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~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 18:34:05 Search "Liberation Army" - 5th page (48th, after all the people's liberation armies of uzbekistan, etc.) Search "mac" - I went through the top 700 results, before giving up... Search "Mac Liberation army" - 1st page, 1st 4 results were us, the 9th and 10th were old threads from the MAF! Search "68k mac" - 3rd page (34th) Search "Vintage macs" - unfortunately we're not even in the top 20. Time for some META tags! Search "68k" only - 3rd page (35th) What does this tell us? I reckon we're doing quite well, but we need to get results (preferably on the first page) for likely searches by people. If you'd like to do somthing for the MLA, start by going to a few link/webring type sites and submitting the forums. After all, we are a tight and dedicated bunch who are very willing to help the outsider. Not many questions go unanswered here (except for PPC ones!) and we have a lot of people who are experts in their field! 68KMLA forever! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 19:23:08 I have a link on my site's link page! I 'spose some banners couldn't hurt, though. 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 20:30:11 I could make some banners if I get the time this weekend... (and adding some META tags for phrases relating to the 68k MLA wouldn't hurt...) (and a nice redirect from the main index page to the text only) -------------------- Spellcheck/Grammar Bandit and beholder of: -the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ -the HTML Keyboard of Greater Knowledge™ -Compact Mac Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip™ --------------------
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 21:06:01 How about a META tag with every 68K model; every derivative of vintage, apple and mac; as well as newton, SCSI, NuBus, etc... That should cover everything! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
Kady Mae Junior Member USA 261 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 22:06:38 If you do a search for 68k forums, you're the first hit. 68K's liberated: 0 68Ks adopted to loving homes: 2 PowerMacs adopted: 1
Kady Mae Junior Member USA 261 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 22:10:37 (Couldn't edit my last post) Have y'all thought about writing up a little article about 68k Macs, the army, and the various resources, and submitting it to Low End Mac? 68K's liberated: 0 68Ks adopted to loving homes: 2 PowerMacs adopted: 1
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 27 Feb 2002 : 22:11:16 Woo hoo! How many hits in total? EDIT: Tried it out myself. 1st out of 6740, even listed before AppleFritter! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 09:11:28 I'm trying to get AppleAddict to put a link to us on their site! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 10:06:35 lmao ph33r my Centris 650. Macs liberated: 4-5
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 10:33:13 ??? 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 13:48:10 yeah...how is getting AppleAddict to link to us making you "laugh your ass off ?? -------------------- Spellcheck/Grammar Bandit and beholder of: -the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ -the HTML Keyboard of Greater Knowledge™ -Compact Mac Wand of Power with Shocking Flyback Transformer Tip™ --------------------
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 13:59:43 quote: yeah...how is getting AppleAddict to link to us making you "laugh your ass off ?? ty4thetrans is it considered bad form to post the url to an approproate thread here for further info, in an informative, but brief yeah, that's likely! lmao, response to a question or issue posed by someone on another forum? jt p.s. have you tried the font yet, fw? Edited by - alcoa on 28 Feb 2002 14:02:38
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 17:24:16 Hey, I guess I didn't have to try very hard! Check it out!!! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 17:37:35 Wicked! Anyway, my friend the webmaster is back from South Africa, I'm going to discuss with him a few improvements to the site, like META tags, a counter, etc. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 17:52:44 quote: Wicked! what you said! way to go, cinemo! in one of my posts a while back, i was confirming dimly remembered info while in the middle of writing a reply and the thread i had open in two windows came up as a hit in the google window! it was so strange i remember mentoning it in the post! you guys have really got something started here! congratulations! quote: Anyway, my friend the webmaster is back from South Africa, I'm going to discuss with him a few improvements to the site, like META tags, a counter, etc. any chance for: larger type sizes in general \|size=6\| is a little small for dingbats. the ability to use our own font name and not have to resort to a hack of a font from the list? looks like the only combo workable to display type (graphics) overunning the bounding box is Omniweb under OS X (which wasn't "EXACTLY" the point of the exercise!) the others smoosh the caracter to fit within the point spec. for the text line. maybe it would be easy to limit larger type sizes to fonts that begin with "68kMLA". does the code for our forum need to be a subset of literatureclassic's feature set? jt Edited by - alcoa on 28 Feb 2002 18:04:08
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 17:55:10 The problem is with the limitations of the forums software that we run... I'll see if there's a way to add in our own font, tho. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 18:01:44 Curiously - if you have pages of your own - link to the 68kmla forums and site... it won't take long to appear in search engines if your page is already on there, as mine is. When I was running my pages from the 630, I'd check out any IP's, and about 1/5th were from search engines. Altavista crawled my html pages twice a day, and checked my index.html every 6 hours or so!. Google would pop up as checking my site about twice a week. Having said that - I'd best go stick some -stuff- up about the mla on my site :D dana (but I'm tidying my network atm...)
