Importing in chronological order. Oldest first so front page will be done last but here's the Feb. 2011 archive:
http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.com/2011/02/
Importing in chronological order. Oldest first so front page will be done last but here's the Feb. 2011 archive:
http://bangkokbois.sawatdeenetwork.com/2011/02/
I like the shutterstock images, plenty of Thailand stuff for us to download / upload for the new site.Originally Posted by elephantspike
That's a hefty price tag for what it is and so I imagine the strategy is to go is, get as many a s we can grab and get out in a month at $250 / month.
We could go back in from time to time to update, provided they updated to or there was another choice out there.
Will this assist with the design work?
What file sizes would you pick up? There are 60MG images that you could cut into banners.
I've been working on the article this morning.
I might even have another for the global forum based on my month in Peru.
I think there's plans where you just get x # of credits to download whenever and boigger photos count as more credits (I think the "medium" size is what I'll use), but yes, I think there are also plans that allow you to download x # of photos each day for a month which is the better deal. Don't do shutterstock yet though because there is another site like that I found that has more Thailand specific pics. I'll get back to you on that.
Hey, if it's readable, we can just post it on the blog page for the main site and we'll just put it in a "peru" category or something. RIght now I have a static page as the main page but We can and should have a "blog" page as well, with random articles presented latest first and put into categories so when people click on the category link they see a list of all the articles in that category. (I'll show you what I mean- it is basic "blogging 101" but I'm not good at explaining things like that so I have to show you)
I'm getting a bunch of blog starter templates done. login on the network and click the "sart a blog" link and you'll see all the thumbnail images of templates to choose from. Also the strater content I put in for new blogs is video tutorials on how to blog using the WP software.
Do you have a link to Christian's current blog? It's not in his profile.
Nicky's blog is a WordPress, so It can be imported exactly as-is just as I did with Bangkokbois. Or he can just continue posting as he has been except he can make new posts as blog posts and there's a box he can select to cross-post it to his Nicky's Forum which will put the post in that forum with a link to the blog post page and it would show as the top (latest) post on our blog page (we have a static page as the front page now so It wouldn't go there, but I can add a link to a regular "blog" page in the header that would show all blog articles in reverse chronological order...OR...We could just make the front page the "blog" page and make your welcome message a sticky post so it stays at the top - and we can still have that magazine layout with the excerpt boxes on the blog page)
ALso we can use the same RSS AutoBlog feature I'm using to put those excerpts from bangkokbois on our front page for Nicky's blog too. This can be done whether or not Nicky's is on the network. That can be done with any site that has an RSS feed and if it's a Wordpress it will display perfectly without the need for any tweaking.
He will have stats (a few different stats plugins to choose from), intellectual property rights (I think-that's kind of a "lawyery" realm- but I'm sure we can be more flexible on that than Blogspot- I wonder if he read the fine print there?) He can have his own domain, and he can run his own ads. We have all the pro-plugins in place for all that and more. Rush is using all those things already except for the Ads but he can use them because we made his site Pro-site upgraded. If we do the same for Christian than he will have the same features available.
The only thing we want is to publish excerpts on our main page that would all link right to the original content on his blog- again- just like we have done with Rush. Also for him to display a widget with an ad to recruit new bloggers that would link to our contact page.
The Directory plugin (the "other sites" link in the header menu) is pretty much like that but you need to click on the individual listings to see the banners. ALso we can set it so users of a certain level can add and edit their own listings.
I started publishing excerpts from several sites' RSS feeds last night on our magazine template on the main page last night. I'll add him soon.
RIght now I'm working with Asiaguys.net on getting a subsite going for them and also putting together a tutorial video for admins on how to add sites and users and how the paypal Pro-site upgrade works (I fixed that illogical redirect glitch we got the other day by the way)
Also I need to get the file edits for the phpbbseo urls MOD (the one that makes our urls on thread pages have the actual words of the thread title in them) so when we do the redirect all the parts of the urls after the domainname.com/ will match so all existing links to threads in GOogle and everywhere will redirect to the right threads on the new domain.
Then I need to get ready for the big move. I think things like adding banner links to a page I can do after the big move (or one of you guys can do it- pretty easy- admin dash > lIstings > add new > then compose listing pretty much like composing a forum post.
I've asked for a relationship with this new site;
http://gothaibefree.com/
They have an EXCELLENT RSS feed:
feed: http://gothaibefree.com/feed/
lots of images in it including some panoramic ones that would fit nicely in the slider. I can add them right away. Or should we wait until they realize they want a relationship with us?
This looks like good content;
http://www.gaytravel.com/blog/entry/...fe_and_culture
They publish their feed like that for a reason- they want people to syndicate it. We would be linking TO them just as we are with all our syndicated content. We are sending them traffic. It's the same as putting up a banner link to another site on your links page- the only differences being that the links are dynamic (in the literal sense: They constantly change) and unlike banner links people will actually be interested in clicking. It's only copyright infringement if you go to their site and copy and paste an article onto your site with a "By Surfcrest" byline and no backlink.
The thing I'm thinking, though, is not to seem like we need their content too much. Let them realize that they need us to send them traffic.
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