Session Start: Mon May 12 22:36:32 2008

[22:36] *** Now talking in #Portal

[22:36] *** [root] sets mode: +o Tim_Drobnick_Sr

[22:36] <Angelica_Gwinn> Kelvin not that I know of

[22:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> hwody

[22:36] <Angelica_Gwinn> hi Tim

[22:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> howdy

[22:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> full room!

[22:36] <Mario_Torres> hi Tim

[22:37] <Dale_Cable> hi tim

[22:37] <kelvin--brown> howdy

[22:38] <Janiece_Thompson> hi tim

[22:38] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr>   who has not had the 16 rotator ads put on their portal yet?

[22:38] <Janiece_Thompson> Mario does the directory have to be call user_image?  I named my image directory myimages

[22:39] <Mario_Torres> your image must be in user_images/imagename.gif

[22:40] <Angelica_Gwinn> Janiece the root directory is the user_images directory

[22:40] <Mickey_Mixon> Tim, I have not had the 16 rotator ads puut on SugarLandPortal yet.

[22:40] <Janiece_Thompson> oh I created my own folder

[22:40] <Janiece_Thompson> so I should just save my image in the root dir?

[22:41] <Janiece_Thompson> Tim I don't think I have them yet

[22:41] <Mario_Torres> you can make a folder for different images like  user_images/bcards/nameof i,age.gif

[22:41] <Angelica_Gwinn> yes Janiece - but remember there are instructions that are folder specific

[22:41] <Janiece_Thompson> but no rush because I'm not ready for them yet

[22:41] <Janiece_Thompson> gotcha

[22:41] <Joy_Wray> Bacl. Bet you never missed me!

[22:41] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> If you are referring to the rotator cards, the URL to the graphic can be to any folder, or any website on the internet

[22:42] <Mario_Torres> I place instruction in the support

[22:42] <Janiece_Thompson> for me mario?

[22:42] <Mario_Torres> tim for regualr images

[22:42] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> oh yes,

[22:42] <Mario_Torres> I'm try to help him

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[22:42] <Mario_Torres> hi Don

[22:42] <Angelica_Gwinn> hi Don

[22:43] <KWirc_959> Tim, this is Marvin, i hav'nt got the rotator ad's  yet,thats why i'm here tonight

[22:43] <Dale_Cable> hi tim

[22:43] <Mario_Torres> hi Marvin

[22:43] <Angelica_Gwinn> hi Marvin

[22:44] <KWirc_959> Hi e1

[22:44] <Dale_Cable> hi don,marvin

[22:44] <Mickey_Mixon> Thanks Tim.

[22:45] <Mario_Torres>  instruction on how to place business cards is in support Technical poat 1271

[22:45] <Angelica_Gwinn> hi Joy, I was wondering where you were :)

[22:45] <Joy_Wray> Mario, I checked out your blog because you said that would create more traffic, right?  Blogging, I mean.

[22:45] <Lisa_Fields> ok checking again to see if anyone has a programmer/specialist to do their uploads for them or are you all doing it yourselves?

[22:45] <Joy_Wray> Hi, Angelica.  Little late in getting here.

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[22:45] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> mickey, sugarlandportal.com is upgraded.

[22:45] <Angelica_Gwinn> glad you made it Joy

[22:45] <Joy_Wray> Thanks.

[22:45] <Mickey_Mixon> ty

[22:46] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> hi lisa

[22:46] <Angelica_Gwinn> Lisa we pretty much do it ourselves

[22:46] <Lisa_Fields> howdy tim

[22:46] <Mario_Torres> that right I had yesterday 8191 hits

[22:46] <Lisa_Fields> wow

[22:46] <Joy_Wray> Mario, I was surprised your blog wasn't in Spanish.

[22:47] <Janiece_Thompson> Thank guys. ok it added the picture and the link but it still didn't remove the Portal director needed for this site ad

[22:47] <Mario_Torres> I will be posting in spanish also

[22:47] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> explorejamestown.com is upgraded

[22:47] <Mario_Torres> tell tim about it Janiece

[22:48] <Joy_Wray> So, Mario are you a full time portal director -- or do you have another job as well?  -- Besides helping Tim I mean.

[22:48] <Mario_Torres> 3/4 portal director 1/4 partime and 24/7 helping in the portal

[22:49] <Janiece_Thompson> Tim I think I need your help removing the "Portal Director Need for This Site" ad from my site.  It's not on the home page but it's at the Top, Bottom & Side of all other pages.

[22:50] <Janiece_Thompson> Wow Mario, you hade 8191 hit yesterday!?!?  That's great! what are you doing?

