I have been quite surprised at the events of last month. What with one thing and another, I actually only really got down to promoting the site during the 2nd week of January and then that only lasted for 1 week, coz something else cropped up.
On the 1st weekend that I started to promote the site, I contacted the local newspaper, South Wales Echo, who picked up on it straightaway. A pic of the article is to the left - yes that's moi. On the back of this article, I was then contacted out of the blue by BBC Radio Wales. An interview for this radio station has yet to materialize, so I'll reserve that news for Febs' blog - if it happens.
I should also be getting an article in a locally produced magazine as well during February. My website was actually mentioned in the monthly ezine by 365act.com. At the moment, all this publicity draws in a small but steady stream of visits to the site. Not bad considering I haven't really done that much to promote the website.
I changed the emphasis in the tagline for Help From Home to make it read that you could change the world in your pyjamas - a much more intriguing tagline, methinks. I'm also going to be changing the Easy Random Actions part of the site, as displayed on the right of every page. Here, I'm going to place the emphasis on actions that can be performed under 1, 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes. Once again, methinks this may be more intriguing to visitors of the site.
I also want to get more user interactivity going on in my website, whereby a user can record that s/he has performed an action and this then will be tallied up with everybody else's actions. Here's an example of what I mean. I am only a novice web designer, so I have no idea how to go about doing this. More research is needed by me, methinks, unless you the reader know how to do this, in which case I'd be grateful of your help.
I'm on holiday in Southern India during part of Feb and March, so the next blog will be sometime in mid March. One of the things I will be doing in India is visiting a school where I plan to donate lots of pens and pencils which I'm told they need. Hopefully I'll get a photo to prove this.
Til next time.
