Posted on February 20, 2007 by Mike
With all the commotion around me last week, not to mention the 1st anniversary of the Kate Beckinsale series, I completely forgot about our birthday (2/17). We’re 4 years old now. I’m pretty sure this news means nothing and nothing will change, but it does give me an excuse to show this birthday party picture:
Feel free to hum the happy birthday song to us while you look around your place and decide if you really want to yank it to the above picture.
Posted on January 2, 2007 by Mike
So, as you can see above. We (in the royal sense) have settled on a new logo. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Either way, unless someone has something better to throw down, this is going to be it.
With the logo change comes a header change. I know it seems a little white, but I’m still toying with what to put up there behind the navigation.
As always, I’m open to any and all ideas.
Posted on December 27, 2006 by Mike
For a long time now I’ve been searching for a way to tell everyone about little links that I find on the site. The problem is these links usually don’t need much commentary, which makes for a really boring full blown post…so I never did them. However after reading a great post over on Gadgetopia this morning about blogging methods I decided to go for it and throw together an homage to Jason Kottke‘s idea of “Remaindered Links“. Of course, by homage, I mean totally rip off.
How did I do it?
I created another blog in my MovableType installation for the link posts. Then, since I already use a small PHP display engine I wrote to display the front page (no rebuilding that way), I just expanded that engine to give it the ability to show posts from one or both blogs. Its not 100% done, but they do show on the main page now and they all have permalinks. Hopefully this will mean more content on here in 2007 and longer.
Posted on December 17, 2006 by Mike
For those that aren’t following this is a first idea of what might be replacing the logo on the left side of the Hell Yeah Bitch! header graphic and would eventually appear on stickers and whatnot (Read more here.)
Thoughts? Suggestions? Awkward silence?
Posted on December 15, 2006 by Mike
Recently I’ve been in a constant search for a new logo for Hell Yeah Bitch! .com. I like the look of our site, and I like the picture that has the “Hell Yeah Bitch! .com” stamp, but I want a square-ish logo that is suitable for stickers and tshirts and other such things. My first attempt, you can see above is the stamp version of the award winning “Be the Bug” photo that appeared on Nick At Nite. Its a fine logo, and I like that its my face, but I would prefer to have a logo that is a little more abstract but still has the feel of the site (oddly humorous, irreverent…). I love the feel of the laughing squid logo with its very basic design that really stands out. What I’m saying is: I need help.
Here’s what I’m searching for:
- Basic, one or two color design.
- If it can incorporate the full name at the bottom or top that would be sweet.
- Clean design.
- Funny or weird.
Any help would be appreciated and their could be money involved if the design was amazing and it wasn’t too crazy.
For any questions, feel free to email me at mike {asdkljhsdafasdf} hellyeahbitch.com (side note: “{asdkljhsdafasdf}” means “@”).
Posted on December 13, 2006 by Mike
Sorry for the lack of posts lately but I’ve been busy banging my head against my table until something useful came out. I’ve been trying to figure out a good way to give you, my sexy readers, an easy way to discover old posts of the 1000+ that we have floating around in that archives directory. I know its hard to believe, but we do have some decent stuff floating around and its impossible to find it unless you know exactly what you are looking for, and if thats the case I know that you must be a dude because chicks never know what they want! Uh-huh! I’m I right dudes?! High five! (Go ahead hand just hit your palm on any sturdy part of your monitor…that counts.)
First off, I completely rewrote the search. The search has sucked for a long time here and there was no excuse because I’ve written many good searches for all the sites I’ve worked on professionally, so now Hell Yeah Bitch! .com has a good search. Secondly, I added that spiffy new “Top 100 tags” doohicky below the big Google ad that none of you click on. That gets rebuilt once a day and shows…well, I think you know what it shows. Thirdly, I stared at my computer screen for two days while alternating between looking at pictures of chicks sucking on a banana and Dexter episodes.
So now what do I do? I’ve been toying with a section that displays old articles that are related to the articles on the front page, but is that enough? The tough thing is, this is something that no other “blog”-type sites really do. Suggestions? Examples? Praise for my current plan of attack?
Posted on December 3, 2006 by Mike
Who the hell would have thought Hell Yeah Bitch! .com would have banged out 1,000 posts? Sure we (in the royal sense) don’t average four posts a day like some “good” websites, but we kept pounding away and like a super-drunk college guy doing some chick after way too much whiskey, we got the job done and finished. Sure you may not have had much fun, and now you are kinda sore, plus we had to stop and vomit half way through…but we did it. 1,000 posts.
