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[Rvrwind]

Thanks to all those that defended my honor & my good name. I can't help thinking that RacerX has a woody for all agencies & especially me personally but no matter I am not one to run from insults from anyone who so readily jumps to conclusions. I suspect that someone like that will find a relationship with a Russian woman very difficult as they don't & arn't so forgiving when they are unjustly accused or one jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts.

First I will say that you will note the website was launched the day had my heart attack. I hadn't fully had time to go through it & make certain changes that were put in place by my webmaster. Some I managed others I hadn't even got to yet or seen. As we were late launching it I was more concerned about getting it on the web at that point in time & making corrections later. I will get to it when I get the time & energy & it will be changed to read 20-24. It is not an easy task to change it now that the site is launched & there are links & such that must be changed but we will change it.

As a couple of the guys mentioned, I explained my stand on this in a post sometime back as originally I was going to refuse women under the age of 25, but as I have met & communicated with several fellows in there late 20's - mid 30's, I see no harm in having younger ladies for them. You will note that nowhere on my site do I promote younger women for 50 & up year old men. Also Having met several young women that are in their early 20's & divorced & a couple with children, why should I or you deny that they are not suitible for marriage. I however will not accept applications from ladies under 20 for my own personal reasons if for no other.

Had I accepted every woman that applied to our program I could have launched with over 30 women, instead of 8. I am very particular who gets in my program, both male & female & I can assure you that money is not my motivation, just looking at the prices should convey that message quite well & the prices that are high I have good reason for making them so. Niether is looks or arm candy as I am more concerned with the fact that they are in it for the right reasons so that I can limit as much heartache as I can for everyone involved.

Also coming from a country (I don't know where your from) where the age of adulthood is 18 & you are free to marry at 18, I really don't see a problem if the woman is mature enough. If your part of the world doesn't see it that way, it is not my problem you are still in the dark ages. Until very recently in Russia it was 16 & age of consent for sexual activity is still 14. So time to get your head out of the clouds & come back to reality. Impossing your standard of morality on the rest of the world is only going to bring you much heartache.

If that makes me look like a flesh peddler then I expect nothing I say or do would meet with your so much higher than my own standards. So be it, I stand by my convictions & remain true to my word. There are no women under 20 on my website, period & never will be. Even our local advertising says 25+ at this point in time which I now have to amend that as well.

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

PS to jb...Awww the 70's I miss them so, I had the greatest times of my life during the 70's, thanks for the memory rewind, LOL.

[Maxx]

My sister got married at 16 (no she wasn't pregnant) to a 21 year old man. They celebrated their 25 wedding aniversary this year along with their 3 children and new born grand daughter.

I had Richard contact a certain lady for me in Tver this last Winter. He provided the translation and delivery of letters to her, flowers and so on. His service was first rate. His "telling it like it is" was very useful for me.

I have spoken to Richard several times on the phone. He gets down right pissed off when recalling some of the loser guys that try and hit on these women. The "keyboard romeo getting their jollies" writing to woman and getting their hopes up with no true intent on their part. He paints a rather lurid picture of these scum sitting before their computer screens. He can also can get quite livid with irritation about these less than sincere women he has come across. Richard may have had a wound to his heart recently but he sure has a big strong heart to what is right.   

I wish him health and all the luck in the world with his new business.

Maxx

 

 

[RacerX]

T I can't help thinking that RacerX has a woody for all agencies & especially me personally but no matter I am not one to run from insults from anyone who so readily jumps to conclusions. I suspect that someone like that will find a relationship with a Russian woman very difficult as they don't & arn't so forgiving when they are unjustly accused or one jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts.

 I hadn't fully had time to go through it & make certain changes that were put in place by my webmaster.

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

Talk about jumping to conclusions with little if NO information!  Just to set the record straight, I am very happily married to a lovely RW.

And, look Richard, I am sorry to hear about your medical problems, but if what I read on RWG is true, you don't seem to have much respect for your body and your fatalistic approach to life is not something I would ever aspire to... but each of us obviously has a different calling.

I think it's a bit of a 'cop-out' to blame your webmaster for YOUR website, especially when I have seen the same excuse repeatedly from other, less creditable agencies   However, in fairness, I commend your intention to make the needed corrections.

And, in respect to Dan, I agree that my rant would have been better served elsewhere... my bad.

[Bruno]

Sure, I've been impressed with the maturity of a couple of 16 yo's I recall a few years ago, but I would have never considered them "mature women" suitable for financial gain, nor would I ANY 18 yo.

Sorry, but the sleaziness of these agency owners never ceases to underwhelm me!

