Thinking about designing a personal site

29Jan10

While I do like wordpress and the whole “blogging” idea, I’m seriously considering doing a personal site from the ground up. Informational based. Something good that can really showcase my talent. The question is however, do I want to actually pay for hosting? I mean, if I do create this is site, it needs to pay for itself right?

Here are my ideas. I will create an awesome personal site showcasing both my design and programming talent. While on the site, I’m also going to have a lot of how to’s etc that contain small ads on the site. Whenever people go to my how to, I can receive a small bit of revenue, at least enough to pay for 5 – 10/ month of hosting. I can promote my how to section by creating youtube videos that can be watched then link to my official how to page.

What do yall think?
Also, I was thinking of using my name or a .info extention since it’s only 2/year for a .info and my .com name has been high jacked.