Designing and managing a website is becoming more accessible than ever before.
With so many options for graphic designers or build-your-own site platforms, you can make a website on virtually anything.
For beginner website creators, these 31 unique website ideas are going to give you an upper hand in offering something a little different to what’s already out there.
Read on for helpful tips in these unique website ideas below.
31 Unique Website Ideas (For Beginner Website Makers)
1. Pet Names Website
Similar to a baby name idea guide, this is one of the more unique website ideas to create since it’s a little more niche for people to be searching for pet names. For the people that do Google that (there will be people) your site could be one of a kind!
How: Think up the list yourself, get users to add to the list, copy and paste from other articles in this area, and create a simple and helpful guide for people in even just a one-page website. You could run ads to monetize.
2. Obscure Fan Club Site
Though it’s not a new idea, it could provide something different for people who are fans of more unique characters, brands, movies, etc. You can have a lot of fun creating a community around something you enjoy as well.
How: Compile facts and interesting information about what it is that people are fans of for your site, and add elements for people to ask questions, forums to discuss and connect. Create a community, and even link out to products affiliated with the topic if you can too monetize.
3. Niche eCommerce Website
This is one of the more unique website ideas, compared to the regular eCommerce collection of products on websites, to be just a simple site that focuses on selling 1 or 2 products.
In this way, it is simpler to host and manage without all of the complex handlings of different products and sales.
How: Become an affiliate with a certain product to create your own site landing page, or create your own product to sell. Money will come from the product sales or advertising done on the site.
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4. Community/User Generated Content Website
Once you build the infrastructure, the management of the site is quite minimal, as you won’t need to gather content, but rather, the community creates the content and fills it out for you.
It’s also a gratifying feeling to have made a space for people to come together and connect over a common interest.
How: You simply need to build the site, moderate the comments and other content, and watch the community grow. Monetizing could be done through advertising.
5. Interactive Website
A website that allows for user experience, like a personality test, for example, is what is referred to as an interactive site. It can drive quite a lot do traffic to the site as people love to take part in something that they’re interested in.
It’s also a fun and interesting kind of site to create if you are the one creating the questions and that’s something you enjoy doing.
How: Choose a topic that is interesting to you, also considering what would be beneficial for users having a sense of discovering something about themselves, like a personality test. Monetizing could be done through advertising.
6. Current Niche News Website
When people are interested in something like a long-term hobby or a new interest, then following current news in this area is what people like to do.
Curate a site base on finding current news on certain niche topics. You’ll build an integrated community of followers who want to read.
How: Search for current news from all different sources, and regularly update (daily/weekly) the site with the most recent happenings in this area. Make it a mix of informative, funny, intriguing and helpful. Monetizing could be from advertising.
7. Professional Resume Website
This is one of our unique website ideas that will be a long-term investment in yourself. It’s a page online that details your work history, skills, and essence of who you are in the professional realm.
This gives employers a sense that you care about your career, and have some handy tech skills to create this kind of site.
How: As if you were writing your own resume in a word document, create it in a single page website to share with prospective employers.
Add imagery and link to past jobs and other areas of interest. Have the design match the energy of who you are, so you can express more of yourself in this more visual aspect of web design. The monetizing would more be that this page is investing in your future of landing a dream role!
8. Novelty Joke Website
This is a fun and playful site to create, to entertain users, and yourself in the process as you create a site on something delightful and funny. Choose an area that is funny to you – something about popular culture, society, or other niche areas of interest.
How: It’s a very open and creative pursuit. Think about sites that you have landed on that make you laugh. It could be funny articles, images in a gallery, or other content that you put together that is all focused on making people laugh. You could monetise the site through advertising.
9. Practical Life Advice
This can be a great way to offer some of your sage wisdom in any tone you wish. It could be a funny, conversational advice-giving site, or a more heart-to-heart tone.
People looking for answers for a particular topic on ‘life’ considerations will flow to your site. It’s easy when you can write and be yourself, so energetically, it won’t be a big undertaking.
How: Choose a specific topic so you can be seen as an ‘authority’ voice on this subject. Create a forum based site where people can ask questions, or tailor it like a blog with advice article. Monetizing could be to make connections to brands and products, or run ads on your site.
10. Sell Handmade Items
Based on selling products, the benefit of this kind of site is that you can make money! Additionally, selling handmade products offers people a more unique gift purchasing experience, which is why this is one of the more unique website ideas than just a regular online e-Commerce store.
