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Location: London/ Surrey
Posted:
Hello.
Name: Steph
Age:23
Occupation: student
Toys: poi, ickle bit of devilstix, maybe staff and contact juggling soon.
Other interests: anything arty-crafty, scuba diving,
Favourite colour: Purple. No, blue. Um...green! Hell, as long as it's not pink. (sowwy Alice!)
um, will write something interesting when exams are over and I become interesting again....
EDITED_BY: polythene (1100819113)
Hello.
Name: Steph
Age:23
Occupation: student
Toys: poi, ickle bit of devilstix, maybe staff and contact juggling soon.
Other interests: anything arty-crafty, scuba diving,
Favourite colour: Purple. No, blue. Um...green! Hell, as long as it's not pink. (sowwy Alice!)
um, will write something interesting when exams are over and I become interesting again....
EDITED_BY: polythene (1100819113)
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Posted:
Looks good so far, a couple of points/constructive critism for you:
1) You have many many pages, which will take much time to complete. I generally find it's best to start with a few full pages (eg welcome screen, contact/artists page, all items on another), then divide them up into sections when you have lots of items listed. That way your site always looks like it's finished (with additions a bonus and a sign that business is good), as opposed to like it's half (or less) done. Half done is fine, but there's a lot of websites online which have been half done for years, and I at least when buying products from individuals/small companies am wairy that they still exist/arn't completing the site for a reason. Empty pages and broken links are not a good sign. Once you've got a few products on there, get rid of the in construction sign (which is currently a link), a replace it with "this site is continually updated, check back for more products soon" in the items pages.
2) You've got your email addresses displayed (one is done as @mirabilis.co.uk too which i assume you don't own), which is a big no no, unless you want large amounts of spam sent from companies that use web spiders. Your hosting company offers many scripting languages (inc PHP) which allow you to have email forms. They may well have in your control panel ready made scripts that just let you copy and paste ready written code into frontpage. Forms also look more professional, and let poeple fire off comments without having to open their email client.
3) Consider using a different font. Times New Roman was designed to look good on paper and isn't that clean on a computer screen. Tahoma was designed for screens and a great choice.
4) You may want to opt-out of the whois registrar. Nominet (the people incharge of uk domains) allow to just have your name listed, as opposed to your full home address. I haven't had any random weirdo's call at my door yet, but I have had people ring me up having found my details in whois records!
Hope this helps
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(if any code wizards out there happen to have too much free time..? *puppy-dog eyes*)
Looks good so far, a couple of points/constructive critism for you:
1) You have many many pages, which will take much time to complete. I generally find it's best to start with a few full pages (eg welcome screen, contact/artists page, all items on another), then divide them up into sections when you have lots of items listed. That way your site always looks like it's finished (with additions a bonus and a sign that business is good), as opposed to like it's half (or less) done. Half done is fine, but there's a lot of websites online which have been half done for years, and I at least when buying products from individuals/small companies am wairy that they still exist/arn't completing the site for a reason. Empty pages and broken links are not a good sign. Once you've got a few products on there, get rid of the in construction sign (which is currently a link), a replace it with "this site is continually updated, check back for more products soon" in the items pages.
2) You've got your email addresses displayed (one is done as @mirabilis.co.uk too which i assume you don't own), which is a big no no, unless you want large amounts of spam sent from companies that use web spiders. Your hosting company offers many scripting languages (inc PHP) which allow you to have email forms. They may well have in your control panel ready made scripts that just let you copy and paste ready written code into frontpage. Forms also look more professional, and let poeple fire off comments without having to open their email client.
3) Consider using a different font. Times New Roman was designed to look good on paper and isn't that clean on a computer screen. Tahoma was designed for screens and a great choice.
4) You may want to opt-out of the whois registrar. Nominet (the people incharge of uk domains) allow to just have your name listed, as opposed to your full home address. I haven't had any random weirdo's call at my door yet, but I have had people ring me up having found my details in whois records!
Hope this helps
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Posted:
The Whois what? Am I listed on one of them too?
The Whois what? Am I listed on one of them too?
Meh
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Posted:
Eee! I wants a picture like this! *Waves picture at evil glowing box* (It looks like a dafty tied up in tissue paper like spider-bait!)
But I can't make EGB do the stuff I want, it hates me.
I not think Miss Cow liked me either, she was eating blackberries off a bush, maybe she thought I wanted some.
She was not as fast as a scared Dixie, she was real big though, with horns and stuff! And I sure she had tac nukes too. Maybe. I escaped. *Proud*
Eee! I wants a picture like this! *Waves picture at evil glowing box* (It looks like a dafty tied up in tissue paper like spider-bait!)
But I can't make EGB do the stuff I want, it hates me.
I not think Miss Cow liked me either, she was eating blackberries off a bush, maybe she thought I wanted some.
She was not as fast as a scared Dixie, she was real big though, with horns and stuff! And I sure she had tac nukes too. Maybe. I escaped. *Proud* Important Notice.
Can be found elsewhere.
This signiture has malfunctioned and can currently display no information. This matter will be rectified shortly.
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Location: London/ Surrey
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Location: London/ Surrey
Posted:
Flid, you star! all fantastic suggestions, thank you
The only reason there are currently no products up is because verification of our business paypal account is taking a couple of days longer than expected and I didn't want to put things up without people being able to pay for them! Stock is all ready to be uploaded
The only reason the site's already up is because I knew I could get some useful feedback from friends (like on here) before I started actually using it for business.
Flid, you star! all fantastic suggestions, thank you
The only reason there are currently no products up is because verification of our business paypal account is taking a couple of days longer than expected and I didn't want to put things up without people being able to pay for them! Stock is all ready to be uploaded
The only reason the site's already up is because I knew I could get some useful feedback from friends (like on here) before I started actually using it for business.
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Location: London/ Surrey
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Posted:
Um, don't think I can help you with that picture... I can't quite see it...
Um, don't think I can help you with that picture... I can't quite see it...
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Posted:
It's a distributed database system. The internet doesn't really belong to anyone you see, and there's no one really in charge. Of course, some organisations have more power than others, generally large telecom companies. The current system for computers talking to each on the net is IPv4, and every computer (for simplicity's sake anyway) has a unique address. To make sure that each address is unique, companies (ie your isp) are assigned blocks of addresses to use. Typically each area of the world will have a non commercial body who dishes out these addresses. For accountability's sake, every time a block is registered, the company assigned them's details (contact name, address, phone number, email, etc) are entered into a database, called whois. These whois databases can be accessed freely by anyone on the internet who knows how (it's pretty easy). That's IP addresses. Now, the current system for translating these addresses into human readable form is the domain system, where companies can register a domain name (ie yahoo.co.uk), and attach words onto the left of it (seperated by dots) and assign it to address (ie www.yahoo.co.uk). Due to a cunning thing called DNS, each company can bring be incharge of assigning addresses to names within their domain. Each 'top level domain' (ie .uk or .com) has a non profit organisation incharge of dishing out domains. Again, when you register, for accounting purposes, the person who registers it has their details entered into a whois database, which anyone can access. Thus, if you register a domain, you can your details put in a public place. Now, nominent (the people incharge of .uk) let you opt-out of whois, so that only your name and contact address is shown, not your full address etc.
If you own a domain, yes, if not, no
Generally you don't get that many weirdos contacting you, but I once had a drunk kid ring me up at night just cause he was lonely and wanted a chat after looking at my website. If you're interested in random people contacting you, there's easier ways
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The Whois what?
It's a distributed database system. The internet doesn't really belong to anyone you see, and there's no one really in charge. Of course, some organisations have more power than others, generally large telecom companies. The current system for computers talking to each on the net is IPv4, and every computer (for simplicity's sake anyway) has a unique address. To make sure that each address is unique, companies (ie your isp) are assigned blocks of addresses to use. Typically each area of the world will have a non commercial body who dishes out these addresses. For accountability's sake, every time a block is registered, the company assigned them's details (contact name, address, phone number, email, etc) are entered into a database, called whois. These whois databases can be accessed freely by anyone on the internet who knows how (it's pretty easy). That's IP addresses. Now, the current system for translating these addresses into human readable form is the domain system, where companies can register a domain name (ie yahoo.co.uk), and attach words onto the left of it (seperated by dots) and assign it to address (ie www.yahoo.co.uk). Due to a cunning thing called DNS, each company can bring be incharge of assigning addresses to names within their domain. Each 'top level domain' (ie .uk or .com) has a non profit organisation incharge of dishing out domains. Again, when you register, for accounting purposes, the person who registers it has their details entered into a whois database, which anyone can access. Thus, if you register a domain, you can your details put in a public place. Now, nominent (the people incharge of .uk) let you opt-out of whois, so that only your name and contact address is shown, not your full address etc.
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Am I listed on one of them too?
If you own a domain, yes, if not, no
Generally you don't get that many weirdos contacting you, but I once had a drunk kid ring me up at night just cause he was lonely and wanted a chat after looking at my website. If you're interested in random people contacting you, there's easier ways
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Posted:
You do science, right?
Well maybe this could help you with your science exams. Did you think of that?
Like your christmas present helped you to build that atomic bomb....
Written by: polythene
Or maybe she has some eeeeevil exams starting at the end of April and this is her last chace and she cannot afford to fail...?
You do science, right?
Well maybe this could help you with your science exams. Did you think of that?
Like your christmas present helped you to build that atomic bomb....
Meh
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
Well, as I know for a fact that you've been to my website on a great many occasions and you've thoroughly enjoyed my artwork everytime, I can only assume that you've recently suffered some form of head trauma and/or possibly couldn't see what you were typing due to the excessive bandages covering the unsightly wound....
ps - please ignore the current crapness of my site. It will be fixed in due time (if i ever stop playing Arcanum and get round to writing new codey things)
Written by: flid
If you own a domain, yes, if not, no
Well, as I know for a fact that you've been to my website on a great many occasions and you've thoroughly enjoyed my artwork everytime, I can only assume that you've recently suffered some form of head trauma and/or possibly couldn't see what you were typing due to the excessive bandages covering the unsightly wound....
ps - please ignore the current crapness of my site. It will be fixed in due time (if i ever stop playing Arcanum and get round to writing new codey things)
Meh
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Posted:
I have seen your site, several times, but i couldn't remember whether you had a domain or not. The company who regsitered your domain on your behalf opt-ed you out, so your details just come up as:
Domain Name:
cantusfraggle.co.uk
Registrant:
Cantus Fraggle
Registrant's Address:
THE REGISTRANT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS ELECTED TO
HAVE THEIR ADDRESS OMITTED FROM THE WHOIS DATABASE
I have seen your site, several times, but i couldn't remember whether you had a domain or not. The company who regsitered your domain on your behalf opt-ed you out, so your details just come up as:
Domain Name:
cantusfraggle.co.uk
Registrant:
Cantus Fraggle
Registrant's Address:
THE REGISTRANT IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS ELECTED TO
HAVE THEIR ADDRESS OMITTED FROM THE WHOIS DATABASE
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
Now did they opt me out or is it simply because I didn't bother filling in the form they sent?
Now did they opt me out or is it simply because I didn't bother filling in the form they sent?
Meh
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Posted:
you may have ticked a box, or it may just be their policy
you may have ticked a box, or it may just be their policy
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
Whilst I have your attention, have you any idea what "Album Galaxy" might be? One of my spyware checkers just found it lurking in my PC, but doesn't seem to have a clue what it is. Don't want to go removing it in case it's something vital...
Whilst I have your attention, have you any idea what "Album Galaxy" might be? One of my spyware checkers just found it lurking in my PC, but doesn't seem to have a clue what it is. Don't want to go removing it in case it's something vital...
