NEW TEST SITE UP - PLEASE HELP TEST and reply with feedback

[DarkHelmet]

Please browse around http://www.microflying.co.za

Check if all the avatars are there, your favourite pics, your favourite posts and just generally if I copied everything across. Also comment on the speed.

[Wargames]

No problems DH. It is nice and fast, or maybe my dsl is catching up.

Regards,

[Dish]

looks good to me mate

[slysi]

Speed is good, can see some pictures and others not!

[cobra]

Everything seems

[DarkHelmet]

Fixed the login problem by upgrading to the latest version - try it now... Have deleted the posts that reported it...

REMEMBER - ALL POSTS THERE WILL NOT REMAIN

[DarkHelmet]

I added some ads by google at the top I hate ads but alas - see the relevance and comment - I can probably move it down out of the way for the live site but will see what we get from it while testing

[DarkHelmet]

Looking at the stats we could recover a few cents from the ads:

Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
May 2008 3677 10754 441645 1480324 13.94 GB
Jun 2008 7971 21304 749708 2561760 23.64 GB
Jul 2008 7837 22087 848826 3149613 25.89 GB

[DarkHelmet]

Okay - i got the adverts in 2 places now but please keep hitting the site and posting test posts, upload pics, make polls, change your avatars and tell me about problems here please.

It is late and I am don't exactly have the mindset to go thru lines of code to remove the dupe adverts...

[Wargames]

Hi DH,

Test site with the ads is not such a bad look. Probably would be better if the ads was at the bottom, but I can live with it.

On the ads, is it "Pay per click"?

Regards,

[DarkHelmet]

I need to see - but it is definately pay per click - there is also like a $0,01 per 1000 views component or something. We get a LOT of page impressions so I am exploring all opportunities!

Been playing with the templates, apologies if you see it twice on the test site...

[DarkHelmet]

Speed is good, can see some pictures and others not!

Try it again slysi

[Uncle Spud Murphy]

Well done Dark Helmet,

Outstanding effort. Does the job as well as ml.co.za and if the cost's are that much lower to operate then GR8.

Avdb

[DarkHelmet]

The login problem is sorted - please confirm. Who has issues with the adverts? Despite the fact that they are double?

Morph's suggestion to host in his data centre is excellent, BUT, it means an extra R2500 per month. I am already incurring the cost hosting at my office, only problem is the AMF for my generator. Been speaking to DieselFan about options.

How about we go live from my office in the next few days - you will hit the current site and see a "We are performing maintenance notice" while I move the site across.

I URGE everyone to log into the test site, upload pics, view pics, comment, create polls, insert smilies... PLEASE test it to the extreme.

Post garbage, not valid content because it will all be wiped!

[Uncle Spud Murphy]

Hello Dark Helmet,

How do I upload pics from my own documents? Would like to know how and try it on this new site and by the way. What you do for others is bloody marvellous.

Avdb