Racer, if you wish clean the internet from bad agency and make some rant, it is always welcome... but i think that you attack the wrong agency...

For help you, i give you the URL from a very bad agency : http://www.flirtandlove.com/ ... it is a free site but all is good for attract visitor...

Take a look at http://www.flirtandlove.com/cgi-bin/love/show.cgi?id=1668 ... 15 year old : "I m very nice, sweet, friendly young girl. I look for a nice, generous man how like to date me. Financial help is welcomed!" - "Relations : Flirt, sex, the financial help"....

Or for the Tver regio, at http://www.flirtandlove.com/cgi-bin/love/show.cgi?id=4261 ... 15 year old : "I'm a philosophy student and I live alone, still a free bird:) I m very nice, sweet, friendly young girl. I look for a nice, generous man how like to date me and to help me with sponsorship of my study."

This two example show how disgusting can work some agency... these agency is only one example but you have a lot of them... in place of attack Richard, search and attack the real "internet pims or pedophile"...

 

[RacerX]

Bruno,

I think we all could search and find gutter-trash agencies, but I suspect few men on this board would have much interest in them - nor do I think any of them would tout themselves as dealing with "mature ladies."'

I've said enough about Richard, and if it's just a typo,well then the stroke of a pen (actually a few lines of code!), will cure all.

btw, what's this "geterosexual" orientation these young girls are listing?  

[Admin]

Bruno,

I think we all could search and find gutter-trash agencies, but I suspect few men on this board would have much interest in them - nor do I think any of them would tout themselves as dealing with "mature ladies."'

I've said enough about Richard, and if it's just a typo,well then the stroke of a pen (actually a few lines of code!), will cure all.

btw, what’s this "geterosexual" orientation these young girls are listing?  

It is a transliteration anomaly. Replace the 'g' with an 'h' and it is OK. This is a fairly common problem with performing translations - and transliterations - English <=> Russian.

[Bruno]

but I suspect few men on this board would have much interest in them

 i am almost sure that a European man will not have interest in so young woman... of maybe have some interest but not take the risk to meet them...

Since Belgium have apply the system from "universal law"... a Belgium citizen can be send in jail for act illegal in our country and make in other country ( same if the other country allow it )... so, a Belgium visitor to a foreign country need to follow the Belgium law AND the local law...

And really, a girl of 15 yo... not yet a woman... not a normal adult men can show some interest in this... we have some strange members on these forum but i don't think we have some who can go to these low level...

[Rvrwind]

Racer, just for you I was on the phone with my Webmaster last night (my night, his morning) for two hours & the corrections have been made as well as a couple of other changes that I noticed needed doing.

I woke up today however & found a big screwup I made & can't seem to fix it, dropped him an email with hopes he can get to it asap, . He's probably going to kill me. My html coding skills are in the very raw development stages, LOL.

Never let it be said that I don't respond to resonable & fair critisism or complaints.

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

PS - On a side note, who stole all my mana? Musta really ticked somebody off!!;)

[Turboguy]

. My html coding skills are in the very raw development stages, LOL.

Richard, I think hand coding HTML went out a little after black and white TV's except for a few diehards.   Well mayby a long time after B&W but by the start of the milenium anyway.   Don't spend time learning HTML.  Put your time learing something like dreamweaver or FrontPage and then you don't need to hastle your webmaster and you can save a ton of money to boot.

I just took my first look at your site.  It looks great.  Good luck with both the business and your health.

[catzenmouse]

Please! Whatever you use do not, I Repeat, DO Not! Use FrontPage. It not only writes terrible code but it also uses program/platform specific code in it's extensions. I've used quite a few of them over the years (I learned HTML using Notepad and still do code that way sometimes) and Dreamweaver is the best one around. Lots of flexibility and will show you what works in the different browsers.

Ken

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Richard, I think hand coding HTML went out a little after black and white TV's except for a few diehards.   Well mayby a long time after B&W but by the start of the milenium anyway.   Don't spend time learning HTML.  Put your time learing something like dreamweaver or FrontPage and then you don't need to hastle your webmaster and you can save a ton of money to boot.

I just took my first look at your site.  It looks great.  Good luck with both the business and your health.
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[Bruno]

Richard, I think hand coding HTML went out a little after black and white TV's except for a few diehards.   Well mayby a long time after B&W but by the start of the milenium anyway.   Don't spend time learning HTML.  Put your time learing something like dreamweaver or FrontPage and then you don't need to hastle your webmaster and you can save a ton of money to boot.