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Detected Album Galaxy:
CLSIDs (14) :
{272c0d60-0561-4c83-b3db-eb0a71f9d2eb}
{284477e4-a7cb-4055-9e1b-0ea7cba28945}
{70ca4938-6a0f-4641-a9a9-c936e4c1e7de}
{a916af3c-976d-4358-8736-95bea0b5fd2c}
{b86f4810-19a9-4050-9ac9-b5cf60b5799a}
{bb5b7e14-f8b4-4365-a24d-f4965c33e1ee}
{be45f056-e005-437b-be88-23acf70b0b6a}
{c13d4627-02f5-4b03-897a-bf6a90022dd2}
{c636f1fc-6ae4-4e6a-90ab-6d61d821a0dd}
{cb971ac0-6408-40da-a540-92f9f256f51f}
{d5694dfe-43b6-4e05-aa29-8c556c968973}
{ebab4a71-8c34-461a-b57d-dd041d439555}
{f06fea43-0cc3-4bf6-a85b-5efb1c07aa4b}
Meh
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Posted:
Album galaxy is an mp3 download program, that I can only assume you (or someone using your computer) installed yourself. It has lots of spyware integrated into it, which is why your spyware scanner picked it up. You'll probably just want to uninstall the program (have a look in control panel->add/remove programs).
Album galaxy is an mp3 download program, that I can only assume you (or someone using your computer) installed yourself. It has lots of spyware integrated into it, which is why your spyware scanner picked it up. You'll probably just want to uninstall the program (have a look in control panel->add/remove programs).
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Posted:
Rightyho Mr Flidlington. I shall do that forthwith or possibly even fifthwith.
Rightyho Mr Flidlington. I shall do that forthwith or possibly even fifthwith.
Meh
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
not this thread it seems....
continues the search elsewhere*
not this thread it seems....
continues the search elsewhere*
Meh
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Posted:
eh?
eh?
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
You said you'd mentioned something in one or two threads. I thought your intro would be as good a place as any to mention personal stuff. Especially if you didn't want anybody to read it....
You said you'd mentioned something in one or two threads. I thought your intro would be as good a place as any to mention personal stuff. Especially if you didn't want anybody to read it....
Meh
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Posted:
*wombat*
*wombat*
Meh
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master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
master of disaster
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Posted:
*sneezes*
dusty eh?
*sneezes*
dusty eh?
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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Momma Bear
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Posted:
I brought you a cookie, Steph.
Non-Https Image Link
I brought you a cookie, Steph. Non-Https Image Link
Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Posted:
COOKIE!!!!
*sneezes*
Heh.
COOKIE!!!!*sneezes*
Heh.
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
Posted:
*BUMP*
I got cookie for ya...you just need to come n' get it
*BUMP*
I got cookie for ya...you just need to come n' get it
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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master of disaster
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master of disaster
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Posted:
Happy birfday
Happy birfday
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
veteran
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Posted:
Fank-oo!
Fank-oo!
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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Tantamount to fatuity
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Posted:
Have you pulled a yank Little Matt?
Have you pulled a yank Little Matt?
Meh
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Location: London/ Surrey
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Posted:
Nope, there are very few HoPers I've spoken to recently enough to excitedly exclaim when my birthday is!
Nope, there are very few HoPers I've spoken to recently enough to excitedly exclaim when my birthday is!
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.
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master of disaster
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master of disaster
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Location: New York, USA
Posted:
crazy brits and your crazy slang...
crazy brits and your crazy slang...
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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Posted:
What about post stating that they have a cookie for you in a slightly sinister "I've-been-chatting-to-you-off-stage-and-here-is-a-sly-reference-to-that" kinda way?
Suggests you been flirted at to me....
What about post stating that they have a cookie for you in a slightly sinister "I've-been-chatting-to-you-off-stage-and-here-is-a-sly-reference-to-that" kinda way?
Suggests you been flirted at to me....
Meh
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master of disaster
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master of disaster
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Posted:
'cept I really did have cookies
don't anymore though
'cept I really did have cookies
don't anymore though
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
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Posted:
It was a taunt, cos yummy cookies are made with butter and choccy chips, and I can't eat milk products.
(except sometimes I do, then regret it later )
It was a taunt, cos yummy cookies are made with butter and choccy chips, and I can't eat milk products.
(except sometimes I do, then regret it later ) The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
Always make time to play in the snow.