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Hello, can I get some feedback on this? I was going for something simple, but yet recognizable for my design work.



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(for comparison side by side)

It's black as a base to change to whatever color I desire. There's no one around my home to ask and by daugher (17 months old) can't pay attention to the comp screen long enough to laugh or scream at it... so I'm hoping you all will give me some input. You've given me really good pointers before hand so I was hoping we could do it one last time... =P

...but those are so much fun Xeph... you should try being an animal sometime.

Ren, I've been in a situation like this before. I understand what it is to not want to taint the whole group by snuffing out one who's being less than you'd like them to be. What I did was briefly tell the person what I didn't like that they were doing, in this case it seems like she's sleeping around and leaving herself open to getting some pretty nasty diseases..?

IF they don't shape up, that's when I continue to be friends with everyone else, but slowly fade that person from the group. If someone brings her up, find a way to change the subject. If you're challenged over your feelings than admit that "yes, I don't like what xyz is doing because she's hurting herself in these ways: a)______ b)_______ c)________. I've tried telling her how worried I was, and what could happen if she didn't stop and she's not interested in listening to me; so at this point I'm not really interested in her. She's got to meet me half way." If your friends can't respect that, you may need to take a re-eval on who your friends really are.

I would say MA17... *thinks of a particular double-salute strip* but that's just me. Younger kids would still surf if there was still currently underaged individuals on your site so I don't think it would restrict them; however it would be good for them to know... but that's just me. *shrug*

I’m looking to register a domain name for my website here.

What I would prefer would be a ‘.net’ but I could live with a ‘.com’ should it be signifigantly cheaper. This is my first time doing this so I wondered if any of you had more experience with this sort of thing and could help me.

How good is GoDaddy..? Their prices are attractive however I’m worried about the ‘up-time’ vs ‘down-time’ (they’ll always tweak their own figures to look better) of getting someone who enters “example.net

So, it’s back. (YAY!) However, since now I have to stay up an hour later than I normally do, the night before the start of a new work week, I’m not so excited about. Why move a great show to late-night Sundays to begin with???

Though I did get a lush dose of my BGies, I still felt like the show really didn’t progress a whole lot since the last episode… I looked at the clock last night to the tune of 10:22 and nothing had happened… 0_0

Xepher: Thank you for the feedback, I hadn't thought of it that way before (too much work to see my stuff=a no-go; you're absolutely right!) It makes sense. If I was them, (though I know how to do all that stuff) I'd probably simply not jump through all of those hoops myself. No offense taken in the least... I am very thankful for your honesty and input.

Fez: Thank you for the supporting information. (& I haven't forgotten about your strips for your comic either..!)

Gwyn: I wanted to do the "click & see the site" thing however I was concerned about people simply right-clicking to copy the source & then change to what they needed... a place to learn how to code for them but then I've lost potential customers who couldn't get the stuff otherwise. I'm not concerned about the little guy, but rather the generic store that's simply skimping to get a site if you know what I mean?

EVERYONE: Thank you for your input, it's really helped me. Back to the drawing board with me..!

Well, I took the plunge the other day and filled out a Master Business Application through my state (WASHINGTON)... Mune Studios is officially going to be mine!

I'm excited, but yet I'm nervous as well. So many new things, other things to worry about, making sure I do everything I need to and such.

Can you guys take the time to look at my portfolio of web design & tell me what you think really quick?

It's here: http://munerift.xepher.net/wpportfolio.html
...and it will require Flash 9 player to view.

Next project I'm going to tackle after I'm done being sick and have some extra money is to register my own domain name... and once I start getting projects and payment sit down & go through everything I've got... and give to where I owe. (such as helping xepher.net..!)

Anyone have any general ideas or advise?

Thanks guys! =0)

...guest help...? Ooooooo! I'm interested if you're willing!

munerift (@) gmail (.) com

Good job! So much motion... making me tired just thinking about it.

