jonlord.co.uk is born

Yes I have bought a domain from 123 reg who were also refferred to me via google on moneysavingexpert.com (martin lewis's horrible site). I also bundled this with their instant site product - I think this will give me some confidence before I start querying SQL databases and the like (ha ha ha)

There was a blog on there that told me that I should get hosting from hosting unlimited so I will check them out too

Jessica (wife to be) is not well so I will have to be quick now to finsh off

good night and god bless

Me myself and I

That's it, I am going to by my first domain and its going to be a .me.uk one
There is some good info from the bbc on this extension


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Fog stops play

Liverpool and Arsenal in the carling cup has been cancelled due to fog hence some unplanned blog entries


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PC Pro February 2007 web 2.0 article

Hi All,

Marius, my father-in-law gave me the Feb 2007 edition of PC pro magazine. Its got a a great article on Web 2.0 I really good read.

It has told me why I need an FTP client too so I am going to investigate Ispwitch WS_FTP

I will let you know how I get on.

Laters

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well google approved me !

I hate to say this but Google process was very smooth. I hoped that I would find it difficult and clunky but no it was easy and straight forward.

The colour don't work too well yet but i have an idea to fix them

I have to get back to those domains and no one as yet has posted on my site - I hope that someone finds me soon.

I am off to my in-laws for a pre Xmas dinner tonight so I have have to be quick - one last look at these colours.

My name is Darren Rowse

this guy has done some amzing things with his blogs and now making a six figure salary from it

I am learing more with every minute

I have found out how to set up links here and have found out that blogger is a bit too simple even for a muppet like me

Google Adsense account is waiting to be approved

I am now waiting for Google to approve me - this feels too easy really as I have no idea where this will go - quite interesting so far


I hope that this will be the start of something enterprising.

By the the way a bit of a top tip for importing images into blogger-
1. use the print screen function
2. drop the image into the paint tool in the windows accessories folder
3. Select the area you want
4. Save as a bmp file
5. Select image on the blog tool
6. Use a low quality format as the image takes a while to upload (depending I guess on your connection speed)

ads by google

It might make sense to ad AdSense to this blog - lets see how quickly I can do it

This will be true test of how much help I will need to set up my own site

How to build your own website

Well my first post seemed to go down well.

So lets get stuck in. I have done a Google search on "build my own website" - pretty generic stuff and straight away i get a great article from the BBC from some chap called Bruce (whatever Brucie...)

Right then according to the BBC I need the following:
1. A computer - who is this guy
2. A modem - Jesus wept
3. Internet access via an ISP -(isp?? -only kidding)
4. A domain name (optional - unless you want something cack)
5. Web space - (yessss)
6. Web authoring or HTML editing software - now we are getting somewhere
7. FTP software (????)
8. Some good ideas
9. Plenty of time!
10. Some good advice - that's what I am talking about

The full article is attached here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/browse/buildwebsite_1.shtml

Now given that a senile gorilla with no teeth could have told me 1 and 2 then lets get straight onto number 3. Domain names

As I understand it many ISPs will provide some space hosted by them so you can set up your site.

I have virgin broadband and to be honest I have no idea whether they do this, that said I don't want to use them as I want to have my own funky name.

I want build a site about my family to start with so I can get a good understanding of the techniques before going to something more commercial - I have been thinking of lordy.com or lordy.co.uk I will check and see if they are available - or what about www. jonlord.me.uk??

the begining....

This has to start some where - so welcome to anyone who is reading this.

I am feeling really out of my depth so I guess I should give you some background to me.

My name is Lordy and I have been wanting to start my own website for I guess around a year or so. As I work with some of the largest Internet properties in Europe and I am surrounded by technology at work but I don't have a fundamental knowledge of how to implement some of the technology I have to push such as product feeds, rss, optimisation , ad serving etc

What motivates m is the knowledge I will gain by building my own site - it is something I think that will be really rewarding for me and of course if i can make some money by building something successful then all the better

I have been looking into domains but then came across this blog site so I thought I would try this too.

I will give you my view on domains later