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[TheDisturbedOne]

I think the music videos section is great. Unfortunately I can't view the video because my flash player is so old, but I think the new section looks great.

[rpgsearcherz]

TheDisturbedOne, on Apr 15 2009, 07:07 AM, said:

I think the music videos section is great. Unfortunately I can't view the video because my flash player is so old, but I think the new section looks great.

Thanks for that input. I'm looking for a better system to use though...Or maybe attempt to create my own module, to link videos in it in a format like Youtube's...Where people can view videos, comment on them, see related ones, etc. in a more solid way.

The way I have it set up now(with articles) it will link alike videos together, allow comments, and allow viewing, I just want something that looks better, .

[TheDisturbedOne]

Yeah, I think youtube would be much better. Most browsers can play those videos. What you can do is using firefox, get the addon "Download helper". Download the video file from another site and then upload it to youtube. I am using an old computer, but youtube works.

Or another option is find a FLV player for Joomla (like a BB Code) and link the flv file there. It works perfect for me in e107, and there is no lag (regular embedded youtube videos lag for me).

[rpgsearcherz]

TheDisturbedOne, on Apr 16 2009, 08:44 AM, said:

Yeah, I think youtube would be much better. Most browsers can play those videos. What you can do is using firefox, get the addon "Download helper". Download the video file from another site and then upload it to youtube. I am using an old computer, but youtube works.

Or another option is find a FLV player for Joomla (like a BB Code) and link the flv file there. It works perfect for me in e107, and there is no lag (regular embedded youtube videos lag for me).

I thought they would use the same player....

And the way it's up now you can view the videos in perfect(almost) high quality, as it's(they're) hosted on MTV.com

I just hate Youtube because it seriously degrades quality. Watching the Eminem video on Youtube and then MTV, for example, there is a HUGE difference, easily noticed.

[rpgsearcherz]

Well.... Things had a huge unexpected turn after I started on the project and got it going. I'm working on getting back into the groove of throwing updates, although right now they may be a little spaced apart. Lots going on in RL.

Trying to come up with interesting articles is also an issue, . There's a lot of stuff I'm interested in but either A) I don't know how to explain it to others or I don't think others would be interested.

Anyways, the site is slowly starting to grow... I plan to just take it slow and see where it ends up.

[rpgsearcherz]

If anyone still reads this topic, I need advice.

More or less my domain just quit working all of a sudden (the website lags out horribly and usually won't even load). I contacted ComputingHost and they said it is due to the site loading .png's but that's required due to Joomla. Nothing had changed on the site. I was just loading it up one day and it wouldn't load. I checked the last "saved" version on Google and it loaded fine (it was "saved" on the 9th) but ever since then the site has pretty much been down.

Now for the weird part..

I am unable to access:

Sitemap
Components
Main page (bryworld.com)
Direct articles


However I am able to access:
cpanel (bryworld.com/cpanel)
admin backend (bryworld.com/administrator)
subdomain/folder (bryworld.com/testing)

Does anyone have any idea as to what could be causing this issue? I'm still working with CH to attempt to resolve the problem but I have no idea where to even start. Nothing like this has happened before.

[rpgsearcherz]

I resolved the issue.. I was forced to completely wipe the domain and start from scratch (although I preserved my articles).

In the meantime I also did a complete revamp of the website and it looks much, much different now. At the moment I am still trying to determine which direction to take the site. What I would love to do is implement some type of user interactivity so we can learn from each other instead of me being the sole speaker.

[Xalor]

Nice design overall, I think maybe the blogspot or a wordpress layout would do better. Such a robust Content Manage System like Joomla! makes it looks so advanced for a site about school and your personal worries. You should try using something simple to start with and make the theme match your interests, because it looks too profressional to be about something personal. Maybe a more whimsical versus a dark and dreary theme would make it look more personal. I like some of the articles, but the idea is a little overused. Find a small niche that you like adding and go from there. Update more on twitter to show that you are there all the time, don't make your updates too personal like Justin Links, cause thats already been done, and it can affect your life more than you think. I would actually remove the Twitter sidebar if you don't like to update that much, add some more things to follow you, and share these articles on other sites, best way to build traffic is to be a guest writer for other blogs. Forums aren't that useful unless its a niche topic. A niche for a forum needs to be really indepth and you need a large community for that. Get a community, you know you have a good enough community for a forum where each post has at least a 100 comments that actually discuss and don't advertise, and at least 100 different users commenting.

[rpgsearcherz]

Xalor, on Aug 4 2009, 12:51 PM, said:

Nice design overall, I think maybe the blogspot or a wordpress layout would do better. Such a robust Content Manage System like Joomla! makes it looks so advanced for a site about school and your personal worries. You should try using something simple to start with and make the theme match your interests, because it looks too profressional to be about something personal. Maybe a more whimsical versus a dark and dreary theme would make it look more personal. I like some of the articles, but the idea is a little overused. Find a small niche that you like adding and go from there. Update more on twitter to show that you are there all the time, don't make your updates too personal like Justin Links, cause thats already been done, and it can affect your life more than you think. I would actually remove the Twitter sidebar if you don't like to update that much, add some more things to follow you, and share these articles on other sites, best way to build traffic is to be a guest writer for other blogs. Forums aren't that useful unless its a niche topic. A niche for a forum needs to be really indepth and you need a large community for that. Get a community, you know you have a good enough community for a forum where each post has at least a 100 comments that actually discuss and don't advertise, and at least 100 different users commenting.

Thanks a lot for the information! It really is helpful.

On the topic about the niche, I'm quite unsure where to go yet. People always say to "choose a topic you love" but that would be school. Some then say to "write about your major" but I've been changing them so many times it's ridiculous (Psychology to criminal justice to forensic psychology to business to accounting to developmental psychology to science...) I'm just really not sure where I want to take it yet.

Getting off on many different topics is helping to determine which ones are the most interesting to people though, which is helping me narrow down somewhat. To be honest I would rather it *not* be a blog and be something completely different that involves user interaction, but I am unsure where to start that at. Not to mention building user bases is a little difficult when starting from scratch.

About Twitter... I'm very new to it, so I'll get used to it over time.


Thanks again for the comment! I do agree with you about the theme of the site, I just like looking "above and beyond" most other websites.