THE SITE:((ellipse_v2.0))

And to make people want to link to you, there are only 3 ways to greatly improve traffic;

-to publish better artwork,
-bung up some comprehensive "How to draw" tutorials- always popular within the artist community
-introduce pornography into your artwork!

How do these look?
Link Me!

Thanks

[ 05-06-2002: Message edited by: sinmaster7 ]

Switching into teacher mode (with a cute little magical transform scene :nudgenudge .

First of what I meant in my post above was the bandwidth traffic, which can be a problem for popular free sites nowadays.
Lets say for an example that you have a indexpage for your website that is 1mb totaly in filesize(made with frontpage I guess ).
Now everytime someone views this page he is actuly downloading the page, this is noticed by the server as traffic.
So if 5people viewed your page this month you get a traffic of 5mb (its a bit more 'couse your pc talks with the server before hand but only few kb).

The problem is now that alot webspace host'er give you only a limited traffic maximum for your webspace(ofcourse if you pay them more they give you more traffic).
Normaly if you exceed this limit they either shut your side down, or what is more common they want extra money for every mb that is over the limit.

Server bandwidth on the other hand tells you how the server is connected to the rest of the world (in other words to the next backbone server).

If I would use my PC as a server it would have a total bandwidth of 128KBitS (I have a dsl connection and that is the maximum theoretical upload-rate of my connection).
In real-life it would mean someone could download stuff from my pc with a maximum of 15kbytes (thats the real upload-rate).
But if two people download from me at the same time it would split it into half so everybody got around 7kbs (now you see my comp wouldn't be a good server).

So a bigger upload-rate on the serverside is always better.
While the case of two people downloading at the same time isn't a big problem for a website server, it is a problem for a Gameserver where it has to manage the constant data exchange of lets say 15 people(also the server has to manage and calculate what is going on in the world who shot who and so on which means for a game server you need a good multitasking comp).

As for examples of good server bandwidth its does digital connections (often optical cables) that starts with a download/upload rate of 1mbit/s (known as T1) and goes to 100mbit/s (T3) as common connections (higher lines exists but are mostly still in testing ground as far as I know).

I remember someone was selling a T3 flatrate in germany for 50000 Dmark (25000 Euro) per month, one or two years ago (but the prize for this stuff differs greatly from country to country).

ok thats it if I made errors please correct me (hey I'm only stuff I heard or read about on the net).

*blink* switching back to normal mode "holy shit who wrote so much tech'ie stuff "

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Sinmaster7 well I'm not sure if your ISP charge for it (check the contract), but normaly they don't.
They make mainly money with the internet connections they sell.
Also with 10mb space they don't expect that someone makes a side that generates more than a few hits [hey if the webspace is ever used, then most people make a side like "hi my name is mildret here are some pictures of my cat"(sorry but I hate this kind of sites).And no one is searching for this crap (even if it is registerd with every search engine out there )].

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That's sweet!!
Awesome site design!!!

sinmaster: the site is very basic, and imo not very well done (speaking in a graphic design sense) its not much more then a few lines and text and some animation on top. to improve it imo, you would need to completely redesign it. try and look around some good design sites: www.carbonfour.com www.sevenflow.com www.liquisoft.com www.chapter3.net www.cubadust.com

just to name a few. good start with the flash tho.

The sites you listed are nice indeed. I see I have a lot to learn when it comes to design. I'll take time to study them. It's either that design tutorials are hard to find, or that I haven't looked hard enough.

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I have one question; what steps do I have to take (e.g. asking permissions, paying royalties, etc.) in order to stream copyrighted music from my site?

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No idea, but unless your site's getting a few thousand hits a day or you're a commercial site, then I don't think anyone's gonna mind!

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I still think your site's ace tho sinmaster. sentient has a point about it looking a little dull compared to some of these more abstract design concept sites, but yours does the job - it displays your portfolio, easy to understand, view, navigate, fits into smaller resolutions unlike most of these other funky graphic sites

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Thanks Bomu. Personally, I think that usability is just as important as content. Knowing now that the efforts I've put into the usibility of my site has paid off, I will keep it at the forefront of my mind while I design the update.

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cool site Sinmaster. i think i may give your flash tutorial a go.

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Thanks! And as for the tutorial, it's my first. So if you or anyone has any questions, comments, or suggestions, I would gladly accept them

Ofcourse the site must atleast allow me to actully see the content (which sometimes can be a bit tricky with opera).

And the content of a webdesigner is ofcourse his own site in the firstplace if it sucks he wont get a job simple as that.

I've seen some sites where person babbled how good they where when it came to great usefull and well designed sites, small codes and all the wistles.

But his site design was pretty much fucked up codewise.
Alot of the links did'nt work 'couse of spelling errors, sorry to say but I wouldnt even consider asking someone with a site like this to make one for me (no matter how good the grafix looked he used).

oh btw. sinmaster7 tnx for the link I allmost forgot the force yourself to more than one design Idea lesson.

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