[22:52] <Janiece_Thompson> Tim, I spoke to a woman today who may be interested in being portal director for this area. Her name is Teresa A. Harriss

[22:52] <kelvin--brown> Hi Tim,  it appears that i no longe have awstats on my portal

[22:52] <Mario_Torres> I post information on windows and tech news and i post from prweb

[22:52] <kelvin--brown> drobnickhttp://thewashingtondirectory.com/cgi-bin/awstats374r34/awstats.pl

[22:52] <kelvin--brown> http://thewashingtondirectory.com/cgi-bin/awstats374r34/awstats.pl

[22:53] <Mario_Torres> check my blog at puertoricoonline.net and take a look

[22:54] <Mario_Torres> I place all kinf of information there for now

[22:55] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> decaturportal.com upgraded for janiece

[22:55] <Janiece_Thompson> Thanks Tim.

[22:55] <Jonathan_Myers> GN all, betime for Bonzo again....later!

[22:56] <Janiece_Thompson> nite jonathan

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[22:57] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> janiece, to remove the portal director wanted, go to admin area, select "edit top, side, and bottom banner advertisements"  I cover that on the very first video when you log in,  

[22:57] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> when you log in to your adminisration area, make sure to listen to the first video. Then, click to read the introduction letter, and listen to the 2 videos on there. That is your orientation. If you skip it you will miss a lot and ask a lot more questions then you will need to. Then, be sure to understand the red boxing glove and the blue funnel at http://yourhometownportal.com/slideshow you will see them on the right side. Thats all you need to do to start making money.

[22:57] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Janiece, i will put teresa down as your referral

[22:57] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> everyone, you may now give away 30 day free trials of the head hunters to anyone you know. If any of them find a portal director for us, you will get of all sales that portal makes forever. Of course if you refer one to us yourself, we will pay you per sale. use your login at http://PortalDirectorHeadHunter.com if you don't have one, you can get one free on the same website.

[22:58] <Janiece_Thompson> Did she contact you

[22:58] <Mario_Torres> I wrote about my setpdauger and bill clinton and got 12513 wrote about adverting with my portal got 6069 wrote about security company got 16429

[22:58] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> janice, not yet

[22:58] <KWirc_959> thank you very much Tim, thanks  Mario and Angelica for being so sharp and informative in the portal business, and thanks to you Tim ,for hiring them, gn all tks

[22:58] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> dale, did you get the info from me today on your PBC

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[22:59] <Angelica_Gwinn> you're welcome Marvin,

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[22:59] <Janiece_Thompson> Tim I did liten to the videos and I think I followed the instructions, but it's still not working I will listen again tonight and see if I missed something.

[22:59] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> janiece, to remove the portal director wanted, go to admin area, select "edit top, side, and bottom banner advertisements"  

[22:59] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> in the upper right drop down box

[22:59] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> there are 2 places to remove those, one is on the edit front page ads, the other the one i just mentioned

[23:00] <Mario_Torres> Tim Igotta go for the night to day will see you tomorrow

[23:00] <Lisa_Fields> Tim can you please page number the portal director manual....will be big help to us.

[23:01] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn Mario

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[23:02] <Angelica_Gwinn> wb Joy?  is that you? :)

[23:02] <Joy_Wray> Somehow I got lost; now I'm back.

[23:02] <Joy_Wray> Yes, it really is me.

[23:02] <Angelica_Gwinn> lol

[23:02] <Lisa_Fields> how was Vegas?  or does it all stay in vegas?

[23:03] <Angelica_Gwinn> g1 Lisa

[23:03] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Vegas was good.  

[23:03] <Lisa_Fields> lol it's Lisa & Cheryl 2gether

[23:03] <Angelica_Gwinn> I'll say ladies then

[23:03] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> I won $175 on craps, betting $15 a abet.  I found it very boring.  but I spent a lot of time visiting with my friend i had not seen in 20 years, and had lunch with the Vegas PD

[23:04] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Lisa, halle is working on the new version of the manual, i will see if it is possible to add page numbers

[23:04] <Angelica_Gwinn> craps can be boring if you are not shooter

[23:04] <Lisa_Fields> I prefer to take my risks in business rather than a casino.

[23:05] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> angelica, i did not do the stupid bets, as most of them were doing.  Just bet on the pass line, which only gives the house .8% advantage, and then bet twice that on the odds, which is even bets, brining the house advantage down to less than .5 %

[23:05] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> maybe i would have had more fun being stupid

[23:05] <Angelica_Gwinn> lol

[23:05] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> i only did it because i was there, and they gave me free drinks while i stood there, not a bad deal

[23:06] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> oh, i put $10 in a slot machine also, won $20.  thats all the excitement i could handle from vegas

[23:06] <Angelica_Gwinn> those drinks could've cost you - glad you came out ahead

[23:06] <Angelica_Gwinn> lol

[23:06] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> i would not lose much,

[23:06] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> i am not stupid

[23:07] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> congratulations to dale on his PBC sale, you can see it at http://exploregastonia.com/gastonia-nc-classifieds/premium2.php he will add a domain name to this for his client, something like KeithHawthorneClassifieds.com

[23:07] <Lisa_Fields> Baccarat is the best, if you're going to throw down in a casino...like 007.

