Making a website - a good website is a super hard journey. With more and more and more features becoming available to end users, it means more and more work for the person who wants to own a website.
I started making my site two years ago. The first year was wasted with poor programmers, sky high costs and stress almighty. The past year I took over and did it myself. And boy has it been hard. If anyone understands the term 25 hour days you'll know what I mean. Up at 6am, finish work at 7am the next day. I did one of these yesterday.
But I did it because I had all the code in my head. I fixed the lot (I think) at long last. After two years, my site is ready for launch. I tried to launch it about 6 months ago but there were a stack of unseen errors. The reason is because this is not some off the shelf script. It's bespoke. And it's tough. Fix one thing, another breaks - total nightmare. But I am typing this as I think (think) it's now working and ready to go. I feel awesome.
Now I have run a lot of big sites before (one in the alexa top 10k) but this one is like 15 years of marketing experience all rolled into one. It's crazy. I hope you guys wish me luck.
The truth is, and the best advice I can give is to dream. Make it happen. Learning is everything and you must have the drive to see it through. It may work out for me, it may not - but one thing is for certain. I gave it my best shot.
Now onto the next phase of running it. It's a pretty scary thought doing this all over again. Here goes!
I started making my site two years ago. The first year was wasted with poor programmers, sky high costs and stress almighty. The past year I took over and did it myself. And boy has it been hard. If anyone understands the term 25 hour days you'll know what I mean. Up at 6am, finish work at 7am the next day. I did one of these yesterday.
But I did it because I had all the code in my head. I fixed the lot (I think) at long last. After two years, my site is ready for launch. I tried to launch it about 6 months ago but there were a stack of unseen errors. The reason is because this is not some off the shelf script. It's bespoke. And it's tough. Fix one thing, another breaks - total nightmare. But I am typing this as I think (think) it's now working and ready to go. I feel awesome.
Now I have run a lot of big sites before (one in the alexa top 10k) but this one is like 15 years of marketing experience all rolled into one. It's crazy. I hope you guys wish me luck.
The truth is, and the best advice I can give is to dream. Make it happen. Learning is everything and you must have the drive to see it through. It may work out for me, it may not - but one thing is for certain. I gave it my best shot.
Now onto the next phase of running it. It's a pretty scary thought doing this all over again. Here goes!
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