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This site will be geared towards the very ignorant, people who are not interested in politics and don't follow the news. Unfortunately they make up the majority in our country and for real change to happen we need them on our side. I find that when I link people to information that is accurate & interesting, it gets discredited either by the domain that its on (FIGHT-THE-NWO type stuff), the ads on the site (DEATH CAMPS IN AMERICA), stuff like that. So I bought this domain, IfEveryoneKnew.com, and I wanna initially just put 5 facts on it that I think would change how the average person sees the world. Each of these points have to be backed up by official sources -- government documents, congressional testimony, very mainstream news articles, etc. The point of this site is to be debunk proof. This high standard of proof is what makes this a very difficult task but I think it's worth it.
Another problem I want to address is when I link people to things is that in the age of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter... they're probably only going to read the headline, a few sentences, and if it doesn't grab their attention right then, they close the tab and go back to watching cat videos. So I've organized it in a way that I think wastes very little time in getting the most important points out there, and they have the option of reading more on any given topic they're interested in by clicking on it. The resulting text is short (in comparison to the information it gets across) and cites all its sources in case they don't believe it.
I feel like yet another reason much of our information doesn't take off as good as we hope is because there's a negative stigma about being aware of "conspiracy theories" and sharing them. All of us have made the leap and the stigma doesn't really affect us. But if the information is to spread on its own, we need to somehow not fall into the conspiracy theory trap and instead make it socially acceptable to spread this information without looking like a political junkie or a kook. So that's why I want to be very selective in the topics I cover... no UFO's, no 9/11 (its still being debated), etc. It all has to be pretty concrete stuff where theres no room for interpretation or argument. If all goes well it should be socially acceptable to share this site and difficult to make fun of those who do share it. The general design is meant to mimic something like a newspaper or textbook (trust me, I hate serif fonts as much as the next guy).
I consider myself a pretty good web designer but I need help with topic selection and doing the research & writing. You can probably tell that with the only point I have sorta-completed, it doesn't read like a polished article should. I'm not a very good writer but I'm trying.
Originally posted by moonpie86
Well done to you for taking an active stance against ignorance. I have checked out your link to your site and subscribed to this thread, and hope to watch it grow.
Originally posted by moonpie86
-> There definately needs some colour put in. I do not say this because I am a girl and love floral print I say this because people are attracted to colour (especially certain colours) , bright lights etc. Imagery.
Imagery and sound and colour should play an important role on your website. Your website is designed for the quick grab of attention, so it should incorporate some known truths in regards to human attraction.
Originally posted by moonpie86
--> Personally, i would like to see on here some information about the evils in the home.Its great to make the public aware of whats happening at a Government level, but I believe that most people are self centred... If it doesn't affect them directly they simply do not care. Perhaps some information about the ORIGINS OF ELECTRICITY, Tesla vs. Edison, electro magnetic fields and free energy. At this time, I think promoting free energy etc will go far, and bringing awareness to people who have not thought about the fact they are spending hundreds of dollars a month for something they do not understand.
Originally posted by moonpie86
--> THE INTERNET - since they are on it, it should interest them. Mention of ETERNAL SEPTEMBER, graphic userface/ Google being a net dragged over a very very deep ocean indeed etc.How you never used to have to pay for it. Perhaps maybe a mention of how when you click and accept a facebook app, you are allowing that company to use all of your details/photos for their own purposes/facebook cannot control this.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
My # 1 issue would be the Federal Reserve system and the International banking cartels.
The Bailouts and things like the BCCI scandal are well researched and easy to present.
Follow the money and you will find the real conspirators.
Nearly all major stories and conspiracies will tie in with the financial world at some point.
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Short videos (5 mins or less) on the home page would be desirable IMO.
What about including a short conspiracy quiz to help people find out what they don't know?
Games and tests are a good way to get interest and disseminate information.
Finally, I would ask what your motivation is. Do you plan to have a page explaining why you are doing this?
Will you include basic documents such as the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Magna Carta etc?
You might try finding the demographics on what topics garner the most interest.
A few searches on ATS might reveal much about that subject.
Originally posted by moonpie86
Also as a quick note, is this website designed for americans only? I got that vibe.
Originally posted by davespanners
Heres a good link for establishing some of the dates and such of the mergers and a brief history. link
I find a conversational style works well with these kind of short articles.
If I were writing it I might start out with a question to the reader like
"Have you ever got the feeling that news you are watching might not be as unbiased as it seems?" ... we'll heres why.
Or something along those linesedit on 25-2-2011 by davespanners because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ayoss
Got the site done!
#2 turned out much longer than expected so if anyone can help me bring it down in size, that would be a great help.
I also noticed that while the layout scales great from 640x480 on up, it looks real bad on small screens like iPhones and iPods. So there's now a mobile version that targets iPod, iPhone, and Android users. Hitting the normal URL should redirect to that version. I don't have one of those to test it on, but it looks ok in Safari when I scale it way down, so it should be fine.
Here on out I plan on adding some functionality like share links to specific items (you can already add #p2 or #p3 or whatever to the url to automatically go to that item), readability improvements, that sorta thing.
May I recommend you ignore that advice. The clean look you have is good, you don't need "bright lights" and sound "for the quick grab of attention". It's clear you already know that though.
-> There definately needs some colour put in. I do not say this because I am a girl and love floral print I say this because people are attracted to colour (especially certain colours) , bright lights etc. Imagery.
Imagery and sound and colour should play an important role on your website. Your website is designed for the quick grab of attention, so it should incorporate some known truths in regards to human attraction.
Originally posted by ayoss
reply to post by CanYouHandleTheTruth
Thanks, that website has a ton of good stuff on it.
reply to post by tristar
Thanks for the U2U. I found out that the iPhone doesn't support that JS feature I was using to check window width to change the layout, so I ended up using jQTouch to make a mobile version of the site.
The site is final. I could make a email form instead of relying on a mailto link, but I'm pretty satisfied with how it stands now.
Here's how it looks on iPhone now:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/fcc10759ea72.png[/atsimg]
If you ever have to do a mobile version of a website, I highly recommend jQTouch. It gives your webpage a native app look, complete with animations and all kinds of fun stuff that a native app has.edit on 1-5-2011 by ayoss because: added replyedit on 1-5-2011 by ayoss because: fixed bbcodeedit on 1-5-2011 by ayoss because: (no reason given)