Symbian Network Zhangwei: Play mobile phone play out personal site

Zhangwei, net name Feather fly, Symbian website is long.

Why did you create this site?

Zhangwei: Interest, 2005 time bought a smartphone, like this, set up their own website. I think this is not a start-up, but only by interest to do, and then slowly bigger. Family support me more, free love, do not support also no way ah.

When did you start the idea of building a station? When did the website begin to operate?

Zhangwei: I was 80 years old and began to dabble in website construction and operations in 99. After graduating from law, he has worked on a number of websites in the fields of content, products and operations, and is now working on a state-run website.

I do this station, the earliest start is in March 2005, did 3 months, the same year June on-line. At that time, I bought a qd of Nokia, on the Internet to find relevant information, found not too satisfied, and at that time, the smartphone industry and no industry portal, want to do their own site, at that time, already have phpwind and dedecms, so after 2 months of brewing and production, Symbian Smartphone network was launched in June of that year.
　　
Why do you have to do a part-time job? Do you have any influence on your work? Do you want to be a full-time website?

Zhangwei: I didn't take this as a way to make money. I am now in Chengdu Daily newspaper group of polymerization Media as BD deputy Director, has been an amateur part-time, part-time work or have an impact, but the impact is small, because it is a hobby amateur dry site, the unit also has no tube. But also want to work full-time, ready for this year.

What is the specific status of the website operation?

Zhangwei: With the development of the Web site, the cost of the site more and more, the site's early investment is their own investment, and then rely on advertising and with some mobile phone software vendors to complement.

Now let me worry is to expand the profit model and products, because the site alone advertising, it is too single, and not enough to support the growth of enterprises. At present, the site has a slight profit, the rest of the money saved down to buy servers, expanded reproduction. Future plans to make the smartphone industry portal, and then to the 3G application portal or 3G mobile phone client direction expansion.

How is Symbian's management team made up?

Zhangwei: Webmaster is me, sales, marketing, technology is also all I, the other people are the Forum management staff. At present, Symbian mobile phone Smart Network is a personal nature of the site, I plan to add a server before the end of the year. My entrepreneurial story is not legendary, but I really appreciate the company that has spent countless days and nights with Saipan management team.

Two years, how has symbian grown up? How's the membership?

Zhangwei: We started early and did not compete very much at that time. Site classification details, when there is a certain degree of popularity can be in a timely manner, to avoid a hodgepodge, but also to make the forum more professional, community viscosity greater; I have been engaged in the content and operation of the site, there are some resources and experience, compared to other stations a little advantage. These factors accelerate the development of the website.

In the content of the subdivision, because of the concern to disperse forum popularity, a start to choose the Nokia N70 as a pilot, a short period of one months, Nokia N70 forum posts have reached the total number of forums for more than half of posts. With this precedent, I began to further the Bold subdivision, now Symbian mobile phone Smart Network has been according to the model to distinguish the discussion content. Content subdivision, users of the topic are relatively close, with the same model of the mobile phone, netizens come up, can immediately find their own small circle, to find their own interests, enhance the user experience, the forum's adhesion strengthened, the popularity is coming up. Now on the forum of people mostly network worms, are smart phone players.

What are some of the things that you can't forget when you run the Symbian network?

Zhangwei: At that time, the site was just built, with a relatively rare at that time the whole station DIV+CSS, when I looked at the statistical system of IP and PV data, the heart is particularly excited, feeling 3 months of hard work is worth it.

Later, because of the forum's management team increasingly large, at most when there are about 140 people, some managers because of the idea of differences and resignation, whenever these times, memories of the days of management together, the feeling of special many.

But at the same time, there are more managers because of their hobbies, let me know, in this world, selfless but not to pay the people really many. Symbian Forum currently has 1 million registered members, more than 5 times more than 15%. Some moderators use their spare time, take a notebook to help some members of the duty free brush mobile phone version, really let people moved.

What is the current progress in financing development?

Zhangwei: Several employers have been looking for it before, but they want to buy it all and then pack it up on other sites. I personally do not appreciate this practice, but also reluctant to sell it all.

What difficulties have you encountered during the construction of the station?

Zhangwei: The difficulty of establishing a website is mainly in the server erection and management, with the site gradually expanding, the server maintenance technology has a great demand. In addition, now the north-South interoperability of the good room is not easy to find, the development of China's personal website has been a constraint. The experience of the construction station of Feather fly  Site selection of systems   Content management System (CMS) of a large number of applications can make the production and maintenance of a site's human cost significantly reduced, especially in the content update, a person who does not understand the HTML language can easily complete.   currently used and relatively excellent content management system is mainly dynamic (ASP), Wind (ASP), the Empire (PHP), Dream (PHP) and so on. In addition, a successful website, in order to increase interaction with netizens, the forum part is also essential, the recommended forum source program mainly has Phpwind (PHP), dynamic Network (ASP) and so on. In addition, I finally used the DIV+CSS Site page layout, do a good job through the web of the CSS verification and XHTML verification, the advantage is that the display speed, design flexibility, reasonable layout, more easily crawled by the search engine content.   Buy domain name to rob   well-known, now a short good memory of the domain name resources are very precious, basically have been registered, then just thought to register a domain name webmaster in the end there is no chance? The answer is yes, there are many good domain names to be registered for a variety of reasons after expiration, And did not renew the fee in time, thereby being recycled into a registered domain name, so as long as the attention of the online statistics on the recent impending expiration of the domain name form, grab a good domain name is very promising.   Optional server   due to the nature of the amateur site, I chose a relatively inexpensive approach, that is, the purchase of ordinary PC accessories DIY Server, it is necessary to pay attention to the need to purchase professional server chassis, can not use the ordinary chassis, Because the engine room managed server's one charge standard is according to the chassis height charge, the general Choice 1U chassis (height 44.45 millimeters) can. The CPU's main frequency should not choose too high, otherwise it will give the server's cooling caused great difficulty, I shelves the first server, in order to take into account the server's heat dissipation and performance, selected P4 2.8C.   Set up the server   believe that there are many stationmaster has been in for how to set up a server and worry, and the beginning of the server, I used the appserv, at ease in less than 10 minutes to complete the time. Appserv is the PHP Web Site Tool Pack, is the author of Thailand will be a number of Internet free station resources repackaged into a single installation program to facilitate beginners to quickly complete the stand, Appserv contains the software: Apache, Zend Optimizer, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin. Download Appserv later double-click to run, then you can continue to click Next until the installation is complete. After installation, the system will automatically start the Apache server and integrated PHP and MySQL, so that the system has the Apache server and has supported PHP。