{"id":35465,"date":"2013-11-12T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=35465"},"modified":"2013-11-12T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T13:36:23","slug":"whats-your-reason-to-not-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2013\/11\/12\/whats-your-reason-to-not-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your reason to not begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in 2006, there wasn’t an easy way to create blog that worked the way you wanted it to, using your own domain. I couldn’t wrap my head around WordPress, which was essentially a platform for a blog; so I went with Textpattern instead, because it was a more fleshed out content management system (CMS) that could also work as a blog. There were very, very limited templates available, and I learned CSS and HTML so that I could make my website non-ugly. (Want to see how my first blog looked like? Here it is<\/a>!)<\/em><\/div>\n
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Back in 2006, I couldn’t find an e-commerce site that I could use that’s within my budget (i.e. free) so I deployed ZenCart \u2013 one of the ugliest<\/del>\u00a0most popular shopping carts out there, and turns out there was a reason for that \u2013 it was free. I dived into PHP and changed the template and stripped its functionality to do what I needed it to do. It took me countless late nights (that tipped into the wee hours of the morning) hunched over the computer, while I still woke up at 8am to prep for my full-time job the next day. Etsy wasn’t even born yet.<\/div>\n
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Back in 2007, Paypal wasn’t open to Malaysians at all<\/em>. So I researched every single way to open an account, legally. It took a bus trip down south, along with the help of a financial institution overseas, and my gracious aunt to open an account. I finally managed to open one to receive funds and to withdraw the tiny amount I made online \u2013 I was in business!\u00a0Paypal only made it officially open to everyone else here after a couple more years.<\/div>\n
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Right now, in 2013, there’s so many different options available \u2013 for anyone looking to start their own blog, shop, portfolio, and even different ways to get paid online. You don’t even need to dive into any code to make these softwares work the way you want it to. You don’t even need to learn CSS and HTML to make design changes. Everything is done with a few clicks of a button.<\/div>\n
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The only thing that’s missing is the button you have to push first: YOU<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
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So share with me: what’s your excuse for not starting?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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[Illustration:\u00a0Till Hafenbrak<\/a>]<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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