Ads -
There are a few other sites, which, like franksemails.com, post up humorous pics/videos/links etc. The only problem with just about
all of these is that they have bukkake shots right from the moment you open the page.
While this is great, it's not really appropriate for the workplace. franksemails.com instead has a great shot
of me the moment you open the page. I'm not gonna post porn ads on my website, if I do advertise something, it'll most likely
be plugging something for a friend or another website that I run (e.g.: speedcameraskill.com), or perhaps another website that I like.
If that site so happens to have an affiliate program, good for me, I'll get money to pay for franksemails.com. But no, I'm not going to
cover my website in crap ads for stuff that I don't like just to pay for hosting my site. Maybe i'll do google or yahoo ads or something similar (i.e.: text ads) one day.
Speed cameras kill?! Yeah right, here's how you avoid speeding tickets buddy - don't speed! -
A few years back I emailed a list of Melbourne speed camera sites to my work colleagues and got a smart ass response from a know it all secretary who said pretty much the same thing as
above. What a freakin genius she was. Later that night, I dreamt that I had her in a head-lock as I kept smacking her in the face - boy, did I wake up with a boner.
The problem with speed cameras is not that they catch you going over the speed limit, it's that they instill fear and paranoia of getting a speeding ticket, so
much so that you spend more time watching the speedo than what you normally would if there were no speed cameras. They are a mass distraction. Check out speedcameraskill.com
for more details.
It looks crap -
There's a web site that also provided some inspiration for franksemails.com, and that site is
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.com. Apart from being funny, I found the site easy to read because it's so easy on the eye.
Maddox is right - "your monitor is not a piece of paper, no matter how hard you try to make it one".
Check out http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=faq.
I had a website back in my uni days as well, and that pretty much looked like what franksemails.com does today anyway - boring black background with plain text.
My html skills haven't really progressed since then. Nah, what am I saying? I'm just lazy - seriously, it looks crap because I'm lazy.
How much did Maddox inspire you? -
So much so that I pretty much ripped off the look and feel of his website, and I also like to use the word 'awesome' just like him.
What do you use to make your site? -
Most of the stuff done on my website has been created with, believe it or not, Windows Notepad (check out: www.notepad.org).
I occasionally use MS Paint to create/modify pics as well. Have a look at
http://franksemails.com/hoffsection1.html). All the pictures that I made there were done in MS Paint.
Do you ever get any work done? -
Not everything gets done in notepad (sometimes I even use vi... ughhh...). I've written a small app which updates the html every time I add something new, which makes it quick and easy for me to post a link. So, yes, I do get work done :)
What do you do for a living? -
I work as a software developer for a small software firm in Melbourne, Australia. I used to do a lot of C++, but now it's mostly C#.
I also do a lot of stuff in SQL Server.
Contributors -
These are the people I know personally who contribute to franksemails.com. In no particular order: Sheeds, Ranil, Kelli, Melinda, Randy, Waz, Greg, Phil, Pags, Makara, Catherine Smith (try looking her up in the White Pages :).
These are people who I don't know personally, but have become regular visitors of this site and also contribute
on a regualar basis. In no particular order: Chris (UK), Jon (UK), Guenter (Austria), Nicola (UK i think?), Teresa (UK), Angie (France), Kelly (Guam), Nichole (Australia).