Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Thurso Town Lodge Hotel Caithness, Formerly the St Clair Hotel Thurso

Thurso Town Lodge Hotel Caithness, Formerly the St Clair Hotel Thurso

This is a site that I have just completed. It's a small site featuring a family run hotel which is local to me.

I'm starting to build small sites for people to try to stabilise my income a bit. The site for this small hotel in Thurso was to help out some friends of mine and build up a portfolio that I can then promote to other businesses throughout my local area. (When I get the time!)

I feel that building small sites, for smaller amounts of money is an excellent way of attracting new business. It builds up a nice portfolio, lets you get some self-promotion and asking for recommendations from the hotel owners should help as well. A great way for someone starting a small business to get it off the ground.

Friday, June 18, 2004

Web Page Analyzer - WebSiteOptimization.com

Web Page Analyer - WebSiteOptimization.com

Another great webmaster resource site, this time you can check the load times of your pages. Great for those on a broadband connect who want to check the load times on a modem.

Search Engine Decoder | Relationship Chart

Search Engine Decoder | Relationship Chart

Always wondered how the search engines feed each other their listings and which ones feed which? Then this is the page for you!

What a cool way of checking the relationships between each of the search engines! Just click on the one you are interested in and instantly see how it interacts with the other engines. A must see for all webmasters.

Monday, June 14, 2004

What a Week!

I'm back after a seriously crap week.

My computer caught a cold or something (could it have been the Trojan I'm reading about?) Anyway, it kept on rebooting itself more and more until I reckon something went on the motherboard as it would not boot up at all, even another hard disk. I checked out everything on the PC and it was definately the motherboard but I wonder what caused it all.

Of course to make things worse the Laptop started playing up as well and when I connected to the net, it was blasting my data to somewhere but I couldn't find out where. It must've been a virus but it even managed to disable Norton.

Luckily, I had most of my data backed up on a USB Hard Drive I bought a week earlier!

However, I've made it back with a new all singing, all dancing PC now all I have to do is catch up on everything I didn't manage to get done. This includes getting the darn laptop up and running although a new installation of Windows seems to have done the trick so far.

I only do this part-time and have also started to build sites for others as well. Of course last week a few new customers wanted stuff so I've a busy couple of weeks ahead.

Friday, June 04, 2004

Gambling Portal Webmasters Association

Gambling Portal Webmasters Association
I've been a member of the GPWA for about a year and a hlaf now and it's been of great service to me in assisting with the day to day running of my casino and poker room portals.

The main part of the GPWA is a forum where gambling webmasters get together to discuss what works for them, what doesn't, the best affiliate programs and general resources to assist with site building and maintenance.

It's a common hang-out of mine and although it's had it's ups and downs in the past is a reliable resource of gambling site information. Anyone who runs or plans to run such a site should check it out sooner rather than later.

I don't participate in many forums, mainly due to the time that they tend to take up in my busy schedule but I always find the time to read the posts there and often make a post or two myself.