I am always using hand coding HTML... all these program use function who are not search engine friendly, who are not browser friendly... i always use the old HTML 1.0 without frame... it have take me two month for build the code of my site... around 2 hours each day... the big work was not the site itself but the script for the form... when someone fill the form and submit it, i receive via e-mail all the data and the HTML code needed ( the page of the woman; the part to insert in the text catalogue, in the photo catalogue )...

So, the weekly work now is around 1 hours...

Richard, spend time for learn HTML... in around 3 month, with one hours evening, you will know what you need... the next step, a little more complex will be a scripting language : perl or cgi script... forget Java since some applet for windows explorer are not compatible with linux-unix and mac...

By example, you miss a little meta tag in your page... by example, i use the following one :

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
This define the charset for the browser... UTF mean "universal type font" and the "8" is the last version... by using this, who is compatible with all brother, you can mix on one page all the character of the world ( around 10000 character )... russian, French and English text can be mixed on the same page by example... if you use the notepad for the code, don't forget to save the texte in UTF8 format ( 2 bytes by char )

A other example of mistake make some program... some code from your home page :

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<table border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%" >
<tr>
<td width=5%></td>
<td width=95%><BR><B>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com"><font color=#000000><B>Home</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/aboutus.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>About Us</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/contact.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Contact Us</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/servicelist.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Service List</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/travelagency.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Travel Agency & Tours</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/employee.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Employee List</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/relatedlinks.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Related Links</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/registration.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Registration Form</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/credits.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Purchase Credits</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/gifts.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Flowers & Gifts</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/gallery.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Photo Gallery</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/scams.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Scams & Scammers</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/tver.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Tver, The City</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/russia.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>Russia, The Country</B></font></a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com/references.shtml"><font color=#000000><B>References</B></font></a><br><br>
</B></td></tr></table>You can change it by

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<font color=#000000><b>

<table border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%" >
<tr>
<td width=5%></td>
<td width=95%><BR>
<a href="http://www.tverangels.com">Home</a><br><br>
<a href="About'>http://www.tverangels.com/aboutus.shtml">About Us</a><br><br>
<a href="Contact'>http://www.tverangels.com/contact.shtml">Contact Us</a><br><br>
<a href="Service'>http://www.tverangels.com/servicelist.shtml">Service List</a><br><br>
<a href="Travel'>http://www.tverangels.com/travelagency.shtml">Travel Agency & Tours</a><br><br>
<a href="Employee'>http://www.tverangels.com/employee.shtml">Employee List</a><br><br>
<a href="Related'>http://www.tverangels.com/relatedlinks.shtml">Related Links</a><br><br>
<a href="Registration'>http://www.tverangels.com/registration.shtml">Registration Form</a><br><br>
<a href="Purchase'>http://www.tverangels.com/credits.shtml">Purchase Credits</a><br><br>
<a href="Flowers'>http://www.tverangels.com/gifts.shtml">Flowers & Gifts</a><br><br>
<a href="Photo'>http://www.tverangels.com/gallery.shtml">Photo Gallery</a><br><br>
<a href="'>http://www.tverangels.com/scams.shtml"><B>Scams & Scammers</a><br><br>
<a href="Tver'>http://www.tverangels.com/tver.shtml">Tver, The City</a><br><br>
<a href="Russia'>http://www.tverangels.com/russia.shtml">Russia, The Country</a><br><br>
<a href="References
http://www.tverangels.com/references.shtml">References</a><br><br>
</B></td></tr></table>

</b></font>
Since each line of your menu in the table use the same font color and bold function, why make it for each line and not for the full table... so, the code become more short...

Detail can say some people... your wallet will feel these little detail... each file become more little... the upload time for customer is more fast... but the more important, you save some of your band... and you pay your provider in function of the band used...


A last example... you use a lot of

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<br><br> 
This mean "carriage return" followed by "carriage return"... who is the same that a new paragraph... these function exist in HTML :

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 <p>
3 char in place of 8... 62% of reduction...

OK, enough over HTML... i hope that you understand that know HTML can allow you to spare some money ... sorry for the long post... but it is on topic, it is about your site...

 
EDIT : Richard, check you PM box... i have finish the optimisation for you home page... 21.62% smaller... this mean 21.62% more fast to load and 21.62% spare of the band for these page...

[Rvrwind]

Wow you just never know who your gardener really is, LOL.

Thanks Bruno, much appreciated.

