Kicking off my small business ideas.

To get my business ideas off the ground, I will need to learn some new technologies that will allow me to create a presence on the internet. Right now, I am learning to walk before I run. I’ve discovered that every day, there’s always something to absorb from cyberspace that will help shape my site’s goals. Granted I’m a novice, but I’m hoping to ramp up on my blog design in a few days or weeks. I wish I had a mentor who could teach me some of these things one-on-one, but for now, I must be content with the vast resources of the web to help me with my modest blog design attempts. This will be a work in progress for a good long time! I have realized a few things I thought I’d share. If you are a noob at this, you may want to keep these in mind:

  • you will never be content with your initial blog template
  • your initial attempts at configuring your layouts will fail miserably and will, unfortunately, suck
  • you will be frustrated and will be resigned to hair ripping moments
  • you will need to save your templates often
  • you will need some basic editing tools to help you
  • you will want to defer adding too many custom doodads to your site until after you’ve settled on a basic layout
  • you will appreciate web designers a hell of a lot more than you did before
  • you will no longer be stunned by the stratospheric fees web designers charge

…and this coming from a server-side J2EE/database engineer.

Hopefully, this experience will mark the start of a productive journey towards creating an online home business and a way out of cubicle employment somewhere down the line!