Starting Up

First of all, a quick “good luck” to Gordon, who’s starting up his own part-time web-design business.

In addition, over here I’m looking at starting up two new website ideas, and also potentially seeing if I can resurrect one from the wallow of “not quite got round to it”. I’m going to stay a bit quiet about them for now, because it’s all very “pie-in-the-sky” and “I wonder if something like that will work?” at the moment.

However, I’ve got the relevant domain names – and there’s one I’m deeply chuffed to have obtained, along with a still-present sense of disbelief that it hadn’t gone. Which makes me wonder whether it’s been tried before and failed, or just something that’s never occurred to anyone else. Being more than a bit cynical, I tend towards the former option – but we’ll see.

Anyway, I’ve got the ideas, and the basic stuff all mapped out in my head, so now it’s “just” a matter of transforming that into working websites. “Just” he says, optimistically.

Quite honestly, I’ve no real idea whether the basic concepts will work or not. They should but that’s no guarantee when it comes to the fickle worlds of users and businesses. I’ll be giving it a damn good go though, and may just ask some of the regulars from here to do a bit of beta-testing when all’s said and done. I’m going to give it all a fair crack of the whip – if they haven’t started taking off by the end of 2006, then they’ll be removed, and all I’ll have spent on them is the £150 for domain name and business hosting. If I’ve made that back – and hopefully more besides – then I’ll keep on with them.