The Programs Listed In This Thread Have Shitty HFS's & They Are Wasting Their Money

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Wazdom

ok lots of opinions ..

GG if I was to pick one issue with HFS (LOL) and HFG .. it would be really nice if sponsors provided the frame work for recip linking on these tools should be very easy from them to provide us.

1 - Do you want to download the HFS's, add recips & upload them to your server?
2 - Do you want to give the sponsor a bit of html coding so that it's inserted into the HFS so that when you link to it, there's a link back to you?
In either scenario, that'd be something the sponsor would have to approve or set up & like I said about the SE stuff, I'd rather concentrate on getting this large list of sponsors to correct their basic mistakes before we looked into what extra benefits could be added to HFS.

Also, what the fuck is a HFG? No one calls galleries "free galleries" It's HFS because the term that everyone uses for Free Sites is "Free Sites"

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

Yes they are, and it was a conscious decicion to make them that way, both graphics and similarity. Just to save time to be honest. You wouldn't list those on your site because they're too similar in appearance?....

I might list a few, but like a lot of LL owners, I'd get tired of seeing the same template over & over & over.

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

...I quite honestly thought it WAS enough. It IS enough when submitting GALLERIES....

You're not building/submitting galleries. Throw out most of the TGP/Gallery info you have, as it does not fit in with the LinkList/FreeSite model (and oddly enough, I think that most of the sponsors on this list have this exact same problem)

[Jakke PNG]

Well, I think I'll just keep these as they are, and make new ones that have more variety and aren't out of the same mold..just gotta pay my coder to separate these 'template'-sites and the new ones I'll make in my import tool...hopefully in time for my programs re-launch.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by TeenGodFather

Well, I think I'll just keep these as they are, and make new ones that have more variety and aren't out of the same mold..just gotta pay my coder to separate these 'template'-sites and the new ones I'll make in my import tool...hopefully in time for my programs re-launch.

NO NO NO NO NO!

Leave them in there. If you only have 4 using this template - and they're scattered across 4 different paysites - no one will care.

It's when you have 40 using this template & 10 for each paysite that LL owners will start to scratch their heads wondering why they've seen the site design before.

****

I think there's a misunderstanding about templates as far as HFS (and free sites) goes and I'm probably responsible for that.

Templates are OK when used in moderation. Let me give you an example of how we build HFS:

A sponsor orders 30 HFS's for 3 paysites (10 per paysite) Let's say that I assign this work to 3 builders.

Builder 1 will be told to make 3 HFS for Site A using the same template, 3 HFS for Site B using a different template & 4 HFS for Site C using yet a different template.

Builder 2 will be told to make 4 HFS for Site A using the same template, 3 HFS for Site B using a different template & 3 HFS for Site C using yet a different template.

Builder 3 will be told to make 3 HFS for Site A using the same template, 4 HFS for Site B using a different template & 3 HFS for Site C using yet a different template.

Now what you have are 10 HFS for each paysite that use 3 different templates from 3 different people.

The next time the sponsors orders 30 HFS, I will pick 3 different builders, so once the order is complete, the sponsor has 20 HFS's for each paysite using 6 different templates from 6 different builders (or a total of 60 HFS's using 18 different templates from 6 different people)

Now that's a variety I think we can all handle

No one is saying that once you use a template, throw it out. Make a couple of sites, move it to the back of the list & use it again down the road.

[Linkster]

Totally agreed - the ones that wont get listed are the 30 free sites using exactly the same template over and over for the same paysite
But then the sponsors that do that dont seem to care one way or the other - they can still "boast" that they provide the tools - its a shame because there are some good programs out there that do this and they would certainly get more sales/traffic if they would just listen

[Wazdom]

Also, what the fuck is a HFG?

well on the dominant TGP board they are called FHG .. for obvious reasons LOL I put HFG .. seems to be a preference for that order around here.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Wazdom

well on the dominant TGP board they are called FHG .. for obvious reasons LOL I put HFG .. seems to be a preference for that order around here.

Sorry if I sound angry, but that's another pet-peeve of mine - like it's some new brilliant marketing idea to put "free" in front of other words to make them sound more appealing.

Think of it this way, if you call them Free Hosted Galleries, then you'd have to also use "Free Hosted Free Sites"

[Chimera]

Wow! I don't expect an explosion anytime soon because UW is so shy and nonconfrontive.
I have cashews and Mtn. Dew

[Greenguy]

He called Useless "useless"