Lesson Learned

Porn Princess · 2004-11-30, 01:55 PM

Confessions of a dork:

I built a free site using a sponsor I'd signed up with a while ago, but this was the first time promoting them.

When logging in, I could access all the linking codes just fine. The only part I couldn't get to was their stats page. The rep and I email back and forth over a couple weeks as schedules permit. In the meantime I've submitted this site and I know it's getting traffic I just can't see just how much. No big deal, I knew it would get resolved soon.

After pestering this nice lady several times, I discover that I'm entering in the wrong password. |doh| Ta Da! It's amazing how with the right one I can finally access stats and see what's up.

It was kinda depressing seeing that the sponsor ads had only recieved like 2 clicks. In fact, that just didn't seem right at all. I double checked and almost all the LL I'd submitted to had already listed this site days ago. Hmmmm...

After looking closer it seems I'd not double checked my site thoroughly in HTML. After each link code to the sponsor there was a %20 which would not allow any traffic to the join page. I don't really know how it got there, but I removed it from all pages...yada yada.

But, the bulk of the traffic I got from LL's to this site was pretty much for nuttin'. That'll teach me.|pcwins|

MadMax · 2004-11-30, 03:13 PM

Been there. Dreamweaver (combined with my fat fingers) has bitten me once or twice recently. Every freesite I build now, I click every link manually just to make sure everything is good before mirroring/submitting. The 15 minutes that takes buys me a lot of peace of mind.

selena · 2004-11-30, 07:30 PM

I am an over-checker. When I build a gallery using GASS, I check every mirror URL to make sure that ftp didn't burp or something when I uploaded files.

I check every link before uploading also.

Except once. I was building a free site and was up waaaaaaaay too late. And wouldn't you know, I screwed up a link. Had my enter link going to a gallery that had the same name as the free site I was sending out.

Thankfully I caught it the next day when I realized I wasn't getting any acceptance mails.

And if you use Dreamweaver, that is likely where the 20% thingy came from. Why it inserts it sometimes I do not know.

dallasdeb · 2004-11-30, 07:56 PM

Dreamweaver puts the %20 thingy in if you leave a space in a link. I do it far too often to admit (still a newbie lol)

Jim · 2004-11-30, 07:58 PM

I think we need to have basic HTML classes so people stop using these wysiwyg editors. They use characters that are not needed and screw up pages and newsletters

Cleo · 2004-11-30, 08:07 PM

GoLive at least leaves it a space and not %20 but it is still bad to do. I'll see spaces in my URLs when I'm copying and pasting from sponsor's admins.

I always finish my html by hand so that is when I'll catch things like that.

Having an editor with syntax highlighting really helps in catching coding errors but does nothing for fucking up a url.

selena · 2004-11-30, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jim
I think we need to have basic HTML classes so people stop using these wysiwyg editors. They use characters that are not needed and screw up pages and newsletters

Jim, trust me, I am perfectly capable of screwing up when I hand code too.

Porn Princess · 2004-12-01, 01:12 AM

Yep, it was a Dreamweaver vs sleepy newbie screw up. I think I'm going to recite 10 times before bed every night for the next month: "I will not submit without rechecking, I will not..."

Commiseration does give a certain amount of comfort though. Thanks for letting me know that I wasn't the first.

Smutferret · 2004-12-01, 02:46 AM

Hiya,

In reference to Dreamweaver URL rewriting...

Select "Preferences" form the "Edit" menu, then select/highlight "Code Rewriting", then locate the "URL Encoding" section and select "Do not encode special characters". That should keep DW from messing with your URLs.

I would suggest that you turn off all code rewriting in DW to be safe. Writing HTML code by hand is always best but DW can be a helpful tool at times if you know its strengths and weaknesses.

Anyway, hope that helps someone...

Regards,
SF

selena · 2004-12-02, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smutferret
Hiya,

Anyway, hope that helps someone...

Regards,
SF

It helped me.

koolkat · 2004-12-02, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jim
I think we need to have basic HTML classes so people stop using these wysiwyg editors. They use characters that are not needed and screw up pages and newsletters

Who's newsletter gets messed up?

Also, make sure that you are using absolute file paths and not relative file paths otherwise you wind up linking to the hard drive! Right Greenguy!

MadMax · 2004-12-02, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by koolkat

Also, make sure that you are using absolute file paths and not relative file paths otherwise you wind up linking to the hard drive! Right Greenguy!

Hey KoolKat,

I've always used relative paths to improve page load time and never had a problem...is there some doom lurking somewhere that hasn't bitten me yet?

Mishi · 2004-12-03, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by selena
Jim, trust me, I am perfectly capable of screwing up when I hand code too.

Ditto. We won't even talk about some of the things I did when I first started promoting multiple CCBill sponsors....

koolkat · 2004-12-03, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by MadMax
Hey KoolKat,

I've always used relative paths to improve page load time and never had a problem...is there some doom lurking somewhere that hasn't bitten me yet?

