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Dear All,

I know building a website or a blog can be overwhelming especially for the beginners like me but that is where passion and desire come picture!!

Well, I have been working towards building my website (for initial stages I am rather going with a blog) but it seems like you never can be ready/perfect before you launch (publish) your website!! Long back (~2 months) I prepared couple of pages for my website (which i could now make into few posts) and then I got caught up with the technical part- web designing, blog publishing knowledge etc --- i was sort of doing my home work! And now I have again started focusing on my content/posts, blog planning etc but it feels like my preparation would never end.

So at what point would you say, I am ready now to launch my website/blog? (I understand its difficult to have a one size fits all answer to my question and also that I will be the best person to answer that based on how confident i feel about it --- however, insight from experienced members will be greatly helpful!) Or At point should I say its enough, I am ready to go for it??

Also, for a blog, I assume first few blogs will be very important to make your visitors --repeat visitors. So how would you decide which post topic should go first ? These are sort of simple questions, but r immensely important for me--as i have been thinking abt it alot --and now i just think someone else`s perception would help!!

Any other insights?

THANKS A LOT!!

Challenge;
It seems obvious to me that you are giving yourself way more stress over being perfect out of the box than you deserve.
it seems you are on a learning curve and at some point you have to test your wings.
so Like NIKE says "just do it".
I doubt you will get to the top million site status for a month or two anyway , so you will have plenty of time to tweak your product as you go.
from my experience it is far easier to start with the best you can do today (and way less stressful), and make it better as you go, rather than try to start perfect and find what you didn`t know and have to improve it anyway. you are wasting time, go live and work it out as you learn and grow.
at the end of the day, once you go live most of the questions you are asking yourself (and others) will answer themselves, and get replaced with new questions you haven`t even thought of yet.
in case I was unclear launch, publish, go live, turn on, however you describe it today.
good fortune

I have a very similar mindset that you do. I often want things to be "perfect" before finally launching. To be honest, I`m actually relieved to hear im not the only person thinking this way.

The problem is, you will NEVER have a perfect site, or store, or anything. Your biggest and best improvements will occur after you launch. You will learn the most then and be able to make more educated decisions about what needs to be changed on your site. This is because you have more data to support your decisions.

So to answer your question, it sounds like if you haven`t start already, do it now. You can always adjust what you have done later.

To answer your blog question, having consistently good blog posts will bring back repeat visitors. So you should ALWAYS focus on putting out good content. Your first few articles probably wont have any greater weight than your future postings. In fact, they may even carry less weight.

Good luck!



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Challenge,
You`re bringing up a really important concept (or I should say "ur bringing up...").

Why do we need Feedback? Do we need it at all? Is Feedback useful for any purpose other than vaguely interesting advice?

Suppose you`re out in the cold, say you live in the northern hemisphere and it`s winter. Your hands are cold, and you`d like to warm them up.

You come into your home and have a fireplace going.

Without feedback, how would you know how close or far to the fire you should put your hands? If you stand too far away, you won`t warm up the hands. If you stand too close, you`ll burn your hands.

Feedback is the control mechanism by which we prove or disprove an idea or impulse.

You launch your business when in your estimation you`ve included all the basic parts and concepts that describe the business.

At that point, you enter Phase 2: Feedback.

As people do or don`t accept your business, you begin to adjust each part based on their feedback. It`s a fundamental principle that applies to moving something from the Idea phase, to the Reality phase.

If all we had to do was "think something up" and BLAM!....it became a reality, wouldn`t that be a wonderful thing! Of course, that too would have its drawbacks. If a thought instantly became reality, then whatever you imagine would instantly happen. That might not be so good.

We need feedback in order to understand how an idea functions in reality.

Thanks alot everyone for your precious insight!!! It did give me more encouragement to "just do it" (as you all meant)!!

Another question-- has anyone tried to use wordpress.org (I researched wordpress.com and wordpress.org)? I am planning to go with wordpress.org as I will be using google adsense. How was your experience in using wordpress.org ? Any tips or tricks while using it?

Thanks again,
Priya

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Hey Roland, Thanks for your insight!! I would definitely explore the plugin stuf

Also, if you are using wordpress.org, how much did you have to invest? (for webhosting, basic plugins as you suggested)
On wordpress.org website-- they mention its free but you got to pay for webhosting etc, right !!

Which is the best webhost to use?

Thanks,
Priya

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When you have enough content in it, you can launch it. Have people critique your site also. And for your blogs, you can arrange it by date.

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