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Re: Coming soon, Free web hosting for MOCs
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 22:18:18 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Sean Kenney writes:
> Over the past few months I've been building a web service that will allow
> anyone to create their own mini web site for their MOCs. It's free, you can
> make unlimited pages, there are no annyoing ads or pop-ups, and it's easy --
> you don't even need to know HTML.
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> The site is called MOCpages, and will be located at http://www.mocpages.com .
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> I've been thinking for a while that it might be nice for people to have some
> central, "permanent" place to link together their pictures, message threads,
> building instructions, cad, sales, etc. (Especially since your creations
> can get "lost in the shuffle" on Brickshelf and Lugnet after they've been up
> for a while.
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> If everything goes as planned, I expect to launch on April 1. (If anyone is
> interested in trying it out over the next few weeks and helping report bugs
> to me, please reply to this message or email me, and I'll get in touch with
> you with more informaton.)
I'm interested!
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> What do you get? You get your own web site, hosted under the "mocpages.com"
> domain, with your own search engine. People who visit your site can vote
> and write reviews. One of the coolest things is the "directory", where you
> can list your MOCs by subject (like Yahoo!), so you don't get "lost in the
> shuffle". I also structured the architecture of the site to help search
> engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, (etc) index your pages, so that your pages
> will come up in web searches.
I like this idea a lot, as I have seen especially as of late the "shuffle" has
been event-oriented. And having reviews with the MOC is a darn good idea!
> What *don't* you get? For now, no image hosting. Your pages can work with
> your Brickshelf galleries very easily, though. I don't have the disk space
> available to undergo a big image-hosting project, and besides, Brickshelf is
> already a great service for everyone. What else: you also don't get
> "blank slate" web hosting, for you web designer pros. The pages are
> template-based, to make things fast & easy for the masses. You can use
> pretty much any kind of HTML, but the site will automatically build your
> menus, headers, footers, and things.
Cool, this also means that there won't be resending of graphics anywhere, just
links.
> I guess that's everything. I've spent the last few months building this
> site, and I hope that it's something everyone will be interested in using.
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> I will post updates on lugnet.publish as things progress.
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> Comments? Questions? Hope to hear from you guys.
> Later,
> Sean
>
> ---
> sean@mocpages.com
> ---
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| (...) Fantastic! I'm doing the last round of testing myself this week. When I'm done, the site will be ready for "general use" by people such as yourself. Basically, the site should be in working condition, (minus a few things I am working on right (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.publish)
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