Setting up a blog / website sure can start with spiraling costs that you need to keep an eye on.
A nice domain here, a premium wordpress theme template there, those costs can sure mount up.
Whenever I start a site I always try and keep those costs as small as possible, but the question is, where do you cut corners?
Do you buy one of those new funky higher level domains that cost a bit less like .eu or .co, or maybe you just buy a domain off wordpress/blogger/moonfruit - But if you appear too cheap will people take you content seriously?
When I look at the cost of something like vBulletin which is forum software much like the one The Money Shed runs on that costs hundreds of pounds is enough to make my ears bleed. But the thing is, maybe that software offers me something that my existing software (which is free) doesn't. Maybe those premium themes are worth investing in as they bring a certain 'class' to the blog that you wouldn't get normally.
How much do you want to invest at the start with any idea or concept when you don't know if it has got legs or not to take off.
Or maybe you just chalk up the costs to, well if I am going to run a site, it is going to cost 'x' amount and I just accept it.
Throwing money (and time) into something when you don't know what you are going to get back can be a scary concept for some to swallow.
A nice domain here, a premium wordpress theme template there, those costs can sure mount up.
Whenever I start a site I always try and keep those costs as small as possible, but the question is, where do you cut corners?
Do you buy one of those new funky higher level domains that cost a bit less like .eu or .co, or maybe you just buy a domain off wordpress/blogger/moonfruit - But if you appear too cheap will people take you content seriously?
When I look at the cost of something like vBulletin which is forum software much like the one The Money Shed runs on that costs hundreds of pounds is enough to make my ears bleed. But the thing is, maybe that software offers me something that my existing software (which is free) doesn't. Maybe those premium themes are worth investing in as they bring a certain 'class' to the blog that you wouldn't get normally.
How much do you want to invest at the start with any idea or concept when you don't know if it has got legs or not to take off.
Or maybe you just chalk up the costs to, well if I am going to run a site, it is going to cost 'x' amount and I just accept it.
Throwing money (and time) into something when you don't know what you are going to get back can be a scary concept for some to swallow.