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They’ve got a beta site up, http://beta.niteflirt.com which apparently can be used to take calls, but they are giving mixed messages on whether it is safe to take calls and consider the payment secure. Most of the “advice” on this is being given in the new forum, http://forum.niteflirt.com (gotta be a flirt to access this forum), where the overwhelming majority of advice is given by flirts with no understanding of this sort of situation and no inside track on what is going on, and posts after the original one come up in some weird reverse order that makes it sometimes impossible to understand what is being discussed.

If you’re a Niteflirt customer, saw a “We’ll be right back!” page when you tried to access the site but have been wondering when the site will be back, the real answer is, “No one knows, they say they’re working on it”. Flirts are giving out contact information on their sites or in twitter (all my followers are flirts, so I’m not giving out info there). All of my sites have a contact or email me link on them, including this one, so if anybody needs me they can email me to find out how to speak with me.

If you’re a Niteflirt customer who’s been getting a “Bad request 400″ or “The connection was reset by the server” or “Server not found” page for days, it means that Firefox cannot view a simple HTML page due to the type of cookies the site has chosen to use. They’ve known about this problem for days, and the fact that they have not fixed it is telling me that they aren’t intending to. Damn. My desktop only uses Firefox.

It is, what? Right now they are 24 hours past the loose deadline they gave us for coming back online. I understand that it’s hard to accurately predict these things, and I’m willing to cut them some slack, since they said that the site would be basically restored, except for some features that we use a lot, but which are not essential from the customer’s standpoint.

But should we believe that part? What if the site comes back and we all have to completely recreate everything we did before? With different restrictions and the pages are all different? Not getting a warm fuzzy feeling on this…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Niteflirt’s website was due to come down shortly for a major upgrade, and it has been down now since 9:30 pm ET last night. They told us the site would be down for 8-12 hours. Now they are saying it will be down until tomorrow morning @6:00 am. I’ll believe it when I see it.

No hard feelings against Niteflirt on this one, so long as it actually does come back up. The kind of upgrade they are doing (complete replacement of the platform with minimal difference visible to customers) is more complicated than hardly anyone could imagine.

We will be without customer lists for a month, and featured listings will be gone for a long time. Placement will be based on LVS alone.

Those of us in the forums were unable to convince the powers that be to notify the general flirt population in advance.

I have a forum where I have created a Niteflirt transition board to discuss this in, if anybody wants to post about the issue.

Niteflirt Customer Service is tweeting at http://twitter.com/NiteFlirtCS

Problem: You go to log into an account, and you get an error message saying the account does not belong to you.

Solution: This means your browser is still hanging onto cookies from the last time you were logged into another account using the same browser. When your session expires and sends you to the login window, it does not mean you are necessarily logged out. Sometimes you cannot log in to a different account without logging out properly. Log out again using the Log Out link and it should work.

Problem: Buttons which were apparently working before now give a “no longer exists” message to a customer who clicks them.

Solution: If a customer clicks a button and gets the message it no longer exists, go to your Payment Mail Buttons page and click the Edit button for that button. Then just resubmit it as though you had edited it. They always seem to work again at that point. You can test your buttons by clicking them from one of your other accounts.

I don’t think there are any customers reading this, but if you are a customer, upcoming changes in Niteflirt are being designed to be invisible to you, so I wouldn’t worry about it. You can still call your favorites, and the category indexes should work exactly the same way.

This is for flirts who have not been reading the flirt forum. Niteflirt is going to be upgrading their code, in order to give us a new platform – eventually. They are going to be integrating it in stages. For flirts, some features will be missing for months. In the end, we will probably have more features. But meanwhile, I suggest every flirt go to the Niteflirt forum and read about it, ASAP.

There are two kinds of recordings you can make, recorded listings and mp3s.

The recorded listing plays for a caller on the Niteflirt system. You can record this over the phone by clicking the Create a Recorded Listing link at the bottom of your My Account page under Other Tools and Links. (I could give you the link here, but it will only work if you are logged in to your account). Follow the directions you are given and say whatever you want to go into your recording over the phone.

One problem with doing it this way is that you have to say it all the way through from beginning to end. There is no way to correct a mistake. So you need to practice in advance.

Many of my recorded listings are like stories. I write out the text exacly as I want it, and then I read it out loud again and again, editing awkward spots and rewriting parts that I realize might sound better a different way. You need to practice until it sounds completely natural. It should not sound like you’re reading from a script.

