1) Awesome thread and should be a good contribution to the adult community as a whole $$
2) Are you enjoying the can o worms yet? Or perhaps its not a can o worms, but more like pandora's box
A couple of things I'd think about when setting up:
a) Ensure that you can target advertising properly - random banner rotations are ridiculous...kinda like rotating galleries with the descriptions really - hit n miss relevancy to the surfer. If you do want to run banner rotations, ensure that you can set it up with categorization or multiple installs to ensure that only targetted banners appear for each category
b) In addition to item a) above, ensure that you can
quickly swap out sponsors performing poorly on your traffic
c) If possible, get yourself an LL platform that is extensible - plugins are good, but the ability to customize and manually plug in your own stuff is golden, especially when it comes to databases - being able to add custom fields for more page output & mass publishing is a very sweet thing
d) Templates & template support from a platform is good, especially a templating system that permits conditional statements and such
e) Make sure you can blend your CSS into it. This is usually a given but again, best to make sure.
Most link list software will cover these items in some form or other, but its best to be sure. They are also relevant considerations when configuring your link list. For example, if you hardcode category banners into your templates, you're gonna have fun editing them...whereas if they are ssi inserts or php/mysql generated, you'll have a much easier time of it.
GL with your endeavour
