I've bought this domain name

[Tosno]

Harambe, will never be forgotten

 

[redrabbit29]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

In regards to a site about fashion/accessories for men - good idea but I'm not at all into that sort of stuff so it wouldn't work. Ideally the site would not require me updating it frequently, I wouldn't have the time tbh.

I'd like to have it set up and functioning by itself. So RSS or XML feeds would be good, or some kind of dynamic content.

I did think of a database/directory filled with pictures of men (can't believe I'm typing this...) - and the site displays the picture with the day of the year eg: "Day 266" then a pic of the guy and you can click on a rating below... You can also view previous days but not future ones.

Advertising down side or something similar

I was a bit reluctant to copy the daily mail as I think that probably would land me in trouble. The word cloud idea seems good too, a page filled with thousands of words collected from all the articles. The most frequently used words appear bigger than the rest.

Some decent ideas tho...

 

[dowie]

you don't have to copy the daily mail, you just have to pardoy the look and feel of it then have put a speech bubble on the 'daily male' with some sort of page 3 girl type statement on today's news (maybe in an OTT daily mail/right wing way)

 

[redrabbit29]

So far I have come up with this:

http://www.dailymale.co.uk/dev/

It's taken a lot of work to:

1) get all the words from daily mail articles
2) store all the titles/descriptions/links
3) split up all the titles/descriptions into words
4) remove all duplicates
5) remove all rubbish words like "the", "and", etc...
6) count them all up and update a database

The database stores how many times that word has been mentioned:

- per day
- per week
- per month
- per year
- all time number

This can then produce statistics... for example the MOST common word at present is "POLICE" - unsurprisingly.

Eventually I will have a picture page with each picture sized according to the popularity of the article, or the topic.

 

[redrabbit29]

EDIT - oh and I realise the front end is rubbish...

And finally, I did have a cronjob set up to produce all the relevant HTML and store into a flat index.php page but that's currently playing up so just gone back to dynamic output for now.

 

[Bonjour]

Dear lord man, that's amazing.

I've been planning to do a website that does something similar for a couple of years. Not only have you nearly done it, but you also have the perfect domain name. Good project.

 

[redrabbit29]

Dear lord man, that's amazing.

I've been planning to do a website that does something similar for a couple of years. Not only have you nearly done it, but you also have the perfect domain name. Good project.

Thanks Bonjour, that's really nice to hear, especially as it took ages having to work full time and not being up to date with php/database/server cron job knowledge.

One fun thing I will do when the images get collected/working is to have a game where:

An image is displayed + 3 or 4 different headlines and you have to guess
which headline relates to the image.

Quite a lot of silly/fun things to do!

 

[platypus]

A word cloud of all the nouns, verbs and adjectives scraped from the daily mail website (programming knowledge required).

Oh crap I didn't read to the end. Its become a reality. Its beautiful!

P.S. op make it beautiful.

Just use JSON word cloud api type thing to make it super pretty.

 

[K.C. Leblanc]

I think it needs to be a satirical news site so subtle that Daily Mail readers will think it's real.

 

[ScoTTyBEEE]

I had someone buy hotmauk.com off me for $100 years ago. This was in the days where you generally typed in the name of the website you went to and hotmauk was a common hotmail typo. Had a few hundred hits a day.

The rest, well they expired yonks ago. Now we have millions of tld's I think the days of making anything off domains is long gone.

Just remembered I read a story about some guy having lakenheath.com and got loads of classified email for lakenheath.af.mil. I spent hours and hours one day trawling all the possible connotations of US military domains and in the end bought afisr.com which was a US intelligence company for the airforce (afisr.af.mil). All I ever got were a few CV's from some third world idiots lol.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Redirect it to a made porn site and you will rake it in. Make sure they are over 18 though. lol

" you spin me right round baby right round when you go down "

 

[LeeUK]

Sell pixel ads.

 

[LeeUK]

I had someone buy hotmauk.com off me for $100 years ago. This was in the days where you generally typed in the name of the website you went to and hotmauk was a common hotmail typo. Had a few hundred hits a day.

The rest, well they expired yonks ago. Now we have millions of tld's I think the days of making anything off domains is long gone.

Just remembered I read a story about some guy having lakenheath.com and got loads of classified email for lakenheath.af.mil. I spent hours and hours one day trawling all the possible connotations of US military domains and in the end bought afisr.com which was a US intelligence company for the airforce (afisr.af.mil). All I ever got were a few CV's from some third world idiots lol.

I used to own a .uk.com domain of my surname and kept receiving emails for some asbestos consultancy firm. Some with contracts from various councils and NHS trusts etc. Turned out the company in question used to own the domain but didn't renew it for some reason.

 

[redrabbit29]

Oh crap I didn't read to the end. Its become a reality. Its beautiful!

P.S. op make it beautiful.

Just use JSON word cloud api type thing to make it super pretty.

Thanks platypus - I agree the priority now is to make it look nice... in theory I've done all the hard work making it automatically fetch all the words every 30 minutes and sort them out.

I don't know anything about JSON but will learn it and implement it if it makes it pretty!

I think it needs to be a satirical news site so subtle that Daily Mail readers will think it's real.

Good idea although I didn't want to get into any hot water with them... maybe being overly paranoid!

 

[platypus]

Thanks platypus - I agree the priority now is to make it look nice... in theory I've done all the hard work making it automatically fetch all the words every 30 minutes and sort them out.

I don't know anything about JSON but will learn it and implement it if it makes it pretty!

If you can give me access to the data I might be able to help..

 

[Avenged7Fold]

Make a comment section which randomly selects a bunch of silly comments you saved on a spreadsheet for each generated headline. You dont need to make them, just ctrl + C then Ctrl + V directly from the DM site. Stupid comments all over that site!

 

[Bonjour]

Make a comment section which randomly selects a bunch of silly comments you saved on a spreadsheet for each generated headline. You dont need to make them, just ctrl + C then Ctrl + V directly from the DM site. Stupid comments all over that site!

Wonderful idea. You may even be able to scrape random comments from the Daily Mail website.

 

[Jamesyboyjim]

Just fill it with adverts and hope to collect the ad revenue from people who cant spell mail.

 

[redrabbit29]

If you can give me access to the data I might be able to help..

Noted that! I'm going to try and do some stuff over the weekend but I may take you up on that offer... will see how I get on first!

Make a comment section which randomly selects a bunch of silly comments you saved on a spreadsheet for each generated headline. You dont need to make them, just ctrl + C then Ctrl + V directly from the DM site. Stupid comments all over that site!

Comments is something I'm looking into. I had a look at the source last night (the DM web pages are gigantic!).

The comments on that site are horrific but funny to read