[23:08] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> i did not have a gun and a girl so i could be 007

[23:08] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> could not be

[23:08] <Angelica_Gwinn> very nice Dale, congrats

[23:08] <Lisa_Fields> congrats Dale!

[23:09] <Angelica_Gwinn> Ladies baccarat is good but I find boring

[23:09] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> When Keith Hawthorne Mazda places ads, all the classsifieds will have his logo listed by them, you can see it here http://exploregastonia.com/gastonia-nc-classifieds/images/gray.N.small_premium2.gif

[23:09] <Lisa_Fields> Tim - any add'l portal name choices other than austinportaltexas.com?  austinportal is taken, however it's lame.

[23:10] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> how about austintexasportal.com

[23:10] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> AustinTexasPortal.com

[23:10] <Lisa_Fields> sorry I typed it wrong...austintexasportal.com is what we currently have....anything else?

[23:10] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, suggestions?

[23:11] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> We like Portal in the domain its part of the branding, and from the people in the street we have found the clients come to expect to use that in the domain since we promote it as austin texas portal

[23:11] <Janiece_Thompson> congrats Dale

[23:11] <Lisa_Fields> we are marketing people, so we have plenty of ideas, however, I was checking to see if you utilized others as an extension of the brand.

[23:12] <Dale_Cable> the PBC will be keithhawthornemazda.biz   tim

[23:13] <Janiece_Thompson> gn all I'm gonna go see if I can figure out my top, side, & bottom issues. Thanks for all your help

[23:13] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn Janiece

[23:13] <Lisa_Fields> gn janiece

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[23:14] <Lisa_Fields> can we make cosmetic changes to the portal other than ads or wallpaper color?

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[23:16] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Lisa, in many places yes,

[23:16] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> what part are you referring to

[23:16] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Dale, thanks, I am going to start a directory on the main YHTP for PBC

[23:16] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> to help promote them

[23:17] <Dale_Cable> good

[23:17] <Lisa_Fields> adding graphic images to headings, tabs, left side columns, etc.    maybe changing the site's font color from blue and black  to green / black so the links are blue and pop more.

[23:19] <Lisa_Fields> can we add free biz listings w/o email addresses?

[23:20] <Dale_Cable> yes lisa

[23:20] <Dale_Cable> use yours

[23:21] <Lisa_Fields> cool. thanx for the tip.

[23:21] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Lisa, if you want the graphic header changed, email me the raw images to work with and we can change it

[23:21] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> the font color cannot be changed without an upgrade,

[23:21] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> you can add listing without an email address, but, in the long term it kind of defeauts the purpose,

[23:21] <Lisa_Fields> we're waiting for our graphix guy to get the new banner to us.  we'll get it to you upon approval.

[23:22] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Lisa, we need the raw graphics to create the header, it has to be created a certan way to work on all the pages

[23:23] <Joy_Wray> Have to say gn. Tim, is it possible to have a telecon with you tomorrow?

[23:23] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> joy, what is a telecon

[23:23] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn Joy

[23:23] <Lisa_Fields> we prefer to beef up our free biz listings / ads before a "full launch", so it appears more robust.  At a later date, we intend to add their email address as part of the ongoing mktg process.  Sooo can you not send out the verification emails 'til we pull the trigger?

[23:23] <Joy_Wray> Telephone call.  Sorry.

[23:24] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> joy,

[23:24] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> if you need to ask me a private question you can do so by double clicking my name to the right. If course if it is not private, I prefer you ask it here in the main room since it is much easier to handle the conversations with so many people that way.

[23:24] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, the portal does not have an option to not send out the contacts, but you can put in your own email address and they come to you instead,

[23:24] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> but of course, in the long run it defeats the purpose of the free listings,

[23:24] <Joy_Wray> Well I have some great ideas to pass by you as well as some questions and we'd find it much easier to talk.

[23:25] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> joy, please pm me with the topic of conversation

[23:25] <Joy_Wray> How do I do that?  So is it not possible to "talk" to you?

[23:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> if you need to ask me a private question you can do so by double clicking my name to the right. If course if it is not private, I prefer you ask it here in the main room since it is much easier to handle the conversations with so many people that way.

