i need a break

keeping myself busy

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
at 1:57pm

Although i may not be earning much these days, i’m probably working harder than ever before. This blog is looking and performing better than it’s ever done before and i’m determined to grow it further.

BeerChief is of course literally days away from being launched in private BETA mode so there’s an awful lot of work to be done for that. It’s work that most people wouldn’t bother with, but i’m trying to make every single detail ‘perfect’.

Bit by bit i’m getting there. For example the email addresses are using squirrel mail, but i want them linked in to our existing gmail addresses so that any mail we get is forwarded on to our current email accounts. That way we can deal with it instantly.

Again, normally it’s not a problem but because we’re on a dedicated server it makes things more difficult. But i’ve figured out the problem anyway so it’s one less item on my ‘list of things to perfect’.

I also have to get the BeerChief blog back working… i’m trying to move it to a subdomain with little success but i won’t give up. When i do get it up, i also have to customize the design to match our new site design. Then i’ve to install all the latest plugins, bla bla… i haven’t even gotten to content yet. And that’s just the blog, with regards the site itself, i’m also trying to tie up deals with plugin programmers to install additional features on BeerChief.

Content-wise, i have to create a full list of beers with short blurbs and pictures… i also have to update our blog, send out emails… implement a custom 404 page, favicon, send out a newsletter…

Then we have the usual emails back and forth to my Adam (co-founder) plus my daily blogging here at smemon.com.

I still have to create some ads for the sidebar and experiment with a leaderboard at at the top of the page.

It’s not all fun and games you know :mrgreen: The rewards, if there are any, will not come today or tomorrow… but when they do come, it’ll all have been worth it :mrgreen:

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