British Inside

An Englishman living in small town America

ASP/ASP.NET Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup, CLICK HERE!

DiscountASP.NET now offers Windows 2008/IIS7 Web Hosting: CLICK HERE for Info!
  • ASP.NET 2.0 Hosting
  • ASP.NET AJAX Support
  • LINQ & Silverlight Compatible
  • SQL 2005/2000
  • CLICK HERE!

  • End of an era

    OurLittleNet's domains are expiring, and today I notice that www.OurRoswell.net is starting to fail when requested. Only the alternative RoswellGA.ourlittle.net domains will continue to work.

    It's the end of an era.

    The Our Roswell website went live (on it's own) on September 3rd 2002 after a year or so building it in my spare time.

    The screenshot on the right shows how it looked initially (the parent www.ourlittle.net still uses this design)

    At one point there were 40 Site Editors (called Neighborhood Guides early on) and the sites were kicking!

    But Google killed traffic during 2004 when they introduced their duplicate content filters to combat spammers. Our sites share content amongst sites for legitimate reasons (like showing relevant articles on all cities in Atlanta), but you cannot appeal to Google!

    The sites are still ticking over, and new members and content being created every day, but it's a lot slower nowadays and still in need of a makeover and change of identity.

    As you know, the code became Dozing Dogs and that was my main focus for a couple of years, and now I work for Telligent and my focus has changed again to adding CMS into Community Server.

    I still look back fondly at the early days of OLN though... here are some images from way back in the archives.

        

    ASP.NET 3.5 Web Hosting: 3 Months FREE + FREE Setup - CLICK HERE!

    Posted: Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:15 AM by James

    Comments

    No Comments

    New Comments to this post are disabled