Hello everyone!

It’s been a number of months since I last posted but I’ve been extremely busy getting our 1st site ready for launch. As I’m sure many of you already know, it was wayyyyy more work than ever anticipated! We finally incorporated our company in the middle of December after months and months going back and forth with the corporate lawyer. We also got everything worked out with our entertainment lawyer regarding contracts, 2257, etc. He’s now about to give our website its final audit before we open the doors to the public. We shot our 1st video at the end of December and finished our last shoot about 3 weeks ago. The venture will be almost 2 years in the making!

I’ve learned so much in every aspect of production, web design (what the heck is css anyway), server maintenance, legal b.s., etc. Now comes the hard work :s Building traffic! I pretty much have no clue what I’m doing but that’s never stopped me before. I’ve purchased Blogs Organizer and registered a number of domains that I’m going to start building blogs for. I’m also going to find a good generic domain which I can have many, many sub domains on each with their own unique blog/angle.

I’m inviting everyone to have a look and if you can spare a moment, respond with your feedback. Good, bad, questions, I would be grateful for anything. This is my 1st serious web design (I’ve made probably 4 or 5 in my lifetime) and there are number of aspects I had (have) no clue how to do. The site was designed mostly in Dreamweaver with a little bit of hand coding. I installed Wowza flash streaming server and I’m currently using JW Player. I’m in talks with another webmaster to purchase his technology which would replace the JW Player with a custom one. This custom player displays the user’s name and pass discreetly superimposed over the video. That way if someone tries to do a screen capture to grab the videos and upload them to tube sites, the geo-ip tracking will shut down that user/pass.

I’m using Matrox’s Axio-HD running Adobe Premiere cs3 for my editing and encoding. I’m encoding in flash’s flv since I found it had more options then h264 which Wowza could also just as easily stream. The resolution is 1/2 1920/1080 at 1250mbit/s. Played full screen, I think it looks pretty darn good! I am worried however, if a surfer doesn’t have a good internet connection there could be a problem. If we find there are numerous problems, we may have to lower the resolution and bit rate. We’re not going to worry about servicing the dial up people.

Finally, I know I’m late to the game. I hope with perseverance, I can make up for lost time.

So…without further delay…I present to you…

www.straightfraternityguys.com
user= gwwguest
pass= gwwisgreat

Please note, the site is not open to the public yet and I have not yet purchased the unlimited license for the streaming server so I’m limited to 10 streams. I’m hoping to get that wrapped up next week. We also have an additional 11 videos in the can to be added every other week and more shoots lined up in the coming weeks. The user/pass will be active for probably the next week or so. Please ignore the ‘date added’ on the videos. That is just a place holder until we know our official opening date.

Thanks to everyone whose posts have helped me along the way! I may not post but I visit almost every day without exception and read what everyone else is saying.

Best Regards,
Jake