[23:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> if you tell me what the topic is you want to talk about, i can arrange a time to call

[23:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> you can do that in private

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[23:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> hello jason

[23:27] <Lisa_Fields> hi jason

[23:27] <jason_lopez> hello everyone

[23:27] <Dale_Cable> hi jason

[23:27] <Lisa_Fields> so the above referenced upgrade to change the text color involves what ?

[23:27] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> Lisa, I would need to add it as an option on a future upgrade,

[23:27] <Angelica_Gwinn> hi Jason

[23:29] <Lisa_Fields> ok what other types of upgrades?  like adding the biz cards on home page & the tower on news?  we love those!

[23:29] <jason_lopez> Tim, sorry so late, checking to see when the New business card script (announced on friday) will be uploaded to Lafayette city portal

[23:29] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, we seem to be doing upgrades constantly

[23:30] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> jason, i can put it on there now, has anyone else here not had the 16 rotating ads added yet

[23:30] <jason_lopez> thanks tim

[23:31] <Lisa_Fields> ok cool we'll finish our graphic branding exercise, and submit them in one fell swoop.

[23:31] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, remember, the graphics for the top header need to be given to me as raw graphics so we can format them to fit

[23:32] <Lisa_Fields> what do you mean raw graphics?  an image to be scanned by you?  gif or jpeg or what?

[23:32] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lafayettecityportal.com has been upgraded

[23:33] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, gif, jpg, bmp,

[23:33] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> the left side has to have a background repeater

[23:33] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> the font has to be the same as the other portals

[23:33] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> so if you have a picture you want to go on there, send that and we can shape it for the header

[23:34] <Lisa_Fields> love the existing font, just want to change the color of the text from blue to green.  w'ell submit in hexidecimal format.

[23:34] <Lisa_Fields> Austin's very green - in many ways.  lol

[23:34] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, are you referring to the text on the graphic at the top?

[23:34] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> its white

[23:35] <Lisa_Fields> no the text throughout the site.  we want to remove the blue color.  go w/green & black.

[23:35] <Lisa_Fields> keep the blue for links, so it pops more.

[23:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, that cannot be changed at this point, that would have to be done on a future upgrade

[23:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> just a second let me check something

[23:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> as a test

[23:36] <Paulette_Nurse> gn everyone

[23:36] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> gn paulette

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[23:36] <Lisa_Fields> gn nurse paulete

[23:37] <jason_lopez> gn everyone

[23:37] <Lisa_Fields> gn

[23:37] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> gn jason

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[23:42] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, still checking on something with the front

[23:42] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> font

[23:45] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> lisa, it would need to be in a future upgrade, its not something that can be easily changed at this time

[23:46] <Lisa_Fields> ok, we'll table it for today, hopefully we can get after our branding exercise is complete.  Thanks!

[23:48] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> mickey, did you see where to edit the rotating ads in your admin?

[23:49] <Dale_Cable> gn all

[23:49] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn Dale

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[23:51] <Lisa_Fields> gn all

[23:51] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn ladies

[23:52] <kelvin--brown> tim, did u see my stats issue

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[23:56] <Mickey_Mixon> gn all

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[23:59] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> kelvin, i missed the status issue

[23:59] <kelvin--brown> i have no stats at all

[00:00] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> oh

[00:00] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> checking

[00:01] <kelvin--brown> or the url changed

[00:08] <Joy_Wray> gn all.

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[00:14] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> kelvin, there is no awstats at all i am installing it

[00:17] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> kelvin, it is at http://thewashingtondirectory.com/cgi-bin/awstats374r34/awstats.pl

[00:19] <kelvin--brown> ok

[00:19] <kelvin--brown> is the rotating banner system broken on purpose

[00:19] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> its been replaced at this point with the rotating banner ads

[00:20] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> the other was open source and accessed by hackers

[00:20] <kelvin--brown> the reason i ask is because there are mysql errors in my admin

[00:20] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> the link should not even be there, i need to take it out

[00:20] <kelvin--brown> i was not intending to use it , just wondered if it was a know problem

[00:22] <kelvin--brown> in admin, under the title: EDIT TOP BANNER ADVERTISEMENT

[00:22] <kelvin--brown> This is the current top advertisement showing on almost all pages on your portal:

[00:22] <kelvin--brown> Warning: main(../leftbusinesscard.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tinselto/wwwroot/thewashingtondirectory.com/washington-dc-local-authors/design/topbanner.html on line 1

[00:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> hm

[00:26] <Angelica_Gwinn> gn e1 thanks Tim

[00:26] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> thats really not usable right now anyway

[00:27] <Tim_Drobnick_Sr> gn angelica

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[00:27] <kelvin--brown> i did not think it was, but wanted to make sure u were aware

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[00:35] <kelvin--brown> gn

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