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What Do You Do With a Personal Domain?
bmerr71 writes "I bought my own domain name to use as a self-promotion tool. I use a subdomain, 'profile.mydomain.com', which I selectively put on my email signatures to link to my linkedin profile. I also loaded up Google Apps to use for email. But when you go directly to my domain name, there is nothing there. I didn't want GoDaddy getting ad revenue off my name (and it doesn't look very professional), so I killed the ad page, but it seems like I should be able to put something up on my main page. But, I am not interesting in blogging, I do not want too much personal information up there, and I do not want to spend a lot of money (none, if possible). Are there any free apps that I can load up on my domain to fill the blank space? What do non-bloggers do with their personal domains?"
But, I am not interesting in blogging, I do not want too much personal information up there, and I do not want to spend a lot of money (none, if possible).
I think you should go with a really well thought out image that speaks to your audience with no words needed. Ok, stay with me on this one, ok? Picture this: your head ... superimposed on Chuck Norris' body ... punching Clippy ... into the fires of Mount Doom.
WHAT? How can you not like that?
What do non-bloggers do with their personal domains?
Something really interesting and original ... which kind of puts the ball back in your court. If you have any work you can showcase, do it ... otherwise I would suggest you actually take sometime to make it personal. Otherwise just make a portal to sites you like or profiles on social networking sites with a theme that you enjoy (you could do this easily with nvu, blufish, etc or any WISYWIG open source editor out there).
My work here is dung.
Why don't you post a copy of your resume and redirect all hits to your domain to that page?
Get a personality and what to put on your web page comes naturally.
to find a bunch of porn and compress it into one site so all the people can go to only one site to get anything they like! Then somnehow it will solve world hunger....for PORN!
Be master of your domain.
If you have nothing to say, perhaps it's foolish.
http://www.hae.com/
I simply have a directory listing. Anything I don't want publicly indexed, I stick in a /private or /personal folder which is not browsable.
Why don't you just put up a nice picture... a picture of your dog, a picture of you or your family... your car... something? Maybe you could put up some contact information or resume or something if you want that sort of attention from it.
Or... and keep an open mind... ...you could reenact Tubgirl/Goatse.cx/Lemonparty/Meatspin/ and plaster that up... instant infamy!
How about a kinetic sculpture?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_Art
Ask Slashdot is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
behind a login of course
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Redirect the main domain to the subdomain.
I use my personal domain for my "good" email address and also to host personal stuff like photo albums, avatars, bookmarks and such.
Call me old fashioned, but I like to keep my private stuff away from corporations, so I try to avoid photobucket, flickr etc.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
I've always been a fan of the blank page.
Just redirect your main page to your subdomain.
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What exactly are you trying to promote about yourself? What do you do? Do you want visitors to learn something about you, or are you just filling your corner of the internet with random web apps?
We can't help you if we don't know what you're trying to accomplish.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Maybe he wanted to protect the name from abuse by his many enemies?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
The fact that you have nothing to post on your site tells me you probably don't need one. Not trying to be snarky, but why grope around for stuff to post? If there's anything you really want to say to the world you'll probably think of it. Until then why merely fill space?
Put something on your page... Anything! My page is very basic; but occasionally I add a page that describes a project or expresses an opinion.
No, I will not work for your startup
all the cool kids are doing it
That's the most professional course of action. Particularly if you have questionable photos posted.
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I don't quite get it. You say ""I bought my own domain name to use as a self-promotion tool" but then you don't seem to know what it is that you want to promote. Not your self personally, I assume, since you said that you don't want to put personal information on it.
I think if you can answer the question of what it is that you want to "self" promote, then the question of what you should do with your web page becomes clear. The answer will be, put onto the domain stuff that showcases whatever it is that you want to promote.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
When I had the money for hosting I just put up a page where you could post comments.
Nothing special, took about 10 minutes in Perl and anyone could leave a comment!
Although if you do that you need to make sure it has spam protection, often hidden fields do the trick!
