Design
In addition to portals, downloads, gaming sites and various personal sites, there are a number of professional design websites and forums active on the Internet that focus on a single, professional "service".
Abbs (www.abbs.com.cn/www.abbs.com), China and the world's largest building professional community, has not been self-sufficient until this year. The ideal of founder Churre (Tears) and Caoyang (Calon) is to "use the Web site to influence developers and change the world with architecture". The resignation of the early this year to concentrate on doing the site tears optimistic about the future of Abbs, "It is worth at least 5 million dollars, most importantly, we do not sell." "
China Photoshop League (Www.Photoshopcn.com, hereinafter referred to as PS Alliance), China's largest professional photoshop design website, the webmaster Roven (Hehechuan) each year to bring more than 400,000 yuan income, but only 20% from advertising. As a system analyst, he only maintains the site in his spare time. He thinks highly of himself, "No 3 million, no idea to hit my website."
Professional design website for a specific group of people how about "money"? November 2, the reporter to tears and Hehechuan conducted an interview.
Abbs: the "idiot" dream of architectural genius
Chinese youth who study architecture have little knowledge of Abbs, but little is known about founder tears and Calon. "I and Calon are absolutely low-key people," the 29-year-old Chengdu Boy Tears This evaluation of his two-year-old partner, "Relatively speaking, I am passionate faction, Calon belong to the sedate faction, so today is my one person to accept your interview." "
After graduating from the architecture major of Sichuan University in 1997, tears continued to pursue a master's degree in Southwest Jiaotong University, but he dropped out of school a year later. Although the "disobedient student" tears to the university life, but had to admit that the university left him with endless "wealth"--abbs.
During his stay at school, he made a personal homepage called "The Construction Genius Idiot Dream", and placed his work and collected information. "At that time there are only three or four ' peers ', ' Network construction world ' webmaster Calon counted one. June 18, 1998 This day, he found me through e-mail, to seek cooperation, we clicked. The next day, Abbs was set up. "
Calon is Jiangsu Nantong, 1996 graduated from Southeast University of Architecture, now a real estate company as design director. "We were" in love "with each other in 1998, but we didn't meet for the first time until the end of 2001, so we were not ' at love '. "I can see that the cooperation between tears and Calon is very pleasant."
Left the school tears wrote several 3D design books, has done real estate planning and cultural planning. "We are going to use architecture to change the world, this year I quit dedicated website, is to continue efforts to this ideal." "It seems that tears's architectural" idiot "dream is far from over.
Abbs current daily independent IP traffic nearly 100,000, member 480,000, forum online number of records are created in July 4599 people, the forum is now a total of 4.18 million posts. "On a scale, we are already the world's largest community of building professionals," he said. "Tears proudly said," For a long time, abbs* we pay to feed, but occasionally received some sponsorship advertising nature. This year is Abbs commercialization of the first year, now has four full-time staff, monthly income of tens of thousands of, advertising revenue accounted for the majority of the recruitment platform accounted for 30%, has been able to self-financing. "
PS Alliance: I don't like ads
Similar to the founder of Abbs, the PS Alliance webmaster Hehechuan also rarely made public appearances. Although the site annual income of more than 400,000 yuan, but he still in an information technology company to do the system analysis work.
"I can easily complete my job, one day to ensure that there are two or three hours of maintenance site, plus Pishu, MYB1119 two friends ' dedication ', so long have been just ' amateurs '." "But he admits:" The impact of the site is increasing, bandwidth and server costs are now one months to twenty thousand or thirty thousand yuan, I am thinking of setting up a company, ready to do full-time site next year. "
1997, also in the Chinese Agricultural University Applied Physics major in Beijing boy Hehechuan has a personal website. Take advantage of part-time opportunities, he also participated in the design of the later small famous "inviting community." "This experience, let me in the site management, planning, technology and so on accumulated a lot of experience." "He said, recalling.
In the April 2000, the--ps Alliance, which specializes in Photoshop skills, was finally set up. Hehechuan the use of their own experience written as a tutorial, published on the site, by the netizens warmly welcome. "After several twists and turns, now the PS alliance has nearly 200,000 members, nearly 2 million posts, the Forum peak online number of more than 1000 people, daily independent IP traffic near 50,000, is the well-deserved first station of China Ps." "