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04/12/2006 23:39 #30249
Email Problems SolvedCategory: estrip
04/12/2006 19:32 #30248
Die Squatters DieCategory: squatters
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to you as I am currently selling the domain www.estrip.com. I would like to ask whether you would be interested in purchasing this in a quick sale.
The quality of this domain goes without saying, type in estrip and you already get 50,000 results (and the word strip gets over 201 million!), plus with the nature of your business it would be an appropriate and excellent investment as most good .com domains are unavailable.
I am open to offers, but serious ones only please, my starting price is 1000 GBP.
Please get in touch ASAP if you are interested as this is going to be a fast sale, and a good bargain im sure for whoever purchases!
We come up number one for estrip on both yahoo and google now. So go die you squatter scumbbag extortionist.
04/12/2006 01:36 #30247
New Front PageCategory: estrip
(e:kara) re-wrote the front page and had me add something that shows the latest comments with a link to who wrote them and what journal it came from. I think it's great. There is also the code to add an estrip button on your own site.
twisted - 04/12/06 11:49
The new front page is awesome! Should bring the exhibitionists out of the woodwork vying for their 15 minutes of fame in "Latest Comments." Very cool (e:Paul) and (e:Kara) and any other (e:contributors)! (Do I love the colon or do I love the colon? Although I still think you'll be sending a fair share of non-peeps to strip.org. Oh well, as long as it's only a temporary detour, haha.)
The new front page is awesome! Should bring the exhibitionists out of the woodwork vying for their 15 minutes of fame in "Latest Comments." Very cool (e:Paul) and (e:Kara) and any other (e:contributors)! (Do I love the colon or do I love the colon? Although I still think you'll be sending a fair share of non-peeps to strip.org. Oh well, as long as it's only a temporary detour, haha.)
04/11/2006 20:59 #30246
Safari Bug SquashedCategory: estrip
Thanks (e:jenks) for mentioning the safari bug. The problem was blocking most of the other javascripts from working on safari and that is why the site appeared to not work. E.g you probably couldn't open your journal box, close your message window, etc.
Fuck you apple computer for not letting me redefine goto() without throwing a fatal error and fucking up the whole page unlike every other browser.
Fuck you apple computer for not letting me redefine goto() without throwing a fatal error and fucking up the whole page unlike every other browser.
04/09/2006 23:48 #30245
The estrip logo that will stayCategory: design
Sorry it took me so long to publish this repsonse. I refused to publish it until I changed the site code to check for real (e:name) links before I wrote it because I didn't want (e:strip) to show up as a name link.
Besides being one of my bestest friends, (e:twisted,359) has donated the most money, time, and hardware than any other peep to this community. Not to mention that I generally value her opinion over all others because of her deepest understanding of the project from the hundreds of hours of dialogue we have had about it. In fact I would say that on many levels, the project would not have happend if it wasn't for her and her commitment to it's existance. In essense, (e:twisted), I love you!
Here is my deal with the colon. Like (e:matthew,717) I find that the colon is important in the name and the logo. One reason being that there are two commerical products that use estrip as a name. One is envirostrip and the other is some sort of medical imaging system. I suppose I should just trademark (e:strip).
Seeing as the site is not a commercial project I could care less if some people can't find it because they are too stupid to try googling with a colon. It's not like I will sell less widgets because of it. I like the colon as part of the design as it reflects the identity of the site as I intended it since march of 03. Everything that ever said (e:strip) had the colon. It is in fact how you guys link your journals together. Unfortunately, they do not allow colons in URLS.
People can find it by typing (e:strip), ((e:strip)), elmwoodstrip, or elmwood strip into yahoo or google. Soon it should come up under number one for estrip as well, it just takes some time for the robots to catch up with the changes.
Eliminating new peeps that are not capable of making the jump from the (e:strip) logo to estrip.org or elmwoodstrip.org might be to my advantage as I am the one who deals with all the people who need help figuring stuff out.
So this is the final logo. (e:matthew) approved. It provides the most space for the (e:strip) and is compliant with the way many of the old street signs were formatted in buffalo. It also makes it obvious that it is not estriporg as one one. I really liked the google it, but I removed it as I don't want to support a private corporation.
Besides being one of my bestest friends, (e:twisted,359) has donated the most money, time, and hardware than any other peep to this community. Not to mention that I generally value her opinion over all others because of her deepest understanding of the project from the hundreds of hours of dialogue we have had about it. In fact I would say that on many levels, the project would not have happend if it wasn't for her and her commitment to it's existance. In essense, (e:twisted), I love you!
