About this site
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Created by Bart Adrian (aka "disdain") to provide an open creative community for artwork that occupies the "darker end of the spectrum", disdeinen.net has been online since November of 2004.
One of the early features of the site was Disdeinen Radio, which was taken offline after two years due to changing copyright rules for online broadcasters.
Since it's inception, disdeinen.net has undergone a constant evolution, largely in response to member feedback. Initially conceived as an online "gallery space" focusing primarily on visual art, the site now features writing, music, and more general announcement/news items.
During the spring of 2006 a major revision to the site structure was completed, the goal of which was to emphasize content over categories. The site continues to evolve, with new features being added several times a year.
Contact Us
Contact us at webmaster@disdeinen.net.
Advertising
If you would like to purchase advertising on disdeinen.net, we can place a dedicated banner on each page -- see rate and format information below. Please contact us to arrange for a purchase.Rates (we accept PayPal payment ONLY):
- $10 per week, 2 weeks minimum
- $20 per 1000 impressions
- $60 per 5000 impressions
- you will be billed through PayPal (a PayPal account is NOT required)
- payment is due in advance
- all banners are subject to approval
- banners must be 468x60 or 120x600 pixels
- maximum file size is 20KB
- must be in GIF, JPG, or PNG format
- we will not accept banners for sites deemed pornographic or hate-related
- we must host your banner on our server
- we reserve the right to remove banners if they are deemed objectionable
- we do not guarantee banner click-through or conversion rates
Banner Exchange
We are happy to exchange banners with sites that are of interest to the Gothic community -- please visit our banner page for more information.
Site Updates
March 2009: Disdeinen.net has moved to a new server and hosting provider -- check out those page-load speeds!
September 15, 2008: Some back-end bug fixes and cleanups completed.
August 30, 2008: An update to the site URL engine has been completed -- "friendly" URL's are now generated for each page. Meta tag information is now generated from site content where appropriate, and a dedicated "banners" page has been created. A site map is now dynamically created, and weekly archives have been set up.
August 28, 2008: Minor layout adjustments, and a new (custom) 404 page has been added.
August 26, 2008: Some minor banner code updates, and a few layout tweaks.
August 24, 2008: Minor code changes to some of the site blocks, and a few CSS tweaks as well. The "read more" links for articles have been made more prominent. An issue with the outgoing automated email system was discovered and corrected -- this unfortunately prevented pending membership requests from being seen and processed... all legitimate accounts have now been activated (sorry for the delay!)
August 23, 2008: The Links section has been rewritten, and content has been split up into broad categories. 'About this site' has been re-designed and renamed to 'about/contact'.
August 22, 2008: A major change to the site layout engine was completed -- the site is now running on a pure PHP back-end. Page load times should be improved, and the new structure will make future page layout changes easier.
August 20, 2008: Changes to the image galleries were completed -- this includes the addition of forward/back buttons with thumbnail preview.
August 18, 2008: New banner modules have been added, as well as Google AdSense. A revision to the user-submitted links section has begun, although this may take some time to complete.
August 17, 2008: update log started.