So the question is what do you do to celebrate post 1,000? Immediately, my mind went to one place: Lets invite Rudy Huxtable over! We all know she can party. Sadly she wasn’t available. So the next best thing is to answer a bunch of self-imposed questions.
In the first 1,000 posts on Hell Yeah Bitch! .com the following took place:
Days: 1385 (or 3 years, 9 months and 16 days)
Different Web Hosts: 3
Comments: 678
My Favorite Post: “Are You a Good Person? Candace Cameron Will Give You the Answer”
Seattle Times Mentions: 1
Seattle Times Mentions That Ended Up Not Really Being A Mention At All and Really Pissed You Off: 1
Web Terms Coined: 1
Been Called a Douche Bag: Only twice I think. (1 and 2)
Been Dugg: Twice
Been BoingBoing’ed: Once
Been Gadgetopia’ed: Once
Mobile Blog Readers Created: 1
Distinct Site Design Changes: 5
Number of Confusingly Titled Articles That Have Pictures of Hot Chicks: 41
Odd Post About Someone Beating Up Small Children in Detail: Just this one.
Not too shabby huh? I know its not the exciting spectacle you were hoping for but when David Blaine turns down your idea for him to live in giant fish bowl filled with lime Jello and perched atop my apartment building until he finishes reading every word written for Hell Yeah Bitch! .com over the past 1,000 posts, there’s not much you can scrape together for a Plan B at the last second. Screw you Blaine!
Thanks though for reading. I’ll try to do better with the next 1,000.
Posted on November 29, 2006 by Mike
“Holy crap the right side of the page looks different!”
My anonymous, but quotable friend is right. Today we half-launched a few additions to Hell Yeah Bitch! .com:
For one, we have added a new advertising partner, Busted Tees. The fact that their ads have pretty girls on them didn’t hurt, but they also have some funny tshirts that will look great bunched up on the floor of your bedroom…when you take it off for the night and lay naked in your bed weeping for hours.
For two, we now have a video section! There is still work to be done on it, but I got tired of looking at it by myself, so I unleashed on the world. Whats in there? Basically handpicked stuff worth keeping around with the videos we created. Starting right now, you can leave comments on any of the videos we have up there just like all of the posts. Hopefully I will get a chance to add a bit more to it soon, but for right now, watching a talking about it is all you get. As always, I’m more than open for feature and bug requests. The front page also now shows the 5 most recently viewed videos so you can always keep abreast of what others are watching.
The links to other sites and the RSS feed links have been moved to what I now call “Down Below”. I will be adding more down there…once I think of something else to add down there, so keep checking it out and visiting our friends. They don’t call enough to say hello, but they are still good people. Also don’t be afraid of going down on us, we keep it pretty clean down there.
This next one might be addition by subtraction, but I decided to kill the gravatar pictures, at least on the front page, until we can either find something different or gravatar decided to get faster servers. The load times on the front page have been horrible lately, and gravatar is the only reason. Screw them.
Things to come? The search needs to be reworked. The photo page will be introduced, which will be very much like the video page, and will show all flickr pictures tagged with “hellyeahbitch” so anyone can post to the page quickly and easily. I’m also working on something for the front page, below the Google ads, where we can better highlight older articles. Blogs aren’t great for showing off old things and thats too bad because we actually have some decent articles laying around that anyone new to the site would be missing. Oh and when the additions are done, I’ll try to focus more and really write as much as I can here.
Posted on November 2, 2006 by Mike
I just wanted to highlight a little change / addition I made to the site today. After more than a few requests for this, I have added Previous and Next page links at the bottom of the article stream on the front page. What does that mean exactly? Well if you are little behind, or you are new, or you recently experienced a Dissociative Fuge you can now read the first 10 articles on the site, like you always could, but now you can hit the “Previous page” link and read the 10 articles that came before and so on. Cool huh? Well not really, because tons of crappier sites than ours have been doing this for some time. We’re all evened up now…the world is at peace.
The one thing this means though is now I didn’t feel that the site needed the “What you just missed” anymore. If for some reason any of you liked and miss that section, let me know, but I highly doubt that will happen. Do let me know if you have any other suggestions or bugs or requests for site navigation.
Feel free to scan all the crappy sites you know and let me know what cool things they are doing that we aren’t.
As you were.
Posted on July 21, 2006 by Mike
For the 900th post on Hell Yeah Bitch! .com I wanted to post something memorable…and quick because its 5:00 and I want to go home. I think this picture elegantly solves the problem while meeting both criteria.
Have a good weekend.
Via CollegeHumor
