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Im thrilled with the idea of a website which requires almost no work yet grows organically and earns you money at the same time.

I made one such website just for fun and i thought i'd share it with all of you. I call it The Gadget Site. It gets its content feed from Engadget but it doesnt just display the items with links to the source. What it does is make a separate page for each item. So each time the feed is updated, the site automatically generates new pages, thus growing by itself. I was lazy to make it pretty. For demo purposes only.

Here is the link to it: (removed the link. will take the site down)

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Think your site from the visitor's point of view.

Why someone should visit a site which has one feed, when he/she can just visit the original site at once?

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Nik, this is just a demo so it has one feed only, but you can add as many as you want. think of the possibilities. a site growing by itself. of course, you have to choose the best feeds. one with pictures and lots of paragraphs.

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It is a good idea. After all I own a site like that

Make it indexing feeds for a specific subject, and it may be successful

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Make it indexing feeds for a specific subject, and it may be successful

yeah. thanks. to tell you the truth, i really dont have any idea what subject to use.

I thought we called them splogs....
nothing against splogs, but do make sure the content owner gives permission to distribute their content.
Also you will find it very hard to compete with the original owner, to be honest I would find a really tiny niche, find several people who are "sharing" their content but are not promoting and them, and then promote your site like crazy. If you use the right methods you could probably get crawled by the engines quicker then the author and avoid duplicate content penalties. just a thought

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thanks for your suggestion tim.

slog means spam blog right? like rss2blog? well mine is not a blog and i heard it is difficult to autopost to blogs like blogger or wordpress anymore because of that captcha thing. unless you have your blog on your own server. anyway, i just made this for fun.

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hello guys, heres the better version of the website i posted earlier back. i have permission to use the article feeds and i will be promoting this site like crazy as tim advised.

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The colors are not very coordinated - don't match with each other especially the green and blue.  Go to a any color schemer site like http://www.colr.org/ and get a scheme to apply to your design
Or better yet go to a site like http://oswd.org and get a nice design and modify it.

If you had chosen to do a clean css design you could have saved lots of bandwidth for yourself by just doing simple things like td{background-color:...}

If you are serious about web design then you better learn CSS and XHTML

Why is the right navigation menu aligned at the bottom of that right column ? it does not look good.

Sorry if I am being harsh on your design

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no. actually it is okay. i appreciate your comments very much.

Why is the right navigation menu aligned at the bottom of that right column ? it does not look good.

what do you mean? that it is short? u see, i will add plenty of categories in the future. just keep your comments coming, good or bad.

thanks.

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I guess the site has a purpose on its own, but I feel this one needs a redesign... The basic markup can easily be updated to reflect a better looking site... Since this is a news site, you need to catch the visitors attention first before they start reading... and it only takes 3 seconds to get a web visitors attention...

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hi.

im doing the redesign already, starting with the homepage. before it was green and blue but now grey and red. got the template from oswd.

thanks.

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I know its the Red-Tie Template... but you can choose a better one and Customize it... I can't really articulate whats on my mind, but I imagine something really better for the site...

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yeah, youre probably right. i could pick a better one, but no time for site makeup anymore. i still have to do seo for it. anyway, im already getting se traffic but just a trickle.

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yipee! my site translation is now working with no errors.

im just having this problem with the side menu when you view it with firefox. i dont have this problem with internet explorer.

can anyone tell me how to remedy it? thanks!

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First get rid of those <font face="Verdana" size="1"> inside the links.

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ok. thanks!

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doing what you suggested turned the text into Times Roman and made it very big so i just changed size="1" into size="2". thanks for the suggestion.

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doing what you suggested turned the text into Times Roman and made it very big so i just changed size="1" into size="2". thanks for the suggestion.

use CSS for the font size (and all other styles too)

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true. thanks!

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