Okay, here is my evil scheme behind the IMDB - Wrapper at the bottom of the left hand side of the website. By creating a "window" into IMDB.com, specifically http://imdb.com/title/tt0796314/ (A Dog's Breakfast on IMDB.COM) I'm hoping that the traffic generated by everyone's day-to-day use of adogsbreakfastmovie.com will rack up hits to the movie's page on IMDB and thus its IMDB ranking.
Let me know if this causes any grief on your end and I'll get rid of it. I was going to just make it so small that it was invisible. But then you get all the hassles of loading another page and you can't even use it! What I'd like to do, if I could just figure out these wretched "templates" is to have it nicely placed right along the bottom of each page in a more usable format. In the mean time I'm afraid that this will just have to do.
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Written by watcher652 on 2007-02-23 04:16:35
Written by meljbuck Also viewing in Safari this very window the latest news items are down below the wrapper in orange/red on the red background... eek!
Huh, I didn't even see the items under the wrapper, the text blended in so well with the background. Good eye! With these new templates, I've been getting the same effect when I preview a post on the message board. I have to highlight the text to see what it is. I use IE on a PC. |
Pop Ups
Written by meljbuck on 2007-02-23 04:05:11
Could this wrapper be causing pop ups. Because I keep getting them and I didn't before. Also viewing in Safari this very window the latest news items are down below the wrapper in orange/red on the red background... eek! |
Missing
Written by watcher652 on 2007-02-20 20:13:53
Where did the IMDB thingy go? Guess I'll just have to click thru to IMDB directly. |
Oooh almost!
Written by 11nine73 on 2007-02-20 16:00:15
David, is that in an iFrame?
Whatever, you need to place it before the footer (is probably something like '$footer' in the code)?
And make it smaller, or it'll throw out your layoit again.
Helen x
Code Squirrel..? |
Written by kamelion on 2007-02-20 11:22:24
All you tech-savvy people. *sheesh*
Where's that cup holder again?
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Can you explain that again?
Written by watcher652 on 2007-02-19 14:15:02
I'm confused. Does having the IMDB wrapper on the ADB site mean every time we go to an ADB page, it ups the IMDB count? Each individual ADB page visit is a separate hit count, right?
My shortcut to IMDB is the ADB entry. It used to be the David Hewlett entry when I didn't know that it made any difference but I had it as my initial IMDB page, just in case.
In the promotion dept, I'd like to suggest a flyer geared to the scifi community. I went to a scifi convention this weekend and papered the walls with the flyer (yes, I took them down at the end of the con). People showed more interest when I verbally told them it was a David Hewlett project. But I couldn't talk to everyone. If you want to be shameless, you need to leverage your name. Another version of your generic flyer should have that sweet story about Mars being rescued. Lots of people liked that story when I told it. |
Oops. Never Mind.
Written by rosiewook on 2007-02-19 08:18:11
Apparently, I'd clicked on the home page link when I went to look. It's loading the ADB page.
Now. Where did I put that caffeine? |
Okay. Feeling dumb
Written by rosiewook on 2007-02-19 08:16:50
I'm with Catsitter. Huh?
I see IMDB in that little window down there. It's not opening to the ADB page, though. It's on the main page.
However, it doesn't appear to be causing me any problems. (I'm on XP-Home and Firefox.) So if my sitting around and doing nothing but visiting your page helps? Nifty.
If I'm supposed to be doing something more (outside adding code to my non-existent web pages), then please provide more detail, oh Great Squirrel King! |
Written by Catsitter on 2007-02-18 09:25:57
I'm sure it's a great idea, but unfortunately I have no idea what this is all about. Except IMDB. I do know what that is. I feel like Jack O'Neill! |
Cool Idea This ....
Written by amararti on 2007-02-17 20:47:10
... nothing wrong with self promotion - if you don't do it yourself who else will (oh yeah ... right ... we will of course  ). Anyhoo I had spent a couple of (by which I mean several) hours happily poking around IMDB before I read your post ... now I see your grand design and have added appropriate code to my WEB site. Ann March Watercolours
An Art site I know and one I coded 11 years ago (God I feel old) in good ole HTML before all these newfangled flashy web toys existed - but it all still works (I think), and - hey - every little helps right??
Hope you are feeling better - the flu plague has hit our house now - lying low my very own David (but not me - Yay!)
Peace and happy coding
AMx |
Written by Night Spring on 2007-02-17 13:59:18
Oops. html code disappeared from my previous post. hmmm...
Trying again. Replace {} with ""
Idea for "hidden" but usable IMDB wrapper.
{a target="_blank" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796314/"}
A Dog's Breakfast{br}
{img src="http://i.imdb.com/images/nb15/logo.gif" border="0"}{br}
{iframe
src="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796314/"
width="177"
height="1"
scrolling="no"
align="top"
frameborder="1"
class="wrapper"}
{/a}
This displays an IMDB logo on the page, with the "wrapper" disguised as a decorative line under the logo. You can, of course, change the size of the wrapper so it's totally invisible. Clicking the logo opens a new window/tab on the IMDB A Dog's Breakfast page. |
Written by Night Spring on 2007-02-17 13:55:57
Idea for "hidden" but usable IMDB wrapper.
A Dog's Breakfast
This displays an IMDB logo on the page, with the "wrapper" disguised as a decorative line under the logo. You can, of course, change the size of the wrapper so it's totally invisible. Clicking the logo opens a new window/tab on the IMDB A Dog's Breakfast page. |
David!
Written by 11nine73 on 2007-02-17 11:06:10
You naughty boy you! *is in hysterics*
I'm really not sure this allowed but what the hey!
