How to Create Your Own Soap Opera Fan Website

Soap opera fans are some of the most dedicated in arts and entertainment, whether they watch CBS soaps like "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" or ABC soaps like "General Hospital" and "One Life to Live." They love to express their dedication and fandom all over the Internet, and many fan websites have come and gone over the years. With a little bit of work, you could create your own soap opera fan website.

Instructions

1. Focus on a specific character or a couple. Most soap opera fan websites do this, and if you want a successful website, you should do the same, because just a basic show website may not be good enough.

2. Name your website. Couples usually have popular nicknames, and that is what the website should be named after. For example, the pairing of Patrick and Robin is known as "Scrubs," and there are many websites titled Scrubs. Gus and Harley from "Guiding Light" were known as "Gush," and thus the Gush EZboard was created.

3. Get creative with the website name, but try to keep it to something that people know so they can easily find your website.

4. Provide lots of content. Visitors to soap websites are looking for a lot of content, so make sure that your website is packed with it so they do not get bored or not come back for a second visit.

5. Pack your site with pictures--the more unique your pictures, the better. If you ever attend any personal events of soap stars, then you should definitely post those pictures, along with any others you can borrow from other fans.

6. Scan and post magazine spreads, cropped and edited to feature just the stars that your website is featuring.

7. Keep a news section and update it as often as possible with personal news about the stars, upcoming events and other things like their best performances. This will keep fans coming back to your website often.

8. Add videos or slide shows, because that will keep people on your website longer and give them more enjoyment.

9. Moderate a forums. Soap fans love to discuss the current happenings in the soap world, so having a forum is almost a must. Create different permanent sections like ones about the different actors, characters, appearances and story lines and then just a general discussion.

10. Start a lot of topics that will get people to sign up and join, and then you can begin building a large fan base for your website and the content on it.