The client for this site contacted me again after I had finished his business website and asked if I could redesign his entertainment site. This site was a homage to Sherlock Holmes, but with a very creative twist – it was written as if the writer were Dr Watson living in the present day.
I love having the opportunity to do sites like these because they offer a lot of creative freedom. The brief was bashed out over a few late night dinners – my favourite kinds of meetings because they are always a bit of a creative free-for-all (and generally involve copious amounts of wine). Plenty of great ideas were thrown around and we both left very excited about the possibilites.
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The launch of Never Ending Voyage was one of our most successful website launches to date, receiving over 8,000 visits and over 5,000 unique visitors in its first three months. Our site was launched on February 19th 2010 and the image above is a picture of our Analytics account for those initial months (until May 18th 2010).
We launched with one post and a posting schedule of 3 a week (which we managed to keep to until we ran out of internet in Paraguay!) and we’ve been fortunate to have over 470 comments in the four and something months we’ve been live. We’ve also managed to earn some income through affiliate sales which has paid for the hosting costs for all of our sites for the year. Not bad for such a young site!
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