Let me introduce my long-time affiliate, Steph. She has changed several hosts and I have also updated her link several times. However, up till now, she still have not update my link. Take a look at the screen capture below.

I have clearly stated at my “Link VS” page that if you want to link VS, you must use “http://violinstar.net” because previously the link “http://www.violinstar.net” does not work. I already informed her many times but she have not changed the link. What a “lovely” affiliate she is.

Just a sidejoke for programmers, do take note of the ‘<br>’ tag that she is using. Apparently she do not know what is XHTML after been a blogger for some time. Google for “XHTML 1.0 Strict” and you will know what I mean.

Here comes the “loveliest” part. At a private forum, she even bash me up on 13 July 2009, 3.06pm because of the poor layout I made.

Hope she’s not signed up here & hope she never does bc then I’ll be screwed.
http://violinstar.net/
She’s my affie, and she just commented my site saying “Hi. VS just changed a layout. What do you think?”
She’s not too good of an affie. She doesn’t really care about my blogs (not that I’m expecting her to, but she could at least show a little interest. Not just “Wow. I’m looking forward to your new layout.” yeah sounds like it.) But anyway.

Her layouts are always SO UGLY. And I am NOT going to tell her what I think. Because it looks absolutely horrid. I can name a million things wrong with it. And Idk wtf she did to the Emma picture on the right. I used a picture like that for a desktop. It was ginormous and was amazing quality. So Idk how she managed to make it look all blurry like that. The picture on the right isn’t cut out very well. She always uses that same tacky font, and I dunno how the heck she thinks that rainbow gradient fits into all this. And then her side bar doesn’t even match the image! Do you SEE the colors?!

Omg it’s so annoying. There’s so many other things I could point out.
So like I said, if she ever sees this here… >.<

You can see see the screen capture here.

How will you feel if your affiliates are not telling the truth about your layouts and start bashing you up at private forums? Will you feel agitated, sad or speechless? If your affiliates are not telling you what you lacked (such as designing skills), then how likely are first-time visitors going to tell you? If no one tells you, then how is it possible for you to improve?

Please, just tell me what you think exactly about the layout via email or leaving a comment on my blog? Don’t go around bashing me up at private forums. Yes, I know we are living in a world where there is free speech. Be considerate. How would you feel if another person bash you up at a private forum? Instead of helping the person to improve his/her skills, why are you adding oil to the fire by bashing the person up, especially if she is one of your affiliate?

Anyway, I have removed the “lovely” Steph from my VS affiliate list.

I will leave you to decide if she is a good or bad affiliate then.

P.S. I realised that those who bash me up are using Cutenews as their blogging platform. Whoa. What a relationship. I have absolute no comments on such a relationship.