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March 9th, 2010 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks, html help
Many girls are now using Photohostess to host their images for Niteflirt. Unfortunately, although photohostess is intended to host photos for girls on Niteflirt and provide them with links to use, it does not provide you with Niteflirt-safe image code or the information you need to fix the links to make them work but keep them from getting your listing suspended.
In my last entry I gave instructions on how to clean up Photohostess links by editing them. That is no longer necessary. I have created a page that you can enter your image url, which will give you a working image link to copy.
There is also a second form which will generate a working link. So you can use it to create HTML code for payment mail buttons, image links to your blog, or whatever you want.
There is a third form you can use to create text links.
You must enter naked links with no tags. There should be no spaces in your links. If you miscopy, it will create HTML code for you that just won’t work. If you are making payment mail buttons, copy the plain HTML link from the window that comes up after you create or edit your payment mail button, not the popup that links from the payment mail index and provides you with a gray payment mail button code.
These are standard links. They will work with any text or image anywhere you need an HTML image or link code on the web. They will not modify your image size for you.
Photohostess link generator
February 16th, 2010 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks
I’m not going to take credit for figuring this out, as I saw someone doing it this morning.
Upload your photo as a profile thumbnail. When the listing is saved, click on the thumbnail to enlarge it in a popup. Right-click to copy the url. Put it in an excel file or text file somewhere safe, so you don’t lose the link. Now put it in a regular image tag:
<img src=”http://i.niteflirt.com…etc.”>
Even if you change the thumbnail, the image will stay hosted. Wasn’t that easy?
January 14th, 2010 — Color stuff, Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks, backgrounds
Put this code at the top of your listing, substituting a named color or a hex code color (also found on the same charts). You can pick an unnamed hex code color using a free color picker.
<body border=”0″style=”background-color:black;”>
Leave the spacing exactly as it is.
December 2nd, 2009 — Callbuttons, Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks, tutorials
Unless you are using the old pre-transition callbuttons (which stopped working but then later became active again), your flirt-installed callbuttons do not change status when you change status. Code for those callbuttons is no longer distributed.
The link to callbutton code on your My Account page no longer is present. The link on our listings has not been coded, and if you click it the page ends up being refreshed. The only way to get current callbutton codes for your listings is to open a listing as if to edit it, submit twice without editing (unless you need to edit, of course), then click the link on the page that also has links to your account and help in getting started.
A callbutton whose code is obtained in this way while you were available is static code. It will always be set to available, though customers cannot complete a call by clicking it when you are unavailable. It will not send mail when you are Away.
I got this button while I was available:
<a href=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/calls/new?listing_id=5734291″ title=”Yes – Taking Calls”><img alt=”D5_cb-call-now-136×40_v5″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-call-now-136×40_V5.gif” width=”136″ /></a>
A callbutton whose code was obtained while you were away is also static code. It is supposed to send mail, and cannot change to “taking calls”. But the server is left off the code, so it refers back to your own server, and actually can never do anything if you place it anywhere but on your Niteflirt page. And why would you need to do that? There already is a ’send mail’ option on your pages.
I got this code while I was set to ‘Away’:
<a href=”/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano”><img alt=”D5_cb-mail-away-136×40_v4″ border=”0″ height=”40″ src=”http://beta.niteflirt.com/niteflirt/images/D5_cb-mail-away-136×40_V4.gif” width=”136″ /></a>
If someone were to try to click it to send me mail, the address it would try to send mail to is http://help4flirts.com/messages/compose?message%5Blisting_id%5D=5734291&message%5Brecipients_list%5D=Principal+Angela+Quattrano, which is definitely not a real email address.
With the pre-transition codes, both the image and your availability are controlled by the Niteflirt server, not by the button. So the image changes when your availability changes, as does what happens when the button is clicked.
This pre-transition callbutton displays my correct availability status:
<a href='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/PT_interimcall.asp?sid=XXXXXXX'><img border=0 src='http://www.niteflirt.com/calls/callimage.asp?sid=XXXXXXX&ImageType=1'></a>
I have changed the listing SID number to a series of x’s. Just substitute your listing SID number (found in the url of your listing).
November 17th, 2009 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks
First, you have to know how to use a stylesheet to format an HTML page in at least a general way. I can’t get into that here.
Put the link at the top of your listing edit textarea.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://stylesheeturl">
The reason why the <h1> tag doesn’t work anymore is because Niteflirt has commandeered it in its stylesheet and assigned it to be gray 7 pixel. The only way to reassign it in a stylesheet is to take advantage of the fact that your entire listing is within a table cell with the class of “user”. The best way to change that default is to take advantage of that class:
.user h1 {
color:black;
font-weight:bold;
size: 1.5em;
font-family:georgia,garamond;
text-align: center;
}
This will produce a heading that is big, black, bold, centered, and has the font I have chosen.
You really need to work with the “user” class, your own classes, or your own id’s within your listing, or you can seriously break the page by changing global defaults.
September 23rd, 2009 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks
Some of us were using Call manager scripts to log us in and out of our multiple accounts when we got calls. Well, they don’t work anymore.
Heck, you can’t even see your callbuttons change anymore. If you have multiple accounts and add one callbutton from each to your favorites of one of the accounts (pick the slowest) then you can see all your accounts at the same time and hopefully tell which one is busy.
This script should open up your favorites in an iframe that refreshes every 60 seconds. Save it as an html file and open it in a browser File=>Open.
I wrote a little script to help girls log in and out quicker, now that the old ones no longer work.
