|
the concept
|
Story behind the making of MyTechFinds.com
|
-
What's going on
Its been a while I wrote about what's going on. As you know I have finished creating a website for my badminton club here, there are a lot of features added like - events, registration forms etc. Please take a look at http://www.bellevuebadminton.com. You can also see the proshop - online shop for the same club being built by me at http://bellevuebadminton.com/proshop. Beware, the site is fully functional, so don't buy anything or else you will end up $$ bill on your card :) Let me know how you find the site and any suggestions...
-
First Live Project Complete
The badminton club website I had been talking about in many of my previous posts is finally complete and is live! You can check it out at http://bellevuebadminton.com This is my first web development project and I am pretty happy with the result.
The site has some cool features like calendar and google map on the contact form and some simple online forms.
The google analytics shows the success of this new site.Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
 
-
Some steady progress
It's been long that I updated on what's going on. It has been a steady progress on getting content on www.mytechinds.com. I try to get an article once in a while when I come across new stuff during my work. Really, this was the whole idea behind the project, rather than to expect it to compete with similar technical information sites. So, I am pretty okay with the progress, I would love to see more frequent updates, but it is little hard to run the show that way alone.
On the sideline, the website for the badminton club I talked...
-
What's next
With MyTechFinds.com built and ready to roll, I have started spanning my options. The site is not getting enough traffic just as yet because we have not yet advertised it. So, I am putting together a plan to advertise it, may be in stages, with a small beta-release amogst friends and family to see how we handle the site managment and then go with a wider audeience. But otherwise, things look good on mytechfinds.com front for now.
On a side note, my extra hrs put in to build myetechfinds.com site is bringing in...
-
Google search caught us
We have started publishing niche content articles on mytechfind.com now, and we are getting in a steady paced progress. As I said earlier, it is not an easy job. But we are definitely starting to see results and Google is better understanding our site now. Some of the articles have already made to the top search page on Google. To be specific, 2 of my articles have made it all the way to the top for certain search queries. This is exciting!
I have spend a lot of time working on SilkTest, UI automation tool and in the early days,...
-
Content is king
"Content is king", you might have heard this term, but I realized it. So, mytechfinds.com is ready with all aspects, the core structure is built and ready to go. I even have revamped the books tab to show amazon store through amazon affiliates program. Haven't got any clicks, but it works great and is very easy to set up. Definitely gave birth to new ideas.
Coming back to content, mytechfinds.com has some niche content now. I have contributed 4 articles out of 6. We are going slower than expected, but that is okay. Content is king - and it really...
-
Where are the articles?
Mytechfinds project is up and running within 2 weeks with Joomla and Google. But we are not do even close to be done. Where are the articles for the site? Now, that is a slow process.
We have some masters of their domains - C#, C++, SQL and then software testing. All of us are gone back to pen and paper to put down our first article for the site. I am not sure where is eveybody at but we had decided to put up one article each by this weekend, that is by tomorrow. I have not...
-
The Google cloud
As I saw that the concept can be brought to life, I realized that we are going to need some tools to make the project work, mainly because we are in two locations, few folks in India and myself here. So better communication is going to play a key role in this whole exercise. Google came to our help! Within a day, I had set (almost) all the tools I think we would need for project managment using Google services - I created a new project on code.google.com which has lots of good and advanced features, but I was...
-
Chapter one
So, there I was, with a new domain. I had no clue to where to go from there. I had not talked about it even to my wife for 2 days was I as not sure where I was going with it. I had seen some videos and read a lot of articles over the internet, where everyone was saying putting up website is not at all hard these days and anybody can do it! So, I played around with all sorts of site building tools offered by my host. I knew one thing for sure that for a technical...
-
The new old concept
I have been working as a software tester for almost 7 years now, while in India or during my first 4 years of working, i was busy catching up with all about the software and software testing buzz. I appeared and cleared for some testing certifications like CSQA and ISTQB foundation to keep up with market demands. But it the "concept" did not struck me till I came to US for work and seen people going beyond their boundaries of work duties to fullfil their inner desires. I saw people caring about what they like, nurturing their hobbies, learning new...
|