The other way to make a recorded listing is to make and upload a .wav recording. I am not sure how well this works. I know some girls have had luck with it, though the only time I tried this it didn’t work. And I have heard lots of complaints.

But first, you need to make a recording. So download Audacity and install it. Also download and unzip the Lame Encoder while you’re at it, which you will need to make mp3′s.

You will need a microphone to do this, too, though the one that is built into your computer may be good enough to start.

Open Audacity, hit the red button and start talking.

If you make a mistake, start again with the sentence you flubbed in. You can go back and edit out the error when you are finished. When you are through recording, click the button with the yellow square on it.

Replay what you have recorded. Highlight any mistakes by clicking one end and dragging your mouse across them, then delete.

To save, give the file a name and it will save it as an audacity project. To save as a .wav file, you will need to select Export As .wav. To save as an mp3, you will need to select Export as .mp3. The program will ask you where your Lame Encoder is on your computer. Browse to it and select it. Now fill out the little info form with something, and export.

Now you have a .wav file, which you may be able to upload to Niteflirt as a recorded listing if you are lucky. And you also have an .mp3 of the exact same recording, which is the other kind of recording I was writing about at the top of this entry. If the system was working right, you would be able to attach an mp3 to a payment mail and put the link on your page. As far as I know it is not working right now, so you will have to find another host or put it on your website (if you even sell a few, this will pay for a website).

The original open source callbutton script was written by Mistress V and graciously provided free of charge on her Proflirts website. Since then it has been modified by Hypnotic Guy into a thing of remarkable versatility. However, the original is simpler and may meet the needs of most flirts.

I had heard rumors that there were some changes going on, so I saved the script package for download. I was disappointed to hear this week that the Proflirts site was down. But since I have the script, I can supply it here. I even added a little text file on how to make your button script, which used to be on the Proflirts blog.

Keep in mind that this is not a beginner project. You will need a website of your own, and you will need to be comfortable following instructions to edit files in Notepad, even though you may not understand exactly what it is that you are doing.

Sorry, but the script has been disabled again by code changes on Niteflirt. If I get it fixed I will repost.

Here’s what the listing looked like when we left off.

Just as a refresher, we added a photo here and formatted the text here.

What we’re going to do is add another photo to it, this one over on the right. Then we’ll add a photo that’s centered, and we’ll center the header text.

What we need to do is put the next photo in the second paragraph exactly the same way the first one went in. We take this piece of code

<img src=”http://help4flirts.com/images/portrait2.jpg“>

and insert it right after the header of the second paragraph, changing only the name of the image.

It looks like this, just like the last one did. There’s a photo inline with the beginning of the first sentence.

now we are going to align the photo to the right by adding ‘align=”right”‘ and put a little space between the text and the photo by adding a left margin of 5 pixels to it.
<img src=”http://help4flirts.com/images/portrait2.jpg” align=”right” style=”margin-left:5px”>

Now the photo is on the right side.

To center something, what we do is put <center>and</center> around it.
So if we put those around an image, the code will look like this:

<center><img src=”http://help4flirts.com/images/landscape.jpg”></center>
If we put these around the header text, the code will look like this:

<center><h1>Header</h1></center>

So what we do is put the center tags around both headers. We put center tags around an image we want to use as a header image. We get rid of all those line breaks (<br>), because we won’t be needing them anymore. And here’s what it looks like.

I see this question a lot. The trick is in understanding that Niteflirt has two site search engines. One searches through listing text, and the other searches only flirt names. So if you type a flirtname that is made up of common words into the regular search box, you could get back a list of thousands of listings that contain any of those words. Obviously this situation would not be helpful.

The other is a flirtname-specific search box. If you type the flirt’s name in there, you may come up with a list that has only the listings of the flirt you are looking for, or the list might have hundreds of flirtnames on it. For some reason a long list like this is not sorted so that exact matches come first.

But if you put quotation marks around the name, now you should only get a list of names that contain all the words as the one you are searching for.

The other way to find a flirt is to type their name in the address bar of your browser right after the sitename, like so:



and you are there, whether or not the flirt has listings. If you want to email her, there is a Send Email link on her home page and every listing page, provided she has listings approved. You can’t email members who are not on your customer list until they have listings approved.