Once you are pretty sure about the content of your website the next most important thing that you need to decide is a web hosting service that will host your website so that it is publically available on the internet. Personal web hosting services are becoming more popular nowadays as they are generally less expensive and also customizable. One main issue that you need to consider is the availability of sufficient bandwidth if your website contains videos and other stuff. Hence you can go for personal web hosting provided that it does not compromise with your bandwidth.

In order to make your website popular and widespread and earn a lot of money through website designing, you need to look well into certain issues such as the content of your website and also the web hosting service that you are choosing for your website. Deciding upon both of them correctly will only result to the success of your website.

1. When your markup is readable by humans
2. When your functionality degrades gracefully
3. When you can increase the text size willy nilly and it doesn’t break your layout
4. When your site works in Internet Explorer without you trying
5. When your site’s hierarchy is hierarchical even without your stylesheet
6. When your url structure makes sense
7. When you make a really awesome form
8. When the client says “this is great, this is exactly what we wanted” and you agree

This doesn’t hide the fact that comments shouldn’t be opened up for everything and this is clearly reflected on Jason Kottke’s site where he is very selective with which entry has comments open.

a. As was pointed out by Matt Mullenweg, there was indeed a “spammy tactic” being employed at this blog in the form of an “embedded a 1×1 pixel iframe loading the ping page for Ping-O-Matic on every one of the pages”.

b. This is against the policy of Splashpress in every sense. We sincerely apologize and own up to it, as has been recommended by Martin Neumann. It will not happen again on any of our sites and the person responsible is no longer associated with Wisdump or Splashpress.

c. Some of the comments on this blog have been moderated, as being “abusive“. As we haven’t gotten round to putting up a specific comments policy on Wisdump yet, we are using the criteria as laid out at another of our blogs, The Blog Herald.

This post is an apology to all concerned and for disclosure purposes only. Comments are closed.

Thanks for your time.

Sincerely,

Mark Saunders

Splashpress Media

It caused me a lot of shit that’s for sure, but that only made me stronger and helped me to understand where 100% of my focus needs to be. One day I’m sure I will talk about the lessons that I learned so hopefully many of you don’t make the same mistakes as me, but for now if you are interested go check out the auction if buying sites is your kind of thing.

The server move is complete so everyone should be able to see this entry and carry on ignoring me as usual.

Actually, you probably won’t read this so maybe I should address this to Anil because he seems to get around the web a bit more than you two. In any case I just wanted to say thank you for making Movable Type. Without it I’m not sure I would have gotten into blogging because it made my life easier. It brought me into this world and helped me make a name for myself. It gave me a voice that I didn’t know I had and allowed me to meet a lot of great people.

I was proud to be using the web’s most popular blogging software. I was happy that development seemed to occur at a constant pace. I was excited that a couple of people could work on their passions and be rewarded for doing so. I was pleased with the developer community producing useful plugins that allowed me to enhance my blog.

However, now I must say goodbye. Wisdump uses WordPress for many of the reasons that pushed me towards MT in the first place. Using WP, I am filled with the same excitement that I used to have with MT that I wish never left. I stuck around for as long as I could, endured two instances of losing data from my database and patiently waited a total of 90 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes for my templates and archives to rebuild. I’m not saying WP is any better than MT, I just feel better using it and to me, I am what is most important.

Even though I never met you, I always felt like I knew you through your blogging. Now I’m not even sure if you blog anymore at all. If Anil wasn’t around I wouldn’t even be sure if you guys still existed. I’m not even sure Anil still exists since there wasn’t any kickball this year at SXSW.

I know it’s not really your fault. You went corporate and had loftier ambitions. You had money to make and investors to please. I can’t say I blame you, but I wish it didn’t have to come to this. I wish you the best of luck in the future and maybe one day you will open source MT and it can return to its former glory.

Yours truly,

Scrivs

ps – Don’t worry because Business Logs still uses MT, but I can’t guarantee how long that will last.

When you decide to do a redesign, why not package up your old design as a theme and make it public for anyone to use with a link back to your site in the footer? Hell, some of us would be able to pump out 4-5 themes a year without even thinking about it simply because we change designs so often. Of course you might think that your hard work is meant only for you for all eternity.

Just something to think about.

I always joke and say if I can create the design then…well you get the point.

Don’t some messages deserve a more effective medium of communication? What has stopped you from exploring those different channels such as Flash, Sound and Video?