Don't panic
I made a simple homepage for myself with links to sites I visit frequently, a search bar and a weather widget.
I registered fuckthenavy.net because .com and .org were taken.
Some pictures uploaded from my cellphone, some tecnical details I would like to remember, some pictures of stuff I put on ebay, my "real" email, and just a server I use for experiments like configuring virtual hosts with apace, trying out mutual ssl authentication, setting up a mail server and piping the mails to a script that scrapes the attachments from the mail and puts them in the gallery online... stuff like this.
I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
Throw a wiki up. Then, toss a thoughtful image on the home page for now. When you think of something else to add, it only takes a second. I started with a couple pages and my site has grown to hundreds of documents (technical things I want to remember, rants, other websites).
I even setup a site, www.freiki.com, just to give people free wiki's of their own. You could use that -- and it's free.
So, the question is how to fill up blank space on a personal website that's not so personal?
That's pretty open ended. Hmm, dancing hamsters? Already done. Stretched but holes? Done. Girl in tub? Done. Popups and redirects to random porn sites while maximizing all of the windows? Done.
I'm guessing I'll get no mods or no positive ones, but asking a bunch of strangers what to put on a personal website thats not personal is pretty open ended. I dunno, how about making it like a wall on facebook where random people can put random things on the site with ad revenue? Even that is not too original, and is subject to abuse. Its your site, if someone has a creative answer, then that will supplant this post.
BAD BAD BAD.
mydomain.com is a privately owned domain. When demonstrating a domain, you use profile.example.com!
MABASPLOOM!
I use my default domain space to display a portfolio, with links to completed works and non-obtrusive contact information (email, business phone number if applicable).
Post examples of your work that show off your expertise. If it's interesting then people will link to it and you will gain credibility in your industry.
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I'm in a similar situation as the submitter of this story, and I think you're dumb to take offense or have so little imagination.
First, just because I don't have much to put up on the main page doesn't mean that there's nothing there at all. I have some photos hosted and stuff and you just need to know the URL to get to them.
The main thing I use it for is email, which I think is a perfectly reasonable reason to have a domain name. Gosh, that sounds just like the submitter.
Himself being chief among them?
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
If your domain doesn't have a logical target audience given its name, ie. it isn't something like "itsallaboutcars.com" then for the love of God don't put random stuff up there just to fill space. The best that could happen is it gets indexed by search engines and people looking for something specific end up on your page randomly which contains no unique content. Similar to database design, if its redundant it doesn't need to exist. If your domain name does have an obvious relavent market, how about finding someone that has that interest that is willing to share the costs of hosting with you?
I have a calendar, todo list, rss reader, and dynamic bookmarks page. Kind of like igoogle, except controlled by me instead of someone else. Also, blog, image galleries, and a mediawiki install for personal notes.
Subject says it all. If you don't have anything good to put up there, it's better to leave it blank than put something bad up. I'm a fan of the "this space intentionally left blank" lines you see in tests and other documents.
Alternately, if you use the profile bit and not the main domain, maybe you should just put your profile stuff up front?
To answer your question, what I did with my own domain was put up a collection of things I wanted to show off (writing, artwork, also a little spoonerism search script that I'd put together) to share my creative efforts and interests with others. Later, when I started a personal business, I sort of co-opted the existing site and turned it into a business site, keeping but burying and cleaning up some of the creative work.
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So it's true; Bloggers are serial masochists who can't give away all their personal information quckly enough. As if our physically accessible audiences were't hostile enough before it was possible to reach the entire Galaxy via the 'Net.
Spread the word and good luck with your personal PR calmpaign. Many prefer keep their heads down and get commercial work through third parties' referrals- Internet based and otherwise.
I think you should ask what a personal domain actually is. In my opinion, it's a website about YOU. Not just who you are, but also your interest, hobbies, likes and dislikes. When someone goes to you.com, they are intentionally interested in YOU.
