Nouk, I'd visited your site a number of times, and never noticed you had a forum. I think that burninating or relocating it might pacify your hoster. *crosses fingers*

Reducing the size of images on your pages can help as well, as your host takes a hit each time someone loads up an image-intensive page. You can do that with Photoshop and ImageReady, make each image as small K-wise as possible. Another trick would be to keep your download preview images on a separate page. The main page would show the generic hairstyle being offered, then a link to the download page with smaller images showing colour variants. Usually a main picture is enough for browsers to determine if they want the hairs being offered. IIRC, you load up all the variations and dl links on the same page as the main "this is what the hair looks like" image. Putting any new things in the beginning of the sort also helps, ditto marking their links with "NEW! [date updated]" information, as people won't load up all the pages again and again browsing to see the new things.

Offering to sep out your DLs pages to reduce server load may also help, as then those pages won't be visitedor loaded unless visitors want those files specifically. That lets browsers and downloaders put different loads on the system. It's only a band-aid, but I suspect you get a lot of visitors who know you from forums and have seen your hairs elsewhere and want to look at your whole body of work or see what's new.

Good luck! Hope this info wasn't too basic and obvious for you.

Greatly!

So if I have hairblackmesha, hairbrownmesha, hairblondemesha, hairredmesha, hairgreenmesha, etc., then I open black in the black tab (do I set option/haircolour/black at this point?), then, without saving, click to the brown tab, open the brown colour, etc. for all but weird colours, pick a grey (I know this has a special procedure)...aaaand I get stuck here. :/

Is bettersimsbureau acting up, or is it just my computer? I get a text-only page when I click links.

Become an E-MAIL family! Bushes are cheap!

Good ones!  :mrgreen:

I hadn't tried the dog one yet!

Sshodan!? Is that yoooouuuuu?


(kidding)

vii's Basic Reading Comprehension Skills = set to "off"



Please Be Less Stupid, and stop exhibiting 12ness. Thanks!

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A tip: "Demonstration" mode leads to accidental hilarity. "FREE SIMS 2!"

vii, basically God Herself could have a free site with a donation gift and we'd squawk.

You can't repaint your neighbor's car and sell it to your office buddy. Not legally. You can't recolour Maxis stuff or rework Poser (creators') meshes or use Maxis/EA code to enable your totally original crap and then make money off of it, because you are not Maxis, EA, or Poser.

The fact that EA is not as aggressive as, say, Disney about stomping copyright infringement and EULA disregard is no reason to deliberately ignore the EULA or Maxis/EA/Poser (creators')  copyrights.

It's kind of like habitually driving while drunk (GRRR!), or jaywalking, or writing in library books (you FIEND! die!) but not getting caught. You may get away without incident for years, but that doesn't make it legal and/or a good idea.

The seriousness of the transgression (or not) is irrelevant.

The niceness of the person or site asking for alms is irrelevant.

The existence of genuine need is irrelevant.

You cannot sell what does not belong to you, legally.

Note also that this tends to be paricular to the Sims community. Music group fan circles share tickets and memorabilia freely, other game content creators share custom content freely, etc. Though there are some exceptions, the Sims community is unique in that we as a whole ignored the slippery slope during Sims 1. Now it seems that everyone and their cat wants to make a buck off of everyone else by selling things that are not theirs to sell.

When you get promised some goods in exchange for money, that is not a donation, it is a sale. If the site owner had quietly sent donators files in the spirit of sharing, unrelated to any donation amount or lack of donation altogether, that would be different.

Sure! Thanks, guys! (you AND donovan being so nice to offer hand-holding...wow!)

I have SimPE 6.0 and the colourbinning tool. I think I'd have been fine if the packages were multi-colours, but that would imply that they were actually binned already. I wasn't sure when to save, etc.

I'd like to learn how to colourbin, actually. But maybe you have already binned some hairs that I have in my game. We should coordinate. On the off chance I have some hairs you don't. bonus for you!

You need a Flush Force terlet, Average Joe!

I had two-three more poll options, one of which was "all of the above / I don't use custom hair" but apparently there's a limit on poll items.

I saw the MTS2 and Theo tuts, and I am still a wee bit confused about how to package handle.

Do I continue to open packages under new tabs before saving? I think the issue is that I have opened one-colour-per-package files. When I attempted to move just one item, the grey shade, the whole list moved to the new tab. (Also, was probably not supposed to do that, anyway.)

Also, I moved my meshes to another folder. Most of them. Long time ago. So they aren't in the same folder as the hair packages.

I can't believe I forgot XMSims. Maybe because I haven't loaded her stuff back in yet. Yes, apparently I have brown hair according to them. According to my driver's license, hairdresser and L'Oreal, I am a very light blonde.

Another super fun issue is when you pick a red, say, hair for a Sim, age regress them to check their DNA / facial characteristics as toddlers and kids, and suddenly you have black-haired children.

I swear, I think Raon, Peggy and Rose must be colourblind. I'm busily deleting crappy hair in-game, and after the fourteenth purple-brown hair listed under "red," and the umptillionth violet-grey under "black," I finally saw the light. :shock:

I'm also bugged that light blondes seem to be considered "brown," but those are harder to delete, because they are actually decent blondes.

Question about SimPE colourbinning:

You load the file you want, say "wankyhairwithgap9_black.package" and it's defaulted to the black tab, which is good. So then do you use options to make SURE it's black? Next, before saving, can/do you open the next colour, "wankyhairwithgap9_brown.package" perhaps, after selecting the brown tab in SimPE's colourbinner? Or do you save "wankyhairwithgap9_black.package" and do a new session and then open "wankyhairwithgap9_brown.package" and move it to the right tab?

What do you do when you have a jillion shades of brown "wankyhairwithgap9_xxxxx.package" files? Pick one, let the others set to custom or ignore them?

Super novice here. :oops: Just attempted Raon colourbinning and I clearly did something nonawesome, after two hours of trying, because I managed to make the files unreadable. I am wondering if this was because I edited in my backup on my Desktop and not in the DL folder. When I finished binning (or so I thought), I removed the disabled packages and swapped the folders to test.

ETA: I'm also displeased that CAS crashes after a half hour or so of deep cleaning, but that's an issue with my game. Since I actually am brazen enough to attempt to run the Sims on a LAPTOP, then, according to EA, I deserve all problems I get. Srsly.  :roll: