I have pretty much just finished editing the holding page for my major project over at http://www.veer.me.uk/. Check it out and let me know what you think. The plan is that any blog updates concerning my major will now be hosted over at that site instead of here.
Lately I seem to be learning alot of cool new stuff, probably because of actually doing more. Which is nice. I messed around with WordPress themes and some PHP to integrate the blog into that page, it is far from perfect at the moment but will do for a holding page. The forms are done using JQuery, and it’s ajax functions. Overall, I’m quite pleased.
I just signed up to AdSense, mostly to get an idea of how it works and stuff, but also because another site of mine www.gamefoe.co.uk – an old webzine I used to run back when I was much younger/more stupid – has a hell of a lot of content on it so I was thinking of trying to build a stack of incoming links (I suppose mostly from related blogs and Wikipedia) and seeing how that might drive traffic to the site, and also see how it might affect my PageRank, and also my search ranking for various terms (and how this might effect traffic from search engines which I imagine would be the biggest driver of traffic to an archived site like Gamefoe).
I think it would be quite interesting to get an idea of how much traffic is needed to generate click throughs, and how it all translates into revenue and if over the course of the year I can make £20 to go towards my hosting costs, even better!
I just need to find the time inbetween my dissertation, finishing my portfolio site redesign (the current design is horrid, too embarassed to link to it!) – which I will hopefully find the time to do this week, and my major project. The good thing is that I know I will inevitably wind up procrastinating time away that should be spent doing my dissertation by doing these other things so instead of feeling like ‘work’ it feels like a distraction, and I’m still being productive!
