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Aug 3, 2005, 14:14 #1
My Redundant Site
Hi, I’d like your views / advice / ideas please…
For about the past year I have been designing, building, establishing a (small and simple) website for the web design business I was trying to create, it was like my little pet project while out of work. I have just been given a job as a graphic/ web designer and my new boss does not allow his employees to do any freelance work, although I am disappointed by this, it is a view I understand and accept.
I am now wondering what to do with my site, it doesn’t bring in any work at present, so I could just forget about it, but it seems a shame to just let it die.
My initial ideas are:
- Put a note on the home page, telling people it isn’t open for business, then keep the site, maybe the PR will continue to grow, ‘till such time I decide to launch my own business.
- 301 redirect it to my personal portfolio site. Not sure if it is right to redirect one site to a different one, nor the long-term benefit of doing so.
- Sell the site. Is it worth anything to anybody else?
- Convert the site into something less threatening to my employer.
Discuss...
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Aug 3, 2005, 16:17 #2
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Option 1 sounds good. Is your new job at a design agency?
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Aug 4, 2005, 07:59 #3
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Aug 4, 2005, 08:08 #4
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Why don't you just freelance under another name?
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Aug 4, 2005, 08:30 #5
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Use the site to develop new code, ideas, testing, learning etc so that you have somewhere online and private to make mistakes and learn from it.
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Aug 5, 2005, 14:08 #6
Originally Posted by zsasz24
Originally Posted by bo5ton
and I'm not much of a blogger. I can’t think of anything else that would fit with the domain dreadodesign.com.
Originally Posted by Talkfreelance
Originally Posted by spikeZ
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Aug 5, 2005, 14:15 #7
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By freelancing I would think that would apply to you getting paid jobs elsewhere to do on your own. This I could perhaps understand. I would think keeping you from working on your own projects that make you money "not paid designing" would be slightly illegal.
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