Download the text file, open it in Notepad, and edit it so you replace the dummy accounts in “Account #1″, “Account #2″, etc, and the dummy passwords, “Password #1″, etc, with your own.
Do not use a word processor. If you have a Mac, you will need to download a free text editor. Get one that sounds like it’s intended for coders who are typing code. Make sure it is not a word processor.
Save on your computer as an .html file and open it in a browser. Bookmark it in your Bookmarks toolbar folder, so you can open it at a click.
If you click the logout buttons while you are in a browser window where you are logged into a Niteflirt account, it will log you out and change your availability status.
I have disabled the login feature so garbage doesn’t get submitted.
Demo
Text file
If you can’t get this to work, I can customize it for you for $5, but I think you can get it to work. It’s simpler than you think.
September 22nd, 2009 — Niteflirt issues, Tips and tricks, tutorials
In fact, the upgrade has made it simple to view older payment mail buttons, even though they still haven’t gotten round to putting a link to page 2 (or even older ones) and there are only 25 buttons showing, half of which are phantom duplicates.
Login to your Niteflirt account to follow along. All the screenshots of listings are linked to the actual page. Screenshots of payment mail button pages are linked to a URL that will only show the account you are logged into.
Here’s the secret:
If you click on the new Niteflirt homepage and look at the url, it looks like this:
So now click on the link to Find Women, and the URL looks like this:
Now click to the next page. Wait, what?
And now the next:
Do you suppose that if you changed that ‘3′ to a ‘4′ it would take you to the next page? Try it and see. (If you’re lazy and just want to guess “yes”, you’d be right.)
Now the whole site is written on the same platform, the same code, which is completely different from the previous type of code.
Let’s look at the URL for page 1 of our payment mail buttons.
There’s no link to page 2 here. There’s not even any indication that page 2 exists. In fact, 12 of the 25 buttons showing are dummy duplicates of other buttons, so you’re really only seeing 13 buttons.
Let’s fake up that URL and see what happens.
Some of you ran out of payment mail button space on Page 1 long ago, even though there were maybe 200 buttons on each page. Now there are only 25 buttons, and half of them are fakes. But here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to give you links to the first 50 pages. You can take it from there.
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July 1st, 2009 — Free!, Tips and tricks
Do you have multiple accounts on Niteflirt that you don’t always keep open? See at a glance which accounts have mail. The script will run on your computer, no upload or website needed. It refreshes every 5 minutes. You will need to put your account names and UID in the script to make it work. Instructions are in the script. It looks like this:
(I removed the link because this no longer works with changes to the Niteflirt mail system.)
June 11th, 2009 — Free!, Tips and tricks
I made a video clip using a camera. I liked the background sound, but I wasn’t going to be able to get my computer to the location where I would be able to record it again. But I was able to find a free audio extractor that will snag the sound track from a video in most common formats and save it as an mp3, wav, etc. It’s super easy to use.
November 2nd, 2008 — Security info, Tips and tricks, Webmastering
Hotlinking is when somebody uses an image that isn’t theirs in another page by linking directly to the image url.
It’s a form of stealing. They don’t have the right to use that image, as it belongs to somebody else. But they are also “stealing bandwidth”. When an image loads, the domain that is hosting it pays for the bandwidth out of their bandwidth limit. If people are visiting your site and seeing your image when they look at your page, then it is worth it to you. But if somebody else puts your image on display elsewhere without telling you, and it loads a lot, you can end up having to pay a big premium or get shut down by your host for exceeding their bandwidth limits.
The only way to find this out is to look at your server records. If you see a lot of hits from some site you don’t have a link on, and the page you have loading is actually an image, you’ve probably found a hotlinker.
One girl found a hotlinker this way. Some meathead had found a full-size image on her site of two girls kissing and was using it as his avatar in an Irish soccer forum. Many forums will upload an image off the web and resize it. This one just resized the image using height and width tags. So the full image was loading for every forum post he wrote, for every viewer who looked at any page he had a post on.
I think a couple of us joined the forum and posted that he did not have the right to do this. He was pretty arrogant about it. And this guy was a moderator! So she changed the name of the photo on her server and replaced it with an advertisement. I sent an email to the admin, who sent me back an apology. I guess there was going to be an email going out to forum members on that.
So first, the image must be hosted on your server so you have control of image names. This won’t work with any other image hosting, as they generate unique image names that you can’t change.
Here’s an image somebody might be using as a background:
Upload a new image you have chosen specially for the thieves. Change the link on your own webpage and rename the original image to match it. Now change the name of the special image, and your chosen image will appear on the site where the hotlink appears.
Like this:
The fun part is that you can put anything you want in there. Somebody who right-clicked your image url to use it may very well not have used height and width tags on that image. So you could substitute a gigantic image for a small one.
Like this:
If the original image is a .gif rather than a .jpg image, you can substitute an animation, which can really get the attention of viewers.
Like this:
Here’s a link to a blog post where the writer got tired of people stealing his content. For him, the issue was not images, but text that other people were stealing. What he did was make a tiny clear .gif image and include it in the code. It did not show, so if somebody stole his text and didn’t realize they were getting an image, they might end up unwittingly hotlinking to it.
Most content thieves don’t do that, but eventually one did. It’s pretty funny when they do. All the author had to do was switch out the tiny, transparent image for one that got his message across.
If you catch someone like this and pull this switcheroo, make sure you take a screenshot so you can show everyone. And if you substitute an animated one, try to get a video screen capture.
