I have started the creation of a new site. I’m not really sure where I got the idea for this one really and I haven’t looked but i would assume this is very similar to many others already made. But that’s cool. The site is www.onewordpicture.com.

One of the main reasons for doing the site was as the basis for a quite extensive series of video tutorials. What I did (up until how the site looks right now) is record every single moment of the development. So I have High Definition screencast footage of the entire creation of the site – including all the umming and arring.

At the moment I haven’t done any voice over and I think a lot of the video will need to be edited so it’s not too boring but I think that if I was just starting out I would have found this fly on the wall video tutorial invaluable. I hope that my subscribers on Youtube and many others do.

I would say it would take me a good 20 hours – probably more – to get the videos commentated and uploaded etc and so I was thinking about finding a way to charge to view them. Like for example $5 for series or $1 a video or something. There will be about 20-25 hours of video and commentary.. Obviously no one reads this blog but if you do happen to stumble along from youtube and see this blog entry – please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Ok well this is funny to me anyway – funny enough to inspire me to make a blog entry which is clearly a very rare occasion!

A user just signed up to DynaPoll and I was bcc’ed on the registration confirmation (as is usual practice). The username that they chose and were granted because it had not already been taken was… admin

Oops! That should have been mine damn it! ahahah

Anyway DynaPoll is going fairly OK.. It’s early days of course so I am not expecting too much for now. I hope that traffic picks up soon and people start creating more polls and more people come to participate. All the feedback that I get on DynaPoll style polls is that they are an excellent idea. A few people have put them on their blogs and that’s worked really well so far. The biggest problem I would have thought would have been Spam on the polls but (touch wood) so far that hasn’t been a problem at all!

I’ve been inspired and yet slightly demoralised recently by spending a little time each day reading the blog at 37 Signals. Those guys are very clever and astute businessmen / entrepreneurs. I have a niggling feeling that despite my most strongest desires and my endless hard work I may never be able to see a tiny tiny fraction of their success. However they and their circle do provide me with a glimmer of hope that one day I will stumble on something that hasn’t been done or hasn’t been done well and I will be able to make a success out of it.

I guess in the 2 or so years since I decided to start teaching myself this HTML/PHP stuff my sites/ideas have been more popular each time. Storytimed only receives visits from spam bots and search bots. Our Biggest Loser is growing very little by very little but is currently receiving a couple of hand fulls of visitors a day and the same can be said for DynaPoll so far…

So there is hope!