Another easy muse for me...

[mrhead]

In addition to my "selling bottled water" (http://fourhourworkweek.com/vBulletin/showthread.php?t=2957) idea, I've started up a business painting address numbers on curbs in my city. The payment and scheduling is handled completely by a website I designed, which you can view at it's temporary location here: http://sacurbs.webhop.biz

I could easily hire people to do the work for both of these ideas, allowing both of them to be easily automated for me. Without the need for any product creation/testing/development, I have essentially saved myself 1/2 the trouble of muse creation. The one downside is that I'll have to get out there and do the hard work myself for a while, but even before I get anything automated I'll be making more money from these two part-time gigs then I get from my full-time and part-time jobs put together. :D

I am still finalizing the website design, any comments are appreciated.

[Sven]

Well, seems like the kind of thing that you might want to buy over the internet.

The site is a bot gloomy to me, more toombstone than curbstone. And I'd want to see pictures and prices!

[mrhead]

Well, seems like the kind of thing that you might want to buy over the internet.

The site is a bot gloomy to me, more toombstone than curbstone. And I'd want to see pictures and prices!

Thanks for the suggestions sven. I added a few pics to the main page, and changed the banner a bit to give it a more "stenciled" look.

[Live Free]

Hi

This is not a bad idea, especially if you can find a way to take it nationwide (franchise/outsource/licence).

Re: Your website - the background is terrible - I realise you are trying to give that pavement look, but it is too grey, and the information area has the same color background. It also took an eternity to load the background, so perhaps the picture resolution is too high?

If you keep the wider background the same, at least change the background of your information area to a light contrasting color.

Good luck...

[mrhead]

This is not a bad idea, especially if you can find a way to take it nationwide (franchise/outsource/licence).

I had thought about ways of doing that; for the immediate future I'm gonna stick to my immediate area, as I am lucky enough to live in a huuuge, ever-expanding city. I definitely see the possibility for nationwide-outsourcing.

Re: Your website - the background is terrible - I realise you are trying to give that pavement look, but it is too grey, and the information area has the same color background. It also took an eternity to load the background, so perhaps the picture resolution is too high?

If you keep the wider background the same, at least change the background of your information area to a light contrasting color.

It's funny, the background of the text area is actually an illusion as it's not really there...its a transparency effect I added, but I can see what you're saying. I've changed the text section to have a solid background color, which seems to make it look a little more professional, definitely more readable. I'm gonna keep the same background image, I did do some fancy editing to take it from 2.5Mb down to 400Kb, so it should load much faster now.

[Gongchime]

I used to do that in Las Vegas as a part time job when I was a kid. We had some sales because people want FedEx, DHL, the pizza delivery man etc... to find them easily and they can't do that if their curb number is completely faded. It would be even more important in places like Seoul, Pusan and Daegu where the buildings aren't numbered in any logical order.