Five years ago, my wife and I had a dream. Together, we wanted to start a blog called "Like that Idea" and so we registered the domain LikethatIdea.com. The idea for the WordPress blog was to have a site where we could identify and review neat ideas which we thought others would like to read about. The ideas came in the form of products, books, movies, services, and interesting article that we read ourselves. In the end though, we ran out of ideas to write about and the site never really took off.

By the time many of you read this post, Like that Idea will be never more. I'm currently working on wiping the site off the server. It's time to say goodbye to one of the few joint Internet projects that my wife and I worked on together. Instead, we'll use the time to work on our own personal projects as well as working jointly on the biggest project of our lifetime, our family. If you're wanting to purchase the domain, feel free to make us an offer.

Below the fold is a post I couldn't help but transfer from LikethatIdea.com over to this site. Thinking back at this moment in time still puts a smile on my face.

"Review: Microsoft's Office Live helps small businesses get up and online quickly and easily; with the official launch, Microsoft has stepped up storage, integration with Office 2007 and site design tools."

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Hmmm...very interesting. All of a sudden, you may not need to worry about going with the more expensive hosting packages. What's the catch?

"Free beta of Google Apps for Your Domain launches Monday and will let organizations offer Web-based e-mail, chat and more."

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We've decided to use Drupal for our content management system (CMS). An important question for newbies remains, how do we get Drupal onto a real Internet Website? You are probably aware that you need more than the "free server space" the Internet Service Provider is providing, but where do you start? Believe it or not, these basic questions have been asked by even some of the best people I know in information technology (IT). Many IT people may help run or manage the company Website, but someone else in the company left them in the dark to how the company got their Domain Name in the first place. If you're a small business, you may have computer people but what you don't have are thousands of dollars to throw at a Web server. How do people get their site on the Internet at a reasonable price, you ask? It's time to shine some light on these unanswered questions.

The simple answer is you just need to purchase an Internet name (actually called a Domain Name) and "rent" some space on an Internet Server through a shared hosting plan. So are companies providing theses Web services difficult to find? No, not at all and that is the problem. Typing in "domain name" or "web hosting" on your favorite search engine will give you so many companies to choose from that the task can be too overwhelming. Although we're interested in finding the right hosting company to run our CMS, Drupal, for any Website this is the minimum I would look for when deciding where to host your Internet Site: