Back in 2008 I wrote a blog post cataloguing my domain portfolio. 8 years have passed and it is time to revisit the subject, as I enter a new phase of business planning and development. I’ll run through the list as it was then, update it and then look at the new additions to...
My Resolutions for 2015
It seems particularly typical of my current state of being that I am only writing my resolutions for the coming year on the 6th April. Particularly so as 2015 is an auspicious year. I turned 49 on New Year’s Eve last year, so this year marks the start of a new 7 year plan,...
Day 1316 – The Rebirth of Mummy Cool Part 2
I’m blogging about my journey in setting up a new startup affiliate marketing portal. You can read about the history of this project here. The site concept is to provide a portal enabling parents and prospective parents to compare maternity and baby products and accessories.
...Day 1316 – The Rebirth of Mummy Cool
Back in September 2009 I conceived an idea for a side project and Mummywear Maternity was born. We were having dinner with friends and discussing possible ideas for a web project. Perhaps because they had 5 children, and at the time we had 2, the conversation shifted to child-centric websites and I mooted the...
Work on what you want week!
It is all too easy to spend all of one’s life working to meet deadlines and catch up with outstanding work. I’ve just read about a neat idea to allow time to develop those personal projects which are easily often neglected in the day-to-day grind of paying the mortgage and school fees: “At Trigger.io,...
Day 4 – look and feel, baby
Yesterday, after everyone else was sensibly in bed, I burnt the midnight oil working on the new design of the Mummywear maternity site. I’ve taken what I feel to be the better aspects of the major retail sites in the industry and put them together in a fresh original design. Family feedback this morning was positive,...
Day 3 – slowly but surely builds the site
Today was mainly spent on routine work for Generation X – confirming a new client order, chasing up payment from existing customers and catching up on some development work. It was a productive day and I felt that I’d achieved a lot. However, this has left little time to work on Mummywear Maternity. It...
Day 2 – more baby steps
Moving on from yesterday’s post I’ve begun to work on my to-do list for Mummywear Maternity. I’ve created a favicon, uploaded the favicon file and added the relevant code to the index page of the site. I’ve also been working on some logo ideas based on the same theme. I’ve also been investigating the...
Day 1 – baby steps
Update on day one of the creation of new maternity fashion site, Mummywear Maternity. Today I have re-jigged the holding page, tweaking the layout slightly. I’ve also signed up for a new Google account for Mummywear and added the latest Google Analytics code to the website. I wanted to get a good web statistics...
Day zero – a brand is born
Talking with friends over dinner at the weekend the idea of a comparison site for maternity clothes cropped up. When we got back late on Saturday I surfed around and had a cursory look at the maternity wear market and competition. Jude and I talked it over, and yesterday I purchased three domains: www.mummywear.co.uk,...