Because of my involvement with North Gong Daily, North Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club has also approached me and asked for me to update their website and show them how to do so themselves. Though this is an excellent opportunity and would provide a lot of experience, I am hesitant to accept it as they have asked me to volunteer my time freely. Due to them being a volunteer-based council organisation, they don’t have a lot of funding to spare, therefore asking to be paid is hard to do. Though I am unsure whether to accept this, it would be a good step towards turning myself into a business, as I could then put it in my portfolio and approach other similar organisations (such as other surf clubs).

I have also been asked by the owner of Aurora Consulting to update and modernise the businesses website and we will begin working on it in December.

Another opportunity I have noticed is that by transferring North Gong Daily to wordpress.org, NGD’s owners could save a decent amount of money, whilst also gaining more customisation options.

There are a few changes I’d like to make to North Gong Daily, such as an automatic gallery of images on the front page. This gallery would need to be able to recognise which images are stats images to make sure they don’t get included and if successful, would make the site look more professional and aesthetically-pleasing. I also want to update the theme of the site to something more interesting as I feel it has the potential to look and perform even better. The implementation of a small selection of ads on the site could also allow for some more monetisation, though this wouldn’t be a large figure. A small selection would mean the site still makes money whilst not being too intrusive or over-loaded with information.