Last week I also added more drinking games to 'The Party Scene' section. I've still got a lot of work to do with that section but there's endless opportunities for it so give me time. There's a lot of drinking web sites out there, but a lot of them suck b/c they just rely on their user submissions and they end up with 10 different ways to play asshole and drink a long island iced tea. I think this is a good way for me to reach my target too -- college kids. I'm really pumped to set up a reviews section for bars and clubs and allow visitors to submit reviews and ratings.
I also created a new Calvin Klein web site in the Fashion section and temporarily took down the Nike and Perry Ellis web sites b/c they suck so bad. I'm kind of stuck with what to do with that section. When I first created it back in 1998 or so, it was a huge hit b/c most designers didn't have their own web sites and nobody even offered online ordering of designer clothing. Can you imagine? So people were satisfied coming to my site and just looking my scans of the designer's advertisements or reading the designer's biography. Now that's not good enough. So, last summer I gave my Tommy Hilfiger web site an overhaul, deleting the scanned pictures and adding links for online ordering of the clothes on Amazon. I thought it looked great and I sold a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise on Amazon within the next couple of months but then my Tommy site suddenly dropped out of Google. The word is that Google updated their algorithm to exclude affiliate sites, getting rid of the middle men and giving sites like Amazon the premium rankings. So, that really sucked. I added content and got penalized for it. I think I'll stick with the basics - make informative profiles of popular designers and then creating a few other sub-pages with pictures of the clothing line.
Coming Soon ...
I'm going to add and update a couple more fashion designer sites to make that section a little better. Then I'm going to dive into the music section and the sports section and clean some of those sites up, adding new content wherever I can. I'm looking into adding message boards onto the music sites like 2Pac and Biggie's, so people can post there instead of writing in the crappy guest book or e-mailing me what they think about 2Pac's death. I would have one giant message board but I think that EWS is way too diverse to do that. The last time I tried that it somehow it became one giant high school gossip spot. Weird.
I haven't gotten a comment yet so is it safe for me to assume that nobody is reading this? That's OK ... But I'll feel a lot better if I could get a comment here and there! =)
