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I am a massive Liverpool FC fan and an aspiring sports journalist. I was advised to start a blog to, you know, get the hang of things in the sports journalism world. Everything is going great, the blog is up and running, I made a twitter account which has attracted a large fan base and I'm coping ok.

I'd like to step it up a little. Make a custom website that's easy to navigate, and has the opportunity to expand into something bigger, that will attract many fans and build up my followers.

I was wondering how much it would cost (if any of you can do this) to make a website, basically, identical to this one:

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I have many changes that will be made to it in mind, and it will all be discussed once I can find someone to do so.

I'm trying to create competition for sites such as

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obviously I only report on one particular club, but, in the long run I want a fan base like the 2 sites above.

Name your price,

thanks!!

I love you man was gunna buy it, but then I thought I didn't wanna spend money, so I looked on blackhat forums and, viola!

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Haha I would have posted a link to download it but wasn't sure if you allowed it :S

Good luck on your endeavor

Make sure to add a forum to the site!! So it leads onto a forum! - Compete with the likes of You must login or register to view this content. or You must login or register to view this content. - #RAWK <3

Forum will be added hopefully, if I can do it while on a Wordpress system...? But for now I'm focussing on completing the website and btw, I didn't win that bet, it was void, turns out you can't place bets like that



Decided to change it up, bought a domain

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Good.. That's Stupid + Do you want to take me on as a recruit? Posting about upcoming games and such? I really need to get back into the LFC Blog Scene... @iiBonKeRsS <3 - Give Me A Follow

Very nice, I was about to post the same lmao!

Wow! You've been busy. 13 thousand followers? I can see your site will at least get 5,000 hits a day. An introduction of monetisation would be advisable once you start receiving traffic in the 10's of thousands!

Wordpress doesn't support a forum system there could be a plugin but there could be alot of complication involved I would suggest a forum engine such as vbulletin. A chat system is vital for a football based website as its much more flexible than forum posts.

One suggestion, always use high quality images for your posts. Remember the moment you installed the theme was a challenge to all the current blogs out there following the same niche. Top notch quality means that a visitor is likely to come back.

Another thing the images on your league table is broken fixing them is obviously advisable.

I'm sorting out monetization later and also, I think I'm going to create a forum on the kopitecrew.com/forum, I'll then link it on the homepage, should be cool

If the forum is successful then I'll add a shout box

And yeah I'll work on all the little problems, and I'll make sure it's at it's best,

Thanks for your help man !

Most "Free CSS Menus" are for non-commercial use. Just saying.

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To Op, you can use BlogSpot or Tumblr to develop a fan base. If it get's large enough then you can direct them over to a paid website.

Best not to spend 500 bucks on a site that will flop when you can use stuff for free. Also, BlogSpot and Tumblr are Adsense capable so you can earn a little cash on the side to go towards your fan-site.