Alan Hood

It is not my goal to have the one giant website that appeals to everyone like a Yahoo portal. It is my goal to have many websites, each of which will cater to their own little niche of people who use them. This little empire will hopefully consist of about 50 websites by the end of 1 year. Starting the end of May 2007 the first few websites went on line, alongblog.com, masterwebtools.com, and hoodala.com started the group. It has taken a while to figure out exactly what software packages I want to use for each of them and 2 different canned sites have really stood out from the crowd as great pieces of software. Mambo and Wordpress are the best applications for what I am trying to build. Wordpress is just plain easy to use and has many options that make the site run smoothly. Mambo is a content management product that again is easy to use and powerful enough to do just about anything you want.

Now that there are almost 100 websites on line the biggest trouble is writing all of content that is necessary to fill that many sites. I still have a full time job, so just about every other waking minute is controlled by the mass of websites demanding attention. I am sure that once the sites are established and situated just the way I want them it will be much easier to concentrate on the content and it will flow much faster. What I really need though is some help.

Recruiting people to build content is not as easy as you might think. I even have to bribe my own family to write articles. I will keep everyone posted on the building of an empire and talk more specifically about each website and what has been done to and for them so far. To be continued…….