Boiling it down to what you asked, I think the question then becomes "What do I want to share with the world?" And it is truly the world. As you've said, you don't want too much personal information out there, but a website about you doesn't have to be just the facts about you.
I've thought about this recently for my own site. I don't care to be a blogger either. Here are some things I can think of that might spur on your creativity:
1) Articles - write articles on things you like. These aren't blog entries per say, although they could be. But if you find yourself interested in some topic, and would like to write your ideas down, an article could be a good avenue for that.
2) Works/Portfolio - if you have a hobby or career involving something that you can show off or demo, put it up there. If you are a photobug, put your favorites pics up, or if you craft things out of wood, take pictures and put them on your site, etc, etc. Find out what you like to do and/or are good at and share it with us!
3) Personal Photos/Videos - photos and videos say a lot, but they don't necessarily give away your information. Pictures of yourself, friends, family, co-workers, places you go, things you eat. Anything.
4) Resume - an easy one. Could also expand it to include links to companies you've worked for previously or links to works you've done.
5) Profit!! - Hope you enjoyed that oblig. slashdotters. Ok, snap out of it, this isn't a step-by-step thing. But seriously though, if you have a lot of junk in your house you need to get rid of, you could use your site as real estate for selling things. Not really a long term idea -you might run out of stuff to sell- but it could work.
Remember what web pages are: text, images, videos, sounds, colors, interactive media.
Take what you like to do and want to share and apply it over those mediums.
It's a personal domain, so make a personal site! When I go to you.com, I want to know about YOU!
Hope I helped.
http_redirect("profile.mydomain.com");
So, put up some porn. Grab a camera and your spouse/partner/neighbor/sibling and you'll be raking in the dough in no time! Selling Viagra is also a good use for a domain.
For me, it's a dumping place for whatever I want to write quickly and store online for others (not necessarily everyone) to see. I'm using dokuwiki, as it's dead simple to set up, use and maintain.
If it wasn't for my lack of free time, I'd definitely run a devblog, too - sometimes I stumble upon a good, but obscure solution for some difficult, common problem in programming, *nix administration etc., and most good, but obscure solutions I ever read about were published on devblogs. However, writing a decent blog post about such things requires quite some time and effort, so, maybe, someday I will, but not now.
This is Slashdot. Common sense is futile. You will be modded down.
I have a variety of personal sites (that are public but nobody visits them, of course), including one for my culinary experiments, music (composition), computer science, a blog, hosting random stuff that I need from other computers or to give links to people, etc.
If you have no hobby, maybe a calendar app or to-do list that's easily integrated into "everything." Instead of using an online one that isn't. (unfortunately, I don't know of any such things... any ideas, anyone?)
When I had the money for hosting I just put up a page where you could post comments.
Nothing special, took about 10 minutes in Perl and anyone could leave a comment!
So for someone who doesn't want to code, would you recommend phpBB or MediaWiki or something else?
How about redirecting to your Linkedin profile? It's quick, costs nothing, set-and-forget type thing. I know there are plenty of people here who could come up with all sorts of interesting and imaginative ideas, but sometimes we just want something that works and move on with our life, right?
null-route your domain (add A 127.0.0.1). then add an MX pointing to your mail server.
What do you with your domain? Anything you damned well please.
Check out http://jwsmythe.com
I have an redacted copy of my resume, some tools I use on a regular basis, my portfolio of some of the more unique and complex work I've done (and some lame stuff to fill space).
Under my site, if you know the directory names, you'll find work I did for particular customers that I wanted to make available, some personal projects, and other crap. My full resume is also hidden under an unlinked subdirectory, so I can give out the specific link to the full resume with my full name, address, companies I've worked for, etc. Sometimes I just need to move a file from point A to point B, where I can't FTP or SCP to either one, so it's a good transit point for me. Copy it over, and scp it down.
My site takes up 30Gb, even though the visible part is maybe (just maybe) a few Mb.
