Business update
Right, I’ve been working on a few different things, and while I don’t want to give away everything on here, I’ll give a brief rundown of what I’ve been working on online lately.
Current Projects.
Firstly, my there’s WebDesignLucan, which, from the title and website, is quite apparent what I’m doing with that. I’ve earned some income from this, but nothing major yet. Check out the site for full info. For this I’ve ordered some new business cards which are damn good looking (I’d take a picture but my camera is currently on holidays in America with a family member at the moment). This has brought along other projects though, and I’ve already made good contacts from this.
Next, there’s my site about Andrei Arshavin. This guy has made a name for himself in the footballing world lately, so I snapped up the domains AndreiArshavin.org and .info. Currently the site is #11 in google rankings for “Andrei Arshavin” and has been rising well. I hope to get this on the front page within the next day or two (please don’t smite me oh mighty google). I’ve surprised myself with this one, it turns out my SEO skills aren’t completely awful after all. I’m praying he goes to a big club soon, which would make the site more valuable. I still have some perfecting to do on the site, so a little TLC every so often and this could be a success. Currently looking at the site burns my eyes a little bit.
Next up we have YourDebs. This site is seriously wrecking my buzz. I just can’t get any decent work done on it, and if you were to look on it now you’d see some joking things I’ve written on there in the meantime. This site has potential, but will only fulfil it if I actually put in the work, and put in the work soon. When I get this site running, I’ve going to call in some favours from friends who run related sites (I’ve three contacts in total that can definitely be of help, if I catch them on a good day and maintain my irresistible charm)
I have a plan for a similar website, relating to a certain aspect of the Leaving Cert. There is only one other site like this that I can see, and it seems that it hasn’t been updated since the stone age, so I’m excited to start buying domains for that (I’ve four in mind in total) and working on the site.
Irish sports fans will know Padraig Harrington recently won… eh, something. I saw it on the news anyway (I don’t follow golf at all) and decided to pick up the domains PadraigHarrington.org and .info. I haven’t really started working on this (have installed wordpress and found a disgusting golf theme for it) but I will soon. This man supposedly has quite a long career ahead of him, so hopefully it’ll be a decent investment.
While these sites are being developed, money can be scarce, so I’m also writing an ebook to bring in some quick cash to sustain me for a while.
I also want to begin working on WebmasterDiscounts again, as I still believe that with just a few minutes work every day, that site could do well.
These are the main things I’m working on right now, and I apologise that I’ve been quite vague with some things, but I think it’s necessary sometimes. If anyone’s interested in buying any of the domains/sites I’ve mentioned here, feel free to contact me, as some projects are getting ignored right now because I have a good bit on my plate, and I’d prefer to have a few websites running well rather than a lot of websites running like a bunch of pensioners on a hot summers day.
This blog.
As for this blog, I have some little things to do on this. Minor changes and installations, namely :
- Sort a small coding issue (the previous/next entries link does not appear when browsing by category, any help appreciated if it’ll save me floundering around with code. Nerds : I know the piece of code I need, and tried putting it in single.php which I thought would solve it, but it was an epic fail).
- Get myself one of these Twitter things.
- Sort the pages (about, links etc).
- Install some new plugins (particularly want a working “digg” plugin, anyone know of one?).
- Decide on getting rid of some text links (”Featured Sites”).
- Work on some free advertising (RSS directories etc).
- Consider editting the “Popular Posts” thing, because the plugin has some shitty posts coming up there, and I’d like to showcase some of my favourite posts there instead.
- Some work on Entrecard (consider changing this blog’s category on there, and also spend the shitload of credits I’ve built up lately).
- I’m also thinking about getting a whole new theme for the blog. Currently it’s very “Make Money Online” style, and I don’t think this suits my blog anymore.
And some exciting news about the blog! I’m introducing a new regular post which will appear every Sunday. The idea is nothing crazy, but I think it’s quite unique, and it’ll have that typical lovable Walsho spin on it anyway. I’m excited about this, as it’ll be an easy enough post to do each week, but hopefully it’ll be fun too, and I’m interested to see the site stats when people know there’ll be a new posts every Sunday. Be sure too check it out and tell me what you think.
I’m happy with the blog lately, more and more often I’m getting compliments on it (many of which aren’t from myself OR my mother), and I’m getting a lot more comments recently too. I’ve gotten into the habit of replying to every comment on here, so do leave a comment for me 
That’s all I can think of that’s worth mentioning, so I bid thee a fond farewell dear reader (this post is nowexactlyonethousandwordswhichIcouldn’tresistsoperhapsI’matadOCD).
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July 31st, 2008 at 6:22 am
You need to edit category.php or archive.php depending on which method your theme uses to retrieve posts by category.
I’d get the new theme installed before bothering about that change or any others. You may find you don’t need to do anything.
On Twitter: Consider indenti.ca as an alternative or second micro-blog.
That’ll be €50 please.
July 31st, 2008 at 6:35 am
Primal : Thanks so much, and I’m particularly surprised to receive a response already, at this time! If I do get a new theme it’ll be custom made, so it might be a while yet, so I think it’d be good to make these changes in the meantime.
I’ll check out Twitter and indenti.ca tomorrow (I know very little about either).
Thanks a lot for the info and that link, greatly appreciated. Cheque’s in the post.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Nice update there mate, good to hear you’re getting on well.
I’d definitely like to see a new theme on this blog, there are some great wordpress designs flying around at the moment but you could also consider some other blogging software such as Squarespace which looks really good.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:34 am
Monty : You continue to rock my world.