I’ve given birth to another blog.  I’m not running any other blogs curently, but there’s 70 million or so blogs that other people have started, so this really is just another blog.

 I looked around at a couple blogs to see how others kicked off their first post, and it looks like they just started writing. They didn’t launch with that Wordpress ‘Hello World!’ post. Since this is a ‘chronicles of’ type blog, though, I think writing about the birth of it is appropriate. Let’s just hope that my readership doesn’t fall below 1 (me) through boredom. We’ll find out, I guess.

 So what’s the scoop?

 I’ve been interested in making money online for a few years now. I’ve sold quite a bit of stuff on ebay and made some decent cash there for on the side. I’ve always known that there’s bigger and better things out there in i-land, though, and so I’ve begun to pursue the dream of a full-time income from internet enterprise. I thought that this blog would be a means to that end, although in the last month or so that this blog has been sitting waiting for its first post, I’ve begun to think this blog probably won’t support me full time, but other ventures I’m into will. In any case, my goal is to chronicle my misadventures and hopefully make money along the way.

What’s happened so far?

• About a year or so ago, a friend of mine sent me a book on HTML/CSS. I loved it, much to my surprise. I still suck at it, but I can trial-and-error my way through the basics, and I am getting better. I purchased and read another HTML/CSS book (which I also loved) and just within the last few days, ordered another one. So I know the basics of HTML and CSS, and plan to get better.
• Picked the name for the website (Artifexus) and registered the domain (.net). The .com version is owned by an artist type, but I backordered it. It’ll probably come available when the owner dies, sometime after 2047.
• Hosted it through GoDaddy. I picked Deluxe hosting so I could host multiple sites/domains for one low price.
• Picked my Wordpress theme. I’ve gone back and forth on the theme, but I think I’ve settled on Edynas’ 123RedBlack. My blog is a little different than the generic theme looks (I’m missing a blogroll, meta, etc), but I’ll get those fixed. Hopefully.
• Bought several other domains and began the slow process of building sites to go with them. They’re part of my master to plan to be World Dictator by 2013.
• Reading lots of blogs. There’s lots of amazing blog examples out there, full of tips, tricks and inspiration. I’m reading quite a few daily, and discovered several more in the process of getting this blog set up.

There you have it. Vote for me in 2013. Or else.

Mike