Webby
Tue 6 Mar 2007
The picture right is from one of my first websites, entitled Ipswich Away. It was a guide for football supporters of Ipswich Town (my home town team) when they travelled to away matches (as I did as well, even when we played in Milan & Moscow!).
The site was started in the summer of 2001 and represents one of my first attempts at web domination. The site is no longer active but you can view an archive of it below. Even the petrol calculator still works!
Ipswich Away - Webby’s first site
The site was just a hobby and made no money except for some unique ITFC jigsaw puzzles that we sold after the teams UEFA Cup run. Brings back some happy memories! The bizarre thing is that I Google loved the site, I had lots of natural backlinks and I believe it was PR6 at some stage in the Google directory!
Perhaps I should have kept the site going but it kind of represents a certain period of my life that I’d rather leave as a fond memory.
March 6th, 2007 at 11:42 am
I should have added that I knew nothing about SEO at the time and created the site entirely for the users and not the Googles.
I think this is still very valid today if you want a really successful site.
Build for the users and they will come, probably.
March 6th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
that’s a great entry Webby - really interesting to know where you started, even if it was as a tractorboy hooligan!!
March 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Lol, yea Tractorboys, they were good days, went to every away match apart from Newcastle away on a Tuesday night League Cup game…
Shame there was no adsense then, I might have been able to start this WN thing earlier…
March 6th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Any reason why you let it go?
March 7th, 2007 at 5:07 am
Ditto that makes for interesting reading !
thats a good rd to go down.
March 8th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Ya I agree as well… like this idea. I quite like that old site too. I remember my first ever site was called ‘All Things Canuck’ and had, well, everything Canadian (I was a bit patriotic back then) complete with animated spinning maple leaves and far too much red and white. Would be great to go back now and have a look.
March 11th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Hi,
I am not a member of this community (yet) I was reading your WN webpage, as I am travelling/traveling in India at the moment and interested in being a remote worker.
After a few clicks I found this on your old Tony Page page.
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Travel ! Set out and head for pastures new -
Life tastes the richer when you’ve road worn feet.
No water that stagnates is fit to drink,
For only that which flows is truly sweet.
No lion that spurned the hunt could catch its prey,
No arrow unreleased could earn a score.
A sun that hung immobile in the sky
Would soon become a universal bore.
Sandal’s mere firewood in its native grove,
Gold is but dust, unmined within the lode.
Things that are stationary have little worth:
They only gain their value on the road.
unknown author.
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I like it, so I guess it deserves a digital reprint here.
Dionys
Greetings from Dharamsala, India