I helped my friend setup his web site this weekend. He used to have a blog over at blogspot and I talked him into getting his own webspace and domain name. I set him up with lunarpages for hosting and wordpress for the blog software (zupes runs on wordpress).

We had to do some fiddling with his theme to get it to look how he wanted but it all turned out pretty damn good if I may say so myself.

He was even able to import all of his posting from his blogspot blog without a hitch as well. Cool little feature.

Anyway, check it out if you are so inclined Donkeys are cool

I got most of the Groovy Banana Web Directory done last night. Need to work on the categories a bit more but I got the look where I want it.

I am very happy with the way it turned out, I think it looks quite nice.

Making this showed me one thing though. I really need to learn some PHP and a lot more CSS. I was able to scratch and claw my way to modify the existing template to what it looks like now but it wasn’t exactly easy. Plus I would like to convert Moe’s Realm to php or css to clean up the code and make updating much, much easier.

Although I don’t think anyone is actually reading this yet, if you are, can anyone recommend any books? I have heard that Bulletproof Web Design is quite good.

I finally finished writing all the content and put the store together last night and decided to push it all live. I still need to have it proofread cause I am sure I made my fair share of errors. But the site is done and live and I think it turned out great.

The site is diddleforthemiddle.com which is a slang term in the dart world. Go visit the site to find out what it means if you don’t know.

This is my first site built around the idea of affiliate selling, I am doing some affiliate selling over at Moe’s Realm as well, but this site was built knowing that it would be an affiliate store. If you don’t know what affiliate selling is, it’s quite simple. I refer people to the store in question and if they buy something from them via my referral I get a cut. The affiliate program I am with pays out 10% for all orders under $200 and 12% on orders over $200. I chose darts because it seemed like a market that wasn’t over saturated and not going anywhere. People have been playing darts for hundreds of years and it’s a vastly popular sport. Also, due to the nature of the game the content won’t need much maintence and the site can remain fairly static.

I am a big believer in having good quality content and not just pushing products ads down peoples throats and I think I did a really good job on diddleforthemiddle. Looking at some other dart sites on the net I honestly feel like I have made one of the best.

Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think. diddleforthemiddle.com