Here is my deal with the colon. Like (e:matthew,717) I find that the colon is important in the name and the logo. One reason being that there are two commerical products that use estrip as a name. One is envirostrip and the other is some sort of medical imaging system. I suppose I should just trademark (e:strip).
Seeing as the site is not a commercial project I could care less if some people can't find it because they are too stupid to try googling with a colon. It's not like I will sell less widgets because of it. I like the colon as part of the design as it reflects the identity of the site as I intended it since march of 03. Everything that ever said (e:strip) had the colon. It is in fact how you guys link your journals together. Unfortunately, they do not allow colons in URLS.
People can find it by typing (e:strip), ((e:strip)), elmwoodstrip, or elmwood strip into yahoo or google. Soon it should come up under number one for estrip as well, it just takes some time for the robots to catch up with the changes.
Eliminating new peeps that are not capable of making the jump from the (e:strip) logo to estrip.org or elmwoodstrip.org might be to my advantage as I am the one who deals with all the people who need help figuring stuff out.
So this is the final logo. (e:matthew) approved. It provides the most space for the (e:strip) and is compliant with the way many of the old street signs were formatted in buffalo. It also makes it obvious that it is not estriporg as one one. I really liked the google it, but I removed it as I don't want to support a private corporation.
paul - 04/12/06 03:28
The org was added to make it more obvious that it was a web thing fro people that couldn;t make the jump from (e:strip) to estrip.org. Many of the road signs here have the street extension written vertically like that.
The org was added to make it more obvious that it was a web thing fro people that couldn;t make the jump from (e:strip) to estrip.org. Many of the road signs here have the street extension written vertically like that.
metalpeter - 04/10/06 19:19
I'm glad That a final solution was reached. I'm glad that the webadress has been clarified also.
I'm glad That a final solution was reached. I'm glad that the webadress has been clarified also.
jenks - 04/10/06 15:37
I like that. I definitely like the colon from a design/logo/aesthetic standpoint. But I agree with twisted's points about simplicity/usability too. But if google etc can find it with or without, then it seems we've solved both problems, no? But the other thing is- in this case, doesn't the colon function a little like an apostrophe? (i.e. replacing missing letters?) i.e. (e:strip) is an abbreviation of elmwoodstrip, right? I mean, this site is elmwoodstrip, first and foremost, isn't it? B/c while it's nice to have the estrip.org doman, I wouldn't want to see elmwoodstrip.com/org disappear altogether... I feel the term (e:strip) only makes sense if you know it MEANS elmwoodstrip. Does that makes sense?
I like that. I definitely like the colon from a design/logo/aesthetic standpoint. But I agree with twisted's points about simplicity/usability too. But if google etc can find it with or without, then it seems we've solved both problems, no? But the other thing is- in this case, doesn't the colon function a little like an apostrophe? (i.e. replacing missing letters?) i.e. (e:strip) is an abbreviation of elmwoodstrip, right? I mean, this site is elmwoodstrip, first and foremost, isn't it? B/c while it's nice to have the estrip.org doman, I wouldn't want to see elmwoodstrip.com/org disappear altogether... I feel the term (e:strip) only makes sense if you know it MEANS elmwoodstrip. Does that makes sense?
twisted - 04/10/06 11:16
Thanks (e:Paul). I love every pixel of (e:strip). And as the chief (and only) PR person for a:link, I thought long and hard about how to get new users (not that it did me any good) -- which may be why I came up with such a treatise on usability when given an opening. Then again, I can spout off on many topics, so I guess I don't have an excuse. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for caring enough to ask us common peeps for feedback. We love you too!
Thanks (e:Paul). I love every pixel of (e:strip). And as the chief (and only) PR person for a:link, I thought long and hard about how to get new users (not that it did me any good) -- which may be why I came up with such a treatise on usability when given an opening. Then again, I can spout off on many topics, so I guess I don't have an excuse. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for caring enough to ask us common peeps for feedback. We love you too!
kara - 04/10/06 08:07
hooray I like it.
hooray I like it.
jessbob - 04/10/06 07:47
good choice
good choice
ladycroft - 04/10/06 02:51
i like that very much
i like that very much
Jamie called me up one morning, said he had some guy on the phone. He wanted to know if we had become attached to [us].com. I said, well, we've had the name registered since before I knew what the Internet was, yeah, we're attached to it.
This is one of many reasons why I hate the Internet. There are certain fundamental things that people just don't understand once their identity involves an @ sign.
- Z