Website Ideas

I have created a website of family pictures. My wife and I have family all over the US and the purpose of my site is to let everyone know what is going on with my family( wife,myself and two children, 3 and 1 yrs old). so mainly I have photos. I have also put photos of my wifes brothers and sisters children( what few they have sent) so the can each see them.
My problem is I want my site to be a useful site for everyone. I want them to use it and enjoy it and come to it quite often. As it is now they visit pretty much when I email them and say that I have some new pictures up. I pretty new to creating a website so it isn't anywhere near what you guys do. Far from it. But for now it gets the job done.
Does anyone have suggestions of topics or information that I could put on it so family and frends will visit it often? ANY input would be greatly appriciated.


my site is web.qx.net/rjneuzel

Thanks,
Senna

Pull some news feeds from http://www.headliner.net/ and the weather channel site and stuff like that and have family and friends make it their start page.

Ask them for more contributions to the site, that way they will be inclined to visit more often. Perhaps a basic chatroom function so that you can all converse when online.

Thanks, I have asked for contributions but know one has offered anything. The headline and weather is a good idea. I was kinda thinking something like a list of everyones birthdays, email address's or something too.

You could put a public calendar script on there so everyone could post their own birthdays, and vacation times and stuff. so if one person wanted to know where another person was if they couldn't reach them, they could see if they were on vacation, or if little johnny had a football game that night.

Deker, What exactly is a 'public calander script'. I really like that idea. Is that a javascript? Also, how would I go about putting a chatroom function on my website. I,ve wanted some kind of forum but didn't know how to go about putting that on my website. Thanks for the reply.

Senna

It could be in PHP, ASP, or PERL depending on what your server supports.

And by public I just mean that any of your family could post on it. It wouldn't be limited to on person being able to update it. You could just give the password to all of the family and they could post things at will.

There are about 50 php calendar scripts here:

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Calendars/