larry91403 — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:58:12 +0000

Abhishek Reddy;208258 wrote: .nz which is New Zealand. Why are you blocking whole countries?

We had some issues with users in some countries (ie. russian mail order brides) harassing our users so we locked it down. We might have gone a little overboard I will get that fixed. Sorry!

italianninja — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:13:02 +0000

its ok i guess. one thing i hate is not being able to right click, but of course there are ways around it so i dont understand why people bother. just silly.

Abhishek Reddy — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:07:09 +0000

larry91403;208255 wrote: There are some countries we are blocking. Can you tell us where you are coming from?

.nz which is New Zealand. Why are you blocking whole countries?

larry91403 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:04:17 +0000

Abhishek Reddy;208226 wrote: All I see is a "page cannot displayed" error, the typical Microsoft one.

It must be from your server, as the domain name resolves correctly, and the server is reached. And I don't use Internet Explorer anyway. What's strange is you're running Apache, so it's not likely to be IIS sending that page back.

I had some other people try it too. It seems only clients from .nz get that page. Everyone else (including .au) can load the site. I can load it via a proxy elsewhere.

I doubt it's an ISP, host or other middleman blocking it, since the Apache error page can be loaded fine with a false URL.

Weird. What's going on?

There are some countries we are blocking. Can you tell us where you are coming from?

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:59:50 +0000

All I see is a "page cannot displayed" error, the typical Microsoft one.

It must be from your server, as the domain name resolves correctly, and the server is reached. And I don't use Internet Explorer anyway. What's strange is you're running Apache, so it's not likely to be IIS sending that page back.

I had some other people try it too. It seems only clients from .nz get that page. Everyone else (including .au) can load the site. I can load it via a proxy elsewhere.

I doubt it's an ISP, host or other middleman blocking it, since the Apache error page can be loaded fine with a false URL.

Weird. What's going on?

larry91403 — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:53:56 +0000

abrewitt;208221 wrote: Result: Failed validation, 185 errors
File: default.htm
Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: XHTML 1.0 Strict

I ran this website from http://validator.w3.org/ , thats just the erros on your homepage, this would be a good place to start to make your site more "web standards". if you achieve getting rid of these errrors then your site will also index better with google and are are helping the net move forward!

Yeah - we have done the same and there is a lot to fix I was wondering if there was anything that stood out for you? Some quick wins if you know what I mean.

Larry

abrewitt — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:21:35 +0000

Result: Failed validation, 185 errors
File: default.htm
Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: XHTML 1.0 Strict

I ran this website from http://validator.w3.org/ , thats just the erros on your homepage, this would be a good place to start to make your site more "web standards". if you achieve getting rid of these errrors then your site will also index better with google and are are helping the net move forward!

larry91403 — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:36:28 +0000

abrewitt;208146 wrote: Design wise it looks very nice, neat colors and simple design, also you havent over used flash, but it does seem you have overused javascript. Get some those scripts in external in external pages.

I like the concept also.

Thanks for your commments!

Can you give me some errors so we can have them fixed?

Thanks!

Larry

larry91403 — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:35:55 +0000

Hey Megan,

We really do appreciate your honesty. We have made some changes already to the site. I hope you like progress we are making.

Larry

abrewitt — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:01:37 +0000

Design wise it looks very nice, neat colors and simple design, also you havent over used flash, but it does seem you have overused javascript. Get some those scripts in external in external pages.

I like the concept also.