Welcome! Here's how you can become an ICQ site creator!
It's easy - if you're about to build your own homepage, thinking of ways to develop your site, or want to build a special ICQ page, this is an ideal place to start:
The first step to owning a Web site is having the Web space to build in. Some of the best options are AOL's Hometown, Angelfire and Blogger. Once you have web space and start building your site, boost it with the special features we have on offer and make your site fun, useful and well visited.
Now that you have Web space, you can build a full ICQ page, and become a true ICQ site creator, with these tools:
Make your site an ICQ chat center by putting an Chat Room applet on your homepage.
An ICQ User List is the core of a community site - it enables a group of ICQ users with common interests to easily meet and chat with each other online. To create a List on your site follow our ListMaker Guide.
For ideas, view the best ICQ Lists already built by ICQ site creators!
Installing an ICQ Unified Messaging Center as part of your site, turns it into a all around communication platform or help center. Visitors to your homepage can contact you by paging your ICQ, by Chat, SMS, email and more.
An ICQ Guestbook is the ideal way to give visitors to your homepage the opportunity to express their opinions, register feedback or just leave you a note!
To discover more about the full range of development tools that are on offer, visit ICQ Tools Catalog.
Now that you're officially an ICQ site creator, you can pump up your homepage with even more ICQ functionality! Here are some popular ICQ features that you can pop directly into your site:
ICQ Panels enable your visitors to communicate with you, whether or not they have ICQ. See our entire selection & get your free panels!
We've put together a classic collection of ICQ graphics that you can use on your site to give it that extra ICQ touch!
Lets your site visitors know when you're online, and what's the best way to contact you!
Connect your homepage and other ICQ pages to each other, as well as informing you when a visitor enters your page.
Once you've got a site you're happy with, you need to fill it with visitors! Here are ways to get your site jumping with activity:
For all communication features for your site, see ICQ Panels and pick the best one (or more) for you!
By joining an ICQ Web Ring you can link your site to other sites based on a similar theme. An ICQ Web Ring graphic leads users around the ring from site to site. While there are hundreds of ICQ Web Rings with topics ranging from Romance to Star Wars, if a suitable ring doesn't exist for your site - feel free to start a new ICQ Web Ring.
There are various ways that email can be used to add a little buzz to your web pages. You could publish site updates in a Newsletter, stimulate site activity by starting a Mailing List that lets all members communicate with each other, generate email-based discussions or enjoy the benefits of a URL Minder Service. Find out more about the power of email from the Creating an ICQ E-Mail List page.
To enable other ICQ users to find your site, publicize your site in ICQ directories. Plus, make sure to submit your homepage to the most popular search engines.
For all the ways to publicize your contact info & promote your pages, see the Promote Your Site page.
Congratulations! You've got your special ICQ site full of visitors! If you want to continue and vary your site, here are some more building tools from around the Web:
For a comprehensive list of site building resources see the ICQ Useful Resources page.
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