Working On My Web Site

I finally finished a web site and published it in the beginning of this month, so lordxatl.com is up and running. Why just “a” web site? Because I know that this first web site of mine will be added to, modified and changed many times over. And that's the very reason why it took so long to publish.

After first purchasing the domain, it has taken me well over a month to finally make it public. I found myself trying to become an expert in everything involved in developing a web site and it was simply impossible. There are so many different areas of development that you can get yourself lost in. Picture and video management, template organization and even just learning how your particular hosting software works all can take considerable time to learn.

So I found myself trying to over do what I knew and was comfortable with and come up with the final web site I, in reality, should be building up to. I have an idea in my head of what I want eventually, but thinking more realistic, I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew. I spent quite a bit of time overdoing what I knew and that can become frustrating. And when you get frustrated, you tend to avoid the one thing that is making you frustrated.

So now I spent about a month suffering from information overload and only frustrating myself. The site I finally published recently is quite simple, no where near what I wanted it to be, but I figured I wanted to have my site active so I could at least experiment with driving traffic to it. You need a vast amount of knowledge in many different areas of Internet marketing and development to do what I dreamed of, but it just doesn't make sense to wait for the perfect site while not using it to sell at least one item and put the articles I have already written to good use.

I originally envisioned my site offering a few more items, but one in particular needs to see more site traffic before I can become an affiliate. What I may do is offer a similar item with a vendor who may be a little more forgiving for now and build more traffic, opening the door to the other vendors with the products I originally wanted. There are so many different directions I can go with this web site, it can seem intimidating. I really don't know how to operate the templates on my hosting account, so that alone is going to keep me busy for some time. While how much time it involves to properly and effectively translate my vision to the computer is still unknown, but I anticipate it to be substantial. Once I get a handle on it, I'm very optimistic of the potential of this site.