I was speaking to Con earlier on today when he mentioned he was hoping to get a website up, for his joinery (carpentry? whatever the right term is) work. I explained the basics of what was needed – a basic idea of how the site should look, choosing a name, register it and find somewhere to host the files etc. CRJoinery.com should soon be hitting your screens (I’ll make the link live once it leads somewhere), if all goes to plan, so if anyone in the South Gloucestershire region is looking for some high quality wood stuff (OK, dovetail joints and chisels were never my forte at school, you may notice), make sure you check back for the site soon.
Until he has enough money generated from the site to cover his costs, I’m hoping to host him on my server, something which we still need to sort for Alex’s blog (Dryad Musings, more on that site later).
(Not a commercial/sponsored post, though if Con wants to buy me a drink for this plug, I’ll not refuse…)
December 21st, 2008 5:24 pm
The .com will generate many USA visitors, indeed International as well, will Con be able to sell to that audience?
If not, I suggest considering getting the .co.uk version AS WELL so you get more UK TYPE-IN traffic.
Redirect the .com to the .co.uk if not wanting double hosting fees.
But then I am 1.5 years away from my free bus pass so what do I know, if I knew enough I would get more traffic that 3K a month to all 20 domains I own per month.
Good luck with it all.
Phil
December 23rd, 2008 11:36 pm
Thanks for your thoughts. You’re right re. co.uk and com, though .com would only be for uk customers who assumed the extension, as his target audience is South England. I was just texting him this evening about it, definitely will redirect one to the other. Hope your traffic steadily increases 🙂
January 5th, 2009 12:08 am
Thanks for the advice gents and now, thanks to Chris, conjoinery.com and conjoinery.co.uk is about to go live to the world- so watch this space!
I am offering local joinery services primarily although I can build furniture to be shipped abroad, however don’t expect this will happen much.
January 5th, 2009 12:05 pm
The .com is online but the .co.uk does not exist yet. I will add a link to the conjoinery.com site on some of my sites.
January 5th, 2009 1:58 pm
Thanks a lot for the reminder. I stupidly put in the hosting company’s nameservers for the .co.uk, and as the redirect is being done earlier than that, it didn’t work 🙂
All sorted now, though obviously may have to wait a little for changes to propagate out.
Nice site btw, good subject.