website ideas needed ?

[Hunain Hafeez]

ideas for website, though not necessarily innovative but should attract traffic (users).
i'm planning to earn via google adsense so for that a website sounds great !
i have experience in web apps but couldn't think of any idea so posted here to be blessed by your's charming ideas, hope u won't lemme down.
Thanks there.

[Jake]

If you don't have a burning urge to share your knowledge about some subject for which you have a passion, which would improve the chances of your staying motivated enough to stick with it and creating a publication that attracts decent traffic. There are lots of half baked sites that never get worthewhile traffic (I have a couple)

Try writing a blog about what you know, rather than some potential earner you have no interest in.

A few years ago the more technical oriented could succeed by running an "Autoblog" that went out and scraped content from other sites, lately those sites can't get decent search ranking.

[ajay]

Although I have a 'composer' website, there are many elements that all musicians have in common on their respective websites. I am in the throes of (re)creating my website. Chances are that others are as well. I learned a lot from Jack Senzig's recent foray into the topic, but it was geared mainly to the ongoing development of the (excellent!) ChoralNet Community Composition Showcase and stopped a bit short of addressing problems dealing with an indivdual website.

My present website, which has worked extremely well until now, is totally HTML and therefore not readily changeable by someone who much prefers composing to getting into the time-consuming fineries of (re)creating a website. I need to have an appealing, somewhat custom (i.e. not cookie-cutter) website which will allow me to import/export/alter music entries, including descriptions, pdf files and music samples (audio & video)

The chief problem for me concerns music samples. There are two main categories– internal (ON your computer) and external files (on a HOST computer). Which do you use/prefer and what drawbacks have you found?
Can both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ be used on the same website? (Maybe ‘internal’ for shorter samples, ‘external’ for long works.)

Have you used SoundCloud or BandCamp? Would you recommend either of these? Any particular plusses or drawbacks? Other recommendations?

I have read that one can use metatags to find out how a site was created. How is this done? (Please remember I am a world wide web non-HTML luddite!)

[Ethari]

which types do you want