Bloody sponsors again! Why...

GeorgeTH · 2005-01-30, 07:04 PM

...why is it that sponsors create now affiliate sections which are close to useless?

I know: this seems to become my peeve annoyance at the moment... LOL (or rather CRY)

As it stands I have enough trouble working the sponsors I have an account with (mostly because they're making my life so hard, instead of supporting me!), but a few days ago I signed up with a new program which offers several sites I thought I could sell well with my traffic: joinrightnow.com

Gosh, whenever I had thought an affiliate section couldn't get worse, I'd been totally wrong...
|pissright
And now this year's winner in the category "worse affiliate section";
the "SilverCash Award" goes to:

- - - tension - - -

I can't get the envelop opened

joinrightnow.com
--- roaring applause! ---

A well deserved award:
· it's impossible to get more than a single linking code at a time!
· and the banner section beats all other contestants:
you get one page per site they're having, listing the banner names and file sizes, and link which opens each and every banner in an individual new browser window! So if you want to compare all 30 banners for one site you have 32 browser windows opened at once, and 30 locations to save from (in case you want them all)...
· in their favor speaks: they're offering TGP gallery templates, but again: no thumbnailed previews, the only option to see them is by opening the full page galleries (again each one in a new browser). Before 2 templates had finished loading the Final of the Australian Open had started, so I turned my computer off without getting much at all - and I'd been logged in for over 45 minutes...

Gosh: I'd wish SunnyDollars would be doing better for me: at least I get all banners of one format in a simple zip file!

It's a real shame, because I still think their sites are promising... But why do they let a programmer design their front end?

Reminds me of my dbase business program I used in the mid 80's... I re-wrote it completely because for every little step you were supposed to go back to the "Main Menu"; so you had a new customer you first open 'customer' then enter details, then from the main menu make an akward connection to the relevant sales rep, then go back to the menu, open 'invoicing', try to enter the correct customer id to write an invoice, etc... First thing I did: link from customer to 'invoicing' - and never again did we write long invoices which were for the wrong customer, and then had to be credited again item by item...

2005-01-30, 07:04 PM	#1
GeorgeTH Don't let a programmer design your front-end pages! Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: currently on the road in CA Posts: 781	Bloody sponsors again! Why... ...why is it that sponsors create now affiliate sections which are close to useless? I know: this seems to become my peeve annoyance at the moment... LOL (or rather CRY) As it stands I have enough trouble working the sponsors I have an account with (mostly because they're making my life so hard, instead of supporting me!), but a few days ago I signed up with a new program which offers several sites I thought I could sell well with my traffic: joinrightnow.com Gosh, whenever I had thought an affiliate section couldn't get worse, I'd been totally wrong... \|pissright And now this year's winner in the category "worse affiliate section"; the "SilverCash Award" goes to: - - - tension - - - I can't get the envelop opened joinrightnow.com --- roaring applause! --- A well deserved award: · it's impossible to get more than a single linking code at a time! · and the banner section beats all other contestants: you get one page per site they're having, listing the banner names and file sizes, and link which opens each and every banner in an individual new browser window! So if you want to compare all 30 banners for one site you have 32 browser windows opened at once, and 30 locations to save from (in case you want them all)... · in their favor speaks: they're offering TGP gallery templates, but again: no thumbnailed previews, the only option to see them is by opening the full page galleries (again each one in a new browser). Before 2 templates had finished loading the Final of the Australian Open had started, so I turned my computer off without getting much at all - and I'd been logged in for over 45 minutes... Gosh: I'd wish SunnyDollars would be doing better for me: at least I get all banners of one format in a simple zip file! It's a real shame, because I still think their sites are promising... But why do they let a programmer design their front end? Reminds me of my dbase business program I used in the mid 80's... I re-wrote it completely because for every little step you were supposed to go back to the "Main Menu"; so you had a new customer you first open 'customer' then enter details, then from the main menu make an akward connection to the relevant sales rep, then go back to the menu, open 'invoicing', try to enter the correct customer id to write an invoice, etc... First thing I did: link from customer to 'invoicing' - and never again did we write long invoices which were for the wrong customer, and then had to be credited again item by item... __________________ Have a nice day!