DotComKu.com

First story on Dot­ComKu…
The story of DotComKu!

Who?

My name is Sugih Sutjiono, an avid fan of the World Wide Web, born and liv­ing in Indone­sia. I had the oppor­tu­nity of liv­ing in Sin­ga­pore and also in Aus­tralia, and trav­eled to quite a few places in Asia. As per now, I have not stepped in Amer­ica nor Europe, and I’m really look­ing for­ward to go to those places. From the trav­els that I’ve done, I got to expe­ri­ence and under­stand more about the dif­fer­ent places I’ve been to. But the Web gave me even infor­ma­tion more about the world and beyond! Since I started using the Inter­net back in col­lege, I’ve become sort of an Infor­ma­tion addict, and the inter­net was my cure!

What?
“Dot­ComKu” means “my dot com” in Indone­sian lan­guage. DotComKu.com is basi­cally a col­lec­tion of Dot Com sto­ries by Dot Com own­ers, and I hope to col­lect as many Dot Com sto­ries as pos­si­ble. My idea for this site came about after read­ing web­site reviews on mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers, and think­ing that the reviews were some­times biased, some­times did not have any inter­views with the site owner, and I also wanted more insights from the site owners/creators. So I thought a site filled with Behind the scene sto­ries of a web­site from the owner/creator’s per­spec­tive would be inter­est­ing and could also be inspir­ing, so here it is!

Why?
Sim­ple… Curios­ity is why! I am impressed by many web­sites out there in the WWW… The cre­ative ideas, designs, func­tion and pur­pose of the sites… I’m also def­i­nitely impressed by how sites are kept up and run­ning. I have had a hard time start­ing a blog, and its even harder to keep it going. So my drive to start Dot­ComKu is to hear directly from Dot Com own­ers about their sites and their expe­ri­ences set­ting up and run­ning the site, and what keeps them going.

When?
Dot­ComKu was reg­is­tered in March 2009. Since reg­is­tra­tion, I have tried set­ting up the site a num­ber of times, with many changes in ideas along the way as well.. The idea started out with Dot­ComKu being a direc­tory of Indone­sian web­sites. But then I thought I’d rather intro­duce Indone­sian based sites to the world, and who bet­ter to tell the world about a site than the owner/creator.. Then why just Indone­sian sites when I could just get rid of bor­ders and get Dot Com sto­ries from all around! So now my quest for Dot Com sto­ries begins!

Where?
I’m based in Jakarta, Indone­sia, but with regards to Dot­ComKu, I’m hop­ing there will be Dot Com sto­ries from all over the world to share on the site.

How?
Well.. The start wasn’t too hard.. just get­ting the ideas right.. finally get­ting down to cre­at­ing the site and get­ting it up and run­ning took a while! As I don’t have any real cod­ing skills, no IT edu­ca­tion back­ground, choos­ing what plat­form to set up the site on and how to actu­ally do it took a while. I was look­ing at direc­tory scripts ini­tially, then after final­iz­ing on the change in the idea, I decided on Word­Press! Its as sim­ple as it gets with Word­Press, espe­cially after I got the The­sis theme.. It really is less cod­ing and do more! My day job is deal­ing with min­ing oper­a­tions and also run­ning a motor­cy­cle deal­er­ship, so the Inter­net only comes when­ever I’m free.. So I’m usu­ally in my room, on my bed.. My wife would com­ment at times… but she is my biggest sup­porter!.. actu­ally she’s also the one who keeps ask­ing me when the site is gonna be done , Thank you D!

Mes­sage to the world?
If I could start Dot­ComKu, any­one can start their own web­site! I hope the sto­ries that are going to be on this site could inspire even more great Dot Coms!
Don’t go Dupli­cat­ing, Start Cre­at­ing!
Enjoy DotComKu!

- SuGih -

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