what is the deal with these pixel sites everywhere? i think there kind of cool even though i hate advertisements...

ex. www.millionforme.com

see what i mean.

They're rippoffs of www.milliondollarhomepage.com. this one is a kid in college

there is another i know of, www.1pixel1dollar.com or something

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. To me a pixel is a unit of measurement.

WHat is looks like is that a site divides its page into squares(even though they are bigger than pixels) and then sells each square to advertisers.

Oh ok.

Ah, but the price seems to be in pixels...

so they do nothing other then sell pixels?

Bet you would NOT be whining if you were the first to do it and made 1 million big ones.

The thing I really dont get is why would you visit a website..just to look at adverts :/

I mean it works, and people do but I dont see WHY!

Because people are fascinated and they might be looking for something that might interest them.

Children, well most of em luv adverts, I like particular adverts, though I would not buy something from an advert till I have weighed up everything.

The million dollar page is hypnotic, this is what advertisers try to achieve.

but why would anyone go to the million dollar page?

Can you maybe not open up old topics??? it just gets annoying.

Since its open id just like to raise a point

The guy who opened the first pixel page (milliondollarhomepage.com) was Alex Tew, he has made $1,000,000 from selling pixels of advertising

Was it through sheer luck? Nope!

Both of his parents were in fact millionaires, his dad works in advertising and he took a year out of university to pitch his idea to top level management with lots of cash floating around to make the idea work, it wasnt just a website that "happened" to work, there was a bloody good reason it did!

Im sorry, I forgot to read the date, how old is too old to post?

Anything past a fortnight really

Last post was feb in this topic

for those who dont know a fortnight is 2 weeks, iirc.

We usually take half a year as the limit for when to close it on re-opening

ok, 6months, a fortnight sounded a bit short a timeframe, thanks

Your better of making money, making and selling the scripts for such style of websites....

Just imagine.. If you sell 52631, million doller scripts at 19 bucks a piece, you will be very close to a million dollers...

Like dabombtom said, you need a source of money to get going such site...


You cant just make a site.... you first need lessons to learn php, then you buy Dreamweaver, and then you buy the webspace, and the internet to upload to your ftp, and you need a pc to run it, which runs on electricity, which has to be paid.. from whos money? Of coarse you have to pay it. Catch my drift...

ummmmm, 52631000000x19 is more than a million, and 52631000000 is more than the number of people in the world

I meant 52631, million dollar scripts..... Sorry for the confusion... my fault...

Well the setup cost of a website is really nothing - you could go to a library, get some free webspace and download a free php script then just make a basic template for it. Its the monetary cost of actually getting your site seen out of the other 92 million websites on the internet, and because his was based around purely selling expensive advertising space the chances of it taking off were quite slim without actively pushing sales to large companies with big corporate budgets

Yea, but high bandwidth you have to pay for... like if you get alot of people...

2 options. Find an "unlimited host" (obviously fake) and hold them to it. If you had a lot of hits, people would probably be buying your script, there for you make money to buy stuff like hosting and bandwidth