Comments on: What Would You Do Differently?

By: Cre8tive Flow » Blog Archive » What’s in your website’s attic?

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:40:08 +0000

[...] Following my previous post, I’m finally in the process of moving eKstreme.com to a new host and a new CMS. The down side is a ton of manual work to transfer the page via copy/paste into the new CMS. This is making me read a lot of pages I forgot about. Stale content from years ago. The odd broken link here and there (thankfully, not many!). [...]

By: Jai

Jai — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:04:40 +0000

How about from a web hosting space and or security of a site? Did anyone wich they had done something differently there?

By: David Zemens

David Zemens — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:30:57 +0000

Thanks Pierre. I was delighted to find a five letter domain name that actually had the right mix of vowels and consonants such that it was spoken as a “word”, even though it is not a dictionary word per se.

Now if I can just figure out how to capitalize on it.

By: Pierre Far

Pierre Far — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:48:54 +0000

Great replies everyone! Interesting that you’ve picked on your domain names a lot. Perhaps we can start a discussion about how to pick domain names, a bit of a how to.

Yuri: that’s the beauty of learning. You can apply everything you know to the next project. And what you learn from that, you apply to the one after.

David: AVTAK.com sounds catchy. Good luck with it! You know at which forums to ask for help

Pierre

By: Reuben Yau

Reuben Yau — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:45:10 +0000

I think I would have started publishing/blogging about online marketing/search engines a long time ago.

By: David Zemens

David Zemens — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:16:34 +0000

I would also have chosen a different domain name. The one I chose has meaning to the area I live in, but my work has branched out so that many of my clients are not even from the same state I live in. My domain name is also too long. I have acquired a short, five letter domain name that I think is pretty catchy - AVTAK.com - but I have yet to develop it. It’s hard to change your name once it has become associated with your business.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:08:52 +0000

Hmm, neat topic.

I think I would have liked to have been a .org instead. Just didn’t know much about domain names when we got ours, and somehow, I think the concept of an organization suits the web design/SEO field.

I would have learned about blogging 4 years ago instead of last year.

That’s pretty much all I can think of, but as an aside, has anyone else noticed that SM sites all have names that sound like garage bands? Flickr, Digg, Delicious, YouTube, Squidoo…
“Hey, I’m goin’ to the Flickr concert, man.”
“Who’s opening for them?”
“That funk band, Furl.”
“Right on!”

So, now you know, if you want to create a social media site, get a 16 year old boy to name it for you and your success is guaranteed!
Miriam

By: Marek

Marek — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:28:07 +0000

Good question!

* Use shorter domain name
* Use blogging software as the main website platform
* Create it more SEO friendly

Just to name a few.
Thanks
Marek

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:05:02 +0000

Excellent theme, Pierre. If I had to give the two biggest things to get right, I would say:
Choose a name that is not confusing and ideally is short and that you can own on the Internet. In other words, a Google Blogsearch or regular search for the name brings everyone directly to your domain (I’m feeling lucky anyone?)
Have a website that has an integral blog (or slog as I am wont to call it ). The easy way to do this is to use WordPress as the underlying ‘CMS’.
Over time perhaps the WordPress suggestion may need to be changed, but I see no sign of that in the near future.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:54:46 +0000

I’d probably
- pick a shorter domain
- find a smaller, more unique niche
- learn to communicate, socialize and talk with people from the start (and a lot)
- find time to promote the site
- use Drupal from the start (to have room to expand, even if I only started with a blog or even a single page).

Luckily, that’s what I’ll be doing for all my next projects