...I would also chime in with suggesting you google your work sometime. Pop the title, your name, your pen-name, or even some of the actual story in just to make sure some sticky fingers haven't ran off with your work as demonstraited here: http://xepher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=434

ROFL!

...cool, it works now! *happy*

BTW, the number one search engine keyword pointing to us is hentai with 863 hits? WOW.

As for me, I prefer this one please: http://xepher.net/stats/xepher-net/

When I went to generate a site statistic report using my account managment from the main xeph page, I waited for the 10 minutes and went to the page (http://xepher.net/stats/munerift/). This is the only thing I saw:

x VE analog 5.32 x HN munerift.xepher.net x PS 2007 01 03 00 46 x SR 0 x CL 53 x UL 2165673

Thank you guys for taking the time to contribute some actual input; the most I've gotten from anyone else at this point has been "Wow!" and "...boy that would scare me!" which wasn't quite what I was looking for...

Xepher: At the time when I first found out about the 'teen depression' article being used I had thought to myself "huh? This is only applicable for Roosevelt, my high school at the time..!" After that I promptly came across my 'Henry VIII article' and thought that would be better suited for use on that type of site; but I've had several friends point out that it would be easy to extract the personally relevant information out and replace with their own content and turn in for their own work.

It still makes me feel like a dirty cheat to have my work there for children to snag as their own; even though I'm not the one whose submitted it I still feel responsible because it is my work to begin with. I do like your suggestion however for using a CC license and I think I will end up going this route for my written if not for my visual arts; do they have a universal copyright so a smarty-pants in Antarctica doesn't end up trying to snatch anything up as well if I've got it covered under USA/Wales licenses?

I know that realistically I don't have the means to back anything up should they chose to ignore me; and I'll never see a penny from them either. To be quite honest; I've got no clue on what British law dictates for copyrights and I am interested to see just what the going-rate for this kind of thing is. It will also be amusing to use their spelling, I've never thought of this previously. Thanks!

Fesworks: I've known for a good long time that the 'poor man's copyright' would never hold up, and though CC copyright may not be a 'end all; be all' solution; it would at least be a step in the right direction for me I think. Aren't lawyer-friends great..?

Griever: To be quite honest; I was in shock and enraged when I sent the email. Basically it linked to my works, I told them I was me and they did not have permission to use them, & to remove them immediately.

Back in highschool in the 2002-2003 acidemic year, I was on newspaper team. I wrote an article on teen depression which made it to the first page, I was excited! The article remained off the internet, and only published in the small school newspaper. The same year I wrote a paper for my Government/Economics class on Henry VIII, I had previously thought that only my teacher and myself had access to that work.

Fast forward almost 4 years; I’m bored. I googled my name and come across my newspaper article (http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/page.cgi?page=preview&link=22439) and my government essay (http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/page.cgi?page=preview&link=19851) on this paid site..! I’m confused, I didn’t submit this stuff, and you can obviously see my name (Chalea Evans, now married) right in the document preview, these are mine..! Though this site provides a disclaimer that users are not supposed to use the material as their own and have an extensive anti-plagiarism area; clearly this is a paid site for other intentions than what are provided.

I emailed & hadn't heard anything back from them; since this site is not on US soil there’s little I can really do. I talked with a lawyer who works for my employer on a friend-basis and he suggested I send a ‘cease & desist’ letter to attempt to manipulate them into getting my work off their site at the very least.

Take a look at what I’ve created and provide feedback? (Letter.PDF â€" 124 KB: http://munerift.xepher.net/letter.pdf) Any other advice? I know for starters that I will never see any money; this as my lawyer friend suggested would simply be a motivator to get them to remove the content, and to do put the option of them contacting you for republishing rights; but if they try to then quote them an insane amount of money that they wouldn't purchase the pieces for.

I also wanted to alert others; work that I thought would never make it onto my school website let alone a giant collection of pay-access content has totally blown me away, and I'm worried that there's others out there like me who aren't even aware of this yet. Thanks guys!