Any amazing TP based sites?

[zapiy]

Has anyone ever found any sites using TP that are simply amazing..

Most are block based but i wondered if anyone has seen any merge the site so it does not look like a portal..

Cheers

[Crip]

TP is a Portal called Tinyportal...............................................................................

[zapiy]

I know mate and don't get me wrong fella.. I just wondered what the possibilities are of this great software.

[IchBin]

I can't recall any "amazing" sites off the top of my head. But I do remember seeing a few that I thought were very good. One of was Bec's site here. I don't remember the domain name off the top of my head, but it was something to do with Brides. Although, I think she is in the middle of a redesign since the last time I saw it.

[zapiy]

I will see if i can find it. Thanks

[Lesmond]

I will see if i can find it. Thanks

She has removed the link to her site in this board (showcase) so I wont post the link, but it can be found with "Google"

[IchBin]

I haven't looked at Zetans for a while either, but I've always thought he had a nice site.

[Zetan]

I haven't looked at Zetans for a while either, but I've always thought he had a nice site.

Thanks! lol, that was unexpected.

Regarding my site.. it's been on hold for quite a while now due to continued ISP issues and then falling out with my provider (it's still online, in my sig). After having a fairly solid connection while I was running 2 audio streams for a long time, then the connection was either so slow (often below dial-up speeds) that I couldn't host even the slowest bitrate stream that we had, 64kbps.. or having no connection at all for weeks at a time.

This went on for over six months.. After the polite and lengthy phone calls to India, my very local support service. I ranted and raved with them between broken English sessions, had new routers, filters and cables sent out to no avail.. each night I'd get home from work and there was that unwelcoming orange status indicator informing me that.. "Ha ha, you have no connection to the outside world!"

And through all of this.. Not once did they send out an engineer to check the lines, the junction box that's bursting with wires, I'm an electrician so I did have a poke around.. The box was so messy with neighbours connections that I didn't want to disturb the nest of wires too much in case the whole house went off line.

And still they continued to bill me. I couldn't maintain the site properly and I couldn't spend much time here, which I enjoy.. when I have the time online to get stuck in.

So after nearly a year now with no new ISP (because BT in the UK has the monopoly and regardless of ISP, the lines still route through BT exchanges.. what's the point?) my site is still in a state of limbo with hardly any activity.


funny my site was mentioned today as last night I was thinking of closing it altogether and then this evening I wanted to crack on with it and revamp the home page.



Anyhoo.. That's where it's at. A lengthy explanation but the experience with BT over the last 18 months has been far lengthier and frustrating.

[Freddy]

This went on for over six months.. After the polite and lengthy phone calls to India, my very local support service.

Yeah I know that one.  Is your ISP Orange by any chance ?  I'm just about to drop them as it happens as I can't live with the 'support' they provide.

[Zetan]

This went on for over six months.. After the polite and lengthy phone calls to India, my very local support service.

Yeah I know that one.  Is your ISP Orange by any chance ?  I'm just about to drop them as it happens as I can't live with the 'support' they provide.

BT was my provider and I had no complaints for years. Then after refusing to pay the bill for the service they couldn't provide, they had a debt collection agency contact me informing me that they were going to collect payment. I phoned them and told them I would not be settling the bill under any circumstance and that they should hit up BT to provide details of logs of calls to their support call center... I haven't heard from them since.

Recently I had a letter inviting me back. "Since you left us, we've made changes.. blah blah". I haven't responded yet, but if I do, they will have to reconnect me FREE of charge with 6 months FREE connection for what they billed me for.

Getting back on topic. I've seen some awesome sites showcased here, how many of those are still running, I have no idea.