Here’s something worth watching

Have you seen Evan‘s new website enterprise? He’s experimenting with moving to other kinds of sites than blogging. It’s a baby pool, and it’s a hoot. Prospective parents can set up little minisites where friends and family can guess when and where Baby will be born, Baby’s weight, or Baby’s gender.

Evan’s description of what he had to do to get it up and running is interesting. It was quite a job. No handy-dandy WordPress template is out there for this sort of thing! Despite his considerable tech skills, he ended up having to hire a designer to make it work the way he wanted—at least one wanted as much as $10,000 to do the job! Read his post to learn how he found someone to help for a fee within his budget.

I hope Evan will keep us up to date on how this idea flies. I’ve also thought it might be worth looking in to other kinds of sites that could be monetized, though I’m not clever enough to come up with something like a baby pool. La Maya has started a site to display the paintings she’s willing to sell; she hopes to add new images regularly. It’ll be interesting to know whether the baby pool gets anywhere as an enterprise.