How: These products can be created by you, or you can showcase different artists products and receive a commission from their sales. You can keep it to one ‘type’ of product (e.g. Jewellery) or have a range of categories for people to choose from.
11. Local History and Tips
You can share what you already know about your hometown in a fun and informative way, to give people to opportunity to learn about this place when they travel.
Even if it’s a small town, you’ll be sure to have people coming to your site looking for information if they are looking to visit, or even move there. It’ll also be a unique site as there may not be so many tips and history facts on specific places beyond just main cities.
How: Create a site with fact pages about this town, compile this from research you can easily do online, and then add in extra tips from your own experience and knowledge of living there. Best to do it for small/unknown areas/towns, and ones that you know about. You could eventually develop relationships with local businesses and monetize by advertising them on your site.
12. Family Living Tips
Like the rest of these ideas that focus on giving information about a specific area, this one can be easy to create when you are sharing from your own experience raising a family.
You can create a community, and there’s lots of freedom to create your own website functionality with it. It’s also going to attract many users looking for information about certain topics on how to handle family life.
How: Create articles based on topics you feel people would benefit from hearing about, get guest writers to add, do Q&A style posts, or even link to products that families can benefit from, therefore monetizing it at the same time.
13. Film Review Website
Watching movies and sharing your opinion won’t seem like work at all! This is a fun website that doesn’t take much to create at all. People are always looking online for film reviews, so you’ll find good opportunity to have your site be seen.
How: Watch movies – new and old – and categorise them in genres for easy user searching, with your own personal review on the movie. You can link to additional site reviews as well, and eventually run ads on your site too monetise.
14. Book Review Website
Similar to above, it’s an easy and enjoyable endeavour to read books and share your take on what you felt about the book. Just like films, there’s a big audience of people looking to read about books before making their purchase and investing time into reading it.
How: Again, you can categories into genres. Write a review on what you’ve read, and even interview others for their reviews on the book. Ads can monetize the site, or you could think about selling the book on your site for a commission if that’s possible for you.
15. Poetry Sharing Website
Sharing your work online for others to read is wonderful for you, and those who appreciate poetry. It’s a simple website to make and you can build a sense of community in people who love poetry flocking to the site all having this interest in common.
How: Put up your work in separate posts, or have one simple landing page. You can also create a community forum for others to share their poetry. You could run contests with small entry fees to monetize, as a unique idea.
16. Community Tips and How-Tos
Rather than doing the work yourself, this is quite a passive energy site idea where you let the community create the content.
How: This is about people sharing their own how-tos on certain areas of interests. You can create topic categories and have it open for people to submit their own shares of unique tips on things that people are interested in and know about. Sit back, and watch the site create itself! Eventually, you can monetize with ads.
17. Personalised Gifts eCommerce
It’s definitely unique, beyond just having names engraved, you could allow the shopper to set more specific preferences for gifts to be made. It’s a very creative idea for the creator and the consumer of this site.
How: You would need to be sure that you have some parameters around what can be done, so that you can actually do it! Perhaps you allow for people to set a budget, write their own greeting, add additional elements to the gift personal to the person receiving it and more. As it’s a product-based site, monetizing is the point here.
18. Utility/Functional Niche Website
You only have to focus on offering one service that can be quite simple when it is made and delivers people great value that need to use that one tool.
How: An example of this is something like a site dedicated to being an Instagram font converter, or compressing files, count the number of characters in a block of text, etc. To make it profitable, when you find success in bringing many visitors to your site, you can run ads on your site and earn in this way.
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19. Specific Fashion Site
If you’re interested in fashion styling, then compiling information for the site will be a fun journey to take. Offering a unique twist on fashion in some way would be what makes this site one of the more unique website ideas.
It could be obscure ideas like, ‘Fashion for Traveling to France’, or ‘Fashion Tips for Meeting the In-laws’, for example.
How: Choose a specific style, and give your tips on this, bringing in information and imagery to make it interesting. Create a community forum function for people to share their own images and tips on their style as well. You can link to products and shops for monetizing or run ads on your site.
20. Funny Love and Romance Tips
This one is light-hearted and fun for people who have a sense of humour. Think about the kind of advice you tell your friends when it comes to relationships when you’re joking around, now offer that as a site for people to get playful ‘tips’ on their dating dramas.
How: It could be a Q&A format, getting people to submit questions that you answer and post, and then open up the post for others to comment. You may need to moderate comments to be sure it stays playful and fun and doesn’t get ’negative.’ Monetize by running ads on your site, eventually.
