An Experiment of a Webmaster

So, its my BDay. Don’t expect one of my long techno philosophical posts today. I did want to take time out to mention my friends new blog though. His name is Sol and he has quite a few political views. I can just imagine the comments on his blog getting nice and heated with some of the things he has to say.

Check him out when you have time.

This is another article in my series on starting a web based business. The first article was all about finding a cheap web host with php and mysql. The second told you where to get cheap domain names and set them up quickly. This article is going to take a step back from really being a tutorial and get you into the mindset that you need to be in, mainly thinking about how to turn your idea into a web business, or how to come up with an idea.
Continue reading ‘Starting a Web Business: Part 3, Whats your site about?’

I’ve never actually used blog software before because I’m not a person who normally likes to talk about my personal life, and thats what I’ve always thought of blogs as for. After dipping more into the search engine optimization and content targeted advertising, I began to understand why a blog could be useful for something other than social grandeur.

Truthfully, my first thought upon accepting the idea of using a blog was to just use an existing content management system that I had written. The system is not fully functional yet, but includes the basics that a blog system would need. The downside is that its designed for the publication of news articles rather than blogging. While a lot of the features are the same, I wanted something more tailored to blogging so I could have that happy funtime integration with the great blogosphere web 2.0 value added blah blah blah…. sorry, snapped into buzzword land for a second.
Continue reading ‘In search of a blog’