Name: Barry Dunlop

Web sites: Many sites, here are just a few: http://www.midascode.co.uk ~ http://www.conservatoriesonline.com ~ http://www.almostimpartialguide.co.uk ~ http://www.bensbookmarks.com

Date: 19^th November 2006

Please introduce yourself: Barry Dunlop, Age 46 - My interests include: Self Help, Walking, Entrepreneurship and being father to four teenage children.

Tell us about your main project, project.

I have been online since 1998 (when I registered my first domains) and up until 2006, I was really only involved in one online business. This business that had over 40 active websites within it.

My PR company say I was a First Mover in the UK Online Leads Businesshaving been actively online since 1998, using the Internet to generate sales leads.

Early in 1999 I launched and later developed the very successful Ebuilders Ltd brand of Home Improvement Portals which included websites such as http://www.conservatoriesonline.com and http://www.doubleglazing.com

These websites included a Contractor Matching Service and an Information Request service that generated leads which we sold to home improvement companies.

The Ebuilders name was a play on my own experience as the owner of an offline building and contracting business having decided that I now wanted to be an E-Builder building home improvement websites rather than homes.

These websites and their related partners sites produced hundreds of thousands of leads and generate 10s of millions in sales each year.

In 2006 I sold a controlling interest in Ebuilders Ltd and while I still have some involvement with Ebuilders I have now decided to focus on my next online business model which will be as a fixer-upper of websites. A sort of online Virtual Property Development Business that buys and re-sells websites. My new company is MidasCode Ltd website: http://www.midascode.co.uk and our business model is about turning website code from neglected and forgotten, under performing websites into GOLD.

I also make occasional postings at my BLOG, which can be found at www.BarryDunlop.com

How did you start off on the net? Believe it or not, I think my first websites where on Free Web Space, provided by my ISP and people like Geocities

What was your first project? A website for the company that I owned at that time. The website is still there today at: http://www.conservatoriestoday.co.uk

What advice do you have for someone who is starting web design/ web development? To embrace all the latest technology and tools and for your programming to be FUTURE PROOF and able to cope with at least twice the traffic of your best estimate.

What would you do differently? I could have done with THINKING BIGGER I had no idea my websites would be so successful and if I had, I would have created more websites sooner

Tools of the trade? Dreamweaver and all the usual tools but for some time now, I have employed the staff to take care of the Webmaster tasks.

What do you enjoy doing in your spare time? : Studying Self Help and Personal Development, Walking, Entrepreneurship and being father to four teenage children.

What are your current Projects? Midascode Ltd: http://www.barrydunlop.com ~ http://www.bensbookmarks.com ~ http://midascode.co.uk ~ http://collectiblog.com

Thanks for taking your time to take do an interview with us, anything else you would like to add?

Think BIG, we can achieve much more than most of us ever think we can. You do not need to take until age 45 (like me) to become financially independent. It is entirely possible to be financially independent by the age of 25 or even 21 if you put your mind to it.

As Donald Trump says: like thinking big. I always have, - If youre going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.