Got to meet with Dean Axelrod today, it went really well — he’s definitely the guy I’m gonna work with for lawyerly stuff. Also got another huge batch of headers, but there’s too many to post, so I’m gonna do a queue thing kinda like the Halloween Funfest. Also some good news about the forum advertising, which has made a minor recovery from its Thanksgiving slumber. But first, three selections from our latest round of Banner Contest updates:
Archive for November, 2007
Announced the blog and the banner contest on Starmen.Net last night and got a pretty huge response. Also went to see a lawyer today — more after the jump, but not before I show three of the awesome banners you guys made :D
Now that I’ve launched this blog, it’s time to bring the community in on a matter of dire, mission-critical importance: I need a sweet image for the header. And you folks are just the people to help me out. If you’re interested in making a design, here are a few guidelines:
Continue reading ‘Hook me up with a sweet header design, dudes.’
Over the past week or two I’ve been working pretty hard on a new design for the Starmen.Net Forum. (Incidentally, Ryan made a lot of progress on some new code for the forum over Thanksgiving Break… more on that later.) I’ve been uploading mockups for the staff/mods to look over, and the reception so far has definitely been lukewarm.
My first mockup (pictured) is pretty crappy and definitely unfinished, but I wanted to get people talking more than anything else, so I threw it up for the staff/mods to review. Some people liked it, but the general consensus seemed to be that it was too different and too cluttered. And there were lots of things (namely the header and footer) that I simply didn’t include in my hurry to get it posted.
I’m preparing to meet with a lawyer this coming Wednesday. Needless to say, this is terrifying. His name is very soothing, though — Dean Axelrod. Did I say soothing? I meant terrifying, like seeing a doctor named James McSwordicutty. Honestly though, I talked with Dean on the phone and he sounds like a nice guy. I’m going to be speaking with him about incorporation and investors and will report back here with my findings on Wednesday evening.
The ‘ad test’ on the forum hasn’t gone so well — the eCPM (convoluted acronym for “how much scrilla do we get per 1,000 pageviews?”) bottomed out pretty hard before Thanksgiving and hasn’t come back up since. I’m not too discouraged, though, because Google Analytics has been kind enough to inform me that only 8.7% of the forum’s pageviews are from new visitors.