Talking about the initial development of website from the English corner BBS of NPC

People's Congress English Corner BBS (URL: http://www.rucec.com) since June 18 opened the station, has 1 months passed. Up to today (July 26), the number of registered 950 people, the PR value of 3,alexa World ranked March average 290,000, a week average of 170,000, the same day 120,000, in the absence of any commercial promotion of the premise, to achieve this result, I think it is more satisfactory. Below, I will be combined with the NPC English corner BBS One months of development, to talk about site positioning, website construction, website publicity and other issues, I hope to learn together with you.

First, the idea

The idea of doing this website arises from the English corner where I often go to the NPC. People's English corner you may have heard that this is a spontaneous composition of English learning enthusiasts in Beijing, a folk English corner, a history of more than 10 years, the location of the people's University in the East gate of the small garden, the time is every Friday night. After more than 10 years of development, has become the country's largest English corner, the number of thousands of participants each time.

Because want to improve their English level, so the recent go more. When I go to the event, I feel this English corner needs a website, for everyone to provide a network platform for communication, and also do their own website. So the idea of building the English corner BBS of the NPC was produced.

Second, planning

1, the Web site architecture began to consider is to do a whole station or a forum. Considering the main purpose of the English corner is to communicate, after a short hesitation, decided to do a forum. On the one hand to facilitate communication, on the other hand, Web site management and maintenance does not need to spend too much energy.

2, site positioning the first target group is to improve their English proficiency of English learners, followed by the hope that through the English corner to know more friends of the young people, and secondly, because it is the English corner of the site, the content is mainly in English learning, English communication, friends mainly. There is also this site should be an open forum, because the NPC English corner itself is an open non-governmental organizations.

3, the procedure choice because is for English corner to do English study website, preferably is the whole English procedure, this only then conforms to the English corner the characteristic, also is advantageous for everybody to create the English environment. Because of their good at ASP, the program is best asp+access. First, the Chinese forum procedures are all excluded. Later saw a few foreign forum procedures, because of various reasons, are not very satisfied. Vbullitin, phpBB more in line with their needs, but one because it is a business process, the two are php+mysql, they are not good at (I am better at ASP), hesitate repeatedly also denied. Later a hard-hearted, refer to some foreign programs, their own hands to gather a forum for their own procedures, and the United States its name Yue Aspbb (hehe, smug).

Third, the construction station

This is relatively simple, first of all, the domain name, because it is the forum of English corner of the People's Congress, to take English abbreviations, Renmin University of Chinese corner=rucec, the name is relatively short, online search, has not registered, ecstasy! Right away. A telephone, domain name, space together. Upload the program, the website opened.

Iv. Content

At the beginning of their own to send some posts ah, at least the other people can not be empty. I have forgotten almost the English, sent a number of posts. and went to other sites to collect some, basically can see the past.

V. Publicity

1, search engine login. This is very adept, Google, Baidu, DMOZ, Yahoo, etc., two hours to fix.

2, because every week to the English corner, so spend 20 yuan printed 1000 small leaflets, every time to send some.

3, go to the forum, by the way introduction.

4, QQ friends to notify one after another.

Vi. Development

Everyone began to register, a few every day, then more than 10, after a week, the basic daily can be maintained at 30-50 people. In the process, and constantly modify the program, the entire website gradually on the right track.