If you remember last week I started talking about a new site that I have started work on.  I have done some more research and realize that this may not be a very easy niche to make money in, however it will be a great niche for me to expand my knowledge in my career.  Research done for content on the site will be used directly in my every day work.

Now for the site itself I have decided to use Joomla.  I have used Drupal before but after some research I think that Joomla will be the better fit for the site as a whole.  I needed something robust that I can start small with and then scale up as teh site got both popular and more content.  I am also going to have a forum that will be on a seprate sub-domain.  I want to seperate it as much as possible for administration and management reasons.  For the forum I am going to start with phpbb, however when the site starts to make some revenue I will be purchasing Vbulletin right away.  There is no better software, in my opinion, for running a large forum than VB right “out of the box”.

For the forum I am going to do very little modding to the default style, however for the main site I am going to try to make it unique and useable as possible.  For that I am having issues trying to figure out how it works with Joomla.  There doesn’t seem to be a lot of styles out there for free download, or even pay for that matter.

So if you know of any good sites that may have a Joomla theme for DL or a designer that is willing to put one together for me let me know either by email or comment.

I just bought a e-book site that I am planning on doing some cool advertising for it.  This is not the first e-book site that I have owned, but the first one is one that I started from scratch and then got overwhelmed with the work involved in making a start-up so I sold it. 

Now I am ready, I think, to try to give it another go.  The good thing about buying a site that is already set up is that if you don’t have a lot of time at the moment then you can just sit back and let it do some stuff organically.  Then when you have time you can start to actively work on it.  Also since the site wasn’t making a lot of money, I bought it low.  I have calculated that I have to make $20 per month to break even in one year.  I should be able to do a lot better than that with minimal work on advertising.  I also plan on putting together a “real” book store through Amazon Affiliate.  This will also give me another revenue stream.

I will let you know how it goes.  I am looking forward to have some passive income from this site. Wish me luck

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I have found a bit of time to do some work on Bluenoser Webmaster Books. It is starting to look right, but it is still not quite there. I am hoping to have more time in the future, but in the meantime let me know what you think of it?

Also if you are looking for a book that is not there just let me know and I will find and add it.

PS you have probably noticed that I have added a new category, if you haven’t well you should have,

Anyway this is the category that I will be adding any news about the books store. I have been thinking about expanding into other categories but I think that is going to be a while in the future, I am still not sure about my way around the script to do that with a sinlgle DB and make it “pretty”