Saturday, November 25, 2006

Day 5. OK

Obviously, any good development is encremental by its nature. A secret for creating best products is: You make changes, than return back and change the changes many times. Almost "perpetual" improvement cycle.
My Mini-News.com is not exception.
After first 5 days, the tips and conclusions are the following:

Minipage Design
File size should be as minimal as possible! No (big) images or javascript. Ideally, a text-only version.
Font size should be relative. It gives users more flexibility (browser-dependent).

Mini-Web Design
By definition, a page consisting of iframes should have a minimal amount of its own HTML code: Main focus is on external iframes' content.
Depending on the "pageLayout-iframeSize" mixture, i tested at least three "strategic" directions for developing Mini-Webs:

Each version took less than hour to create.
For me personnaly, version (3) is the winner! In contrast to the Million Dollar Homepage's design, it allows a nice wrapping layout for used ads: Just RESIZE your browser, - and ads' flow is quickly adapted to your screen size!

Overall Project
Creating this new Web niche appeared unbelievably EASY!
Developing the very first HTML version mentioned in Day 1 took only 10 minutes!!!

The only, but the biggest, problem so far is a process of launching the project of super success from Ukraine. Read "with no funds neither for these particular ideas nor for a decent living in general!"
Only a fraction of those 5 Days was spent on actual Mini-News technology development. I doubt American or European citizen ever face this kind of problem in their lives!

In particular, Day 4 and 5 almost exlusively were devoted to attempts of installing ANY(!) of today's available wap emulators on my outdated Windows98. This OS is not supported even by Microsoft! But I have no choice. The problem is this eight years old PC is the only machine I have! And it's not powerful enough for re-installing any later version of Windows. The easiest way would be to buy a new computer. If you have the money, of course...

For the same reason, during almost a year I was trying to test on the new Microsoft's IE7 browser one of my previous web projects called TuneText. Like the Mini-news case, I know only the fact it works perfectly on IE6. But no person I know in Ukraine, including Internet cafe administrators, agreed to update their machines for the newest work of Bill Gates. Well, at least I was able to download his IE7 from Internet :) Another his popular product Windows Live Mail simply does NOT EXIST for Ukraine: despite for the rest of the world it's on the Microsoft's "Top download" section, their website simply cancels its download for IP addresses located in Ukraine!
Emotionally, it's diffucult to separate a purely technical development from influence of some mega events of the countries we live in.

Next several days Ukraine will commemorate its first steps to freedom:
November 26 - Remebrance Day: Within just two years, MILLIONS(!) people in Ukraine died because of hunger,- exclusively because they lived in Ukraine. (More).
November 28 - "anniversary" of the secret tape recordings scandal, as head of a founder of Ukraininan online newspaper G. Gongadze was cut off, - literally! (More).

Besides, I cannot afford spending a year for advanced preparations, like Alex Tew is doing with his next project.

You might tell me that it's rather stupid to reveal a super genius idea on its very early stages. You might advice me not to hurry, stop for a while and make some preliminary spade-work first. In particular, write down a serious business plan, develop and test final version of a ready-to-use product, etc. And only(!) after that make the project public!

Well, I know this. The point can be found in almost every textbook. More than likely, that seems was the only biggest secret behind developing the famous MillionDollarHomepage.com too. It may be in the eyes of public Alex Tew has an image of the boy that invented some unbelievably simple idea. However, from professional webmaster's point of view, his MillionDollarHomepage.com code is far from being very simple!

I'm starting this blog now because it may be there will be no chance for me for starting it at a later time.
From December 1, charges for supporting housing and communal services in Ukraine will be raised in 3-4(!) times, - up to the level of rich European countries. Obviously, nobody is going to pay Ukrainians the European salaries because of that, - currently the official average salary in Ukraine is (and will be) only about $200 per month!

It's interesting to see YOUR reaction if YOUR housing rates are raised in 3-4(!) times. I personally have no idea how I will pay my bills next month...
Thus another, better version of Mini-News may simply NEVER EXIST!

We all live only once. And at each particular moment it's always NOW!
From this moment My Mini-News Show Must Go On!

To summarize, a Billion Dollar Website Is Ready:
- mini-news.com is live!
- main info, demo, blog, forum, and even mobile version, are successfully set up.

Next Stage Will Be Promotion!
Please watch it here:

11 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

um. ok.
you wow'd me.
rockon superstar!
brill!
xoxo
Susan

11:37 AM  
Blogger mesondecay said...

surely for $10,000 a company could set up their own webpage with only their own content on it. I agree that if you had huge amounts of traffic like Alex had on his original idea, then people would be warmer to your idea. As it stands with little or no media support, I can't see it succeeding. Still, good luck to you. ;)

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