I released another new website today, based on 18 articles I purchased and had rewritten. The website itself will provide the viewer some tips and suggestions on planning that upcoming wedding. A wedding planner in and of itself is not a new concept for website development, but I hope we bring a more relaxed view on what the bride and groom to be need to do in order to prepare for their wedding.

I was dismayed when looking for domain names for a wedding site, to only find a suitable .info domain name.

This website now becomes our 8th website of 2006, and we now have met January’s quota for new or purchased websites.

This past weekend, I finished a website transaction which enabled Judy and I to purchase a consortium of diet and health websites. Most specifically, Judy and I bought Track Your Diet, which will allow you to keep track of your diet online easily and quickly. Select the items you eat and ‘let us do the number crunching for you’.

This site was a great purchase, and part of my growing scheme of buying and building websites that have nothing to do with genealogy. It also qualifies for meeting one of this years major goals for my business: building or buying one large website. This was a costly website, as we ended up paying $7250 for all of them. While the price was high, I do believe they are more then worth the cost.

This website counts as our 4th website of the new year; as we also obtained three other websites with it, this purchase brings the total of websites bought or built in 2006 to seven. Here’s the other three satellite sites:

Nutritional Information
This site contains nutritional information for over 20,000 food items including common foods and restaurants. The nutritional information database was constructed using information gathered from the USDA, personal resources and food information websites.

Free Calorie Counter
Free-Calorie-Counter.info provides you with Free Calorie information for over 21,000 food items

Food Nutritional Information (nutritional information from restaraunts)
How healthy is your restaurant?

We achieved our first sale for our Digital Camera Vault website today. Well not being a fortune, ANY sale is nice. In this case somebody needed 2 packs of digital photo paper, and found our site through Google, and ordered the paper. Nice… and I had to do no additional work to get the sale.

I was issued a “certificate of home occupancy” from the city of Columbus, Georgia today enabling me to work out of my home.

Family Tree Guide today was issued a business license from the city of Columbus, Georgia, so I am now officially considered a business inside the city limits. I had been here all along of course, just incognito.

All this just to cash one dang check…

In an attempt to establish a continued theme of food and drink websites, Judy and I have published today, a small website devoted to wine. While my pastor may not appreciate the subject matter, I do find a difference between indulging in wine, and the occasional glass of wine.

The website consists of 24 web articles concerning various wine regions, wine making, wine tasting, and much more. All content is based on articles we received, and then had rewritten. I built the website after the template from our healthy sauna site, which does remarkably well in Adsense.

Access Genealogy was built upon providing free genealogy for Americans. Our first large sets of databases were specific to Native American Genealogy. This month we’ve begun to add extensive historical resources for African Americans in the form of online books.

• History of Liberia
  This paper claims to be scarcely more than a brief sketch. It is an abridgment of a History of Liberia in much greater detail, presented as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University.
• The Fugitive Blacksmith
  Events In The History Of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor Of A Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly A Slave In The State Of Maryland, United States.
• Narrative of Lundsford Lane
  Embracing an account of his early life, the redemption by purchase of himself and family from slavery, And his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin.

It’s amazing to me how quickly time can fly in between posts, of what I wanted to be an multi-daily updated blog… mostly for business, sometimes for family and personal. So I’ll try to do better.

I received word to day that I was finally accepted into the Google Analytics program. This beta stats program introduced by Google should enable me to better track the success of any online adwords campaigns. With what appears to be an upcoming acquisition of an AdWords advertiser website and the recent acquisition of our statistics program, I find the need to have a better idea of how successful the money I spend on AdWords is. Glad to see Google provide a FREE option.

I got to go out and get the movies this weekend that my wife and I will watch on the new Samsung 32″ widescreen HDTV. This is a new luxury for us, and while the screen is not huge, we sit less then 10 feet from it, and its our first widescreen. But back to the subject… walking into Blockbuster I was highly dissappointed to see the lack of quality movies still left on the shelf… but what did I expect at 6pm on a Saturday evening??? So I was forced to go to the B movies (those with less then 3 copies total) and came across what appeared to be an interesting movie, Villa des Roses, and historical fiction. I love historical fiction!

When I arrived home I got the quiz from the wife. “What’s the movie about?” she says… “beats me” I reply, “I didn’t read any further then the fact it was historical fiction!” I love historical fiction! So after an hour or so of us each finishing up what we were doing (her a book… me, uhm… on this thing we call a computer… again) I popped the movie into the TIVO.

The movie opens up with a mother saying farewell to her son as she gets ready to board the train… only problem is, she and the child both speak in French. Uh-oh… did I just pick a foreign film??? Yep, Villa des Roses is a Belgian production directed by Frank Van Passel…  uh oh! I was getting that look again from my wife… you know, that one wives have that quietly says “Yep! You can’t even do a simple thing right like go down and pick up a movie!!!”

I was soon rescued from the glare when they began to speak in English… and we sat and watched a film set in Paris which centers around a beautiful boarding house maid and the turbulent love affair she sparks… ok! So I thought I was getting an historical fiction movie! It never said anything about a love story! But then I never read anything further then it was an “historical fiction” movie…

Seriously though, it was a good movie, and based upon the novel by Willem Elsschot. This movie had been rewarded the “Best Feature Film” at the 2002 Hollywood Film Festival… so I guess I didn’t choose all that bad… this time.

Judy and I have released our second website of 2006. Our goal is to build or purchase 2 websites a week, or a total of 100 websites this year. That’s quite an accomplishment for only two people, and would add on to the almost 100 websites we presently own and operate. We purchased the StatsCode website and software rights at the end of last year. Our new website is based upon that website counter and statistics program.

This is the blurb we’ll use to promote the website:

Are you in need of a free hit counter? How about a free hit counter, that is also a full blown statistics tool for your website? We offer an all in one tracking and statistics tool, hosted on our web server, for monitoring all of your website’s traffic activities!

The website is called Statisfy.com a play off of stats (short for statistics) and satisfy, (something we hope we can do for those needing a counter or stats program). This website is being built to simply resell down the road (6-18 months.) We hope to have this site sold before next year rolls around, but a lot will depend upon the growth of it. I plan to use this as an experiment to show visitors to our statscode website how they too can make their own counter and statistics website.

I received my first Pay by Check for an account at Family Tree Guide. Great! Now I get to do all the boring stuff that I’ve been putting off… like getting a business license so that I can open a bank account so that I have someplace to actually deposit this check…

Normally, most people choose to pay by credit card, or when they do choose to pay by check, they never actually send it to me…