In that time there have been a few additional expenses, all of them optional.

$50 – to pay for a domain name reset. I worked with one site for around about 4 months and realised that I didn’t have the passion for the topic to keep pushing it. It was basically too closely aligned to my day job. Money well spent in my opinion as I now have a site that I’m really enjoying writing for and, in those early days, I learnt a huge amount about actually writing webpages and getting things published. If I had gone into things more slowly, rather than jumping in with both feet, I would likely not have needed to do this – says a lot more about my personality than about SBI. I also thought that $50 to reset my account and start over with a new domain name was excellent value.

$20 – to buy the SiteStructureIt software. This is an external tool that uses the brainstormer data to produce an excellent site structure plan. It revolutionised my planning when I bought it, and within 2 hours my site had far more direction and clear plan of action than it had had after months of sketch plans on paper. Another excellent value and optional tool.

$49.99 – my final additional and optional cost was buying AJ’s 3 column template. My site was doing fine without it before hand, but I felt I was ready to give my look and feel an overhaul, and push my html knowledge a bit further. I uploaded my first two pages in the new format today and again think this is excellent value for money. For people reading this in the future SBI is in the process of developing its own 3 column templates which will be available at no extra charge to SBI owners. Again, I was impatient to get started on it, rather than wait the 3 to 6 months for it to be available in Blockbuilder.

Total additional costs $120 – every penny of it excellent value for money and all of it optional.

Mike

I also bought Site Structure It (20$) to help me build my web site’s blueprint. Using the spreadsheet method described in the action guide seemed a little bit tedious for me.

As described by Thomaz those purchases were completely optional.