I tend to get myself in trouble every time I pre-announce a new project, but here goes: Beginning in 2006, we here at Turdhead.com have resolved to produce and release at least one new Flash game per month. In other words, we plan to increase our current stable of games by more than 600 percent by January 2007.

Why?

Mainly it's the allure of fame and fortune that all Flash programmers receive automatically upon the release of a new work. That, and the incredible popularity we gain among women, children and domestic animals with each new release. Not to mention the amazing… um… delusions of grandeur we experience when we triumphantly announce, "Oh, wait, hang on… try this version…"

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This is a bittersweet day for me.

After 10 years of working on the net, I'm saying goodbye to the site that got me started in this whole world of Web site production. The site that, truly, has led me to where I am today.

The intro image from the 1998 version of the site.

Carteret.com, the first domain name I ever owned, and the site that taught me just about everything I know about the internet today, is now for sale.

Why? Because I've learned as much as I can from it now, and because, according to the offers I've already received for the name, it's apparently worth more money to others than it is to me these days.

The Web that was

So how'd this all begin?

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We'd like to thank our regular readers (i.e., Blake, Eugene, Lee and Gregg) for helping Turdhead.com reach the goal that so many other Web enterprises have failed to meet: In our first 13 months of operation, we've actually made a profit.

I've worked with many "This could make it big" Web sites over the years, so those who know me will understand why I'm excited about a Web site that actually pays its own bills (small as those bills might be). After years of pouring cash and nerves into creating online medical databases, technical recruitment sites, daily newspaper engines and community portals, I seem to have finally found a comfortable place of my own here on the once-wild Web.

Thanks to Google's AdSense program and steady sales of Sticky Turds, ActionScript Jabberwocky T-shirts and Li'l Johnny merchandise, we've actually managed to recoup our costs this year.

Granted, the grand total of profits comes to about 37 cents so far, but for somebody who's been placing all their eggs in online enterprise baskets since the birth of Netscape 0.9 Beta, this comes as a bit of a shock. Since 1995, I've spent more money than I'd like to count — riding the dot-com bubble with both hands tied to the wheel. And until now, I didn't even get a lousy T-shirt for it.

Which is what makes Turdhead.com's sweet, sweet 37-cent profit (and its modest success in the media this year) all the more wonderful. In this post dot-com world, this site was never supposed to make money. In fact, I figured I'd just pour a little of the money I got from my day job (It's kinda nice working for The Man now) into the site until I got bored. This one (OK, this one and its automotive sister site, Classic1800.com) is only here for the fun of it.

And a few months later, it's still fun. Not a big revenue earner, but in no way a drain, either.

Thanks again to everyone!

— VeryVito

By the way, if you're looking for a way to add T-shirts, posters or other merchandise to your own site — or want a quick-and-dirty way to make your own custom stuff, I whole-heartedly recommend CafePress for the job. I've had good luck with them, and the quality and ease-of-use is great. You won't get rich, but you you won't go broke, either!