So, what do I do with my site? Anything I want. I don't have a blog on there yet, but I'm writing one from scratch. I've picked up a few new paying customers since I was laid off from my full time job, the paying customers take priority over anything I want to do for myself. Since I advertise myself as a sysadmin/programmer/network engineer/security engineer/DBA/etc, it would be silly to put a pre-packaged blog software on there. :) It also has my rate sheet, so if someone asks me, "Can you do this for me?", I can point them directly to it, so they can reference it any time they want.
My other domains, I put whatever is appropriate on them. You'll find my news site linked from my personal site. That makes a little money. You'll also find my cryptography site. It doesn't make any money, but it gets a lot of traffic from various places including universities and government/military facilities. I have to assume some have integrated my open source software into their own applications. It would be nice if they told me, but no one ever does.
I have a couple dozen other domains. Some are almost completely dormant (with Google or Amazon ads). Some got a good Google PR, so I keep them around to help raise my rank on other projects. :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Goatse, 2girls1cup, the possibilities are endless.
It should represent you in a spartan way. Perhaps a picture, your name, and a link to favorite profile (linked in I suppose).
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Problem solved.
A few years back I asked myself the same question about my own webspace, which I really only use for email and self-storage. I used javascript to basically make my webpage fade back and forth between a photo from one of my travels and a photo of a cubicle. It isn't indexed by search engines, and doesn't take a whole lot of space. This was back in grad school so I've since changed it, as the statement wasn't really that subtle. You could also throw up a simple elegant artwork you've done or something else.
You should go for the best: a site where you can do anything. Anything at all.
Remember, the only limit is yourself.
You're welcome.
I don't see why you think you need an 'app' to fill this page. (Then again, I have no idea why you decided to use a subdomain for everything in the first place, but that's another matter.) Web servers ultimately serve up html, whether they generate it dynamically from a web app or not. So, if you want to make use of port 80 on your domain to drive out the squatters, all you really need is some minimal html.
<html><head></head><body></body></html>
That should fill all your needs, and you don't have to worry about it looking non-professional because it's clearly just a placeholder. If you really can't think of anything more, feel free to copy and paste the above. (Adding a DTD might be a nice touch, especially if you're a professional web developer, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the student.)
"I bought my own canvas to use as a self-promotion tool. I removed the plastic wrapper. I also nailed some tacks into the sides to strengthen it. But when you go to look at it, there is nothing there. I didn't want Joe's Art Supplies getting ad revenue off my name (and it doesn't look very professional), so I sanded off the logo, but it seems like I should be able to put something on the canvas itself. But, I am not interesting in painting, I do not want too much personal information on it, and I do not want to spend a lot of money on paints, charcoals, or pastels(none, if possible). Are there any things that I can put on my canvas to fill the blank space? What do non-painters do with their personal canvases?"
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What do non-bloggers do with their personal domains?"
Nothing spectacular.. just little convenience tools here and there:
My default page has a banner that will direct visitors to the International Campaign for Tibet. A hidden folder serves as storage for the imagery of all stuff from my inheritance that I'm selling off on eBay - again - for the support of Tibet.
Why not redirect your site to your linkedin page?
Help take some of the load off of the Pirate Bay and host some links to torrents.
The http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Or put a bunch of links to various online charities there. Then you at least look like less of a douche.
I post the most unflattering pictures i can find (or take) of all the people the have ever wronged me. Think nose picking, crotch scratching and finger sniffing.
"Web designers" keep not wanting to know the most critical single factor in Google's original success ... no clutter.
I've got way too many placeholder pages which vary from one liners, to blatant lies about "coming soon", to a single link to some other discussion of the site's intended topic.
Lately, with bandwidth being cheap and no shortage of photos to choose from, I've been tending to add a single image which speaks for itself.
(Was going to also add the parent's exact suggestion so replied rather than duplicating.)
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.
I've had the suspicion the /. has been "losing it" lately... this thing making front page confirms it.