I started the whole site & originally built it in Microsoft Office Publisher as WYSIWYG is something I can relate to. I then converted it to Microsoft Office Front Page & uploaded it to the server. I then got my good friend Roger to take a look at it as he is much more experienced at this sort of thing than me & he took a lot of the redundant programming out of it. Publisher & Frontpage appearantly use way more coding that is actually nessessary for optimisation & as Bruno said, optimization is key to a faster cheaper website. Although it is well under my bandwidth limit at present, I can easily see it getting larger as time goes on.

Even Roger admits to being somewhat rusty as he hasn't been deeply involved in this sort of thing for several years, but far more experienced than me.

Thanks for all your suggestions & comments. I will definitly use them. My html skills are getting there & I find it intersesting but there are times when it is a little frustrating.

I'm trying to use a program now that puts me on several search engines. I'm finding that more complicated than html if you can believe that!!!:shock:

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

[Turboguy]

Good Luck with the search engines.  It is the key to everything.   You are better off hand submitting to the major sites.   You might like www.selfpromotion.com for submitting to the less major sites.   It is free unless you want to contribute (I kick in $ 20.00 a year to them for the extras)    The pay per click things like yahoo has and google has work well but you are in a highly competitive market so that could be fairly expensive.    Another good resource is www.frontpagewebmaster.com   they started out as a front page forum but work with everything now and it is a very helpful forum like this one.   You can get some great advice there free and get pro's to evaluate your website, either for design or seach engine friendliness. 

[Rvrwind]

Thanks Turbo. Actually thats the site I'm using http://www.selfpromotion.com Alot of reading involved  for sure but I'm plugging away at it.

I understand there are a couple of Engines that have their own robots that wander around looking for sites as well. Kinda open while I'm workin' on this some of them may find it:D

Oh well, back to the grind.

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

[Turboguy]

When you use the selfpromotion web site when you do the actual registration there are a lot of other catagories that are easy to miss.  

I just took a quick look at your source code on you site and you might want to work a bit more on your meta tags.   They are ok, but from a search engine optimization standpoint they could be a lot better.    Your site text is not set up too well for a high search engine ranking either but it is a great site otherwise.   I guess what I am saying is that your site is great but it is not likely to rate too highly with the search engines.


As far as the spiders try and get as many links on other sites as you can.  Even the postings here with the URL mentioned can lead a spider to your site and the more the better.

[Bruno]

In order to have a high page rank you need to have many quality links pointing to your website. It is a good idea to have many links pointing to your website but in order to get a good page rank you need quality links. Google doesn't shows backward links from pages having PR value lesser than 3. Google has recently stopped displaying all backward links it knows... Google shows that backward links, which are considered relevant for this page (relevant means that a page, which contains a link to your site is somehow related to yours in subject (content)).

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[Rvrwind]

Hi Guys...

Well I spent most of yesterday setting up at selfpromotions & noticed this morning in my inbox that I am on several search engines now, including Google. Yahoo appearantly must be done separately, I'll look into that shortly. I also have to reply to some of the engines & listings before they will promote my site. From what I read I gather this is just to be sure that I was the one who actually wanted the site promoted or listed & not someone else.

Bruno, I don't have a 'banner ad' & not sure how to make one but would certainly be interested in trading links with you when I get one.

Turbo, that was my first attempt at the meta tags etc. I have a new set on my puter that is a bit more extensive & after reading some of the material at selfpromotions I am going to make some quick changes to it before I upload it. Got a few hints from them how to make the site more appealling to the robots.

Sheesh, all my life I been trying to be appealing to women & now I gotta figure out how to impress a damn robot. How things change, LMAO!!!:D

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

[andrewfi]

Richard ~ have fun! Don't worry overmuch about using FrontPage, bandwidth is cheap and your potential clients will never notice the difference - as long as the design is decent and the backend works properly, but if I were you, I would be inclined to redo the pages entirely in FrontPage. Publisher is horrid, not primarily desgned to make webpages and it shows in your site. It will be hard to maintain the style of your site as it grows and as, possibly, different people work on the thing the Publisher legacy will be like an albatross around your neck.

As you are using php already, you might want to consider moving over to a script to run your site, there are quite a few out there so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel, just Google on scripts for dating services and similar terms. Take a few days to understand the concepts and even without much in the way of coding skills,, you will, with FrontPage be able to make a site that has the functionality built in, that will gr as you need it and will also, if it matters, be fast to load as it works from a database and 'includes' pages... much less code on the page and common elements such as design and graphics are downloaded just once. For example (and not a recommendation!) http://www.datingbuilder.com/?og=1&amp;wk=1412&amp;da=8 Cost is under $500 for all the functinality you are offering - and more, there will be others, possibly less polished that are much cheaper, or free. If you use a script then get a freelancer to polish it for your needs: http://www.freelancerspace.com/ budget for this, perhaps $100-300, probably toward the lower end if you use one of the guys from Saint Petersburg who will do an excellent job for you if you provide a very clear specification (perhaps show them a site that has the same kinds of features that you want).

