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I went and did it, got the domain for my username, but just wondering what others have their own sites for?

One of my main reasons was to get a nicer e-mail address, but my intention with my webspace is to use it for experimentation and to just have a general presence.

And I might get some ideas for other stuff when you all tell me what you've got :)
 
Experiment on it :) Make subdomains for each experiment if you can

Also, despite the fact OcUK netizens don't seem to like blogs, keep a blog... on it just write your solutions to web dev problems (or any other kind of problem!). It'll serve as a handy reference for yourself, and others may find it handy too.
 
furnace said:
Also, despite the fact OcUK netizens don't seem to like blogs, keep a blog... on it just write your solutions to web dev problems (or any other kind of problem!). It'll serve as a handy reference for yourself, and others may find it handy too.
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I was considering a blog, but didn't want to take over my site with something like WordPress, even though I want to try it out.

Like the subdomain idea though, I'll stick it on a blog.gumbald.co.uk when I get round to it :)
 
I wanted to buy my name '.com' but when it came to renewal time the person who owned it kept it on and doesn't have a site on there, I guess they just use it for email which was annoying, so I just thought up something which came from nowhere and it was born, I put up web work that I've done, although I went off it for a while but now I'm kinda back but I've really outgrown my old work and I really don't like some of it any more so I need to get updating it. :)

edit: I'd still prefer to have myname.com though and am looking at alternatives like mynameweb.com or another short word succeeding it.
 
I used to own myname.co.uk, got it free somehow. But never used it, and later found that some guy at Oxford Uni took it on. It now seems that he doesn't use it either and just has a holding page.

Doesn't really bother me though, I use gumbald everywhere else on the net, so may as well be my site :)

gumbald.com is one of them advert pages, and I've no idea why, searching for gumbald in Google results in mainly me. Any ideas how I can get it from them? :p
 
Register "Gumbald Ltd" as a company and a trademark then sue 'em :p

I think, have your main site as links to each of your sub domains, then each sub domain could serve its own purpose. It could end up as the gumbald mega-site!
 
furnace said:
Register "Gumbald Ltd" as a company and a trademark then sue 'em :p

I think, have your main site as links to each of your sub domains, then each sub domain could serve its own purpose. It could end up as the gumbald mega-site!
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I'm struggling to think of ways to fill 50mb at the moment, never mind my 500mb :p
 
My site is in limbo atm.

I'm trying to decide on what CMS to use while I learn how to design sites well and get to grips with cross-platform coding :p

ATM it's being used for a simple blog and a few images. The new site will be used to keep a log of all the current projects that I'm working on as well as having a full-featured image gallery.

I'd like to second furnace's comment on subdomains. I don't think I'd go as far as to split off different sections of my site into subs (like blog.myname.co.uk) as I think it would divide the site up too much and could end up being a right pain if you wanted to include one of the images from your image gallery into a blog entry :p

Freakish_05
 
I keep a blog on mine. I use it primarily because I show the code to prospective employers, which has been working out pretty well so far. I didn't bother with wordpress for that reason, and I found it good practice setting up my blog. It's due redevelopment and redesign, but I'm working on some code that will power that and hopefully some other projects that I've got coming up. I'd like to incorporate a tumblog and a technical showcase, but that's more of a future thing.

Freakish, I like your sig idea - but I think you're going about it the wrong way - I prefer to work against the problem, rather than with the cure ;)
 
I got a few sites that I work on as little projects. I don't bother writing code only customising what's already there. Maybe I will moneytize them if they get good but at the moment i work on them when i have an hour between projects.
 
My main site is just word press, I've not even bothered with my own theme since they changed the template tags and my theme broke.

I use it to host my projects as well as a general blog. I've also got a ZenPhoto gallery (which is an ace bit of gallery software), a Trac for one of my projects, and a subversion repository for it too.
 
I use mine for my clans site, my personal site. And to upload my pictures and images and other files instead of using image shack and free uploading sites.
 
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