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iPhone-Experience.com recieved 983 hits in first two days

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As mentioned in this post my iPhone help site, iPhone-experience.com went live on the the 01/01/11, it’s purpose – to help iPhone users get the best out of their handsets by sharing hints and tips. Keen for the site to get off to a flying start I wanted to reach as many readers as possible.

I ‘m really keen that the site is genuinely helpful so I’m putting a lot of hard work into making sure that information on the site is of high quality and well written so that readers will want to come back. Maren Kate – a successful blogger herself, has often said that the most popular sites on the Web are those that make it  a better place.

The site went live with 5 articles live on the 01/01/11 so that there were a few articles to read and I’ve continued to add at least 1 article a day, and I chose to use Twitter to try and reach readers.

I sent a message to 2 famous technology journalists, the Gadget Show’s Poly and Kate Russell from BBC’s Click TV show, letting them know about the site and asked them to re-tweet my message to their followers, which they both did, which was very kind of them.

The results were very impressive, not only did they re-tweet my message but their followers started to re-tweet my message too.  The traffic to my site was incredible within 2 days the site had received almost 1000 hits, and as importantly I had picked up a number of new Twitter Followers, this gives me a platform to adertise new site updates. It’s still early days but I’ve very happy with the lauch of iPhone-Experience.com

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iPhone-Experience.com to launch on 01/01/11

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One of the projects I’ve been working on is iPhone-Experience.com, the natural successor to my most popular website netbook-experience.com which is now reaching the end of it’s natural life and is now just sitting online as a library of hints and tips for netbook users.

For iphone-experience I’ve chosen a slightly different approach then for my previous site launches, where the site goes live with it’s first post, this time I’m writing a number of articles which are all scheduled to be published on the 01/01/11, in affect the site will golive with several posts. This will mean that early visitors to the site will have a number of articles to read and this should set a better impression.

I’ll report back on how the launch goes here.

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Projects Update

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In this post I talked about my on-going projects, I’ve decided to re-prioritise and re-structure the list to allow the best use of my time.

Here is the list of projects that will occupy my time in the near future.

iphone-experience.com

iphone-experience.com will be the successor to Netbook-experience.com which was one of my biggest successes but has reached the end of it’s natural life. Launched at a time when Netbooks were starting to become popular and came with Linux, I found a niche helping people get the most out of their Netbooks.

Technology has moved on and iphone-experience seems to be the natural replacement. Currently no work has been started on this project, other then securing the Domain Name, and some early testing of the BuddyPress Social networking site building system.

Techplay-Experience.com

Techplay-Experience.com is an example of recycling a domain from a site that was going to waste, originally a Tech News blog, the site has now become the online home for my photo’s and animations.

Niche Websites

I first read about creating Niche Websites on the excellent http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/ website.

As the name suggests Niche Websites focus on specific and small scope of information websites. If you can find a niche that a few others cover you can have sucsess.

I have no experience of building Niche Websites so I’ll be starting from scratch, and I’ll document my progress on this site.

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How to create a Blog – Part 2 How to create a WordPress Blog

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In this previous post I discussed how to purchase a Domain Name and Web Space using JustHost.com , but now it’s time to install WordPress in your Web Space so that you can start to put some content on line.

When you joined Just Host they will have sent you your Log in details for your Control Panel, so using your Username and Password log in.

After you have successfully logged in you will see your control panel which offers you a large number of tools and utilities. Scroll down until you see the Popular Choices section which will look something like the box below.

Click on WordPress and the WordPress management tool will load.  Click on the New Installation Link to start the WordPress creation Process

A new Web Page will now load and you will be presented with a number of preferences to complete. These are shown in the Window below:

In the top pull down box choose the domain name which you have purchased to host your Blog.

Leave the Install in directory box blank.

Choose an Admin username and enter it into the Administrator user name box, and choose a Password to go with it and enter it into the Password box. These are your Administrator details which you will use to access your WordPress Blog Dashboard.

Think of a nickname for the administrator – this is the name which appears when ever the admin writes  a blog post – and enter it into Admin Nickname Box, make a note of your Admin log on details and keep them safe.

Enter your contact E-Mail address into the Admin e-mail box.

Enter the name of your Blog in the Site Name box, and enter a brief description of your Blog into the description box.

When you are happy with all the above details click on the Install WordPress Button.

A summary window (Shown below) will now appear and click on the Finish installation button. Your Blog will now be created.

To check that the process has worked enter your Blogs domain name into your Web Browser and a demo blog with your Blogs Name should appear.


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How to create a Blog – Part One Web Hosting and choosing Domain Names

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Your Blog is your space on the Web where you can write about what ever is on your mind, whether it’s your personal thoughts, a diary, a method of writing about your hobby or a medium to run your own news site, Blogs provide a quick and easy way for publishing information on the Internet.

The good news is that they are very easy to set up. This series of articles will help you get started and set up and publishing to your blog.

Before you can create a Blog you need to find space for it on the World Wide Web. You could setup your own server but it’s much easier if you use a Web hosting service to host your Blog for you.

I use JustHost.com and have found them to be great value for money providing unlimited web space and bandwidth for a low fee. When signing up to their service the first thing you will need to do is choose a domain name for your Blog.

Your Domain name is the address for your Blog, It’s how your readers find you, so it needs to be memorable, logical and appropriate for the content of your Blog, for example if your Blog is a personal blog about yourself then try and get a domain name that has your name in it, or if you are blogging about iPhones then try and get a domain name with the word iPhone in it. If your preferred domain name is already taken, be adventurous, and try variations or insert hyphens between words in your Domain name. For example I have chosen iphone-experience.com for my new iPhone blog.

When signing up with JustHost.com the first step is to identify the Domain name that you require, and they have systems which check to see if that domain name is available or not, if the Domain is already taken they will suggest appropriate alternatives, although you will probably want to try and find your own.

After you have found an appropriate available Domain Name you will need to enter your contact and payment details, following which your account will be created, you will have unlimited webspace and the domain registration process will automatically be started and then managed for you.

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My On-Going Projects

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I’ll be using this blog to keep track the progress of my ongoing projects, of which I have a few.  My current projects are as follows:

iphone-experience.com

iphone-experience.com will be the successor to Netbook-experience.com which was one of my biggest successes but has reached the end of it’s natural life. Launched at a time when Netbooks were starting to become popular and came with Linux, I found a niche helping people get the most out of their Netbooks.

Technology has moved on and iphone-experience seems to be the natural replacement. Currently no work has been started on this project, other then securing the Domain Name.

Techplay-Experience.com

Techplay-Experience.com is an example of recycling a domain from a site that was going to waste, originally a Tech News blog, the site has now become the online home for my photo’s and animations.

An image from Techplay-experience.com

The Hero Knight Project

Hero Knight is an adventure game book that I’m writing, still in the very early stages, I’m hoping that the book will provide a solo play Role Play Game Experience. I’ve currently got the first draft of the rules drafted and have  starting writing the first few scenes.

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