Help! I've got an excellent idea for a website, but I'm too webguru impaired to build it...

[vi edit]

Ok, I think I have a very cool idea for a website. I really think that it could turn out to be something huge. I know that if I could get some publicity on it, it could be used nation wide, buy hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people. I've done some searching on it, and I really can not find any standalone implementations of it. I've found some smaller, local, and very small versions of my idea on other websites, but nothing soley dedicated to it, and on a nationwide level.

My problem is that I have very, very limited web skills. What I would need the website to do would be pretty search intensive, and would reqiure a quite a few small submissions to be stored.

Would my best be be to get a group of "investors" rounded up and help go in on a professional web design? I guess I'm pretty clueless on how to throw together a "real" web page outside of the crap that I can make with frontpage

ANY advice would be greatly appreciated ...and no! I'm not saying what the page would be

 

[kranky]

First, I want to know what visgf thinks about it.

Second, have you figured out how such a site could make money? You have seen from being around here that, if the only way to get food was to buy it over the net, most people would rather starve than pay for something.

 

[vi edit]

Revenue would soley advertisement based. I don't want to have to deal with anysort of web merchant accounts. It wouldn't be selling any goods, content would be more of the service/informational/research type.

As for the other halfs support, I just thought of the idea today as I perusing this board Haven't had a chance to run it past her.

 

[BigSmooth]

Josh, if it has to do with cars, you know I'm in.

 

[StageLeft]

What would the page be?

 

[GasX]

<< Revenue would soley advertisement based. >>


You are already doomed. It is near impossible to make enough from advertising to cover the cost of the band width to deliver it. Unless you can project another revenue stream or two, noone will invest (noone who is smart, that is).

 

[Scrapster]

noone will invest (noone who is smart, that is).

If it was a good idea, I would invest. :frown:

 

[CanOWorms]

Mwilding is right for the most part!

You should just make the website for fun. Learn what you need. If you're only doing searches & submissions, you could learn that pretty quickly using some web programming language.

 

[greenfirs]

The ad market is dead.

You would have more luck playing the Powerball.