filiz, February 4, 2006 11:39:04 AM CET
NAME FOR THE NEW SHORTS-/COMMERCIALS-ANTVILLE BLOG ?

Hi Antvilleans,

Preparations are running for the new Antville-related
Shorts-/Commercials-Blog. Now the upcoming site needs a name...
Any suggestions?

These came to my mind:
adsandshorts.antville.org
shortsandads.antville.org
adsnshorts.antville.org
shorts.antville.org

         
shorts.antville.org
         
wait a sec: i thought .antville.org subdomains weren't possible anymore!? (aren't you talking to the typolis folks?)
         
Ok, I`ll check that with the .antville.org subdomains. We were talking mainly about technical stuff...
Thanks for the hint, Progosk.
         
definitely shorts.antville.org
         
I agree - shorts.antville.org
         
now it´s clear:
it will run with the same antville-software as this site and
typolis.net will be the prefix, so it could be for example
typolis.net/shorts.

any other suggestions than 'shorts' ?
         
shads? advorts? shantville? shortsandabs?
         
shortandsweet. ?

(that domain is kind of unfortunate... what'll it be: teepolis, taipolis...? you'd do well to find something that overcomes the naming handicap...)
         
shortville.org
         
just to make it clear: all suggestions should have the format:

suggestion.typolis.net

those last two bits are obligatory, i gather.

(filiz: typolis.net/suggestion is just an alternative notation. videos.antville.org is also alternatively antville.org/videos - but you'd never want to call it that, would you...?)

funtoo: shortville ain't half bad.
         
progosk: of course in your recommended order, if it´s the same subdomain (suggestion.typolis.net).
uh, today i learned some internet-notation-basics...

other names could be:
spots.typolis.net
spotsville.typolis.net
         
would it have to be shortville or shortsville?
dunno ...

subdomains: if you'd rather want something like shortandsweet.org etc you can get that & have it point at shorts.typolis.net, thats no problem (you have to change the MX-records or sth, or your provider can do that for you, it's not difficult)
         
I was thinking

shortsville, someone metioned shortville i see now.
bitsville
spotsville
post_here_when_you_think_of_posting_a_commercial_or_short_at_antville_ville
umm..
miniclip
mediaspot
clipspot
30/60spots
promoville
FAVbits (film, animation and Video =FAV)
Ad_Clips_bits&shorts

before i checked the comments, i thought shortsville as my first reaction to the post, i tend to think first reactions are the best when it comes to nameing something that is catchy or needs to be remebered.
         
films.antville.org

very simple...
         
i digg shorts.antville.org or films.antville.org.
         
erm... od&forg: NOT .antville.org. (read previous comments)

so far i'd guess your best bet is to go with shortsville, and to avoid referrring to the whole url (the way a lot of blogs don't mention the blogspot.com (or whatever) part at all).

otherwise go for the pointing-to thing. www.shortsville.org (also .net, but not .com) looks available.
         
would love to see this new blog on antville ... films.antville.org or shorts.antville.org would be perfect.
         
Antville just got a favicon! Neato - Kris & Filiz are busy - I hear the shorts blog is almost ready for use. favicon included.

kris: no italics on the favicons? doesn't turn out good?
         
i definitely second kev on the italics, plus: though i know it's ontologically incorrect, shouldn't it be: s for shortsville, v for videoville and... a for antville...? c'mon kris, the other anters ain't gonna sue...
         
i'm the only anter left at the moment. the others got bored with it. but i'm bored with life tonight, so i'm doing a couple of tiny improvement. check out the "new story" form!
         
i just uploaded a new favicon (italic a). delete your cache to see it.
         
thanx for the icon ;-)
yes, it s the little things that make life worthwhile.
         
kris can you make a 'v' for me? Or, better, tell me how to make one? For the life of me I can't figure it out. Any pointers are top :)
         
k, you've got mail...
         
www.photoshopsupport.com
         
Thanks for that, p & c-marc. Yer da illest.
         
ok, favicon done. let me know if you don't see it on videoville, even after clearing your cache etc
         
i think we should call him jeffrey.
         
erm... k, in firefox i see an oversize v, in safari i don't see nuthin'.
         
i personally prefer the bigger letters.
         
Same here, what's with the small? I think mine's not working in some browsers (and Firefox tabs) because of the color indexing. I'll work on it more.. I'm a faviconovice.. favinovice
         
the small's because in a given graphical space, in order to register as lower case, you need to avoid filling the whole space. the s is particularly subject to this (it immediately looks upper case) while the a (would) and the v (does) just look a little... pumped. (plus: a touch of understatement never hurts...) (ref.: boingboing, kottke, flickr, alexa; counter ref: vimeo)

(if it'd been up to me i would actually have gone for round rather than square fav's. no idea why...)

regarding browsers: fellow safari users beware: favicons are a DISASTER for us (you need to check macosxhints for a solution, and even then...). believe it or not i've currently abandoned ship for the irritation; and firefox on mac does v, a and s just fine, in tabs an anywhere else...
         
Hm, the tabs work in Firefox/PC, but my Firefox/Mac wasn't showin'..

I like them large because the letters show better, imho. I'll look at the v small tonight and see what I think.. Overall I'll defer to whatever the standard becomes. I'm pushing for large though.
         
outage over at videoville...?
         
she's been flickerin', give her some time
         
still dead as a doormouse...