It is mainly a problem with these WYSISYG html editors, because if you are on a Windows platform, a lot of time they will make the relative path to the file on your local computer, so when it gets uploaded, it tries to point to the C:\ drive and then tries to find the images off the viewers hard drive. Just ask GreenGuy about that and the newsletter last week |goodnight

Greenguy · 2004-12-03, 10:18 AM

Oh - that's nice. I see how things are

Tart · 2004-12-03, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mishi
Ditto. We won't even talk about some of the things I did when I first started promoting multiple CCBill sponsors....

Been there, done that! |shocking|

MadMax · 2004-12-03, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by koolkat
It is mainly a problem with these WYSISYG html editors, because if you are on a Windows platform, a lot of time they will make the relative path to the file on your local computer, so when it gets uploaded, it tries to point to the C:\ drive and then tries to find the images off the viewers hard drive. Just ask GreenGuy about that and the newsletter last week |goodnight

Ah, cool. No worries for me then, DW has yet to bite me, and I'd imagine that if it did it would be because I set up the site wrong in DW |rasta|

2004-11-30, 01:55 PM	#1
Porn Princess Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Lake Worth, Florida Posts: 119	Lesson Learned Confessions of a dork: I built a free site using a sponsor I'd signed up with a while ago, but this was the first time promoting them. When logging in, I could access all the linking codes just fine. The only part I couldn't get to was their stats page. The rep and I email back and forth over a couple weeks as schedules permit. In the meantime I've submitted this site and I know it's getting traffic I just can't see just how much. No big deal, I knew it would get resolved soon. After pestering this nice lady several times, I discover that I'm entering in the wrong password. \|doh\| Ta Da! It's amazing how with the right one I can finally access stats and see what's up. It was kinda depressing seeing that the sponsor ads had only recieved like 2 clicks. In fact, that just didn't seem right at all. I double checked and almost all the LL I'd submitted to had already listed this site days ago. Hmmmm... After looking closer it seems I'd not double checked my site thoroughly in HTML. After each link code to the sponsor there was a %20 which would not allow any traffic to the join page. I don't really know how it got there, but I removed it from all pages...yada yada. But, the bulk of the traffic I got from LL's to this site was pretty much for nuttin'. That'll teach me.\|pcwins\| __________________ <a href="http://www.herbalo.com/cgi-bin/jwsshop/jws-track.cgi?ID=10500&Site=herb">HERBALO</a> - Make money selling sexual enhancements.

2004-11-30, 07:30 PM	#3
selena Oh no, I'm sweating like Roger Ebert Join Date: May 2004 Location: On the edge Posts: 592	I am an over-checker. When I build a gallery using GASS, I check every mirror URL to make sure that ftp didn't burp or something when I uploaded files. I check every link before uploading also. Except once. I was building a free site and was up waaaaaaaay too late. And wouldn't you know, I screwed up a link. Had my enter link going to a gallery that had the same name as the free site I was sending out. Thankfully I caught it the next day when I realized I wasn't getting any acceptance mails. And if you use Dreamweaver, that is likely where the 20% thingy came from. Why it inserts it sometimes I do not know. __________________ Doer of Things at MetArtMoney Skype selena.delgado9 ICQ 273551440

2004-11-30, 07:56 PM	#4
dallasdeb Ahhh ... sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 207	Dreamweaver puts the %20 thingy in if you leave a space in a link. I do it far too often to admit (still a newbie lol) __________________ Link to our Free Hosted Sites and Galleries

2004-11-30, 08:07 PM	#6
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	GoLive at least leaves it a space and not %20 but it is still bad to do. I'll see spaces in my URLs when I'm copying and pasting from sponsor's admins. I always finish my html by hand so that is when I'll catch things like that. Having an editor with syntax highlighting really helps in catching coding errors but does nothing for fucking up a url. __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289

2004-12-01, 01:12 AM	#8
Porn Princess Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip! Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Lake Worth, Florida Posts: 119	Yep, it was a Dreamweaver vs sleepy newbie screw up. I think I'm going to recite 10 times before bed every night for the next month: "I will not submit without rechecking, I will not..." Commiseration does give a certain amount of comfort though. Thanks for letting me know that I wasn't the first. __________________ <a href="http://www.herbalo.com/cgi-bin/jwsshop/jws-track.cgi?ID=10500&Site=herb">HERBALO</a> - Make money selling sexual enhancements.

2004-11-30, 03:13 PM	#2
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Been there. Dreamweaver (combined with my fat fingers) has bitten me once or twice recently. Every freesite I build now, I click every link manually just to make sure everything is good before mirroring/submitting. The 15 minutes that takes buys me a lot of peace of mind.

2004-11-30, 07:58 PM	#5
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	I think we need to have basic HTML classes so people stop using these wysiwyg editors. They use characters that are not needed and screw up pages and newsletters

2004-12-01, 02:46 AM	#9
Smutferret No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: MA, USA Posts: 231	Hiya, In reference to Dreamweaver URL rewriting... Select "Preferences" form the "Edit" menu, then select/highlight "Code Rewriting", then locate the "URL Encoding" section and select "Do not encode special characters". That should keep DW from messing with your URLs. I would suggest that you turn off all code rewriting in DW to be safe. Writing HTML code by hand is always best but DW can be a helpful tool at times if you know its strengths and weaknesses. Anyway, hope that helps someone... Regards, SF __________________ Pornication Web Cams TGPX by JMB Software

2004-12-03, 10:18 AM	#15
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