Thursday, June 29, 2006

Website Promotion

Over the last month since launching my site I have undergone 3 site re-designs due to internet explorer not following the W3C standards and thereby causing some issues with the overall look.

I have settled on a simple design that has so far been fluid on all screen resolutions and browsers. I hope this will continue to be the case as it really has detracted from me adding more quality content guides about runescape. I know I have a lot of work to do to catch up with the established help sites, but it is gradually getting there.

Originally this blog was going to be solely about the development of my runescape help site and how to get a foothold into the playerbase given the amount of paranoia around new runescape sites coupled with the advertising ban ingame ... it is truely a challenge to get established as a honest source of help.

I realise now that it is impossible to solely keep on topic, but I have created additional blogs about various aspects of runescape and I will use those blogs to keep on topic and provide an informative niche area within the game.

This blog will therefore become more of my general views on any aspects within the game, any aspects with my site development and any other aspects relating to site promotion and becoming established as an entity.

One main problem is the ability of bad websites to gain a lot of traffic playing against the rules of the major search engine guidelines but at the same time outranking my site that I am trying to develop in the true spirit of the web. I continually become disheartened when I see other bogus sites outranking mine, especially on google where my site has virtually disappeared and sites that copied some of my content outrank me due to them having been in existence before my site... truely demoralising.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Runescape Player Owned Houses

Player Owned Houses:

Since RuneScape classic there have been people wishing to get into developing their own player owned houses on RuneScape. The game developers took their time in delivering the eagerly awaited addition to the game ... the question is was it worth it?

There will be many people who love everything to do with their own house on RuneScape, but there may equally be as many people who detest the introduction as it has had a great affect on the whole virtual economy.

Almost 1 month after the release, there is still large amounts of players that are unconvinced about what player owned houses or POH has meant to them. On the whole, there has been heavy investments by the early people who managed to get their construction skill to level 99 and have the ability to create everything offered by Jagex.

Change is inevitable over time, and my personal opinion is that I am glad they have released it as it finally means there is no further talk of what might be involved, but instead some grumblings of things that were not involved.