I finally finished HomeTheaterForum.com and got it up a few days ago, glad this one is complete and off my plate. There are a lot of other projects that have to be finished soon, about 3 more this week. I will post updates along with a few other posts later. A small preview of hometheaterforum is below.
Now that the project is wrapped up, I can post my personal opinions on HTF. The site is great, they have great content and two great owners. Parker and Ronald are two nice guys for sure. I really think that if they allowed me to create them a new logo and drop some of the ads to clean it up quite a bit and make it more simple and user friendly it would have turned out much better. Overall I like the design, and it is a great improvement from what it once was. I really think that they should look in to getting some new servers soon.
Relivo is coming along great, business is coming in on a steady rate, I am just trying to get caught up on a few projects. There have been some funny things posted about Relivo on a few sites around the net, looks like competitors and fakes are up to their old tricks again.
Please if you get any emails from anyone regarding Relivo or from someone claiming to be from Relivo disregard them. Before replying verify it is an @relivo.com email address.
Look for some more blog changes and sport posts over the next couple of days. I really want to find an interactive way to implement project updates on my blog, I think that would be pretty cool. If you have any ideas email me or call.
Take it easy,
Kolby Bothe
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I have been pretty busy this week, trying to wrap up a lot of projects that I really need to get off my plate. There are a total of four projects that I plan on completing this week starting from tomorrow to Sunday. That will be about 14 hours of work a day so I better get some sleep tonight.
Earlier this week I have been quite busy upgrading DNForum.com as most of you know I am an Admin there and spend quite a bit of time working on that forum keeping it up to date and what not. Monday we switched the site to the new servers, the speed seems great and overall it is a great improvement, everyone in the community is pleased with the change, so all of us are quite happy. Go check out the forum, sign up!
I have also been doing some work on Alex’s site LapBandTalk.com, quite pleased with the SEO results on that one, type in “Lap band” in Google and you will see what I mean. This week I have been upgrading that site and also optimizing AdSense on that as well. Things are looking pretty good!
There are about three more projects that I will be completing this week as well, I can’t mention the name of them because all of them are very large forums and I am under NDA with all of them. Once the work is completed though I will be sure to post some of the links for everyone to check out, I just can’t disclose that these sites are being “worked on” at the time.
I also added a new wordpress theme today, I think this one is pretty nice and I customized it a bit to make it a bit more personal, I will be adding a lot of other cool things as well to it.
I have a long day tomorrow so I need to stop posting this, I have to make a post on my Cowboys right now anyways.
Take it easy,
Kolby Bothe
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It is safe to say that AVSForum.com is fully launched, up and functional. Saturday me and David seriously stayed online from about 7:00AM until about 9:00 or so that night. I must say I woke up a bit late and David scared the hell out of me when he called me so I knew I screwed that up. Anyways, other than that it was just a long process of fixing things we didn’t really see in the beta version when we were working on it.
Overall I think the project was a great success, right now the server loads are a bit high but we are working on trying to get some speed performance mods going on so that they will drop. Besides that, I think most of the users like it, although it is hard to please nearly 500,000 members.
AVSForum.com is really a great forum so go check out the design work and final version! A before and after picture is below but be sure to check out the site!
Before
After
As you can see the forum changed quite a bit! It went a totally different direction with the color scheme (In my opinion thank God) and I think it turned out really well. Although a lot of people on the forum think that the old color scheme would be better, you can’t blame them though its hard to adjust to change!
Have a good one,
Kolby Bothe
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I am going to start becoming active on my blog in the next 3 days, that is the reason I finally added a new cool wordpress theme. I will be doing a few modifications to it to try and make it better and flow well. Over the next few days look for a lot of updates and what not.
Currently I am very busy with a lot of custom work I have going on, there are about 5 projects on my plate and hopefully 3 will be knocked out in the next 5 - 7 days, so that will help. I really need a Vacation…hopefully I will be heading to Cancun soon with my dad and bro.
Once the projects are completed I will be sure to link them and update the portfolio on Relivo.com The forums that are about to be finished aren’t any startup or new forums, these are forums that get an insane amount of traffic! With my work and techniques being put in to place these forums revenue will probably spike 40% - 75% over the next 6 months with AdSense and other ways of monetization.
Anyways, that was just a little update on me!
Kolby Bothe
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