Finished my old list and started a new one: Merendi ------- Add Blog Movie Vault ----------- Add new poll Fix Paradise Now review Change News Template confirmation screen Modify JS on reviews page to show 2 more years Add mod_rewrite redirection r?url like blogger Poker Forums ------------ Write the freaking goddamn book review omfg Add two items to the store Add templating for bodog and missy one Update traffic on advertising page and increase footer link by $1 Domain Forums ------------- Move the Admin - Mod thingamgig See what I can do to fit the 'Pay Per Click Forums' ad in Change banner price to 125

Sold one already :P

Hehe, just sold Blurdy.com for $50. Look, I already made back like 33% of my investment :P

Introducing...

meaghan.org waroniran.net rastafarianism.net rastafarianism.org alienforums.net alienforums.org waronoil.com petrolwar.com lubricated.org pokerforums.tv pokerdiscussion.net pokerdiscussion.org pokerdiscussion.info babyforums.org newmothers.net blurdy.com chorter.com compressing.net yuak.com reexecuted.com demagnify.com resented.net impassive.net

22 Domains

I just bought 22 domains. I'll post them here for the curious in maybe 6 hours or so once they should be well on their way to being registered. My goal? To simply buy and sell them and see how much I profit. If I make $100 total profit, I'll consider it to not be a failure. If I make $300 profit, I'll consider it to be not a waste of my time. If I make $500 profit, I'll consider it to be worthwhile. If I make $1000+ profit, I'll consider it to be a reasonable source of income. ORDER TOTAL: $158.40 I'll also consider it to be a success if I sell any one domain for $158.40+

Sexy is it not?

Look sexy? http://www.gymnasticsforums.com/ I think it looks mighty sexy if you ask me :-)

VICTORY IS MINE!!

I did it! I finally fixed the stupid JS errors.... RAWRRRRrrr! Man.. you have no idea how annoying those were. And guess what? That's right. I solved it. I SOLVED IT! I know why vBulletin does that now - well maybe not exactly why, but I know what causes it, and how to fix it. That's good, because it used to pop up sporadically when I made template changes, and I did a really old method of fixing it before, but now I can do it much quicker from now own. Ahh.. feels good.. now I can get back to finishing my latest 'list'. On a more sane line of thought now, I've 'scrapped' about half my domains, and have around 20 or so left - I'm deciding which once I want to go ahead and register. I think they are good, but the question is - will others.. and which all should I throw away? Too bad I didn't find any real nice ones (x,xxx). Sigh. But yeah, I'm pretty sure that from now on, if I want to do any domain buying/selling - I'll do it by trying to buy existing ones from people...

Waste of time

Blah. I just spent over 2 hours looking for domains.. acquired a list of about 50, was fairly excited, then went to pay for them, and realized they weren't too great after all. I've since removed half from my list, and am rapidly removing more. I dunno, I'm thinking maybe I should give up on looking for available/deleted domains, and start e-mailing more owners of existing domains, ones that don't know the true worth and potential of them, and making offers. Either that or get off my ass and start working on my actual sites.. bah..

I need to get cracking

Man, I need to get cracking. Frankly, I'm embarrased about the small amount of money I'm making now - and I'm embarrased with my sites, my skills, and the time I commit to my sites... I just have no energy is all... sigh. Anyhow - talked to j0n today... proposed a type of business deal of sorts. He seemed somewhat interested, however the main problem lies in not knowing exactly what the outcome would be.. it would be a bit of risk on both our parts, but it is certainly a good opportunity. I don't know, I normally am very against partnering up, but this isn't partnering up really - it's a business deal... it's different.. I'm only against a site being owned by more than one person, as that can create many problems.. blah I'm getting off topic here. Anyhow, Jon is resourceful and could come up with the $xx,xxx I'm sure. Hmm.. I'm still procrastinating to work on that damn JS error :P I may buy a couple of domains today just so I can feel like I did some work today..

I wish I knew HTML

I wish I knew HTML, and CSS, and Perl, and PHP, and MySQL, and photoshop. But I don't. It really slows me down, and stops me from getting all my crazy good ideas and dreams to be implemented. Sigh. Anyhow, today I just did some template work on DF... got a couple guys to help me get the latest threads hack and template system going, I installed the plug-in for active users in the past 24, which with vb3.5's plug-in system was insanely easy - I'm liking this plug-in system a lot. Edited a header image, some other minor stuff too. I'm still procrastinating on tackling/finishing this stupid JS error thing on PoFo... god.. I hate that aspect of vB.. it's a bug.. and ARG it's annoying blargggggg

Blah

I hired a few people recently to update DF... unfortunately, it didn't go nearly as perfect as I had wanted it to.. First off, the revamped 'skin' is poor. There are javascript errors, and the guy missed a lot of things I had told him to do, such as add the "Mark all forums as read", etc. Also, I don't notice much of a colour change regarding text... Turns out that two mods installed do not work on 3.5.0 and they have been temporarily removed from the site. I have to wait until/if they are upgraded to 3.5.0 before I can reinstate them. An unexpected result from the skin, the latest threads list from the left side will not work on 3.5.0 unless you get a custom hack for it.. but it's not a huge loss. I may fill that space with more ads, or a little bit of an add to domain portfolio or something. On the plus side, I'm sure that Aros the skinner, will make the necessary changes. And the hacks should come out, at least for uShop, as it's a very popular vB hack. When is another question. On a side note, I've modified my blog here a little bit on the right side.

