<p>Does anyone have a business or is thinking of starting one? If so what is it or what type are you going to start? I am thinking about starting a concession truck business.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Haha i was about to post a similar thread. </p>
<p>Actually my friend and I are planning on starting a buisness. We are just gathering ideas right now, so not sure on exactly what we’re gonna do.</p>
<p>I dont wanna give the best ideas away, so ill give the more common ones. These include:
- Making websites locally (designers, flower stores, grocery stores, random stuff)
- Services (ppl call us, we do what they want - they pay. So like doing groceries for them, getting food, dropping something off, checking something for them. ANYTHING.)
- Making computers (make comp, sell at 1.5x the price)
Some of the other ones are to godly to disclose lol.</p>
<p>I’ve done web programming/design services, lawn work, etc.</p>
<p>Cono if you dont mind,</p>
<p>How did you start web design? Was it just you, or a bunch of friends? How many websites did you do (about), and would you recommend it?</p>
<p>I started web design first by having a sincere interest in it; so it rarely got boring to me. </p>
<p>I read a bunch of online tutorials to first learn HTML, got some books, and then added CSS to my list. I learn XHTML afterwards (small extension, just some standards and stuff) and got into PHP/MySQL database applications (which isn’t as hard as it sounds). </p>
<p>But the PHP/MySQL isn’t necessary unless you want to create things like forums (like CC), login pages, basically database apps. </p>
<p>I started by joining a bunch of web design/programming communities on the net (message boards, like CC). I learned at those communities, eventually got some requests to do some work, got paid over PayPal. Then I started joining forums specifically made for paid web design work and just started doing sites there as well. </p>
<p>It’s not a bad idea to put ads in the paper either. Word of mouth is also a good system; just mentioning it to friends. I did a quick 20 minute job for a friend’s dad and made like $30 the other day. Everyone thinks it’s pretty cool; I even had a game that everyone at my school played online, and made some good money off ads and addicted players. 
If there is a web design class at your school, I’d recommend taking that.</p>
<p>Get a bunch of poor crack whores and give them cheap, diluted black tar heroin to sleep with a bunch of STD infected truckers in sleazy ass motels that rent by the hour.</p>
<p>But if that doesn’t work, do what I do. Take every chance to sit out on an overbooked flight. I made $340 to spend the night in the Oakland Airport and read a book for english (Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man…it sucks) that I would have had to read anyway. It was a sweet deal.</p>
<p>Cono what are you doing with MySQL? (by the way HTML, CSS, XHTML, and SQL are pretty easy to learn, if anyone here is interested, lots of great stuff here [W3Schools</a> Online Web Tutorials](<a href=“http://www.w3schools.com/]W3Schools”>http://www.w3schools.com/))</p>
<p>Hmm… I’d say Cono uses mysql, because most cheap servers let you have mysql - databases for free… and mostly there’s something like phpmyadmin (is it popular in non-german too?) preinstalled - very easy to use.
And maybe because you can just use XAMPP for testing, without installing an extra server.
But, if you can do SQL, you can do mysql, too.</p>