I'm in The Process Of Starting My Own Ninja Turtles Website

[sdp]

I unironically love the site for what it is. Monetization ruined fan websites.
I wish you could click on the pictures to get a higher quality one but whatever.

[ResidentEvil7]

Thank god you guys so far love it. I worked hard for a long almost continuous 2 weeks on it. I would hate to work on it the way I did and it not get any praise. I had to work with what I have. I looked into picture galleries and unfortunately that requires an upgrade subscription plan that would cost me twice as much as I paid today. Not to rain on anyone's parade, it's just not worth paying extra money just to have more pictures on it unless I put them up one at a time (like 150 - 200+ images per title) and that's too much work on top of what I have done so far.

Lastly, I registered the site 11 hours ago and the domain registration and security connections are still pending. I emailed Webador to tell them that it's been more than the few hours the site told me it would take to allow the domain name to go through and I'm still waiting.

[CyberCubed]

This is genuinely what almost every fansite looked liked in 2001 besides the youtube video links.

[ResidentEvil7]

The site is now fully active at: https://www.tmntforever.com/ As you can see the name of the site is called TMNT Forever.

[ResidentEvil7]

I just looked at what my site looks like on my iPhone and yuck! It looks horrible. The buttons and other widgets look they're scattered all over the screen out of place, but on my PC desktop, it looks like I intended it to.

The other problem I'm having with TMNT Forever is that I'm having a hard time playing the YouTube videos on my PC, but fine on my phone. Anyone who saw the site have this issue when viewing videos on a computer, but it looks fine on the phone?

[ResidentEvil7]

I just checked my site stats and it's starting to look like my site is wearing off its novelty already. On day-1, I had 15 visitors who saw 79 pages and it hasn't been anywhere near as good each day since. I hope I didn't make this site just for the goodness of my health. I did it so the Ninja Turtle community could have something new on the Net and be able to see the past Turtles come to life.
I hope you guys still have interest in my site, even though there's no forum, which I'm trying see about getting.

[ResidentEvil7]

I'm currently working with Webador (my provider) to see what I can do to gain a forum page on my site. I asked them what if anything that can be done to do it. This is so you guys can also message each other as well as outside the Technodrome Forum Turtle fans. I'm just waiting for a reply from Webador.

[CyberCubed]

Include one of those geocities clickers on the bottom of the page that show how many "hits" you have. It's not an old school website without one.

[Andrew NDB]

You said you spent all of those days/weeks uploading videos onto the site... but all of the videos there just appear to be links to Youtube videos?

[sdp]

I mean what were your expectations. On the first page it's posted that fan sites are dead. Especially static ones like yours. You either do it for the love of the game or no reason to do it.
If you want to get more people to visit your site you're going to have to do a lot of work promoting it, building SEO etc. You'd need a totally different site basically and work for hours each day building your SEO and take months to start seeing some results, which as I mentioned even if you do all that the site numbers are always going to be low.

[CyberCubed]

The other issue is well, you need content. The comic pages are just comic covers, but no descriptions or anything. The cartoon pages are just the episode titles of each season. You need something to read.

[ResidentEvil7]

Whenever you play a Ninja Turtle video game, you can use the codes I have listed in the codes and cheats sections. You can also use the video walkthroughs as assistance.

As far as putting up content on TV episodes; do you have any idea what kind of long hard work that'd be? A long one. I built a Ninja Turtle site years ago (Ninja Turtles 25 Years) with Webs.com and I did do episode details and it took months to do. I mean, just the 1987 series alone would have 193 in depth pages and unfortunately YouTube blocked the trivia and mistake fact videos I had on each episode and that series was loaded with mistakes.

[IMJ]

Maybe his intention was to build a 90's style hyperlink page in the first place? C'mon guys, don't $#!( on...
We all knew this was going to be some kind of web page that basically had pictures all over it like a photo album.

[ResidentEvil7]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Maybe his intention was to build a 90's style hyperlink page in the first place? C'mon guys, don't $#!( on...
We all knew this was going to be some kind of web page that basically had pictures all over it like a photo album.

No. I barely remember what the old days of the Internet looked like. It wasn't my intension. I worked with what I had and for the lowest cost. Remember, I'm on disability benefits and a fixed income and I don't want to over spend. Lastly, unless I upload images one at a time, I don't have access to make a photo gallery because of my web plan.

[TigerClaw]

If I can make one suggestion for your TMNT site, Perhaps make a news section, Any TMNT news, Such as Comics, Movies, TV, or Video Games, You can post about it, If the news come from a different source, Be sure to link to that source as well.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

If I can make one suggestion for your TMNT site, Perhaps make a news section, Any TMNT news, Such as Comics, Movies, TV, or Video Games, You can post about it, If the news come from a different source, Be sure to link to that source as well.

Yup. It's very easy to setup a newsfeed puller that streams on a ticker on the site. It's a cheap-$#!( and uninvolved way to generate new content (as opposed to being deeply involved and an intelligent writer churning out commentary routinely), but it does give people an excuse to actually go to the site now and again

There are still some lingering "Photobucket"-style fansites around even for Iron Man here and there, yet there is literally no reason at all whatsoever to go to them. They are just some guys accumulation of pictures and links.

Your newsfeed idea would at least create "content".

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by sdp

Monetization ruined fan websites.

And modern social media.