OK.. so, this is going to be a bit of a change in my journey.. having thought of an idea out of the blue, it seems to be turning into a full blown website business idea and has a bit of a mind of its own. So I am parking most of my money making activities to set up my website and then will probably get back to some of the other stuff. At the moment the website is monopolising my time.
So... where am I? Well a long way off yet. I reckon it could take me about 3 months to develop everything I want and then launch. A week and a half in I have:
- developed a logo
- created the right look to the site that I want (including theme) as well as the tone I want to adopt and now need to roll it out to all the other pages
- have tested some key plugins.. (I must have downloaded about 40 different ones, but deleted about 30 of them after I trialled them and decided against them)
- set up a twitter profile
- put in some test content to play with
- finished the profile/about us bit of the site and started writing one of the other content pages
So next up, I need to roll out the right look to the other pages and crucially spend time getting the functionality of my key page just right. I actually have functionality on two pages, but one of them is key and the other shouldn't be so difficult.
Once that's out of the way I can plough on with content. However, I keep finding I do need to make some decisions earlier than planned. For example, when thinking about the functionality of my page I do need some idea of how I want to monitize it now and potentially later as it will impact the way I set it up now.
Lots more to come... stay tuned!