New Website - Advice Appreciated  

hi badpenny, thanks for responding, I've certainly done that already thats how I have gotten the ones that are already there. I find that getting referrals from other people can be more beneficial, for instance, affiliates sometimes offer a two, three or more tier program. So if someone refers from here they will get soemthing out of it too, plus I would like to here people personal experiences with the affiliates they have joined.

Oh and eventually when things get going I do hope to develop my own affiliate program.

Thank you very much for your response. You're right, the themes are quite different, I'm leaning more toward tshirts and artistic perhaps craft type sites.

I do however have a blogspot blog which is similar in theme at the moment. I'm planning to change it and start posting more about my ventures getting going with my new site and releasing how I modified the wordpress blog (its currently in draft at the moment as I'm making changes to the theme of my blog) and the process of what has worked and what hasn't for me.

I've added you as a friend if thats ok and I can message you more about the blog if you like :)

I have indeed and something that I hope to do in the very near fuuture. One of the things I love to do is design and play around with graphics and having those on my own tshirts would be amazing! lol.

Also I love to play around with html/css etc and wanted to learn php which is my new "thing to do" this year, wordpress allows me to use workign examples such as with their template tags and creating your own template pages and much more. making tshirtscene.com has allowed me to see how things work and process, so I understand a bit more now and envy those who can write/code it.

And thats your site? wow I have been there before, nice and good work, you make a good point with static pages there is no need to go all out sometimes, but I wanted to have something a little more dynamic mostly for the above reasons and I have a few more plans for the future.

thanks for your response :)

Just remember, for every 'something' you want there is a price. Going through MySQL on most servers today costs speed, significant speed. In my opinion that is the most valuable commodity a web designer has to work with and the faster you can make your site load the better.

If you have your own hosting, I bet the MySql is shared on another server that's shared with everyone else that has a Blog, CMS, Database, or any number of newer technologies. Even if your HTML is served fast, the MySql can slow everything down.

I'll look into that, my problem at the moment is not enough hours in the day to do all I want, but thoroughly enjoying every moment.

Your website is very interesting and has a lot of information on it. Thanks for posting :)

Hi there I contacted you on your website and left a message in your guest book. :)