Mike Griffiths

Well, as you probably know, I like making things to do with football. Notably Football Badges and Football Feeds, both of which are doing extremely well.

My new venture is something a little bit more large-scale. The football badges application gets around 250,000 new unique visits (at time of writing) per month, my goal is to syphon some of these over to the new project, the football forum. At time of writing the number one slot on Google for ‘Football Forum’ only has 25,000 members. This may seem a lot, but when you consider it’s only a tenth of my average monthly traffic on the football badges application, you’ll see that it’s entirely possible that it could be beaten.

Within 3 weeks of launching the forums already have approaching 200 active users. This may not seem like a lot, but consider that this sort of website is viral, and the rate of growth will only increase over time.

If you’re interested in football and want to speak to some like-minded individuals, then head over.

Football Forum

It’s been a while since I last posted, I’ve been ridiculously busy of late with a huge amount of projects coming underway, but there will be more news of that in the next few posts.

A project I started some time ago, which was started fairly randomly is the pub directory. It’s a website with (nearly) every pub in the UK listed. Although the search function isn’t great at the moment, there is the ability to search for a city and pub name – but everything does share the same search box, so searching something like ‘Winchester’ might bring up a few unwanted results.

Other than that the site is doing well. The pubs are all categorised by region, so it’s quite easy to find pubs around you. There are also several nice features, including the ability to add a review to the pub. The pub reviews don’t require any sign-ups, and are protected from spam by a reCaptcha form, which works excellently.

Have a look and see if you can find your pub: Pub Directory