 

[catzenmouse]

Richard,

 Something I learned in a web design/promotion class a while ago is to put some spelling errors in the meta tags along with the correct spelling of words. A lot of people think quicker than they type and make spelling mistakes when they search.

Wmoen, womne, Rusian, Russan, Russin as examples of women and Russian. It can be in a seperate meta tag as some search engines only read the first X number of words of each meta.

Ken

[Rvrwind]

Thanks for all the tips guys. We are deffinitly doing what we can & it seems to be working.

Just wanted to add that for any of the single guys out there still looking that you might want to visit our site at www.tverangels.com & register. Its FREE:D & as we are just starting we don't have so many ladies but all the new ladies that come to sign up always look through our catalogue of men & just may pick you out to write too. What have you got to lose? She even gets to write you for FREE so you just never can tell what may come your way. Our ad campagn is hiting the papers this coming week & I expect our database will grow, so why not be first in line when the ladies come looking, afterall, its FREEE!!!:D

RVR - Canadian Cowboy

 

[Jack]

Hey Richard, your is site looking better.
 
Are you running newspaper ads to try to get new ladies? Are you doing anything in addition to newspaper ads to try get more ladies added to your agency?

[Rvrwind]

Hi Jack...

Thanks

Good to see you posting again, I hope all is well with you.

We are doing what we can. We had ads in 3 different newspapers & put up a few posters around the city & are now printing up flyers & dropping them in mailboxes in our neighbourhood apartment buildings. Our operational budget took a big hit due to my stay in hospital & consequent ongoing drug regime, unfortunately. So we have had to devise other methods than the norm to effectively advertise. I designed a banner ad that I have distributed to a few people, like Bruno, who have been kind enough to display it on thier websites. But that is not for attracting local ladies. Alot of our recruiting so far has been mostly word of mouth.

My experience with LTP & BH showed that radio & television ads don't work here. Newspapers, flyers & signs on the street seem to be more effective. Limited funding at this point is our only drawback, but I am hoping that will change soon. The time of year is also a factor that must be considered, but that isn't something over which I have any control.

Always the eternal optimist.

RVR-Canadian Cowboy/Agency Owner

[catzenmouse]

RVR,

 Just took a look at the site again. Looking good! As I was bouncing through the pages I looked at one of the ladies pages and the informational text on the right (name, height, weight, etc.) doesn't line up properly. When I looked at the source code I see that you are doing it with the <br> tag. If you put this information within its own table in the <td> tag and have each line item in its own table row it will always stay lined up correctly. This makes it a little hard to read.

Here's an example:
[size="+1">First Name:</font></td>
<td valign="top"><font][size="+1">Irina</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Middle Name:</td>
<td valign="top">Zinovyevna</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">Last Name:</td>
<td valign="top">Shnaruk</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">D.O.B.:</td>
<td valign="top">19 Oct. 1980</td>
</tr>
</table>

Ken

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[Rvrwind]

Hi Ken...

Thanks, lots more changes coming yet.

Yeah I noticed that myself. It seems the problem is because it is set up for a guy like me to be able to work easier with it.

My web guy,who is actually just a friend workin' for free, set everything up in templates so that I can go in & edit certain parts without screwing everything up. As it happens sometimes I get interupted & may have removed or edited the wrong info & then everything goes haywire which  happened recently with the Service List page where I screwed up the currency converter, again, I hate that page.:yech:Everytime I go near it it screws up.

He has set it up in this manner so even an idiot on a computer like me can figure it out. I wanted something easy to work with & to navigate through so I wouldn't be in a position to have to hire anybody & therefore up my expenses. I'll point that out to him & see if we can change the template so that it won't do that. I am a firm believer in the KISS method.

I figure I'm doin' pretty good so far. I'm already uploading the profiles to the site in shtml & adding the pics & making everything work from the gallery pages to the profile pages and adding & changing a few other pages as well. Alot more than I was capable of a month ago, believe me. I can't size the pics yet though as photoshop won't let me select those partcular sizes but he has purchased a copy of the program he uses for the specific sizes we are using & it is in the mail. Once I get that I'll be able to tag the pics, size them & upload them with the profile to the site all by my little lonesome. He also send me the video capture device so that we can get our streaming video online.

Will that make me a techie, LMAO!!!

RVR-Canadian Cowboy/Agency Owner