Dear Diary....

To complement our main 'blog' for our website -

www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com

which is of course

http://www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.blogspot.com/

we decided to open this diary to record our progress in establishing a useful income from developing content rich websites.

Even if you haven't heard of 'content rich' websites before we guess the term is pretty self explanatory...in case this is too much of an assumption (because after all we're familiar with the concept) let me launch this new blog by explaining a little more -

If you're like us you probably think the Internet is generally a brilliant idea! (If you don't think this you're unlikely to be reading a 'blog' anyway, I suppose!) But when Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed his 'master-plan' for 'the World Wide Web', it's maybe unlikely that he envisaged the 'sprawling mass' of information that the Internet has already spawned.

Like many of you may have done, we'd been thinking for quite a long time about the potential to 'develop an additional income stream' using the power of the Internet. But being 'IT' novices (which is still probably claiming too much!!) we thought... "How do you start to do something like this?" ...

Of course e-bay seemed the obvious answer for dabbling at making a 'net profit'. For those, again like us, who have tried e-bay, it can be quite exciting (especially in the last five minutes of an auction, when at least two people want your 'offering') but it is also quite a lot of effort (writing a decent 'sales pitch' for every item, for instance) and rather uncertain as far as what interest - if any - you will get and just how much you will earn - if anything!

We were perhaps fortunate then, as we trawled the murky regions of the net to discover the best way of developing our own 'web presence' in a way that might actually lead to the generation of some income (for us, that is, not just the 'road to web riches' salesmen), that we were lucky to find information, method and means that really answered all our needs.

Now, if you haven't yet visited our 'free information' based website:

www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com

Then it would be a good time at this point to take at least a quick look.

We'd be first to admit it's not perfect yet by any means. It is also a 'work-in-progress' as we only launched it three months ago, when we started to generate 'content' for the site and began building the sort of informative and varied pages that we thought potential travelers to the Dominican Republic might need.

So why did we choose to develop a site about the DR?

You might well ask...and although 'my profile' will give you some idea, the full answer is a bit more complicated than may be apparent...but if you have a chance to take a look at this page:

http://www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com/build-a-website.html

...it will save a little time here, and we can carry on with the important stuff when we 'blog' here again soon!

If you are interested in earning a supplementary (or even a main) income from developing a website project, but feel currently disempowered or poorly informed as to how to do this most effectively, then this blog should be useful for you...and if we're not giving the answers to the questions you have about how to do this, then feel free to drop us a line.

The web can truly offer the opportunity to anyone who really wants it to develop an ethical, long-term and substantial income...we hope this diary will demonstrate how, and we have many more examples we will be giving of people all over the world who are doing this today.

All the best for now

Al & Ruth