I put up my photography, my open-source work, and random devblog type stuff about whatever topic I feel like documenting. I add to it as functionality is needed (galleries, bookmarks, etc.)
If you want people to associate your name with professional experience, then the best thing to do is document what you've done. Artsy people already know this, and you'll generate hits and awareness as people find your projects. Employers frequently google potential hires, this makes sure you show up when people search for your name.
anthonymclin.com
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
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Whatever you decide to put up there, you need probably need somewhere to host it. For low-bandwidth sites where your cost is the most important consideration, I have found nothing better than http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for the purpose. It really is nearly free.
I use mine for personal email, image and file hosting.
I have many non published web pages and portals that I share with friends.
Its more like a private and personal internet host for me.
Not the traditional "domain" thing to do.
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Put Drupal or Joomla up there. They're a full blown content management system that are simple to use. You can start with basically nothing up there, and if you decide you want to do something later, you can grow it as needed. I like Drupal, but Joomla is supposedly a little easier.
net and org aren't, com is a BS placeholder site
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
I have made a list of all the (free!) services I use with my domain at http://pages.chaz6.com/. My home page, http://www.chaz6.com/, is a small collection of "things".
Put a big picture of Summer Glau on the page.
What more do you need?
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There's almost nothing free you can put on a personal page that will be professional, cool, interesting and practical all at the same time.
:)
If you're already using web 2.0 stuff (which it seems like you are), people would rather see your google calendar, facebook or linkedin page... something with content.
You don't need a dedicated domain for that, so stick with nothing and save the effort for another facebook quiz.
If you are really bored and want something as a place-holder, make a puzzle.
I don't quite understand. You purchased a domain (lets call it "example.com") for the sole purpose of promoting yourself. So you put your self promotion on a subsite called profile.example.com? That is kind of like buying the corner lot, putting the main store on the back of the lot, with the only entrance off a side street, then wondering what to do with the corner lot. (For the car analogy, assume the store was a car dealership) PUT your profile on your main site! Why wouldn't you, especially when you don't have a desire to do anything else with the site. Use the site for what you intended to use it for. Besides it is a lot easier to remember example.com or www.example.com that it is to remember profile.example.com.
If you are proud of being a non-blogger http://www.despair.com/blogging.html
http://something.com/
A blank text field and a submit button that simply appends the contents of the text field to a file on your server. It might be funny to see what shows up.
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Get an IP webcam, a bird feeder and upload the imagery.
put a goatse on it.
Find an extra computer, hopefully not too old, install Windows Home Server. Browse around at what all you can do with it.
You come up with a neat idea, then discover that someone more famous than you had a similar idea, and spend the rest of your life being called a copy cat :(
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Why not ditch the subdomain and just put all your profile stuff on the bare domain?
"This page intentionally left blank" I have exactly the same setup -- that's what I do!
I bought a personal domain not long ago intending to set up a family site so my parents/siblings can keep in touch as we are all across the country. After trying out stuffy like gallery2, wordpress, etc etc, i decided I didnt want everything piecemeal. I evenually landed on familycms.com which is an open source cms geared directly at what I was trying to do. Ive been playing with it ever since, learning php as I go to modify it to what I want.
Not really a direct answer for something on your main domain, but I thought Id throw it out there anyway as another use for a subdomain.
* mail.domainname points to gmail // I can't remember why, but meh.
* blog.domainname points to my blog
* roll.domainname points to my tumble log.
I also use it to point to servers I ssh to.
The best thing about it is the ability to redirect hosts when things change so I change service providers(email, hosting, social networks etc.) with out much hassle.
...and that is all I have to say about that.
http://jessta.id.au
If you're not using the space, how about setting up a honeypot there to help make the world a better place?
There's more than one good picture of Summer Glau.
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Redirect visitors to http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/03/214229 Duh
Select an OpenID provider and delegate your domain to this provider, which allows you to use your domain as your claimedID (profile.mydomain.com).
