Ideas for a nice website?

For a while now, I have been trying to come up with ideas for a website of my own.
I have iWeb '09, and I would like to put my .Mac Account to good use. I would like to create a website with a nice purpose and an easy interface.
Does anyone have any ideas for a website of my own? I have a webserver and a database that I could use as well.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great. Thank you!
Jeffrey

Hmmm –
Porsche105 I think you'd be far better off spending just a little time now working out exactly what it is you want to say and do. What's your site's purpose? It will save you so much time.
Imagine if you just start designing a site just because you've seen a template you like but you don't know what content you're going to put into it. In a few weeks you might have to start the whole site again because you've realised what it is you really want to do with your site and the way you've designed it doesn't work or look right.
It's the first part of any design project: Questioning. Why do you want a site? What's it going to do? Who's the audience? How's it going to function? Even if you've just got some very rough answers to these questions, it will help you enormously.
Hope this helps.

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Hi folks,
I am starting my journey into JAVA programming Great. That's nice to hear. :)
-I am
wondering if there are any cheap or free Integrated
Development Environment (IDE) for compiling and
running Java programs. Lucky for you therer is :) .
I downloaded SDK (Software development kit ,version 1.2) and I am finding it
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windos platform.
>
I also downloaded Jbuilder(university edition) from
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