100

Set up yet another deal where a pokerroom paid/credited an account with us for $100 so we can review their site. I just get my friend/fellow poker player Melissa to review them and let her keep the money. I get the review. Did 2 and a half things from my 'list' late last night.. only half on one because I got javascript errors halfway through I couldn't fix... ugh. not looking forward to tackling that again...

Hahaha I love me...

I love being me.. My e-mail to one of the poker affiliates: "I think you should up my percentage from 30% to 35% since I'm a large player in the poker website business. Giving me 35% will allow me to recruit a lot more players, and a lot faster." Their reply: "Hi Tyler, Done. You will be at 35% commission. Do you want to do the sliding scale for players or no? Please get the word out to your customers and really push this thing. Best Regards, Mark"

Shirts for everyone!

Ah.. forgot to mention: The other day I bought nice PFO (PokerForums.org) shirts for all my moderators on my poker forum. Just as a thank-you for helping moderate the site, and to keep them happy and working hard :) Happy workers = good thing. Today I also hired the original skinner of the DF skin to revamp it. I paid him extra to do complete it at a faster date (by tomorrow). This revamp will do a lot for the site IMHO, and it will be 3.5.0 compatible as well :)

Note

Note to self: I remembered another really good site idea. It's about "What's the name..." (so others dont run with my idea)... If programmed correctly, could be AMAZING.. however, it would require a large database and good programming.. .

Odds and Ends

Went through a few emails, signed up a new player for Eurobet, changed a wrong url link for ultimate bet on PoFo :(

Skin skin skin

A dude hooked me up with a URL of a vb skinner dude.. and he looks to have some decent stuff in his portfolio.. nothing too great, but enough that I'm interested. E-mailed him and hope to get in touch with him soon.. The Internet lacks vbskinners, designers, and coders... it's amazing..

Yet another advertiser for DF

Yes sirs, That's four. Four advertisers *count dracula laugh*. Okay, no more updates on advertisers anymore since the balls rolling. I think I'm gonna make my $10,000 a month goal :) 2006 Toyota Camry, here I come!

I lurve the Internet

Just got a THIRD advertiser.. this time for a partner link. So, that's about $75 a month so far coming in from DF, not counting AdSense which is about another $15 making a total of $100. See how fast it grows? I told you. It will be an ongoing $200 a month soon, then $500 a month...

w00t! 2nd advertiser

DF just got another advertiser.. that's awesome.. balls a rollin' now folks. Soon I'll be able to add another $100, then $200, then $500 a month to my earnings..

Mutiny on the Bounty

Interesting bit of uprising on DF: http://www.domainforums.com/showthread.php?t=844&page=1&pp=10

Couple more done

Added the staff contest and fixed the JS error - woohoo.. i love cleaning that js error.. takes a bit of time, but i hate seeing that little yellow js error icon on the bottom left of ie... hopefully vB will make it easier in 3.5.. whenever I manage to upgrade to that...

Did the first 3 from my list for MoVa.

DomainForums.com gets it's first advertiser

DomainForums.com gets it's first advertiser! Sure, it's just a footer link and only $15 a month, but hey, it's a start, and hopefully the start of many advertisers. I've put the link up which was surprisingly painless and I'm going to add it to my logs now. w00t. Here comes the money babyyyy

Work work work

Last night I decided I should get back to doing at least a little bit of work, since I've been getting so many kind words and kudos from people, and I feel I have a name and reputation to live up to now... so I wrote another 'list' of todo's on my sites.. since this is a journal and also meant to help others, here is the list: Blog Customize a bit update Movie Vault Add image to wallace news change best/worst movies from 2004 to 2005 on archive page add 2005 academy award winning film add new staff contest, increase prize pool by $5 PokerForums Fix navbar javascript error Request review for PacificPoker Request review for EmpirePoker Add image popup js to site reviews page GymnasticsForums Populate Threads with old archive DomainForums Post on 3 sites looking for a new vb skinneroffer $20 'referral' reward to anyone who hooks me up with a skinner i end up using Change advertising alexa link from pofo to dofo :P Create thread asking for other forums for me to promote advertising Submit to google, yahoo, and dmoz I've already finished the 'blog ones' now.. I usually do about 2 or so from my lists a day.. but lately I've been so busy and preoccupied with other things so we will see how things go...

Birth of a Blog

Hello, I've decided to give into peer pressure and create a blog due to an overwhelming number of requests :) I will start the blog by stating that Sitepoint linked to my "five months later" thread on their front pages. Now I feel bad for writing it quickly and poorly... The point of this blog will be to simply keep a journal of what I do in regards to my websites. A major reason for my agreeing to start one was that I think maybe it will help motivate me, or make me feel guilty when slacking, and get me back up and working on my websites. My GOAL is simple: to average $10,000 USD a month from income off of my websites. This will not include sales of my websites, and will only count for profit. At this time of writing, I am averaging around $4000 a month - my goal is to make $10,000 USD a month by September 2006. P.S. I chose to make this blog's template pinkish as I thought it'd be funny and different, so get used to it, because I'm not changing it :)