It is slowing me down but I guess that's what I get for having a 10 year old PC. 
"What I'd like to do, if I could just figure out these wretched "templates" is to have it nicely placed right along the bottom of each page in a more usable format."
Ya need to learn yourself some PHP dear, or let someone that knows about it have a play...
*looks innocent*
Helen x |
Written by SeiyaTheLeaper on 2007-02-17 03:32:52
So opening the "ADB" IMDB page would help the movie too, right? *Adds that page among the ones to visit at least daily* |
Bored Squirrels will play!
Written by Zerocool on 2007-02-17 02:01:02
Scurrys away to see where I can put it  |
Written by meljbuck on 2007-02-17 00:45:42
Forgot to say that Bert the Cylon is now recommending ADB and has the right links, though Bert is confused by the use of a Rubber Duck...
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Written by meljbuck on 2007-02-16 23:56:56
We like the sneaky, geekiness. All hail king squirrel... okay maybe I shouldn't have just eaten that chocolate biscuit - sugar high! |
Will do, but...
Written by Aten on 2007-02-16 22:33:40
...May I be the first to say that yes, it's messing with my computer. My connection is shaky as it is (damn RoadRunner...), and loading another page simultaneously really isn't helping it along. I'm certainly all for shameless self-promotion, to be sure, but things don't want to work on my end of the cable (seriously, it took me ages just to load that "rogue squirrel" article in the previous entry). |
Written by Becky S. on 2007-02-16 21:12:09
Sneaky...very sneaky. |
Caffiene, Squirrels, and Coding
Written by windshieldbug on 2007-02-16 18:58:53
THis squirrel has had too much caffiene, which means I'm yodaish. Which means I can't think coding. I'm gonna get the wrapper coding for Blogger from S_auruis!
No grief for me DAvid. Working on coding for myspace! |
clever
Written by AylaMc on 2007-02-16 18:53:04
[strokes chin - theres no goatee (thankfully), and so some of the effect is lost, unfortunately]
how very clever of you. i'll add the link to my LJ, right below the link to the ADB site, :D |
Written by zwild1 on 2007-02-16 18:40:07
I'm in the middle of coding my website so I'll just add the IMDB wrapper as well. That is once I get my own coding demons tamed. Gah!!! |
Written by Haliyah on 2007-02-16 18:20:00
Baha, I guess I can't use BBcode in the comments, then.
Oopsie. |
Written by Haliyah on 2007-02-16 18:19:03
[color=gray][size=2]Heh...nice framesets. I could never get those to work... 
It's a good idea, it is.
I'll take it that you're feeling better, then? [/COLOR][/size] |
Written by zoot69 on 2007-02-16 18:00:48
 you sneaky little...person
How you could even consider doing something like...yea ok I'll do it. |
Written by s_aurius on 2007-02-16 17:51:32
hmm, If I can figure out how to do it I'll put it on my site.
*wanders away muttering about html codes and headaches* |
Great idea :)
Written by Amy_McKay on 2007-02-16 17:42:22
My last written comments disappeared. 
So i do it again
I added the link to imdb to my signature at a forum!
And David - THANKS for all your work here with this site and the news!! Now get well soon!! Atlantis will need you at soon  |
Written by Kate28 on 2007-02-16 17:27:38
You are such a clever king squirrel! I'll add the link to my webbie and anywhere else I happen to wander. |
Written by dutch eowyn on 2007-02-16 17:07:49
Hahahaha!! Shameless selfpromoting and flaunting your IMDb pro subscription (in referrence to the Departed link ) and every time I visit your site, something has changed! I can almost hear you muttering 'Now if I just... whoops! Ok, so if I tweak this here, that should do the trick. There you go!'
You still take some time every now and then to curl up by the fire, right?
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Written by Arlessiar on 2007-02-16 16:55:31
Ah, thanks for the explanation, I was already wondering why this imdb thing showed up on every page. Wondered if it's a new add, didn't think about the ADB page on imdb. *silly me* |
Written by Squonk on 2007-02-16 16:54:44
Nowt wrong with shameless self promotion, it's a great idea. If i had any blogs/sites/technical know-how, i would certainly add it! lol.
Now that's three updates in one day, shouldn't you be resting? - Not that i'm complaining of course!
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Written by shelsfc on 2007-02-16 16:52:31
Sneaky!
Nope, it's not causing any grief! |
Written by archae_ology on 2007-02-16 16:52:25
IMDB is one of the bestest inventions of all time. :D |
Having Fun?
Written by lemonchicken on 2007-02-16 16:46:09
Ah, so it does do something. Sneaky squirrel!
No grief at all! |
Self-promotion seems perfectly reasonabl
Written by crazymom on 2007-02-16 16:45:27
Ah, yes, self-promotion. The kiddo has to write some poems for school, and I suggested he write one about me. After all, surely there are several poems worth of weirdness in me? He just keeps rolling his eyes and ignoring me. I really need to clean up my main webpage anyway, and I can certainly add IMDb/ADB to my blurbs for the perils of husband-wife remodeling, the Miss ADD pageant rules, and the CSI:Miami Drinking Game. Then again, are you sure you want me to do that? |
IMDB WOOHOO!
Written by teknikal on 2007-02-16 16:35:49
i dont mind it at all...its all for the greater good!!
woohoo for greater good!!
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Written by sueKay on 2007-02-16 16:35:41
LOL!
iframes are quite cool but awkward to figure out!
I'll add that link to my blogs, pages etc 
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Written by Bek78 on 2007-02-16 16:34:14
Ach you sneak you -
The shame will never end! |
Written by hullfire on 2007-02-16 16:32:22
Geektacular!!
*wanders off to find pages to scribble on* |
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