May 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments
Introducing 2 New Sites
OK, this is shameless self-promotion, but I thought I’d introduce 2 new sites that I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks that I currently have a lot of passion for (we’ll see how long that lasts!).
Money Watch
First up, there’s Money Watch: a Personal Finance Blog. I figured I work in the industry, and the market for a blog covering financial matters for twenty to thirty somethings in the U.K. is currently pretty open. I hope to bring together interesting articles and commentary on investments, mortgages, pensions etc. from a variety of sources.
At the moment the site is still part of the WV4 domain (at http://wv4.co.uk/money-watch), but if it is reasonably succesful and I decide to keep it running, I have registered another domain name (money-watch.co.uk) and will move it to it’s own hosting.
On a side note, I may also be “guest blogging” on another personal finance blog in the next few weeks, so that should provide me with some useful experience. Watch this space for more information.
What’s On?
Secondly, I’ve begun a local project to provide the definitive “What’s On?” for Wolverhampton - although there are a couple of sites already doing a similar thing, I reckoned I could do it better and utilise the web in a better way than the existing competition. I also think having a local angle will help me over some of the bigger sites that might provide similar information. At present I’m concentrating on music gigs, comedy and club nights at the main venues in town, but will be hoping to expand this to feature many other events at venues which do not usually get publicised.
I can already see that the amount of content needed to run such a site even for a relatively small city like Wolverhampton will take a fair bit of management, but we’ll start reasonably small and aim to grow gradually at a manageable rate.
WV4 is the online home of Rob Lewis, featuring a blog covering a variety of subjects, mainly web design, CSS and PHP, as well as featuring useful links to other websites.
I don’t know if this is the place to do it make I would like to let you know about a great little webdesign computer called Krs consultancy who are the company i used for my company bjf, they have done a great job and would suggest them to anyone. thanks, ps nice site
What’s on looks good, don’t know if you’ve heard of upcoming.org. Basicly you select your area and sign up for an RSS feed. New events are posted onto the feed and you can leave comments about each event as well as saying that youll be attending. Bit of a flickr for events.
Perhaps you could do sone intergration between the two?
Hi Tom,
I came across upcoming.org a couple of weeks ago, looks quite useful. There only appears to be 2 venues in Wolverhampton that use it (the Civic and Little Civic), but I might be able to use it somehow. At the moment I also seem to be able to get gigs up faster than they appear on there.
Thanks for visiting my site.
Rob.
True, I know that it’s possible for you to provide listings of gigs. Perhaps you could upload the ones you know about and add “provided by wolveswhatson.co.uk” or something.
On a totally unrelated note, you might find this excerpt plugin much better than that the default stuff.