Articles Abroad is an online travel article directory for both publishers and authors. 

I like to think that I'm a writer first and foremost but I enjoy designing websites although I'm not all that good at it. I really struggle with scripts and software, probably because I'm too impatient to read instructions properly. With the advent of video tutorials I'm doing much better now.

This is my second home business. For 5 years I ran an offline information publishing mail order business until 2002. I published my own guides, a monthly magazine, ran a leaflet design and a mailing service, spread to the Internet in 2000 with a large magazine site and various other sites, did the Ebay thing and so much more that I found I didn't have a life. I dropped out for 5 years and came back with just an Internet business early in 2007. I got bored with just having a life and wanted the challenge.

During that time I have bean learning and relearning and checking out everything and every bit of information that I can find. I've built several sites including my well established article directory BB Articles, a very useful site to own! Because I love traveling and reading about travel it seemed natural to branch out and build Articles Abroad in November 2007. 

Yes this article directory appears newer - the reason for that is that I initially used a membership site script that appeared to be wonderful until you actually started to use it. After a nightmare year of problems and hard work I had to choose between paying a hefty fee to continue to use the script or buying a more reliable, easier to use script. Common sense prevailed, hence the switch to the Article Friendly script in November 2008. 

In addition to our services for authors, webmasters may download the software that powers this site and start their own article directories. We encourage you to weigh the benefits of developing your own article directory and challenge you to build a quality resource for your visitors. You can easily customize our software to create niche directories, or broad directories...you have complete control. More Details

Some of my other websites are:

www.bb-articles.com General subject article directory
www.uksmartguide.com Info about UKdestinations and free city guides with maps
www.creativewriter.me.uk Info about writing and free writers tools
www.cashwrite.info Info about making money from writing and free writers tools
www.eprofitscentre.com digital download membership site and business article directory
www.over40sclub.com An idea that I had but I haven't had much time to work on it. It's got an article directory but I haven't figured Joomla out enough yet to sort out submission for users.
www.yorkshirepuddingrecipe.co.uk A blog that I put up for a challenge to see how long it would take to get ranked for the keywords. A few hours and it was still second for the key phrase behind Delias site the last time that I looked.
www.hot-resell-rights.com another blog and doing better for adsense earnings than the rest of my sites. Don't know why I never do anything with it.

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I've got a business partner called Gary Vine and our business name is JV Creations. We go way back to my magazine publishing days when he was a subscriber. We have been building a music business up for several months and it's getting really interesting. Our websites are: