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EllaBlack · 07-30-2010, 11:50 AM

As my hangover is wearing off nicely, I'll continue answering questions.....

3.Explain the crazy webmaster drama with your very first web site and what was the outcome?

This is how it all started. I randomly (Well, Sonny was involved in the decision making process, and ALL of the funding process) decided I wanted to get into adult. I had a girlfriend (okay, it was sort of a ploy for me to get into her pants too, SUCCESS I will add!) who was getting back into photography. I hatched up the plan of creating a solo site, and what the basic needs would be. I knew I'd need to shoot a shitload of content before I could even get the site live. So, I had this girl start shooting pics of me. I wasn't brave enough for videos in the beginning, so we kept it pretty clean, nothing too crazy, just nudes, with a little bit of pink. I started telling her about how I needed to figure out how I was going to design a website.
Previously,I had friend look into using a Joomla template. I swear he had never looked at porn before, what he brought back to me was laughable. I was like - this isn't a short-story blog, this is a PORN site. You know, visual? Anyways, he was the first go round for my web design. It was all black page, and little itty bitty thumbnails.
So, my hot photographer chick says she has a friend who does great webdesign. I check out his stuff, and he really did do kick ass looking webdesign. Keep in mind, when I started, I was pulling shit out of my ass. I had no idea what I was doing (okay, truthfully, some days I STILL don't) and was just going for it.
So, I love how his stuff looks, have these great dreams of how wonderful and fantastic my site will look too! I start working with him. Paid him an INSANE amount of Sonny's money (thank god for BlowJobs!) and waited...... and waited...... and waited........ MONTHS I waited. He's feeding me all this programming babble, blah blah, and I don't really know of any other options, so I just hang out and wait and see.
Then BAM! I run into Spannow and Belinda. We have this meeting, during which I was a completely suspicious psycho bitch, as I was sick of being dragged along by this designer dude.
They give me the tips that truly got me started. I fire this asshole and go on my merry way.
Here is what he was doing: He was billing me for his time to build EVERYTHING from scratch. He had NO concept of what he was doing in Adult at all. He was building me a CMS and a galleries, all of it from scratch, which is great, except as a brand new solo site, I did not need all that, nor could I truly afford it. He was trying to use my site to break into the adult scene. He was going on and on about how he wanted to have this portfolio of girls. I was thinking - Dude, you should be PAYING ME to experiment with my shit mothah fuckah.
I took Sonny with me to my last meeting. Sonny and I were BOTH pissed. And though many of you HAVEN'T seen our tempers, um, they are scary. Anyways, I think he peed in his pants a little. He's lucky that's all that happened.
I have to stop this story, if I go into more details, I will get angry all over again. He was a piece of shit. He was one of those sweethearts, truly, I think he has a good heart, but his ego couldn't bear to let him admit he had no idea how to make what I wanted work. Instead of admitting that, he made me pay for him to figure it out. That is totally dishonest in my book.

So, in the end, Spannow took awesome care of me (oh, and that thing I keep telling you about bud, I haven't forgotten!) He made me an awesome site and taught me how to upload and download from a server. ROFL! I didn't know ANYTHING! Poor guy, I would say to him and Belinda: "Okay, uh huh, then what, uh huh, then what, uh huh then what." I wanted to know about EVERYTHING right NOW. He would say: "we'll get to that later, it's okay, you gotta learn this first." If I am anything, it is IMPATIENT. I hated not knowing what I was doing, and there being SO much to learn. They taught me SO much, and though I know I have boatloads of stuff STILL to learn, they gave me my jump start in knowledge. I'll never forget how much they helped me. They are rock solid like that. I had nothing to give them in return, they just helped me out because they are cool like that. Belinda ended up doing tons of my photography throughout the short life of my site, and taught me SO much about THAT part of it. Funny. I was their official Knowledge Leech. Thanks guys!
Wait... they DID both get to see all kinds of my content.... Does that count for SOMETHING?

