Okay so it’s about 2 weeks since my last post; have I fallen back into my usual idle slumber? Well, to an extent yes, but that’s due to the depression caused by the possibility of losing my full-time job combined with my self-pity that I hadn’t done something sooner with online marketing years ago.
Damn, makes for a grim update, and I apologise for that, I just feel like I need to get this written down somewhere and here seems like as good a place as any.
Yes, it’s possible I’ll be losing that office with the fantastic view of Manchester. Right now I just need to continue creating websites that [might] help me pay the bills in the coming months.
I signed up with some affiliate networks late last year but alas I’ve had no time to promote any of their offers. I’ve had some big ideas, and naturally wanted to do loads at once, but as I’m starting small I need to make sure each project is seen through to completion, and I can’t afford to hire help to do it, by the same stroke I need them to be full of quality content before I tackle the big ideas, and I still need to get better with my coding as I’m trying to do this on a pathetic budget. I’m not an awesome coder, but I feel I know enough to produce acceptable results, even though I’ve never actually created a full site from nothing.
I’m probably (or perhaps ignorantly) different to most others in this game, because I’m actually writing all of my websites from scratch, or more specifically, I’m writing my own CMS using CodeIgniter, which in my opinion is a freakin’ excellent framework to develop on.
That said, if you have the funds I would not hesitate to purchase ExpressionEngine which is a CMS also written using CodeIgniter, but unfortunately I cannot afford that. If you want to see some gorgeous standards-compliant wizardy created with it then look no further than Veerle Pieters’ blog of Duoh Design fame, I bet you every one of their creations will render standards compliant. 
I don’t require a full-on CMS at this stage, I’m treating this as a learning exercise and hopefully I can use my product as a backbone for my follow-up endeavours, but perhaps I could use the earnings from my early sites to purchase a proper CMS or even a team of designers – yah right, I wish! 