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A.J. User Level: 9     Posts: 14/14 EXP: 3032 For next: 130 Since: 02-28-13 From: United States Since last post: 7.8 years Last activity: 6.9 years 
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| Hello, fine folk. It's been too long.
Recently I have come up with an idea for a website, and I am fairly serious about pursuing its creation. The idea for the site came about like this. I have Bipolar II disorder, and I had recently made a pretty poor decision caused by stress and problems relating to this illness. When I realized I had disappointed a friend, I came to my senses. I started looking for ways that I could prevent it from happening in the future. In preventing this sort of thing, the ability to connect to and problem solve with people who have similar experiences is, well, invaluable. So that was the first thing I looked for. As an introvert, I already have a strong tendency to look for connections on the internet, and it is much harder to find people who have similar problems in person who you actually get along with. So, I searched for online support groups for bipolar disorder. What I found for that and mental disorders in general came up lacking. They had some pretty solid groups for people just looking for help with very specific problems, but no real place with a strong sense of community where people could go to meet others with similar problems. I thought I might like to create such a place. A friend and I have noticed a trend that people often end up looking for connection and support on the internet when they have nowhere else to turn. The anonymity of the internet would also allow people to speak more frankly about their problems, and they would know that they would be around others who have similar experiences. The end goal wouldn't be to cut people from their immediate surroundings, but to give them tools to better cope with family and friends IRL who possibly don't have the tools to even know how to help. I envisioned a forum site with a chat client and subforums dealing with different types of mental disorders, along with a general forum sub site with various topics. My issue is knowing where to start. I would like to code the website from scratch and am fairly confident in my abilities to learn the coding languages I need to make it. Other than that, I know I would need money to pay for servers. If I managed to accomplish this and get the site up and running, I know I would need a system for moderation and to consider legal and ethical concerns with having that many people with high risk of suicide together in one place. Under the extraordinary circumstance that I was able to pull all of this off, and was able to attract a good deal of traffic to the site, I would ideally like to be able to make ad revenue on it and live off of the proceeds. But, I am getting ahead of myself. My main problem right now is knowing where to start. This is my first foray into website creation, and I have yet to learn the code or to really know the full set of hoops I need to go through to create such a thing. I have a few specific questions: 1. Would you have any suggestions or cautions when looking for a server? 2. I am planning on learning HTML and CSS. Are there other types of code that I would need to gain familiarity with, or specific things to address with these two languages? 3. What is the process and what are the options for soliciting ads on a website? 4. What is the process like of ensuring site compatibility with mobile devices? Any other advice on website creation that you can give me would be very welcome. |
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