wow! that's a lot of great ideas ssmorgan. I will have to sit a think about each one carefully. Only if i could for see what will work and that way i can start taking my website in that direction. The fact that everything is trial and error and you don't know what you're doing is going to work...is what drives you crazy about all this.
I have had my site up for month and a half now. Traffic is under 100 visits a day and i have 22 pages so far.
I do freelancing on the side but not much. Not sure if advertising my web development skills on my site will actually land me any customers. Not sure if i want to do freelancing anymore. Its a lot of headache and people expect you to do the job really cheap.
I like your idea of targeting towards students. They would present a perfect target. I suppose i could go back to my university and let me computer science professor know about my site and he can pass it it around to his students. The tutorials on my site could be a great help to students getting started with PHP. He teaches a web development course and covers a bit of PHP in his syllabus.
I could also launch a mini job site with in my php site for college students and fresh graduates where they can post, share and find tech jobs.
Speaking of different applications in PHP. I have digg like community portal web application which i made in spare time some time ago. I suppose i could release the source code of that app as oa pen source project. That would sure get people coming to my site. But do i want to give that out for free? I don't know. I worked too hard on it. I want to make a buck off it if i'm going to give the source code away. But then again i don't know if that is going to work or im just gonna set myself up for another disappointment.
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Can you possibly collect their emails in return of the downloads? You can market it as you will update them about new updates to the website or new and cool stuff in the world of PHP.
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Last few days i've been thinking about expanding the site and adding more features to for the users. I'm talking to designer for improving the site design and im thinking of introducing a members area to the site where people can leave comments. With that adding a new letter would be great addition too. thanks for the brilliant idea. thank
So expect a lot great things to come on my site in the next few weeks
