It's really not that complicated. We are still not affiliated. In summary:
I/we copied/moved the forums away and now have full control of everything - great.
I left the support sections behind to Andy to do with whatever he wanted - fair.
Andy contacted me to ask about putting the forums back on, to which I agreed based on:
The way you have the new forum seems very neat. Would make sence to put the tekheads section at the bottom? To keep everyone happy? If you could sort me a banner spot im happy to come up with some forum based offers we could link back.
- great!
So what we have is not an affiliation, its just a mutually beneficial agreement. They get a forum section and a banner spot, we get some good deals and more traffic.
We're not responsible for anything Tekheads related (outside of moderating the Tekheads section posts) and they are not responsible for anything forums related.
Anything else being discussed here is really an extension of this in ways that should be aiming at increasing our traffic/popularity/web presence, not specifically associating us with Tekheads.
- Really was all about having some nice control to improve forums more then anything so agreed
- Agreed, that is fair. As I said, I got no problem with it as long as they use it. They never really did before, I felt they were just after the traffic.
I just really want to say that when you look at it "We are still
not affiliated." does not really apply, As a long term user at a glance it already looks like the forums are. A new user would defiantly get that impression.
This is all on the - conversation rather then moan line of tone here folks. I think I am rightly just asking questions....
I think loosing the logo in top right and with new theme and tweaks and once its all looking good introduce the banner adds again to generate some revenue and tekheads can use them just like anyone else
