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Stationmaster echo,80 generation Stranger.
01 began to do the personal homepage, in 02 began to work on the Internet, until today.
It is currently running a full-time it tribal website.

Sniper: Good evening, long time no chat oh, you still remember your first personal homepage to do is what content? What was the first web site like in the case of the birth?
Echo: The first personal homepage "drizzly rain Bar", on and off for nearly 5 years, the beginning is mainly in the literature, and then after 3 major revisions, and finally formed a web-related tutorials, resource-oriented technical tired site. Because 02 years began to engage in web design work, at that time the Web site to discuss Web technology seems to be not much, so it will be collected and collated some of the information and resources to share the idea, so the personal homepage made a later comparison of technology site.

Sniper: Drizzle it should be your personal to the Internet idealized first stage, at this stage through the website you have profit? What was the biggest inspiration for you at the time?
Echo: Part of the income, but then the site's spending is not large, but also have a job and pay income. The most important thing is that the interest in doing the station is not to make money, so the income relative to the same period of those sites, almost can be ignored. Do drizzle rain the biggest harvest is to make a lot of friends, to today, QQ a lot of web designers and webmaster, is that time to know.

Sniper: I just saw it. At the outset, many of the owners of the design class are now basically declining, such as the 0-moment Alliance, seven-color birds, windy days, such as the first to create a new era of moving network skin design and so on, and the 52design has completely become a cool collection, these sites are now largely no longer before What do you think is the reason for this phenomenon?
Echo: Personally, I think it's probably due to changes in the environment and atmosphere. A few years ago many design class forums are very hot. Many designers in the first line, will be more interested in such a design forum to learn discussion, but wait until the maturity of the general will rarely go to post or replies, and then later, it is likely that the designer career change or what, there is less time or energy to the forum. So these forum-oriented site popularity is gradually weakened. Another part of the design of the site to do resources, but also forced.

Sniper: In other words, you are also in such a large environment to change their own ideas, then why would such a big decision, to do a look of their "ability" may not be able to do things, and burn their bridges, give up work, to do a full-time station? What were you thinking?
Echo: I think you should try more while you are young. I do it Web site, on the one hand because I have this experience, hardware, software, network, website, planning, operation of these aspects I have been engaged in these years of work. Last year, I chose to quit to do such a close to their own experience of the site, I think it is not difficult. On the other hand is because 05-06 years of great environment, especially last year, contacted some investors have the intention of the boss, more determined my full-time to do the idea of the station.

Sniper: What about the current operating conditions of the website? These things because we query a Alexa data is not real and informative, after more than 1 years of time, the status of the site now?
Echo: After last year's development, the flow of traffic has been relatively stable, although it also reached the peak period of last year's traffic. In addition, the revenue of the website is still stable at about 1W. Make a profit.

Sniper: I see you just said that there are some investors intent, so now Itbulo is their own children or has been successful capital operation to do the site?
Echo: It's still your own. In the first half of 06, I talked about a few bosses with investment intention, some of them because of the deviation from my ideas, or because of too little investment. So in the second half of the year I did not have to talk about investment. Intend to concentrate on the station to do it, to a certain extent, it should be better.

Sniper: Then what do you think of your lack of this station, because we these stationmaster must also some want to try full-time to do station, but both the ideal and the reality of the various gaps, but also fear some unknown problems, these let them hesitate.
Sniper: Or can you share some of the publicity you feel you can make public?

Echo: The lack of it seems to me to be much more. The lack of content, the lack of page layout and so on. Content is always my Achilles heel. So have been trying to find some more and more editors to do original content, but has not dared to act. Last year, some ideas and ideas, because of funds and other reasons failed to achieve, missed the opportunity to do this year.
from full-time to do the station, there are a lot of webmaster friends and I have talked about a full-time to do station problems. First of all, it should be encouraged, after all, it takes a little courage to take this step. But before taking this step, are you prepared? First of all, your own survival problem. Next, the website development needs the server, the bandwidth, the manpower and so on these basic elements also must prepare. For example, before I left my job last year, I had already put the server and the bandwidth in order, and I prepared some funds to spend at least half a year. So even if the site does not have a penny income, I can also stick to six months of time. In fact, the site was basically able to make ends meet at that time. is ready to do. In fact, I suggest that webmaster friends can work at the same time to put these work in advance prepared. Then move on to a certain degree, which is more secure.

Echo: In fact, about the way of publicity, many predecessors and colleagues have written a lot. Let me just say some of the ways I've used it: 1, search engine optimization. Search Engine optimization is the most effective way to advertise. It allows the right content to be seen by the person who needs it. When doing this, you must not optimize for cheating. 2, Friendship links. When the site was founded 1 months or so, I began to exchange links with some of the big portal's it channels. such as 163,enet,sohu and so on. The premise of doing this is that your website should be enough atmosphere, content, layout at least to be very professional appearance. Then the rankings can not be too low, at least 10W, PR at least 3. Otherwise, these large sites will not be able to ignore you. 3, Word-of-mouth. The signature of the Forum, the signature of QQ, the signature of the mail, business card and so on, do not let go. 4, content cooperation. For example, to provide a download image of well-known software, to the original creator to provide albums, etc., can also be the effect of the exchange of traffic, this requires a network relationship .... 5, publicity, if the manpower is sufficient, you can go to some related sites or forums to answer questions, or recommend some new software or tutorials, can get good publicity results, and will not be deleted stickers. Of course, the premise is not easy to send ad.

Sniper: Thank you. Echo has shared so many itbulo.com experiences and suggestions for the prospective full-time stationmaster, hope Itbulo can go farther, wish "Sheik" Echo is more moist: