Thursday, September 14, 2006

Weird Nations - The UK Branch

Well, another quick new site to report, and another delay to the big personal business site I need to finish. Due to the timing of things in the web world it's more financially productive if I can get new sites up, supported and part of the fabric of the web than one big site. So I'll keep kicking out these little things - I have a load of them in my head I want to do and then just leave them to take on their own life.

The latest one is one a domain I've owned for a while, but had parked. The weird sites I've set up were part of a plan to do a big site for each nation in Britain. Whilst Weird Wales and Weird England are up and fine, they were really big jobs. I own the domains for Weird Ireland and Weird Scotland, but just can't commit to doing them just yet.

However, with the Weird Nations Forum being up and running with sections devoted to the 4 nations, I thought I'd get the UK version of Weird Nations off the parked domain service and stick up some stuff there that both aggregated the various content streams I have from the nations, and is a new site with material for the bigger Weird Nations forum.

So, in less than 2 days, Weird Nations - The UK Branch is up and ready. The site is quite basic on my typical CSS templates that I'm hammering recently. But, on top of the site I've also set up a competition and sent my first ever Newsletter - all little things that help build the community and are new things for me.

I'm especially pleased with the separate region pages which in the case of a couple of them are pulling content in from 3 separate sites. The Weird England page is a good example of what it's doing. The content on the pages depends a lot on the user generated content at the feeder sites.

It's all go. And today we put our house on the market. Busy? Don't you believe it...

Posted by Dio Bach at 22:53

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