Brian Vaughan

Opening of a New Site

Posted by Brian

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Today, I have officially got InMovieReviews.com up and running. There is still not a lot of content on the site, but I already have 6 scheduled posts over the next week setup and ready to go.

What can you expect from In Movie Reviews? Movie reviews, trailers, news, as well as upcoming theater and DVD releases. I love movies, love reading out them, writing about them, and of course watching them. I am hoping to take this site far, and maybe one day even start getting exclusive movie clips and interviews with directors and actors. Now that would be a great day for me and my users on the site.

Also In Movie Reviews is currently seeking additional movie reviewers, If you are interested in being a “guest reviewer” just let me know, and we might be able to work something out that works in both of our interests.

Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.

Another Update about PurePimps.com

Posted by Brian

Doesn’t it feel like I just wrote a post about this not long ago? While oh my look at that I did. Oh well here is another one anyways. So as I was saying earlier about me having a backup, I got it work, completely. So now it is back up and “running”.

The first test round will be starting in a little while to make sure that part of the script is working as it should be. I tested it out briefly before making the test “live” so hopefully there shouldn’t be a problem and within the next week or two we can really go live. Once going live, I plan on starting to advertise the site heavily to get more players on the site, and bring it back to the glory it once had.

So feel free to come on over to PurePimps.com and give it a try while in the testing phase, stick around and you could even win some prizes once we get totally up and running on all cylinders.

Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.

PurePimps Progress

Posted by Brian

Update on the progress of getting PurePimps.com back up and into running order. Well simply put, its going slow than what I would like, I have been unable to get a backup of the site. So I searched my computer thinking I may have an update I did, I found a few files, seem to be VERY old. They seem like they would work, except for the signup.php script, it just keeps reloading step1 when clicking “I agree” instead of going on to step2 like it should. I have posted the page asking for help so hopefully somebody will be able to help me out with it.

The code for the script is very sloppy and very confusing, it would probably be worth my while buying a new script for the site, or finding someone to custom code me a site with the features that I want. Sounds great doesn’t it? Only problem with that is I simply don’t have the money to guy out and buy a new copy of the script or have one custom coded for my needs. PurePimps was on of the original pimping sites on the net, so I am unable to go to were the script was originally gotten from because you can’t get them from him anymore. I am still holding out hope that Scott comes through and can get be a backup. Even If I do get a backup I am going to wipe the database and start fresh, new era and new beginnings for all of us at PurePimps.

I’ve been brainstorming on ways of raising the money to get someone to custom code me a script, and so far I have to say not much success. A few of the hardcore members of the site would probably be willing to donate to the purchase of a script or getting a new one coded from the ground up. That might be worth exploring but I don’t want to ask for money and still not be able to deliver the goods. That has happened a few times in the past with PurePimps, promised updates, restarts, new features and they simply never came. I don’t want to start off on that foot again.

Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.

Starting Again

Posted by Brian

Why did I start this blog? Well several reason I guess.. I wanted a place to document my success and my failures with MTF, ArcadeDog, and my other websites that I have yet to announce on this site. But there are other reasons as well, I thought this would be a way for me to stay motivated with the sites as well if I made a habit of posting once every few days (or every day would be great as well). I want my sites to be successful I am just afraid that I can’t get them to the level I want them to get to by myself. Do I care if people read this? No, not really if people do great they can come along for the ride, and maybe learn something along the way once I learn some stuff.

I need to once again start promoting MTF, I still have great hopes for the site. I just need to show it the love that it deserves. I think it can and will do great, it was doing wonderful before especially for a site that just started up. I need to get it back up to that level once again, and then beyond. When I first started MTF I was very excited and couldn’t wait to work on it, post on it, promote it. But now.. I just don’t know why I don’t have that same fire. I love the topic, very interested in the topic but just haven’t had the fire in me to go out and do those things lately. I need to get it back, and I need to get it back fast.

In other news, there is a new site of mine, well not really new, but new for me to be sole owner. PurePimps a site that I was one of the original members, then eventually became an admin on, is now mine. I was given the domain earlier today, and he is looking for the files now for me. I loved that site, and I want to get it set back up and going strong again for the hundreds (at one time thousands) of people that loved playing on that site. Just hope I haven’t bit off more than I can chew taking on yet another project at this time, when I can’t even give my current ones the attention that they need.

Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.

New Year, New Plans, New Hopes

Posted by Brian

Well though this isn’t technically the start of the new year, in fact it is almost a month over now. I thought I would start a developers blog to post about the sites I own and operate. First and foremost most of my sites are very small, and not very good. Over this year I hope to change that, and plan on focusing most of my efforts on one site, or one network of sites all focusing on “TalkFest”.

My newest site, and hopefully my biggest site ever MTF is a discussion board talking about movies, hollywood, and actors/actresses. I hope to get this site to a few thousand members before the end of the 2007. Do I think this site will be a huge success? Well not really, but I am holding out hope that it will be. I will be spending most of my free time promoting it, and trying to build it up into a great website. I hope to turn it into a mini IMDB. Now I know I can’t compete with them, as it is huge and a great resource, I just want to have something similar with a good user base to create a tight knit community with. Hopefully there will be a few cornerstones of the community that are very close, but I still have to have it inviting enough for the new user to feel right at home at MTF.

I already have my next site in the network planned out TVTF (http://tvtalkfest.com). I have already purchased the domain name for it, I am just waiting for MTF to get built up a little bit first before launching it. My plans for it are very similar as my plans for MTF, I want to turn TVTF into the next TVGuide.com. I am going to try and compete directly with them, I know that sounds foolish as they are a huge site and a good resource, but I simply don’t like the why it does things. So I hope to take it to the next level and be big player in the TV realm.

My plans are to use the same database for MTF, TVTF and future TF’s down the line. It will be a challenge to find a way to do this effectively, especially as the sites get bigger and bigger. I am using the forum software vBulletin, which in my opinion is the best forum/community software out on the market today. The only downside to using vB is the fact the licenses for it could get expensive as the network grows. Though I think the only license that will be hard to pull off is the license for TVTF since that is the second one. The others should come more easy as the network should be getting a fair amount of revenue coming in to pay all hosting bills and all licenses needed.

I have big hopes and dreams for this network of sites. I want to see them succeed and thrive for years to come. I will try to keep this blog updated with the newest news of the Talk Fest network, all my other sites, and other things that I find important. This will be my outlet to the world of my progress, my success, and my failures. I just hope there are more successes than failures.

Do you like this post? Want to see me get drunk? Buy me a beer.