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New Site – DynaPoll.net – Complete with WordPress Plugin!

I’ve just put live a new site called DynaPoll.net. It’s for what I believe is a unique approach to online polls. These polls are dynamic as the answers to the poll question evolve as people participate.. They evolve because the participants get to choose the poll answers!

Anyway.. so the site is up and running and a friend told me I should create a Wordpress Plugin for it.. Which I’m incredibly pleased to say I was able to do over the course of the last couple of nights! I think it works… And this post is the test subject for my plugin!

I’ve removed a heap of rubbish from this site recently too and so I had these three boxes on home page which didn’t have a purpose! Now they do – they contain a poll from DynaPoll! Below is a random poll generated by the Wordpress plugin. It shows a different poll randomly as the page is loaded.

Poll Question: What's your favourite fruit?

You can vote for current most popular:


  • Don't agree with any of the answers above? Type your answer below.
  • Enter a number between ten and 4:
  •   

Posted: Friday, April 9th, 2010
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My Blog is boring

I pretty much haven’t made a blog post since I posted about my new exciting project idea. Well that’s because I’ve been working on it every spare hour I have for the last 4 or so months. The site has gone live now but not going to advertise or mention it just yet. Currently the front page is blank except for a customer login. I have one customer that is currently using my software and providing fantastic feedback on issues and/or ideas for improvement.

So I’m currently spending my time working on those new ideas but also all the other things I have planned for the software. Quite mysterious I guess?

The site is for Online hosted theatre ticket management. My software enables theatres to manage the sale of their tickets to their performances for their productions. It’s in the early stages as I mentioned but I do have a customer using it right now to manage their ticket sales and it’s going really well. I have heaps of ideas for the product and I’m not afraid of the competitors (which to be honest i have only recently discovered properly! meh!).

I’ll do a big reveal when the time is right – it’s only 60% of what it can be so far and no front marketing page so I’m Mum’s the word for now. :)

Posted: Friday, November 13th, 2009
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I’ve got a new project!

I have finally found a new project to work on! I’m very excited about this one! I didn’t think of the idea myself but instead I was asked if I could create a web application for a “place” and I thought “Wow what an excellent application”.. They may pay me up to $5k for it which would be reasonable for what it is but I think they might end up with it a little cheaper than that! I’ve decided to create a hosted version of this and provide it to lots of other “places” in Australia and .. why not… all over the world!

The worst thing about this stage of developing something new is the fact that I can’t get enough done in one day! I want it to be a reality right now but instead I have to spend all this time developing it.

As usual I have started with the aspects that I am most afraid of.. and these have worked out brilliantly! I’ve been working on this for 3 days now and I am very happy with how it is going but unfortunately it will be at least another 60 odd days before I might be anywhere near finished. The more I think about this the more I realise there is to do! But I’m really excited and hopeful that it’s finally going to be my cracker web application that I might actually make some cash off! :)

What’s more… I’m doing video diaries every night on my progress which I think will make interesting viewing.

Posted: Friday, July 17th, 2009
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New WordPress Site

WordPress Site for Michelle

WordPress Site for Michelle

After having truly “discovered” the power of WordPress I was pretty keen to do another site with it. So this is my first site with WordPress that is for someone else. I am just as impressed with WordPress after this site as I was when I used it to re do my site.

Comedy Tragedy Masks

Comedy Tragedy Masks

Considering my design skills are normally pretty ordinary (and I might be delusional here) I think this site turned out really nice! The big design aspect which I had to work with was the image of Michelle in the banner but the rest of the site I designed myself. I even took some scraggy Comedy/Tragedy masks from somewhere out there on the internet and traced over just some of the facial features to create a useful and appropriate blog post divider image :)

I’m looking forward to working on another one of these – in the meantime I’m going to play around and figure out some more cool things that can be done with WordPress.

Posted: Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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