Separate ventures for the year…
As I was saying last time about renewal of my old domains, I finally did renew the domain that I think worth keeping. In addition to that, I bought three new domain for three separate ventures for the year.
I got round to buying the domain (.com) for my actual name. Which if you do a bit of research, you should know the name of the domain. Since I am taking up digital photography as a hobby, I will be using that domain as my personal photoblog. Those one photo a day type.
I did some research for the right template for this photoblog. I find that Wordpress very few themes specially for photoblogs and to set it up properly requires various plugins and customizations. As per all Wordpress blogs. The research led me to Pixelpost. This is a blog software specifically for photoblog. Although like Wordpress, it has addons and templates to choose from, its vanilla install is fully capable to display your photos as a professional photoblog. Highly recommended.
For my second and third domain, its much more simple. One of them I would like to make a Single Serving Site (SSS). Click on the link or google it to learn more about it. This type of site I first heard about in the podcast for stackoverflow.com. I am not even sure why I listen to that podcast as I know nada about programming. But the eleven episodes cover a lot of concepts and I really learn alot. Quite entertaining too. Anyway, I want to built a SSS as I want to try out web app development. I am always curious about programming and a basic SSS should be good practice for me. We’ll see. I will link it here if ever I finish it. Expectation alert: My SSS will not scored high on originality.
Last one will not be a surprise. It will be another BANS domain. This time, I will concentrate on this one site and develop it fully before I move on to make another BANS site. That’s what I found after one months of testing BANS. You NEED to promote your site properly to expect any traffic.
There, this will be another busy year before another round of domain renewal comes around.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 am
I hadn’t heard about BANS before, I will have to give it a look.
It is hard for me to get motivated with my domains. I have 2 that I work on pretty regularly and 3 that I haven’t really done anything with yet. Just not enough time in the day…
April 7th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I don’t know how he did it, but he has now expand a single Contestblogger site to a network of contest site.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I’ve always thought BANS was a silly acronym.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:38 am
This is quite interesting.. domain squating is the way forward
May 29th, 2009 at 12:39 am
I never though about this before.. hmm
June 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I have dozen. Lie like dead bagage. Have no idea what to do with they.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
This is the first time I heard this. .