Evolution

Freelancing, Nomadic Lifestyle

As time goes on, my ideas for this site have changed and continue to change. As travel is a passion of mine and money is a necessity to travel, the theme of the site will stay the same – travel and remote/seasonal/contract work.

The site started as a misguided attempt at making money with websites. I haven’t done terribly, mind you, and the site is just three months old, so I certainly shouldn’t expect the world. The forum hasn’t done very well at all and will probably get ditched. Other things have done surprisingly well and will get more time dedicated to them. I built a few other sites at the same time as I built this one, all of them more blatant about their attempt to earn me an income, but, ultimately, what I’ve learned is that to make remote income, I should be building websites for other people. It’s work that I thoroughly enjoy and on sites like elance doing this type of work can prove quite lucrative.

I have been toying around a bit with php scripting, and in doing so have come up with this: a database of overseas contractors and seasonal employersIt’s not pretty, and I still have a pretty big ‘to do’ list of improvements but it is functional and I’m pretty proud that I put it together by myself, learning some valuable skills in the process.

Also, while perusing the forums at boots ‘n’ all someone gave me a good idea – it’s one of those quizzes that will help people narrow down where they want to go in different countries. I’ve always thought it would be a good idea to build a script that would help someone create a budget based on where they are traveling to. I may very well try to develop this also. Hrmm…might be a good idea for a WordPress plugin as well.

I’ve also been messing around with some of the wonderful features at google apps. I re-acquired a free vanity domain that I had several years ago and set up an email address to go with it via google apps. There are also some pretty slick features for domain name maintenance there. That doesn’t have a lot to do with future upgrades, at least not in a direct sense, but the tools will help in the development of this site.

Will @ September 7, 2008