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 18:13:37 quote: The problem is with the limitations of the forums software that we run... I'll see if there's a way to add in our own font, tho. you guys are so fast, replies were up before i finished editing the post! thanks! is there any decent documentation on our software anywhere online? haven't found too much yet, but that \|/code\| "tag" is killer! (is "tag" the proper nomenclature? anubis described it as such and it felt right to me) i really don't know this stuff, but i might recognize terms and spec interactions/issues that aren't obvious to those more familiar with this kind of programming, but not the technical side of the type issues. jt Edited by - alcoa on 28 Feb 2002 18:15:30
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 18:16:37 http://forum.snitz.com/ That's the official site, anyway... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 18:39:07 quote: http://forum.snitz.com/ That's the official site, anyway... thanks, hadn't found the support forums yet, do you know where basic info might be, most of the posters are programmers who assume familiarity with terms/concepts that i don't have as yet. any help in getting over the hump in the learning curve would be appreciated. like: i haven't seen a definition of the term "avatar" do i need a primer on html for basic info like this? jargon usually has connotations not found in webster's. just point me to the proper line of inquiry, i'm usually a quick study, but narrowing the focus will help me a lot. tia jt
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 18:41:11 www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IiKRq0jzz4QC:www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en A new addition! ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 20:15:08 quote: www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IiKRq0jzz4QC:www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en A new addition! huh?
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 22:35:48 Copy and paste the whole URL into your browser, the problem is the autosensing URL thing thinks it's two different addresses. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 22:45:44 Sorry, try this: www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IiKRq0jzz4QC:www.mkelley.net/+68K+Mac+Liberation+Army&hl=en ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 22:47:55 Argh! Damn thing. OK, since whenever I try to fix it it doesn't work, you must copy and paste the URL starting from 'http://www.google.com...', ignoring the first bit (up to 'target=blank') ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 22:54:01 So, are you in? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 00014 Macs liberated.
alcoa Full Member Albania 543 Posts	Posted - 28 Feb 2002 : 23:03:42 quote: So, are you in? yeah i got in about the time you were typing the instructions telling me how to get in. cool mention, i cleaned out the stupid messages in between. ty jt
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 01 Mar 2002 : 07:50:29 "Tag" is the name for the bits of HTML code that go around the text in a webpage. Since the formatting for the UBB {CODE} command is almost identical, I reffered to it as a tag. An avatar is graphical image representing a person. I believe the word "avatar" originally was a person who acted as a vessel for a god to communicate on the mortal plane, or something to that effect,and the word was picked up when graphical chat came around and people had little images to represent themselves ,avatars, that they used as a vessel to communicate on the digital plane. But don't quote me on that. AnubisTTP 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:15
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 01 Mar 2002 : 13:35:03 quote: yeah...how is getting AppleAddict to link to us making you "laugh your ass off ?? you just don't get it, do you... (Tip: not all replies I make are meant to be understood as linked to the post above my reply...) ph33r my Centris 650. Macs liberated: 4-5

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