Name of your website?Celtnet African Recipes
Your name?
Dyfed Lloyd Evans
Your Location (city, etc)
Macclesfield, Cheshire
Please give us a short summary of your website?
The website is an attempt to gain representative recipes from every country in Africa. Ensuring there are at least three recipes from each state.
What inspired you to launch your own website?
My wife is West African and learning about her food and cooking techiniques led me to be interested in African cookery.
When did you launch your first website, and what was it?
My first site was launched in 2004 and it was about the Celtic gods an celtic literature.
How did you decide on a name for your website?
Celtnet dreives from 'Celtic Network' and it's been used for each of my sites since the first one.
What makes it different from other, similar offerings?
This is by far the most comprehensive collection of African recipes all in one place and this is the only interent site where you can get recipes from all African countries all the way from North Africa to South Africa
What is your eventual goal? (To sell it, keep it for income, secure a book or other mainstream media deal?)
To source a book deal based on the content of the site (I'm already turning the content into an eBook). It's also to help my wife's father gain a life-saving operation in Liberia and to help the liberian refugees in Senegal re-build their lives.
How does your investment of time and money balance against your success?
So far much more is going into the website than I'm getting out of it. But the whole point of this investment is to get funding for other people, not for me.
If you had an unlimited development budget for development, how would you change your site?
I'd go for a ground-up re-design and pay someone for the database and serch engine development rather than doing the whole thing myself
If your site got really big, really quickly, would you be able to keep up with the demand?
Hopefully, thoug it' already pretty big and I'm investing all evenings and weekends to the project.
What unexpected costs and headaches have you had to deal with?
Mostly it's been hunting-out the recipes and converting them into a format that can be used for the website
What has been your biggest challenge?
Designing a system so that the recipes only need to be added to a single central database. From there they can be distributed to the whole site.
What method has been most successful for promoting your website?
eZine Articles
How has running your website differed from your expectations?
It's a lot more work!
How long have you run the site already, and how long will you continue to keep it up if you don't enjoy big gains in traffic, income or popularity?
The overall site has been running for 3 years, but the recipe section has been going for 1 year. It will still keep going as a resource. Admittedly I want to make money out of this; thoug hthe money is all to go to others.
What do yu want out of the website
To get the site noticed and to get sufficinet people coming in that I can gain enough money first to save my wife's father and then to improve the lives of the Liberian refugees who are my wife's friends.
What is your website address?
Celtnet African Recipes
