New Venture

I've only recently decided to take a stab at blogging as I'm trying to get a footing in the web community and what better place to start than to share experiences and ideas through a personal blog. The main reason why i want to get more involved in the web community is that I'm extremely interested in the web industry and e-commerce and am trying to get a piece of the pie, if you know what I mean. Therefore, I've started working on a number of websites for friends and family which are already looking very promising.


I currently work as a Systems Administrator and have always been interested in the IT industry but recently I have become very interested in the ability to show your knowledge and artwork to a worldwide audience via the internet. Nowadays there are so many different technologies and ways in which people can design and build websites and web applications, making it an interesting way to make a living while also getting your message and the messages of others across. Due to the fact that the web design industry is one that is constantly evolving it is sure to remain an interesting part of the IT world.


Using a number of the different available technologies, I am currently working on four different sites. One is a surprise for a family member who is interested in photography and, in my opinion, has a talent for creating art with his camera in the everyday things that we see on our beautiful island of Malta and it's sister islands of Gozo and Comino. This website will be a relatively simple one consisting of a home page, gallery and contact page. I might also include a blog page but have not decided yet. Two of the other sites are for my cousin and a friend of hers who are professional dancers in Amsterdam and need a place of their own on the web. These two sites are still in the very early stages of development but will probably get well underway within the next couple of weeks. The other site is one that I completed a couple of years ago but would like to upgrade using newer technologies as it is a site that is entirely composed of HTML and CSS which doesn't make it the most of interesting of sites as you can imagine.


I hope that this new venture I'm embarking on will be fruitful, both with regards experience gained  as well as money earned. Also if anyone does actually read this, which is not very probable, any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.