21. Trending and Viral Content
Create a site where you compile trending and viral content – articles, gifs, memes, videos, news, etc. on one topic or a few different areas.
How: It would require you to be quite active online to follow the trends daily since they change so fast. You could do this quite easily in terms of extracting content, linking to articles you see, and not having to ‘create’ so much unique content yourself. Monetize by running ads.
22. Conversational Language Translation Website
This one is a fun addition to our list of unique website ideas. Rather than translating one language to another, make it based on the more conversational language and different colloquialisms we use in certain languages.
Let users get involved by offering their tips on how to talk like a local.
How: Start by sharing from your own native language the different terms you use and what they mean. Open it up for the user to submit their own ’translations’ to common phrases. This could go well teaming up with travel bogs and sites to monetize.
23. Extreme Adventure Blog
Beyond just travel tips, this site could be more about all the different extreme sporting activities you can do in different places around the world.
How: All you’d need to do is research different places you wish to highlight, and compile all the extreme activities into your site to be a quick reference guide for people coming. You can connect with businesses to potentially monetize with their ads.
24. Meditation Techniques Website
Meditation is all the craze now in the modern world, so make your meditation site unique. Maybe the design is super simple and gives people a quick reference for different techniques, or find another way to offer something different.
How: Create short posts on different ways to meditate, either explaining them for people to follow or linking to other sites and authorities. A way to make it unique, for example, is to focus on ‘meditation for outdoors’ or something else specific.
25. Product Review Websites
You get to try out your favourite items, or new products while sharing your honest opinion.
How: showcase products and link to them online, eventually developing connections with the product brands to monetize the website as a ‘sales rep’ of sorts. You can create buying guides and help users through different lists and reviews to make a decision.
26. Best Comeback Lines
For a totally unique and maybe a little cheeky site idea, think up some comeback lines in certain situations, and post them up like a quick-reference guide for people.
How: Brainstorm yourself, ask others, Google and even create a forum where users can submit their own for a laugh. Monetize potentially by running ads on the site.
27. Hotel Room Bodyweight Workouts
Workout ideas are some of the most searched for topics online, especially when people are looking for equipment free videos or written plans to follow. For travelers, this site is a unique idea.
How: If you’re not creating the workouts yourself, then search and find some of the best bodyweight workouts for hotel rooms and compile them all to one place in your site for people. You could run ads on workout and health products.
28. Recycled Gifts Website
For the eco-conscious consumers, which the number continues to grow, this is a nice website to offer people who are looking for recycled gifts.
How: You could focus on one product, or just a handful that you sell, or make it a bigger gallery of gifts. You can make the products yourself, or purchase wholesale and run your own shop.
29. Dream Interpretation Website
It’s a creative a fun website to make, especially if you take it as a more light-hearted endeavour. Alternatively, if you are an expert in this area, then you can market your offering as more of a professional dream interpretation.
This website idea is simple to do, and really gives people a unique experience when you share with them your take on something that actually many people are searching for online.
How: There are two main ways to do this, you can either create a function where users submit their dreams and you respond to each one, sharing them on the site, or you have categories of dreams (animals, flying, water, etc.) and what these ‘symbols’ means.
You can make it humorous, or take it seriously and do your research. You could eventually run ads on your site to monetize.
30. Unique ‘Best of’ Website
Creating list-based website’s there the content is the main function is simple and accessible. It depends on how you do the site, and in some cases, there will be no need to handle members and products.
The benefits are that when you focus on writing and sharing on something that interests you, it doesn’t feel like work. That, and there is some great opportunity to make some money on this kind of site.
How: You can make a simple text list ’the best of 2019’s new productivity apps’, for example. Then you could link out to the specific sites you mention. You can also do it for products, and link the products or create an affiliation with the company to sell the product on your site to earn some money.
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31. Song Recommendations
There are many ways you can make this one of the more unique website ideas. People love music; the advantages are that you’ll definitely get traffic to the site, and you get to share something that you know and love.
You won’t have to put a great deal of effort in, and once the content is up, you can keep it there without really updating for a while.
How: To be successful at offering niche content, categorise the recommendations. Beyond just the regular lists of ‘workout songs’, go with something like ‘songs to make you sleepy’ or ‘songs to cook up a storm’… make the title interesting and individual, and then simply add the songs to the list! To monetize, you could run ads on the site.