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This is done by simply by including link-rel tags in the head:
<link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://name.myopenid.com"
<link rel="openid2.provider" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://name.myopenid.com/"
<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
Forward it to your FaceBook page. Duh.
As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your blog site: 1- Buy a domain name. To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name. http://www.dvds-online-rental-review.com
You're already using Google Apps for email, so use their start page/pages/sites feature and put up a simple page, the built-in ones are template-based, that at least let's visitors know they're at the right place, if they're googling you or try your URL.
Use your domain for a personal wiki. (Click the link for some suggestions.) Close it down, so only you can access it. DokuWiki is a very good and easy to setup wiki with excellent user management. You can keep your notes there, project info, general information about anything...
I love this stupid sentence from e. g. vintage SunOS Manuals.
Or "Ceci n'est pas une page web."
Put it in an alt tag to really leave the page blank.
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http://www.wix.com/ is my serious answer
"Wave to the cats" is my -serious answer
FSM, grant me the serenity to preview that which I cannot change...
Battle skeletor ?
There are lots of free weather, word of the day, trivia, today in history, etc scripts out there. I also have links to all my favorite sites. I find clicking the HOME button and then a link easier than using the bookmarks menu. So I suggest local new, weather and sports... the 6-8 or 20 things you check all the time, and set your HOMEPAGE as your home page!
There is a page at http://example.com/ so clearly the domain exists. It resolves to an IP address and there is a web server listening there. The page does say that the name and the .org and .net versions "are not available for registration" but that could be considered to apply to all names that are already registered. Note that this differs from the reserved TLDs. These domains are reserved for use in documentation so that you can be sure that your examples never refer to something with some other meaning.
If you look up the registration data for example.com then you can discover that it is registered by IANA. Apparently the registration will expire 13-aug-2011 but I suspect that it will be renewed in time!
Not really answering the question, but I must concur with 4).
I do the same. Sometimes interesting responses from the unsophisticated:
+ thats our email
+ is that a real address?
+ you can't use our address
Long ago in the early days of the Internet....
I registered my last name .com. I thought it would be cool, give me some serious net cred to have firstName@LastName.com as my email address.
Trouble is that my last name was registered as a trademark by a nasty clothing company about 150 years ago. They have no legal way to force me to give them the domain. They have offered to buy it, but honestly they never offered me as much as they have spent on lawyers trying to steal it. And no where near to what I consider it to be worth.
OTOH, any time I put anything on the site they threaten to sue me for damaging the value of their trademark. I checked around for what that was going to cost me. If I won, maybe only $100,000, maybe $250,000. If I lost it would be about the same and I would lose the domain name. So.... I really don't want to be sued. The cheapest IP law firm I could find wanted a $30,000 retainer before they would even review the case. And folks, that $30,000 is just the bribe you pay to keep the lawyer from working for the other guys, it doesn't go against *any* of the cost of the work they do.
After 10 years of that kind of crap I put up a page calling for a boycott of the unnamed company and that made them realize that although I really can't afford to defend myself against a lawsuit from them, I can hurt them.
The last few years the site has said "move along, nothing to see here" and they have not bothered me. No registered letters, no calls from lawyers. They have no legal right to stop me from using the domain anyway I see fit. But, they have millions to spend suing me. I do not have millions to spend defending myself. They can sue me and lose and bankrupt me.
Stonewolf
With some super-simple HTML, I created a semi-dynamic site by linking, nesting and including some Google-provided mojo and outside sites like LinkedIn, Picasa, etc.
