Ben's new site layout

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:24 pm

Ben, you use AIM!? *Vomits*

mustardseed · Post by **mustardseed** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:35 pm

I've been alright Ben. Just gotta little busy this past week with other school and freelance projects I needed to finish. Your site will hopefully be ready... soon.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:09 pm

>_> Ben has reverted to advertising, something which noone has yet mentioned. It makes me sick. v.v

Post by **benheck** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:53 pm

HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, ads! Beautiful ads, as far as the eye can see!

I mean... WHY NOT? Don't worry, it's just banner ads, none of those dreaded BLAH BLAH BUY THIS or click here to continue to main page.

Thanks Mustard! I know you can... cut it! Couldn't resist.

Ari · Post by **Ari** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:11 pm

Those ads are hardly noticable, really. I was surprised that Ben took this long to resort to ads.

And this thread has prompted me to also abuse the search function!
Apparantly Ben did some work on an Xpod, and has a broken link at the end of the page... http://benheck.com/Games/XBox/Xpod_1.htm

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:29 pm

We've known about that for some time now

But your new so its ok.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:30 pm

benheck wrote:HAHAHAHAHA! Yes, ads! Beautiful ads, as far as the eye can see!

I mean... WHY NOT? Don't worry, it's just banner ads, none of those dreaded BLAH BLAH BUY THIS or click here to continue to main page.

Thanks Mustard! I know you can... cut it! Couldn't resist.

Eh, I don't see why people do that. It makes me not want to buy their product.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:35 pm

Firefox + Ad Block = I don't care how many ads you put up, Ben. I won't see any!!!

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:13 am

vskid wrote:Firefox + Ad Block = I don't care how many ads you put up, Ben. I won't see any!!!

Right!

Ben, the search function on your homepage searches all the files in the public directories. In order to keep this stuff under wraps, you would need to set up a password-protected directory (done with a .htaccess file), or a sandbox PC.

I've got a sandbox machine set up. Basically it's a testing ground for new software and scripts, and there's nothing critical on it so if it gets screwed up it's not a big deal. For website testing, install the XAMPP server package, which includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin. Regular Windows file sharing will do for putting stuff on it. A sandbox machine is great for stuff like this, so you don't clutter up the server. (If you're not using it for anything else, you could use the MGDp for this task, as long as it still exists that is...

) XAMPP runs on Windows, but there are a ton of Linux distros out there that serve this purpouse.