Inspired by some really good travel magazine type sites, I’ve been eager to try my hand at something similar. So far, this blog is the only site of mine that has any sort of interactivity and I love that aspect of it and want to transfer it to a travel site.
I’m pretty new to WordPress and other content management systems (Joomla, Drupal etc.) but I can see that they have the potential to make building what seems like a complicated site a lot easier. I’m going to have plenty of time on my hands so I might as well learn some stuff in between sipping cocktails and working on my tan (or burn in my Scottish skin’s case).
I finished up some major projects last week and was itching to get cracking on this new site but I couldn’t think of a domain name that wasn’t taken. I’m picky with domains and I always go for a dot com unless I’m targeting a specific country. This seriously limited my choices. I ended up decided that I was really keen on having the word wander or wandering in there somewhere since I think that’s what travel is all about… wandering around without any plans really set in stone.
I tried loads of short phrases with those words without much luck. I found a few available domains but they didn’t really capture my imagination or were too long or hard to spell or something. Just sitting at my desk now I starting thinking about how good I think my Travoholic.com domain would be for the site I have in mind. I’ve decided to leave it as is though because it’s already a nice little earner but it’s frustrating at the same time because I want the domain name. But then it came to me! Why not start a whole new site called Wanderholic.com?
I think I like it. It’s hard to say. It’s easier to spell than travoholic (word of mouth people always assume it’s travelholic), I think it’s brandable, it’s short-ish for a new domain name, and I think it sums up perfectly what the site will be about – addicted to wandering around the world.
What do you think? Big winner or big wiener?
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