Old Domain, Old Design, Old Script, Renewed Passion

Several years ago, 2004 to be exact I found myself developing websites like crazy.  At this time I was a domainer, but I was not a complete domainer.  The projects I worked on would fall by the waste side and I would just move onto the next one.  The incomplete projects reflected my passion as a domainer.  I truly didn’t see a path, I didn’t know where this world of domaining would lead.  One of the projects I left for the dogs was theforumdirectory.com, I got as far as purchasing the domain, a custom design and a script.  I even hired a coder to skin the script with the design.

The site even went live, but the coder did a horrible job and I found myself loosing interest in the project.  Here is a small sample of what the site looked like when it went live.  At this time I didn’t have a process for developing domain names.  I let almost any coder handle my projects and spent more time and money then needed on development.  In short I was throwing money at projects and trusting that it would work out in the end.  Sometimes it would work and sometimes it would not work.  It was a 50 / 50 shot.  Every now and then I tend to revisit some of these old projects and even though there has been money spent on development costs I feel that I can correct the problems that occurred in the past with a renewed scope and passion to complete the projects properly.

One of the main reasons I am revisiting this project is because I feel it will be a great learning experience and it will help with the development of the datacenterdirectory.com project.  Once I develop a successful directory site I can then move forward with developing the professional data center project without any drawbacks.  Directory sites have always been a fascination of mine and I want to prove to myself that I have the experience and skill to successfully launch such a site.  In the coming weeks there will be several updates made in regards to theforumdirectory.com and I look forward to updating all of you on this.  The script I will be using is indexu and the design will be the same which I had created for me years ago.  The only difference this time is I have the passion and direction to see this project through its final stages.