So you want to start running an e-fed. Here are the things you absolutely have to consider before deciding to open one.

• Do you have the time to put into this fed?
Do you know that this efed of yours will take up MOST of your free time? There is simply no way around it. Even if you have EVERYTHING imaginable automatically updated it will still take up your free time. This doesn't include judging, writing results, matches, PPVS, ranking, approving applications, promoting the fed, looking for new members, keeping up with stats, history, designing and maintaining a webspace, dealing with rude members, answering questions.... AND YOU GOTTA BE ON TIME AND DO ALL OF THIS FOR FREE! You can't depend on "staff" they will bail because they don't have to be there...

• Have you had experience in e-fedding?
You think being a wrestling fan means that you can run a fed? Think again! It's no different than running a business, except ten times worse. YOU do everything. You don't get paid. Look around RoughKut.com for some successful eFeds. Do some research. It ain't easy dude. Not even a little. Ask any fed head.

• How do you want to run your fed?
Will it be Roleplay based? Angle ran? Using Real wrestlers? Fake Wrestlers? Or some other way such as using a wrestling game to pick the winners [Such as Smackdown, Day Of Reckoning, etc.]?.

• What things will you implement to make the fed better?
Will there be Rules, Judging and/or Staff? A Money system? Prizes for best RP of the month? Rewards to make efedding more worthwhile?

• What about?
The amount of titles? Will you keep to Kayfabe? What kind of results will you post on a weekly basis? What type of Roleplay board will you use? Will you Email your results to the fedders?

So you've figured all of this out BEFORE you start designing your fed's website. Now it's onto the designing of the site itself.

• Will you have a real website or just a forum?
Most e-feds these days are forum based. Which will make it easier to archive results, show roster bios and roleplay on. But most seasoned veterans go for an actual website, something hosted on Angelfire or Geocities. I do reccommend a Website based e-fed over the now, overused just a forum technique.

• How will your e-fed's website be designed?
Will you go for the simple look or the complex graphics design? I suggest a mix of the two. Not too simple yet not too bandwidth consuming. What use is a website when nobody can actually see it?

• How will you get your site designed?
Will you search for free web templates on Google or will you create your site from scratch? It is easier to get one predesigned but you don't know how complex it will be until after you've downloaded it.