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Folksonomy

Just a small note to point you to a new feature on this site. As of today Brain Tags has a Folksonomy page, showing the most important themes I write about in a visual way.

Making dreams come true

To make dreams come true you need two things: focus and time. Without focus a project takes way too much time, and without time…

Anyway, I had a dream that I wanted to come true. With some spare time in the weekend and in the lunch breaks —which are 2½ hours here— the second factor was available. I struggled a little bit more with the first factor, since I tend to jump from database design to logo design to testing out e-mail automation. But I managed to stick to my plan:

• Create a new domain;
• Install WHM;
• Move my current sites from TotalChoice Hosting to WHM;
• Define my hosting packages;
• Install phpCOIN;
• Create a PayPal merchant account;
• Install IPN module and test Paypal;
• Define products and prices;
• Test the order and invoice processes;
• Test helpdesk e-mail processing;
• Write Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy;
• Twiggle with hundreds of parameters;
• Design a nice logo;
• Create a new stylesheet
• Add some more information about the server and the hosting plans;
• Add hosted by buttons to my current sites;
• Make some publicity;
• …profit!!!

Everything is fully operational, but it has a horrible design. I hope to fix all that this week, take my summer holidays and open the site on August 1^st.