Major Site Improvements Coming!
Dan on June 4th, 2006
I’ve decided to make a number of significant changes to the site. Here’s a list:
- New theme
- New image gallery
- Add a ton of images
- Move my other old blog (http://www.driverdan.com/stocks/) to this site (it keeps going over bandwidth on that host)
- Begin my summer project (see below)
- Add a forum as part of the summer project (see below)
- Possible addition of advertising
- More TBD
I have a general idea in my mind for the new theme. It’s going to be toned down a bit from the current one and a bit more simple. I’m not very happy with the current gallery so I’ll be removing it and putting up an entirely new one with a TON of new photos. I have a lot of stuff I haven’t posted.
My old blog (http://www.driverdan.com/stocks/) has gone over its max bandwidth for the past 3 months. It ran for one month and served its purpose well. Now I want to migrate it to this server and combine it with this blog. It would allow the traffic that site continues to get to be forwarded to this blog and thus increase the number of readers.
I’ve been thinking of adding advertising for a while. This site gets enough traffic to warrant it. Even if it makes me only a few bucks a month it’s worth it. I promise that if I do place ads on this site that they won’t be intrusive like you see on some blogs. I can’t stand that.
Finally my summer project. I’ve put a bit more thought into it and have decided on some of the specifics. I’m going to program it as a plugin for WordPress. It will fully integrate with the rest of the site, allowing for ease of both viewing and administration. It will allow management of a private investment fund I will be running. It will be quite unique in that I will be GIVING SHARES AWAY FOR FREE! It will NOT be open for direct investment (there is no legal way I could do that even if I wanted to). Shares will be given to people as gifts, donations, and bonuses for referrals on other sites. To provide support for the members I will be integrating a forum (most likely running phpBB). The forum will be open to the general public but will focus on my investment strategies and the fund.
I also have a few other ideas for improvements but they are not to the point of posting them. I will discuss them if I decide to implement them.
