Nathan Waters

Typical hey!

You get a site right the the brink of being able to launch it, and then you find out that a major function of the site has been ignored and you search hours and hours for a solution, only to find it won’t be so easy to get working.

That’s the situation I’m in

The pixel site has an odd image and linking setup which I thought from the beginning should have been easy to do, so instead of working on getting that particular feature working, I’ve been making the rest of the site “perfect” (I tend to be a little bit of a perfectionist).

So now I’m thinking tomorrow night (Tuesday) I’ll stock-up on coke (the drink lol) and do an all-nighter again and see if I can fix it all. Though this most likely won’t help the sleep deprivation problem that has been growing… especially when they have a 6.45am fire drill as they did today!!!

In other news, I am extremely busy with around 10 projects (some big, some small) running at the same time right now. Which I’m thinking probably isn’t a good thing, but I want to get them out as I figure the smallish projects shouldn’t take too long. But I’ve been finding every time I come back from uni, I get straight on my computer and work non-stop for the rest of the night on the projects I’m doing…. of course except for weekends: there’s way too much fun to be had at uni when excluding the uni-work factor.

Another thing I’ll mention is I came across a potentially excellent online opportunity while searching through the “Sell a Domain” section of the forums on SitePoint. It can be dangerous in there as I found many great domains up for reasonable prices. So I came across a pretty good domain, did a quick Google search for competitors (only found 2), an Overture search for keywords (11,000+ searches for this keyword for the month of March) and an Alexa lookup (both ranked within 30,000) of the competitors I could find. The domain was up for $100, but I got it for $30 which was alright. And so I think I’ve come across a pretty good niche which myself and Tristan will try get going in the next week or two.

It may have the possibility of making some money, but otherwise it has the possibility of becoming a successful site which could bring both of us personal recognition and perhaps some sponsorship and things later on. But I’ve been questioning Adsense recently especially when I read articles like this recent one, so may have to start looking at other advertising outlets.

Nathan Waters
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