guide to making a website for the technical dunce

i finally persuaded my dad to get a domain name for me - http://www.laurasclipperdiaries.com/ after i convinced him i could use a free web host. i tried out free hosta, as it was the only one i remembered from previous noodling on the web (note; catchy names really DO work), but something went wrong (the curse of the apple strikes again). so i have now joined agile host, which looks very business-like. i am gonna get a really awesome flash website and intro from http://www.flashmo.com/.

Guide to Making a Website for the Technical Dunce:

sooooo, if you are thinking about making your own website for any reason, just a simple no. of steps.

1) get a domain name from eg. godaddy (mine is costing $9.99 per year) you can get a free on like on this blog, and do some fancy finger work with it (not that i know ANYTHING about it) and get http://www.something.blogger.com/ for free.

2) find a web host (free or otherwise. the catch with free ones is they usually put annoying pop-ups on the site to make money. i will tell you is they get too annoying)

3) sometimes the web host will have a selection of free templates for your page, but you can change this by entering your own html text or downloading pages from flashmo or something,

4) you can make your own logo for free by using ready made images and other stuff for at http://www.logoease.com/

right now i am doing work experience in an advertising agency in Singapore - Ogilvy. i just got to sit in on a meeting with all the creative directors churning up ideas into a froth of magic ice-cream and over sized glue. according to a friend who also did work here, one of these women is actually a man. now i am not very perceptive of these things so i am just wary of anyone wearing a miniskirt and giraffe eyelashes (which is almost everyone. one thing about the creative department is that they are not afraid of making a statement, even if all they are saying is "i wish i could afford more clothes")

i am not usually so mean, but i can't seem to control what my hands are doing, i keep getting woken up an hour too early by my alarm clock, reminiscent of a toy you would get free at McD's.

list of ideas that went nowhere

this is for all those people who may be interested to doing something similar:

Ah, yes, well there are a few hundred ideas we have rigorously gone through and tried to find a way to do. If you figure out the problems - good for you!

List of Idea that went nowhere.

• Get sponsored by a company for actually using their product on the trip. a sort of 'ultimate scientific test', say, for sunscreen. ten months on the open sea is as good a test as i can think of, although it could probably work on any sort of outdoor trip or event.
  
• Set up a giant Christmas part event, i wanted to invite sixth forms from many neighbouring schools to make things interesting, and hire out a night club for the night. problems were, now that i had left school i couldn't promote the event there, and wasn't sure how to promote it at other schools + sell tickets. however, it would work if you only wanted to raise a few thousand $$$$. one particularly outrageous event i was planning was to hire out sumo wrestling suits and dress volunteers as Santa's with the help of beards and bobble hats. then i thought the idea of half naked Santa's pitted against one another may disturb my dreams for nights after. the dumb club (the butter club in Singapore) said that we could only stay till 10pm. that is no party.



• Since i had done modelling in the past, i thought perhaps i could model a watch or something, giving them a chance to use a real adventurer rather than the vanilla girls they usually use, and letting them shoot on deck. BUT then i thought, what was i gonna say to get them interested? pay me a truckload of money to get a photo of me, most likely sea-sick and exhausted. THAT my friends, would take all the romance out of sailing.

how to make S$100,000 out of a T-Shirt

hello, this is my first post of my daring and rather revealing diary.
september 09 i am setting off on one of the ten yachts owned by the Clipper company, we will visit fourteen ports and the trip will last fourteen months.

DO you know how many people are trying to raise funds for their own adventures? a lot. and that is how i am going to make my money... off YOU.

(evil snorts of laughter and steepled fingers make my co-workrs glance my way nervously).

when i say you, i don't mean personally. The world can be seen simply as a lot of mindless people (again, not talking about you - you are an amazingly smart individual - more so for reading my blog) with targets glued to their butts that companies have to advertise to. I don't like my tv interupted every 5 minutes as much as the next fat person, soooo i'm gonna try to sell it on a new medium... a T-shirt.

heres the plan
ever heard of the million dollar webpage? i will have a t-shirt that i will section off into boxes, then i will e-mail companies with my proposition and a very affordable price. i will then phone and email hundreds of companies selling squares off for about S$500. i will make promises to wear the t-shirt costantly round the whole race (i'm thinking about making more than one so i can change them. people just won't come near and read the t-shirt if i smell like a fish with diarrhea.