Friday, September 5, 2008
Haven't written much lately. Been too busy adding stuff.
And there's moar stuff cumming, don't worry.
Some examples: Aneko Chokodokan: Danemou (Cross-Section King), two more chapters of Yaya Hinata: Perverseness,
and the first chapter of Gorgeous Takarada: Alice Breaker, Wet Princess and Oniichan Kuchu Kuchu Shisugidayo!
And all in English!
Over at The Forum I set us up the poll: Ads on Hentai Underground?
I was suprised anyone even gave a shit. But I checked back a few days later and saw:
- That's OK if you don't get too annoying: 80%
- Ads or not Hentai Undergound RAWKS!!!: 0%
(Thanks, I love you too) - Money is money, but leave it on the table: 20%
- NO FUCKING WAY MAN!!!: 0%
Considering that most hentai blogs are jam-packed with ads and no one bitches (including myself) I thought ''WDF? Why not?''
That creates a problem, if I start placing ads where do I put them?
Advertisers want their ad in prominent places on the page.
Like at the very top and in a column alongside the posts.
I don't blame them, they want their ads SEEN!!!
THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT!!!
So I needed to make room for ads here. When I created HU I never even considered placing ads. Wasn't even interested.
So I had to find a way to insert ads without changing the overall ''theme'' of HU.
It was created using the Blogger 'Minima Black' template.
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and it did that.
Trouble was other than offering an option for Google ads, it didn't provide much flexibility for including them.
So I had to change that. I started to hunt around for a new template, I didn't want the ''look'' of this blog to change much but I wanted to make prime space for ads.
I found what I was looking for, a modification of 'Minima Black' that provides an extra column to insert ads into.
So I DL'd and installed it. Then I said ''Oh shit''. It did as I intended it to, it made room to place ads alright, but it also wiped out just about everything EXCEPT the posts!!!
You name it, it's gone. Icon? Banner? Cbox? Search box? Translation widget? Affilitates? Tracker?
All went bye-bye. OH, THAT'S JUST FUCKING GREAT!!!
Now I have to do MORE repair work. Heavy-duty HTML. Oh, this is sucking and not in a good way!!!
Now I don't mind HTML too much, I can read and write in HTML (this post is written in HTML) but digging through Blogger to fix things sucks.
So I gritted my teeth and said, ''OK, OK, this is fixable'', and dug in.
So far I've restored the banner, the Cbox, the link lists, some of my affiliates (don't worry, they'll all be restored soon) and my icon. That's one thing I'm glad about, restoring the icon solved a puzzle I gave up on long ago. ''How do I get my icon to work on IE? And why do I care?''. I quit giving a shit about IE years ago.
Then in order to restore my icon I stumbled upon the code that made it work on IE7.
SNAP!!!
Have I heard about Google's new browser called ''Chrome''? Yeah, I've tried it, they did a good job on it, it seems to work as well as Firefox.
But not enough to make me switch.
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