[Theforum] Affiliate Hosting Site Review #1

Dean Mah dmah at members.evolt.org
Mon Sep 9 16:51:49 CDT 2002


On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:07:33PM -0400, Ron Dorman wrote:

> >>The site is not pretty yet . . .  [snipped by Ron D.]
> >
> >
> >I think the evolt affiliate site should carry the evolt look  and feel
> >as well, but that's just me....
>
> Dean and Elfur concurred that evolt.org look and feel might be the way
> to go.
>
> The initial discussions were to keep it seperate from evolt.org, so I
> looked for options.   I talked to my brother about evolt.org and he
> became interested and wanted to help.  He had the ez-profits.com domain
> registered and doing nothing, so we used it to build the site.  The site
> is only raw templates for delivery of content and processing of orders
> but we had to get a start with something.
>
> Should we make the affiliate program a sub-domain of evolt.org?  Do we
> want a new domain?  A sub-domain of csi1st.net?(the actual hosting
> domain/company)  Other ideas?


Okay, I was confused.  I thought that the site ez-profits.com site was
an existing hosting company and that we would get a page on the site
explaining the affliate program.  I hadn't realized that the site was
create specifically for the affliate program.

In general, I think that the domain name of the company participating
in the affliate program should still be visible.  I don't think that
they should need to give us a sub-domain but can if they are willing.
I think that the page which we send to our members should be easily
identifiable as an evolt.org page, whether that means the same look
and feel or just the evolt.org logo displayed depends on the design.

That said, I would drop the ez-profits.com name and use the name of
the actual hosting company.  I'd want to be able to remove the
evolt.org part of the URL and easily get to real information on the
underlying host.

Dean



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