question: how to start a popular winx fan site?

Greetings Friends, Fans, and Support Personnel:

I want to build my own winx club fan site from the ground up (as if we don't already have enough of those). If I had it my way, it'd be based on invision power board and includ a live chat room with multiple chat areas, further it would be tied into my various other projects (log in with one universal ID for my work website, my girlfriend's personal website, and on top of this, the website for "church of Winx" (project gummed up in the planning stages))

If I were to go about building such a community, how would I do it and what would you recommend to make it awesome? Not trying to steal any site's thunder or anything, but rather have a fan site that was built from nothing and turned into something. I could never build a complete clone of this site, nor would I want to as I think it is fine as it is?

RP Moderator Posts : 9973

Well to make it, you'd need a nice theme and a way to attract users. Not really sure what else.

Hello:

Themes I've got a few templates. As for attracting users, no idea how to do this. I'm thinking working the link on a lot of email signatures and on multiple forum accounts across a lot of community accounts I'm a part of. I'm nuts for wanting to make my own Winx fan site, right?

RP Moderator Posts : 9973

I don't think you are. Alot of people try.

Hmmm...

Start fresh and easy. Make it interesting to view. Try sharing it to your friends and ask them for an opinion. Share it around so everyone gets to view it! Having organization and activity daily is very important and it would be interesting to make it based on personal opinion or neutral. Whichever may work! If you really want this to become "popular" just give all you got and in the next days you might find yourself be addicted to your own website hahahaha. Make it awesome! :DB)

thanks for that! I'll do work on it and put it throught the testing through my work and maybe do early access for the BIW friends who've helped me get the bugs worked out and the thoughts smoother than usual

Update: as of 05/29/2016 @ approximately 6:00 Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada) :

My winx club fan site is Online! yay for me! You can check it out at http://winxclub.cf/

If you'd like to go directly to where most of the magic happens go to http://winxclub.cf/portal/

If at any time you need help, go to http://help.winxclub.cf/

Yes, I got lucky and the winxclub.cf domain was available as a free domain! Who knows, I might offer winxclub.cf email addresses in future.

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