The New SWFans...

[TheHolo.Net]

at swforums.net has hit a milestone. 1,000,000+ hits since October 8, 2001. :D

[Lord Gue]

Woah! Go us!

[Sanis Prent]

But Swforums was a month old as of October 19th, so when did we hit an actual million?

[Lady Vader]

Now if only we could turn those hits into $$$. :lol

[TheHolo.Net]

Originally posted by Sanis Prent
But Swforums was a month old as of October 19th, so when did we hit an actual million? October 8th is when I started the counter, so in actuality I dunno.

[Marcus Telcontar]

A million hits??? Holy frell, that's one hell of a lot

Go us!

[Alpha]

We doin good! :D

[Taylor Millard]

Whoo-hoo!

Celebrate good time c'mon!

*Does dance while continuing to sing. :D

[Shawn]

^________^

[Nichos Marr]

That's great news.

But I gotta agree with LV :smokin

[Sasseeri Reeouurra]

LV, Nichos, I think the turning hits into $$$ is what caused ezboard to become what it is.

*shudders*

Let us not turn down that dark path.

:smokin But, AWESOME! Go us!

[Rama]

Eh.......I think Robert Downy JR has taken more hits then that. :lol

[SeanDMan]

Rama! Leave Robby alone!

[Jargon Chasseur]

Nah, I just hit "refresh" a million times.

[Genie]

Do the hits count from just the main page or EVERY page view that anyone makes anywhere?

[imported_Blade Ice]

wow thats alot

[Morgan Evanar]

You don't have the bandwith, Sage.

[TheHolo.Net]

Originally posted by Genie
Do the hits count from just the main page or EVERY page view that anyone makes anywhere? All page hits except for those related to the portal.

[Hyphenated]

I bet we make 2 mil by June. :D

[Mr. President]

Nah 2.5 New movie and all. Let's hope so atleast.

*Closes eyes and holds breath. ;)

[Genie]

When the movie comes out there'll be a huge boom in hits then it'll slow down again in the summer :(

[Charley]

Actually, this place could easily double in size after E2, in all seriousness.

[Admiral Lebron]

If you look at like before Episode I in SW RPGing it was very little. So, if we have the same sort of BOOM that came from Episode 1, we could very easily double our current numbers, if not triple. Since RPing hit a spike and has been dwindling ever since. But only time will tell.

[Darth Turbogeek]

If there is no promotion, no one will find this place.

And there wont be any explosion of numbers.

[Admiral Lebron]

Then we need to promote?

[Champion of the Force]

Half the problem is that the 'mother site' - SWFans.Net - no longer exists anymore. :\

[Admiral Lebron]

Make a banner exchange with TheForce.net ?

[Darth Vader]

I agree, some kind of publicity on TF.N would be a great thing.

I would love to see this place get swamped with n00bs. Bring some fresh meat! >D

[OOM-9]

As long as we don't resort to pop-ups. |I

[Shawn]

SWFans will never have pop ups or ads of any sort, unless it's something like the banner exchange Lebron mentioned.

[TheHolo.Net]

I have tried to get some people to make some buttons and banners for the site so I can create a "Link to Us" page for the portal, but as of yet I haven't seen any images to use.

[Shawn]

Hmm... just tossed this together: What do you think?

http://www.swforums.net/forum/attachment.php?&postid=199845

[TheHolo.Net]

Very nice! Its a start.

A few more and some buttons and we could have ourselves a "link to Us" page! :D

[Shawn]

Can you give me an idea what you mean by buttons? I mean, I got the general gist of it, but I was wondering if you could provide some examples for me to run with.

Oooo... you know what'd be *really* nice? If someone here could make a Flash banner. I can't use Flash very well myself, or else I'd do it.

[TheHolo.Net]

Give me a bit to go and find a few. :)

EDIT:

Here is a site with some Flash designs:

http://flashkit.com/link.shtml

Some random sites I found with buttons:

http://www.bearjests.com/cyberpet/linkban.htm
http://www.kate.net/holidays/4thjuly/banners.html
http://www.faithcafe.com/bancups.shtml
http://www.symphonygraphics.com/banners.html
http://www.freereports.net/wizard/linkto.html

[Jargon Chasseur]

I remember a star wars link site. It had bantha in the title. I don't recall the exact url.

I could make a banner. Or has Shawn gotten the job? Heck, if you ask me to SWFans, I'll do it anyway. I like making graphics. I just like being asked.

Here's some samples of my work, btw. Off my own site, in the process. If they don't load, try later. My server is screwy:

http://www.freewebz.com/thesage/images/mainbanner.gif
http://www.freewebz.com/thesage/images/sithbanner.gif

BTW, Shawn, great graphic. But I think it's too big(dimensions). If mistaken, there's a certain size requirement for there banner exchange. Heck, I don't know. :)

[TheHolo.Net]

Anyone is invited to make submissions. We can have many different ones of varying styles. :)

480 X 60 seems to be a popular banner size.

EDIT: I just realized something that I need to check on and am posting it here as a reminder to myself. I need to see if HTML is allowed in our (Portal Page) Link submission process, so that linking sites can include buttons or banners of their own on our link pages.