Is there any money left?

Promotional T-shirts have to be the right size and not muddy!

annabelt — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:04:05 +0000

This is the latest installment in the gripping serialization of promoting my Devon directory. You know, when I started putting this journal online I was worried it might catch up with me – no chance, it seems to be getting further behind all the time! In any case, this entry sees more of the earliest [...]

Breaking an International News Story was fun!

annabelt — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:01:06 +0000

What an insane couple of weeks I’ve had – sometimes everything happens at once! One of the sites I’ve been working on at my part time job, which has seemed to be about to launch for months, has finally taken the plunge. My uncle asked me to set up a gallery for their wedding photos, [...]

Do I really miss my Second Life character?

annabelt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:43:25 +0000

For a while I was testing out the virtual world / MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) that is Second Life, just exploring and trying to figure out what it was about. I had a window in the background all the time, where my character was dancing around, camping and earning Linden Dollars at [...]

Still fixing and tuning the website, but also collected my car stickers

annabelt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:11:34 +0000

Summary: I kept a diary while launching a Devon business directory / community website. This is part of it. Diary from 4th Oct 2007: Collected my car window stickers from Devon Signs. They actually look really good, very clear. But I do feel a little nervous still about advertising to the people around me, as [...]

I find some advice on directories from Webmaster World

annabelt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:34:36 +0000

Diary from Thurs 4th Oct 2007: Read some directory related threads on Webmaster world – looks like many people have a hard time with these, but it was comforting to read these posts from people further down the road… One recommendation I will definitely follow is to add companies yourself. (see the thread here: http://www.webmasterworld.com/directories/3404944.htm [...]

Pizza (.com) sells for $2.6 million

annabelt — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:56:37 +0000

14 years ago, Chris Clark, who now runs an American software company, bought the ‘pizza.com’ domain for just $20. He thought it would help him get a contract with a pizza company… Well I guess it did in the end, but a much better one than he was originally hoping for – after hearing illion [...]

Experiments with social bookmarking: the beginning

annabelt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:02:36 +0000

Is Web 2.0 just a load of hype? I have my suspicions that it doesn’t make money, but some aspects do have potential for website owners. Both RSS Feeds and social bookmarking seem promising to me (at least, if it’s Facebook, now that so many people are on Facebook). So I thought I’d give it [...]

The end of an online community?

annabelt — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:07:02 +0000

A sad thing has happened: an online community website I have visited on and off for the last couple of years appears to have finally given up the ghost. Personally I blame Digg (where some of the members turned up instead) and Facebook, which had a massive rise in popularity last summer (when I found [...]

More adventures with Google Adsense: WordPress and Joomla!

annabelt — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:30:14 +0000

Having previously written about the Google Adsense Heatmap, I was keen to try out adsense blocks in more successful locations. Google Adsense Heatmap: darker colours are ‘hotter’ areas My first opportunity came with a project of my own to develop a custom Joomla template for a new website about chocolate, ‘I Dream in Chocolate‘. Website [...]

Business card and Postcard Advertising to promote my Web Directory

annabelt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:08:32 +0000

Background: I’ve been launching and promoting a Devon directory, which promotes arts and environmental concerns alongside general clubs, blogs and business listings. Click this link to view all posts about launching the directory 23/9, continued: Postcard advertising Having ordered a load of free postcards and business cards from VistaPrint, I was ready to start some [...]