site-building.
A lot of people play Tekken(r).
A lot of people love to play drums.
A lot of people speak more than one language.
A lot of people play trombone.
A lot of people love ART Lombi.
A lot of people like to do math.
Can you bite on that Lombi?
And it all falls into money.

Lombi

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 02:54:13 -0000

I'm sorry but I can't not bite into this one:

Everything you do is interesting?

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 02:43:40 -0000

Tekken all there is worth talking about.And if I actually HAD MONEY TO PAY FOR ALL THE CRAP I NEEDED,EVERY FREAKIN' INTERNET USER WOULD BE ON MY SITE.BUT THAT'S TOO BAD.And ABOUT YOUR LAST QUESTION.... EVERTHING!I'M NOT MAD AT YOU LOMBI.I'M MAD AT THE WORLD.;(.And it's weird because you know what all this crap falls into?

Lombi

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 02:28:04 -0000

I'm sure there are hundreds of articles on that very subject on ezinearticles.com

So spend a day and read some good literature.

Btw that member number is really small :)

Lemme put it like this - look for something worth talking about. Instead of a Tekken site make a Street Fighter IV site. With an actual domain. People are incredibly turned off by the free hosting crap. There are thousands of these opening every hour. Literally.

So ponder about the following - how do I make my site stand out from the thousands of sites popping up every hour?

What do you do that's interesting? What do you know how to do that can be formed into a community?

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 02:04:48 -0000

I never thought of it that way.But how DO I make it stand out?I've never done that before and I'm doing the best I can.I just need to know how.Do you know how many users Psp Demo Center have?1079.And every day at least 210 guests.I am glad to be included in that but how will I get that many users?I don't even have one not counting me.

Lombi

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 01:18:54 -0000

First of all I would like to direct you to the forum rules on this site - you can spend some time over at the 8th point.

Second, think about the following RHETORICAL QUESTIONS

- are you giving your visitors any treats that will make them join?
- does your site offer anything interesting to people other than yourself?
- are you keeping the conversation alive for your current members?
- what are you doing to make the site unique and have it stand out from the crowd
- how are you marketing your site apart from posting here?
- how much seconds did you spend on learning how to market a site?

Should be enough for a few hours of introspection.

minoation

Wo, 08 Jul 2009 00:07:01 -0000

I know.But about my last question on the previous post.Anybody?Lombi I don't see why nobody can join.It's as easy as signing up for PDC or something.

Lombi

Di, 07 Jul 2009 23:58:43 -0000

That is happening constantly on 000webhost. You get what you pay for.

minoation

Di, 07 Jul 2009 23:56:13 -0000

Lombi!Oh my gosh.I thought you would not talk to me ever again because I started my website over.Ok.Well right now the server says my site is under review for malacious content.But its wierd because I made it for the purpose of discussing games as well as Ideas as well as the games my team is developing.Anybody want to join?

Lombi

Di, 07 Jul 2009 23:01:47 -0000

http://www.lottclanp.hostoi.com/admin.php?m=config&n=edit&o=core&p=menus

minoation

Di, 07 Jul 2009 22:35:45 -0000

In where?My ftp client?In the administration panel?Where?

pieter

Di, 07 Jul 2009 15:23:48 -0000

Goto admin.php?m=config&n=edit&o=core&p=menus

Copy an existing link and paste it and make your changes.
Probably it looks like:

Title-that_is_visible

minoation

Di, 07 Jul 2009 06:14:14 -0000

Thanks.Oh and one more thing.I looked at the video tutorial on how to add new pages but how do I add new pages to the menu bar?

gamer24.7

Di, 07 Jul 2009 05:59:44 -0000

It's the 'SED-Dark_BG.gif' in that case.
Rename/replace the file you want to be the background image with SED-Dark_BG.gif

minoation

Di, 07 Jul 2009 04:45:27 -0000

No wait.I am using the SED_Dark skin so there technically is no background.I have lots of images.I just need to know what to name it and where to put it.What you are saying makes perfect sense.I need a slight bit more help.

pieter

Di, 07 Jul 2009 04:38:33 -0000

It depends on which skin you are using.
You have to look into the code to see what the background picture is.

Or:
go to /skins/yourskinname/img
Look at the pictures and find the one that is the same as the background.
Replace it with your background. Same name and sometimes same size is required.

Good luck.

minoation

Di, 07 Jul 2009 04:32:26 -0000

Do I just add an image in the skins/img folder with a specific name?