Last night I updated two of my database driven websites, firmscode.com and portcodes.com. Both are part of the Informed Trade International group of sites because they offer US Customs info and resources. I particularly like them because they’re database driven and require very little maintenance from me, while offering a very useful tool to the import/export community.

Firmscode in particular is quite popular and gets most of it’s traffic from people who have bookmarked the site. Aside from being a tidy little earner, it’s cool to have produced an online tool that people find useful enough to come back to. One of my shining moments before leaving the freight-forwarding industry was when someone brought up firmscode.com in a department meeting (totally unprompted) and cited it as a resource. Ten minutes later one of my co-workers sent out the broadcast email that I was the author! I don’t think people understand that a lot of times websites originate from one person. I think a lot of people have in their minds that websites just spring into existence on their own. That’s fine by me.

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