Andyrew

Almost New Years

It’s just about come to the end of a quite a boring year. Let me quickly sum up what’s happened over the past 12 months..

• Kicked out of college for the second time, and went self-employed.
• Made a few sites, but didn’t actually launch any.

Well, that was adventurous. Let’s hope 2008 brings more luck. I hope to actaully launch some of the sites that i’ve built this year. But, do you ever spent a long time making something.. and then doubt it? :X

So, in my last blog post i mentioned about re-visiting an old site.. Aha, this gives me a chance to try out the quote button.

I have re-visited a site of mine, that.. I forgot still existed, and didn’t think it would still work as it grabs data from another site. Anyway, i’ve given it a little bit of a revamp.. I’ll tell you about it tomorrow, when it’s a little more finished.

So anyway, i went ahead and did some work on http://www.addmylayout.com. After I sold Coshed, i never had anything to do with myspace again. I created Addmylayout.com a little before that, but never actaully got around to ever launching it (seeing a pattern here?)

Now, i just assumed it wouldn’t work anymore. The user inputs their ID.. then it goes to Myspace, gets a whole bunch of details of theirs (name.. etc) and their layout (CSS) and then brings it back.. yada yada.

But,to my suprise it does actually still work. So, i few little additions here and there, added a basic admin panel to manage and add (the colours, thumbnail) and ready set go!

Now, i have a few sites that use this ‘grabber’. SnobSpaces.com being one of them. I thought SnobSpaces had been attacked by a spam bot, and when i checked my server logs.. the submit page was using a hell of a load of CPU so I removed it. But looking in the admin panel, it might actaully be.. that people were submitting things.

So that’s another site that’s kind of.. working. But, that already has traffic, so it would be beneficial to make it work again and update it.

So, i’m going to spent the next couple of hours playing about with these to see what can be done. And after that, going out for new years! tomorrow, i have a few ideas on a domain i bought and i’ll tell you about how i went on with these sites ^

I’ll spare you all with the new years best wishes.