February 11, 2009

New Site - Spash Page

OK - I finally started to get my self motivated to start writing the main site for http://www.thunderbirdink.com - and guess what? I got as far as a splash page that points back to this blog - what does everyone think of the background and logo graphics by the way?

Snadowitz

Welcome to Thunderbird Ink!

Hi,

Thunderbird Ink - I have looked at a lot of forum and chat sites for tattoos on the internet and I must say a lot of them suck. Likewise the websites of a lot of tattoo studios - just plain SUCK BIGTIME. Now I am not saying I am a web genius but I can definitely do a lot better than the sites that a of of tattoo artists currently use, I mean for gods sake, how unprofessional does it look to only have a hotmail.com email address? or a "site" hosted at MySpace.com? or in the 21st century - not to have a website or email at all. So - I thought of setting up a site where:-

  • Tattoo artists and tattoo collectors and fans can gather and chat in a seriously good forum
  • Tattoo studios and tattoo industry suppliers can advertise
  • Tattooists can blog and be sure to be seen by like minded people
  • I can offer site design and hosting to tattoo studios that have not got the time, skills or energy to do it themselves
So - that it for now - http://www.thunderbirdink.com is born. the site is very much under construction at the moment as I do have a day job - in fact I have made no progress for months with just a basic installation at present. However.......in the background things are happening, I am gathering the site resources, getting a mailing list together and hopefully starting to contact studios with a view to joining up as site sponsors to cover the costs a little.