{"id":439,"date":"2008-08-11T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:23:37","slug":"why-all-flash-game-developers-need-a-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/flash\/why-all-flash-game-developers-need-a-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Why All Flash Game Developers NEED A Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"float:left;margin:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/mrsunstudios.com\/obj\/img\/posts\/internet.jpg\" alt=\"Image by spekulator from stock.xchng\" \/>The internet has grown much since its creation in 1969. It is still growing rapidly today. As a flash game developer, you must grab a spot in this ocean of links if you want to have a better experience developing your flash game.<\/p>\n<h3>WHY Must You Create a Website?<\/h3>\n<p>When you release a flash game to the web, most people, especially sponsors, will want to know who created the game. Websites are a great way to tell them about yourself. Not only can you tell them who you are, you can also tell them what you&#8217;ve them. This is especially important if somebody wants to hire you to do a job, or if they want to check out your legitimacy. I&#8217;m sorry, but your <a href=\"http:\/\/newgrounds.com\">Newgrounds<\/a> profile isn&#8217;t enough to complete this task. Neither is your Myspace account.<\/p>\n<h3>WHAT Should You Put Into Your Site?<\/h3>\n<h4>1. A Portfolio of your works<\/h4>\n<p>Only put what you want to be seen in there, even if there aren&#8217;t many. This means that more successful games that you&#8217;ve created.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Some Information About Yourself<\/h4>\n<p>Again, only put information that would be useful for a future employer to see. Don&#8217;t talk about your pets, family, or any other personal information, unless you find that it&#8217;s relevant to what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<h4>3. A Picture of Yourself (Optional)<\/h4>\n<p>This way, people can actually tell that you are indeed a person. However, if you are uncomfortable putting your picture up on the internet (like me), then it&#8217;s no problem.<\/p>\n<h4>4. A Blog<\/h4>\n<p>Blogs are great things. Most flash game developers who create a blog turn it into a news section, to update their fans about their future games. I&#8217;m not part of this &#8220;most&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>How Do You Get a Website<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that many of you who don&#8217;t have a website aren&#8217;t too sure on how to get one. There are many free web hosting providers, but I don&#8217;t recommend them for a portfolio site. They compromise the integrity of your work. Of course, if you&#8217;re a teenage developer who doesn&#8217;t want t pay money for hosting, then they could be a good start. But, you&#8217;d have to migrate to a paid host sooner a later.<\/p>\n<p>In order to get a web host and a domain name, you&#8217;re going to have to find a suitable host, depending on how much traffic you expect your new site to get. Most of the time, shared hosting is a good and cheap choice ($4-$10 a month). Here are 2 hosting companies that I recommend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bluehost.com\/\">Bluehost<\/a> ($6.95-$7.95 a month)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostmonster.com\/\">Host Monster<\/a> ($6.95-$7.95 a month, $2 less with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostmonsterreview.org\/hostmonster\/hostmonster-coupons\">coupon<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They boast &#8220;unlimited&#8221; disk space and bandwidth, but do not be fooled by that. If your site gets too much traffic (over 5000-10000 visitors a day), then, then server might crash depending on how optimized your web pages are. But, you probably don&#8217;t have to worry about that unless you make amazing flash games. I don&#8217;t have that problem. Here is a list of other shared hosting plans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/godaddy.com\">Go Daddy<\/a> ($4.29 a month)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusiness.yahoo.com\/webhosting\/\">Yahoo<\/a> ($8.96-$11.95 a month)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ixwebhosting.com\">IX Web Hosting<\/a> ($4.95-$12.95 a month)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/shared.shtml\">Host Gator<\/a> ($4.95-$12.95 a month)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/\">Here is a directory<\/a> of a bunch more hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has grown much since its creation in 1969. It is still growing rapidly today. As a flash game developer, you must grab a spot in this ocean of links if you want to have a better experience developing your flash game. WHY Must You Create a Website? When you release a flash game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[107,106,101,103,105,104,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrsunstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}