Legitimacy
I think I'm going to have to make this site more legitimate. I've been leaning towards going by my full name online lately and I've never gotten over the fact that I don't have a weird name like some web designers who have their name as their domain. The closest I have is http://montoyaiscool.com and right now that's just pointing to this domain.
Also, as much as the name "Running Duck Producktions" is marginally catchy, it isn't very relevant to anything. I don't even have any ducks on the site, except for the flock in the photo gallery. I'm thinking that these things just make my site less legitimate; the subdomain, the random name, etc. I need to fix that.
I might go back to using montoyaiscool.com as my domain, and I'm thinking about what to call this place. Maybe just "Christian Montoya" at the top like all the web-celebrities do. Yeah. That sounds like a great idea.
What do you think? Would a different website personality change the success of this site?
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I don't know; there are a couple different schools thought here. One is that your domain name is a creative expression, the other is that your internet presence is just an extension of your real-life presence, and should be reflected by use of your name.
Personally, since switching from my old .com (contrakarma.com) to philrenaud.com, I've seen my hits increase twentyfold.
Of course… well, regardless, nothing is worse than montoya dot rdpdesign dot com. What the heck was I thinking? And I don't think montoyaiscool.com is so hot either… too many people would find that either arrogant or childish.
So forget it. I'm CHRISTIANMONTOYA.COM
And proud.