Friday, September 28, 2007

Updates are on their way

Keep your eyes open for an updated video page. You can check out the progress at the development link. Hell, check there any time you want to to see what the fuck I'm up to. Also, look for the forum page - coming soon on a trial basis.

On a side note: the funny thing about this site is that I intended it to be a build-it-and-leave-it-alone type of site. I just wanted to put it out there, do nothing to it, and see what it could do. Unfortunately I can't just let it sit there without picking at it so it's becoming more and more of a project than I intended. What I have now is only the beginning (hence the "BETA" mode) so as I learn more then the site will benefit more. BE SURE TO COME BACK OFTEN!!! I'm obsessive about watching the traffic graphs...

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Public Service Announcement - E Sex Clicks sucks ass

Maybe that came out wrong - E SEX CLICKS banner exchange is a SCAM. I signed up on 9/2/20007, got my initial 3000 credits, then proceeded to accrue credits over the next three weeks - 3500 more. Three weeks and my account was still "awaiting administrator approval". After three emails to the admin of the site and one to the hosting company (with no response back) I couldn't get an explanation why my ads weren't being displayed and why my account was still in a pending status.

So no support and no exchange of banners. Fuck 'em, I dropped those bastards and plan to warn as many people as I can about them.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Sneaky html caching

My wife has the only Windows computer in the entire house, I use Debian and Ubuntu. Apparently there's a caching issue in IE if it's not told to not cache. I didn't realize this until last night when I just did a random test on the site and found that it kept showing the same video over and over whenever i clicked on the NEXT VIDEO link.

After doing some googling I found the solution, and have listed it here. Sorry, but I don't know how to get the neccessary html code to pass the blogger checker so you'll just have to interpret what I have here and put the "<>" where needed:


-- This goes at the top of the page under the HTML tag --

META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"
META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"

-- And this goes at the bottom just above the /HTML tag --

META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"
META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"


Hope that helps the experience and, ultimately, keeps people coming back. I continue to tinker with the site to try to make it better and better, so keep yer eyes open for more updates and improvements. It's a long way from where it was on the first day.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Banner exchange anyone?

I'm looking for a good banner exchange program. If anyone out there wants to exchange banners with me then just let me know. I'll designate a space specifically for you on this page and will maintain it as long as you maintain my banner too. We can discuss details later, but I'd like to generate more traffic to the site, and currently that only seems to be effective with advertising. I don't want to pay for adspace and have been venturing into banner exchanges lately, but so far I've displayed their banners but none of mine have been displayed. That's just not right.

So - I'm offering dedicated banner space for your ad and only your ad. In exchange I require dedicated banner space on your page as well. I continue to promote my site on various social networking sites, my blogs, and wherever I can find space to place an advertisment (like Classmates.com - but you have to be a little tricky). I also am an avid participant in the google webmaster program, which has its benefits but it's not a fix-all solution.

If you're interested, then we can discuss the details. Drop me a line @ finite at gmail dot com.