Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Settled on a Name and design
Name
I have made a lot progress of in the last little while. I was able to settle on a name, but I still don't have a domain to go with it: House Proud - know your house style and proceed. Domain possibilities are: homepride.ca, houseproud.to, soulhouse.ca. Houseproud.to is the best but it is an expensive name $100 US. I will keep looking. I'm not too worried about the domain as I came to the conclusion that people use google to find website anyway. Its easier than remembering a domain name.
Design
I was also able to settle on a design. I am quite happy with the use of CSS now to create separation in a web site. I have worked out the standard header and permanent columns. It leaves the center portion for changing content. Starting with the home page, onto secondary pages. My plan is to use .jsp to assemble pages so I do not need to maintain a lot of copies of content. With everything I am doing I am trying to make it as easy as possible to maintain (I have learned from lessons in the past). I have a lot of content to still create, and I do not want to lose time messing with pixels.
Rotating Content
Ideas that I have for content borrow from the moneysense.ca site. I like this site as it always appears to have new content. Part of their trick is that they rotate existing content to the front page. So it looks like new articles are coming out frequently, even though they are rotating existing content. I also plan to use the article approach to build content over time. It will be difficult for me to not try and have all the content before launching the website, but I will have to manage as best I can.
AdSense
Another plan for the site it to use google AdSense. It will be interesting to see what kind of traffic I can generate and whether I can make some money just with my content. I would like to add a Messageboard, and guest book to the site. In the future it would be good to capture comments on the article.
Blogger
I just had another idea, what if I post the articles on blogger, and add my framework to the template. That way I could use blogger's capabilities for capturing content. I would have to look into this. It would make it nice and easy for me to post new articles.
Well I should get back to it.
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Existing action List:
- Research post war homes - Done
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
- Test image manipulation with Java - No status
- Test image storage in MySQL - No status
New actions:
- Create front page centre content
- Create What style is my house questionnaire?
- Test out compiled page technology
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Create a mini icon for browsers
- Test use of blogger for articles
I have made a lot progress of in the last little while. I was able to settle on a name, but I still don't have a domain to go with it: House Proud - know your house style and proceed. Domain possibilities are: homepride.ca, houseproud.to, soulhouse.ca. Houseproud.to is the best but it is an expensive name $100 US. I will keep looking. I'm not too worried about the domain as I came to the conclusion that people use google to find website anyway. Its easier than remembering a domain name.
Design
I was also able to settle on a design. I am quite happy with the use of CSS now to create separation in a web site. I have worked out the standard header and permanent columns. It leaves the center portion for changing content. Starting with the home page, onto secondary pages. My plan is to use .jsp to assemble pages so I do not need to maintain a lot of copies of content. With everything I am doing I am trying to make it as easy as possible to maintain (I have learned from lessons in the past). I have a lot of content to still create, and I do not want to lose time messing with pixels.
Rotating Content
Ideas that I have for content borrow from the moneysense.ca site. I like this site as it always appears to have new content. Part of their trick is that they rotate existing content to the front page. So it looks like new articles are coming out frequently, even though they are rotating existing content. I also plan to use the article approach to build content over time. It will be difficult for me to not try and have all the content before launching the website, but I will have to manage as best I can.
AdSense
Another plan for the site it to use google AdSense. It will be interesting to see what kind of traffic I can generate and whether I can make some money just with my content. I would like to add a Messageboard, and guest book to the site. In the future it would be good to capture comments on the article.
Blogger
I just had another idea, what if I post the articles on blogger, and add my framework to the template. That way I could use blogger's capabilities for capturing content. I would have to look into this. It would make it nice and easy for me to post new articles.
Well I should get back to it.
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Existing action List:
- Research post war homes - Done
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
- Test image manipulation with Java - No status
- Test image storage in MySQL - No status
New actions:
- Create front page centre content
- Create What style is my house questionnaire?
- Test out compiled page technology
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Create a mini icon for browsers
- Test use of blogger for articles
# posted by Brian R. Booth @ 12:03 PM 
