How can I create Coolium? (and be selected as Cool Site of the Day)
Some suggestions:
1. Create something useful.
On a bad Internet day, downloading a Web page is like watching the grass
grow - only with commercials. Make the wait worthwhile by providing some
kind of service. We don't expect your page to cure the pain and heartache of
psoriasis, but you'll have a better chance at being Cool Site of the Day if
you provide goodies for your visitors. These goodies might be images of a
favorite actor (hint #1: for any guys planning to send us your Pamela Sue
Anderson worship page - it's been done), a search engine or even your
careful thought-out opinions.
2. If you can't be useful, be entertaining.
Sometimes things have entertainment value but are otherwise useless. Cool
Site of the Day naturally values this phenomenon not only because it
justifies our salaries, but because it explains why we bought the Kiss solo
albums when we were teenagers.
3. Be aware of bandwidth.
The average Cool Site devotee will have to wait one second for every
kilobyte of information he or she downloads. If you have a 100k file on your
site, that devotee would have to wait almost two minutes to see the results.
If you have an addiction to huge file sizes, Kai's Power Tools and Adobe
Photoshop, think about using your free time in an activity that wastes the
time of people who are not on the Internet - try dating, for instance.
4. Think twice about your picture.
Use this rule of thumb: unless 100 people have told you that you're
beautiful or remarkable looking, don't put your picture up on your Web
page. You'll notice that our pictures are not up on Cool Site of the Day and
that's because, not counting our mothers, we're 100 people shy of that
number. Exceptions: Do you have a third eye? An extra limb? Are you
strangely proportioned? Does your picture qualify under rule #2?
5. Surprise us.
How can I submit a site?
E-mail us at cool@infi.net.
Some tips on submitting:
1. Include a description of your site.
Cool Site of the Day receives 400-600 submissions a day. If you want to
stand out, describe your site. If you want to stand out even more,
describe your site in glowing terms. Huge preposterous lies, of course, will
get you the most attention.
2. Don't forget to send me the URL for your page.
You'd be surprised at the number of people who describe their page
beautifully then, as if exhausted by the creative effort, forget to include
the address of their page. Imagine our frustration. Imagine us looking
balefully at the 500+ other e-mails and moving on. Some really bold people
give us a description and then tell us to use a search engine to find the
address. Imagine us laughing before moving on.