Mini-News

First tip, - don't be like MillionDollarHomepage.com! There are "mirriads" its copycats worldwide, none of which achieved the same success. Think BIGGER than Alex.
Look how to create a BETTER project!

Rule #1, - it must be SIMPLE.
Alex's idea of billboard of ads is good. It's easy to understand from the first glance. A better concept must be as simple as that, yet give users more advantages.

Let's extend best ideas behind milliondollarhomepages. From inventor's point of view, it's easy!

What to sell
The only novelty Alex made was offering EMPTY space, - NOTHING!, - for the price of $1 per pixel. In essence, he applied a well-known principle: Every Thing Has Some Price!
The question is, are there other "nothings"?
With at least the same price..

Indeed, what else in the browser's window that shows your website can be sold? Only windows inside it!
If creativity nowdays means introducing new realms for selling - that's it!

A webpage made of iFrames only is really eye catching!
Let's call it Mini-Web. See example.

Imagine your website consists of tiny pieces of other websites.
In fact, you need nothing to create:
Main content for your homepage comes from other sites!

Besides, it's UPDATEABLE! Unlike Alex's "time capsule" frozen in time (would you read the same book again and again?), - it's a live billboard of websites!

Actually, one can make equivalent of MillionDollarHomepage, - simply by putting each image ad in a separate iframe.
But we want to be better, remember?

"MillionDollarHomepage-II"
Replacing images with WORDS became a second wave of pixel craze. The idea is that search engines don't read pixels, but they do read text.

Nice shot! Internet guru Joel Comm with his 500words.com earned $78,000 for first three days! He even managed to sell software for making copycats of his own sites.

Among other things, using word instead of image improves another weak side of milliondollarhomepages, - READABILITY.
Visual impression is important. But as Alex's "Pixel Ads Wall" is actually one big image, it looks great only from a distance. Each particular tiny ad is difficult to read.

TEXT-banner
The next step would be replacing word ads with text-banners! Although all their power is just a smart stylesheet usage, they are nearly as attractive as images.
More important, text-banners are better optimized for reading and clicking through, - the reason number one behind purchasing any ad space!

Another nice feature of text-banners, - their size in bytes is incredibly small! Comparing to a super slow MillionDollarHomepage.com download, resulting site will work much FASTER!

Now, put HTML code for each text-banner on a separate HTML page, - minipage. Then, let anyone build a "mini-Web" that contains a million minipages all in one place!

MillionDollarHomepage-III ?
Rather, Billion Dollar Mini-News - I

The only their common feature, - they both started as original super fundraising projects. To prove that a revolutional trend can be set SIMPLY, launched by ONE person, and SOLD!

Part 1. What (Idea) Part 2. Why (Story) Part 3. How (Marketing)