varuscelli
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Looks like we're going to have a photostringer.com now.
Because of the great level of response to this little project, I decided today to start work on removing the stringing machine photo project from my main website and to give it a place of its own.
While there's enough of a connection between this image library and what I do for a living as a photographer to justify keeping it there, I think I might end up doing an injustice to the tennis-related side of things by hiding it deep within my regular site and mixing it with things like weddings, portraits, and the like. So, this afternoon (after receiving roughly the 200th stringing machine photo of the day) I made a decision to give the project its own site.
If I don't take action and do this now, I'm afraid it's going to get really out of hand and be a monster for me to try and move later. So, before the image base gets too large, I'm going to put it all on a site called photostringer.com (Don't go there yet! All you'll see is my photography website.) It will likely take me a day or so to get this done, I'm guessing.
I hope this is the right thing to do, but as it is I run a half dozen or so basic sites and I really think this one deserves a place of its own. Potentially, it might grow into something significant enough that we'd want it found easily. If it has it's own domain name, that will make the project more of an entity of it's own and not a subcategory of a photography site.
I looked for some suitable names, but if you've ever done any searching for website names that are short and sweet, you soon find out that other Internet entrepreneurs have grabbed most them up.
But instead of trying to name it something like:
tennisracquetstringingmachinephotolibraryproject.com
I found the shortest and sweetest name I could with the related terms "photo" and "stringer." And since it was available, I grabbed it.
Now we're going to have a photostringer.com site to post photos for this project. (Best I could think of for something that was actually available.)
That might sound like I'm going a bit overboard, but what have we got to lose? I don't mind hosting it. I've got that part down well enough with other sites that adding one more is no big deal. If it flounders, nothing's really lost other than the cost of the domain name and maybe $50 in hosting fees for the year. Then again, the way it's going we might end up with something really special on our hands.
As a side note, those guys at Alpha Tennis are smart. I already knew that, but as I was searching for website names, I figured out how well they planned ahead on their own website side. <big wink> (I know that's a mysteriously vague thing to say, but those guys are crafty AND provide good customer service. Cool!)
Al Ruscelli
vruscelli@houston.rr.com
http://www.photostringer.com
Because of the great level of response to this little project, I decided today to start work on removing the stringing machine photo project from my main website and to give it a place of its own.
While there's enough of a connection between this image library and what I do for a living as a photographer to justify keeping it there, I think I might end up doing an injustice to the tennis-related side of things by hiding it deep within my regular site and mixing it with things like weddings, portraits, and the like. So, this afternoon (after receiving roughly the 200th stringing machine photo of the day) I made a decision to give the project its own site.
If I don't take action and do this now, I'm afraid it's going to get really out of hand and be a monster for me to try and move later. So, before the image base gets too large, I'm going to put it all on a site called photostringer.com (Don't go there yet! All you'll see is my photography website.) It will likely take me a day or so to get this done, I'm guessing.
I hope this is the right thing to do, but as it is I run a half dozen or so basic sites and I really think this one deserves a place of its own. Potentially, it might grow into something significant enough that we'd want it found easily. If it has it's own domain name, that will make the project more of an entity of it's own and not a subcategory of a photography site.
I looked for some suitable names, but if you've ever done any searching for website names that are short and sweet, you soon find out that other Internet entrepreneurs have grabbed most them up.
But instead of trying to name it something like:
tennisracquetstringingmachinephotolibraryproject.com
I found the shortest and sweetest name I could with the related terms "photo" and "stringer." And since it was available, I grabbed it.
Now we're going to have a photostringer.com site to post photos for this project. (Best I could think of for something that was actually available.)
That might sound like I'm going a bit overboard, but what have we got to lose? I don't mind hosting it. I've got that part down well enough with other sites that adding one more is no big deal. If it flounders, nothing's really lost other than the cost of the domain name and maybe $50 in hosting fees for the year. Then again, the way it's going we might end up with something really special on our hands.
As a side note, those guys at Alpha Tennis are smart. I already knew that, but as I was searching for website names, I figured out how well they planned ahead on their own website side. <big wink> (I know that's a mysteriously vague thing to say, but those guys are crafty AND provide good customer service. Cool!)
Al Ruscelli
vruscelli@houston.rr.com
http://www.photostringer.com
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