Google Blogger - Setup a CNAME for your domain that will point blog.EXAMPLE.com to an account at Blogger (free). Then use some Google JS to include your blog RSS entries on your otherwise-static HTML home page (see left-hand side of my home page)
Pull in Outside webpages to your domain - create simple IFRAME html pages on your domain for easy access to your Flikcr, Picasa, gDocs, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. pages
-http://stevehamlin.org/pictures - shows my public Picasa gallery
-http://stevehamlin.org/linkedin - nests my LinkedIn page
-http://stevehamlin.org/investments - nests a dynamic Google Spreadsheet showing up-to-the minute current performance of some stocks I own
Google Reader - organize your feeds into folders, and then you can 'publish' a dynamic webpage that is made up of all RSS entries in a particular folder. (see all of the links on the right-hand side of my static-HTML home page)
Also, you can "star" items you read in Reader, and then you can publish a RSS feed of THOSE articles (see middle column of my home page)
Also, you can create a dynamic list of links to all feeds you follow (this static HTML code lists all currently-subscribed feeds, by folder, from my Reader account)
Professional - Resume, of course. A full page of links to professional resources. Also included in that page is a dynamic list of RSS posts from various professional blogs I follow, by category.
I followed the 2008 Election polling data in by creating this: http://stevehamlin.org/election.html
Another poster mentioned a public-facing webpage that automatically forwards to a dynamic IP address (port22 passthru from cable modem to desktop at home). Better yet, do some Dyn-DNS work to make this work natively and automatically.
Just like a billboard, you could lease out ad space for particular clients, if your domain name seems to attract a lot of traffic.
I have a lastname.name domain, I created email accounts for all family members with firstname@lastname.name addresses. Also, firstname.lastname.name portfolio websites. Looks pretty on a resume, confuses the heck out of non-technical people who are convinced that all domains must end with .com
That's what my domains say. Of course, it is also what the 404 page says for all of them too.
Run a numbers station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station on your front page. Change the content randomly, but on an at-least daily basis. If you're lucky, some nicely dressed men (black suits, anyway) will pay you a visit...
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I found myself in a similar situation. I do blog but so infrequently that going to my personal domain makes it look like I don't do anything.
Here's what I'm working on... It's not designed yet but the functionality is there...
I created this page: http://www.davidcatalano.com/digital/
I'm going to move it to the root but need to move my Wordpress install first...
So what is it? It is the steam of updates that I make on a number of social website including Twitter, Delicious, Facebook, Digg and SmugMug. The site puts everything in chronological order and allows for filtering and searching by keyword. It is all powered by FriendFeed and doesn't require any backend what so ever.
Let me know what you think and if you are interested in using it ask me first david9@modea.com (remove the 9)
1. It is my permanent email address.
2. It is a gateway to my blog and that of my wife.
I keep a few standard pages on it, but I don't do much with them. I find that a well maintained blog is an easier way to host information on the Internet.
Also, you may want to keep a copy of your resume on it. Even if you are not applying for a computer job in the future, I would imagine that someone who hosts their resume on their own website would be looked at as more computer savvy than someone who hosts it another way.
On an unrelated topic, ignore any trollish comments you might receive with your Ask Slashdot submission. There will always be jerks in this world.
Good luck with your domain!
Title is actually the only non-optional element, and that is the one you chose to omit.
The shortest legal page is "title//" if you include a doctype, or "title//" if you do not. Please note that that utilizes the shorttag feature of html, and chooses an alternate root element. Those features are not well supported in browsers.
Stylish sheet to fix many problems in Slashdot's D3: https://gist.github.com/801524
Damnit. Accidentally hit the submit button on the preview page. The shortest legal page is "<!doctype title PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"><title//" and without dtd it is "<title//" Note double slashes instead of a close bracket and close tag.
Stylish sheet to fix many problems in Slashdot's D3: https://gist.github.com/801524
Which social network or microblogging service do you use the most? You can redirect to your profile there. If you don't use any, then your resume is a great option. BR,
If you're the kind of guy that has tons of family and friends that need help doing something, setup a remote support link so that they can install "Open source remote support client" and have you take over their PC.
An obvious link on the main page would launch it for them.
You would need to set it up so that you don't care when random visitors click it...or setup some payment gateway and start a really disappointing side business.
If you want to give yourself an all-consuming second job that pays nothing make a link wiki for freeware that doesn't suck. Then spend all your time playing wack-a-mole with share/crap/malware posters overwriting the good stuff.