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Old 05-04-2001, 04:16 PM  
TFCash
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Hi Unriz3n -

Nice looking gallery, but you need to make sure the galleries match up the thumbs with the pics. I just tried them and it doesn't seem like they match when you click a pic

Couple of items to think about with galleries like this. A) I would make a page for the pictures to sit in, that way you get more advertising space. The SE traffic by and large are typically newer surfers that don't have the knowledge that the tgp surfers do. So make sure and give them textlinks/banners whenever you can.
B) you don't want your newer SE surfers to be distracted by all the banners that are found on a free host. You also won't be doing anywhere near the traffic either. I do about 2% of the traffic from my SE stuff versus the new TGP pages that I have been putting together. So a paid host would be the way to go in my mind, and I'm not trying to be prejudiced here either. Lightning where would you host your SE galleries if you had them? Paid or free ??

Something else I would suggest for you Unriz3n is that on your host you get someone that will setup some alias directories for you. I have over 100 domains that I own, and each one of them has the following aliases to them

/content would hold all of your pictures and have a .htaccess file that only allows your domains to use it, that way you have all your picture files in one place that can be called from anydomain. So http://www.abc.com/content/gallery1/ is the same as http://www.xyz.com/content/gallery1/ without having to eat up the extra disk space and hassle when you need to edit something. Make sure you have the rights to use the pictures on all your domains first!

I also have a /revshare directory that is available to all domains as the same. In there I hold the banners to the revshare programs, and the include files that place the banners and text in my html pages. The include files are little snippets of html code for each partner program and each banner or text that I want to use. I then use php to include these in the html page on the fly. That way if I want to change out sponsors all I have to do is make the change to 1 or 2 files and all my sites now have a new sponsor. This would be really useful for days like today where ARS is having a $75 spiff and then tomorrow I could just change them back to their original codes

The paid host option gives you lot's more functionality than you could ever get out of a free host, and since the traffic is not going to eat your lunch like tgp traffic might you may want to consider going that route


Tim
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