07-30-2010, 11:50 AM
EllaBlack Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 531	As my hangover is wearing off nicely, I'll continue answering questions..... 3.Explain the crazy webmaster drama with your very first web site and what was the outcome? This is how it all started. I randomly (Well, Sonny was involved in the decision making process, and ALL of the funding process) decided I wanted to get into adult. I had a girlfriend (okay, it was sort of a ploy for me to get into her pants too, SUCCESS I will add!) who was getting back into photography. I hatched up the plan of creating a solo site, and what the basic needs would be. I knew I'd need to shoot a shitload of content before I could even get the site live. So, I had this girl start shooting pics of me. I wasn't brave enough for videos in the beginning, so we kept it pretty clean, nothing too crazy, just nudes, with a little bit of pink. I started telling her about how I needed to figure out how I was going to design a website. Previously,I had friend look into using a Joomla template. I swear he had never looked at porn before, what he brought back to me was laughable. I was like - this isn't a short-story blog, this is a PORN site. You know, visual? Anyways, he was the first go round for my web design. It was all black page, and little itty bitty thumbnails. So, my hot photographer chick says she has a friend who does great webdesign. I check out his stuff, and he really did do kick ass looking webdesign. Keep in mind, when I started, I was pulling shit out of my ass. I had no idea what I was doing (okay, truthfully, some days I STILL don't) and was just going for it. So, I love how his stuff looks, have these great dreams of how wonderful and fantastic my site will look too! I start working with him. Paid him an INSANE amount of Sonny's money (thank god for BlowJobs!) and waited...... and waited...... and waited........ MONTHS I waited. He's feeding me all this programming babble, blah blah, and I don't really know of any other options, so I just hang out and wait and see. Then BAM! I run into Spannow and Belinda. We have this meeting, during which I was a completely suspicious psycho bitch, as I was sick of being dragged along by this designer dude. They give me the tips that truly got me started. I fire this asshole and go on my merry way. Here is what he was doing: He was billing me for his time to build EVERYTHING from scratch. He had NO concept of what he was doing in Adult at all. He was building me a CMS and a galleries, all of it from scratch, which is great, except as a brand new solo site, I did not need all that, nor could I truly afford it. He was trying to use my site to break into the adult scene. He was going on and on about how he wanted to have this portfolio of girls. I was thinking - Dude, you should be PAYING ME to experiment with my shit mothah fuckah. I took Sonny with me to my last meeting. Sonny and I were BOTH pissed. And though many of you HAVEN'T seen our tempers, um, they are scary. Anyways, I think he peed in his pants a little. He's lucky that's all that happened. I have to stop this story, if I go into more details, I will get angry all over again. He was a piece of shit. He was one of those sweethearts, truly, I think he has a good heart, but his ego couldn't bear to let him admit he had no idea how to make what I wanted work. Instead of admitting that, he made me pay for him to figure it out. That is totally dishonest in my book. So, in the end, Spannow took awesome care of me (oh, and that thing I keep telling you about bud, I haven't forgotten!) He made me an awesome site and taught me how to upload and download from a server. ROFL! I didn't know ANYTHING! Poor guy, I would say to him and Belinda: "Okay, uh huh, then what, uh huh, then what, uh huh then what." I wanted to know about EVERYTHING right NOW. He would say: "we'll get to that later, it's okay, you gotta learn this first." If I am anything, it is IMPATIENT. I hated not knowing what I was doing, and there being SO much to learn. They taught me SO much, and though I know I have boatloads of stuff STILL to learn, they gave me my jump start in knowledge. I'll never forget how much they helped me. They are rock solid like that. I had nothing to give them in return, they just helped me out because they are cool like that. Belinda ended up doing tons of my photography throughout the short life of my site, and taught me SO much about THAT part of it. Funny. I was their official Knowledge Leech. Thanks guys! Wait... they DID both get to see all kinds of my content.... Does that count for SOMETHING? __________________ Ella Black Protect Your Digital Assets Senior Business Development - Degban, Ltd. icq: 467849013 skype: TouchElla