DicedLife.com World Premier

Back when I met Jeremy and Joe almost 10 years ago, one of the first things that they showed me was a bunch of handwritten comedy skits that they called DicedLife.    The skits were a hybrid mix of comedy and parody that is ever so slightly twisted.   There's "Mentos" the parody of the candy where instead of inspiring love it inspires hate in the sucker [sic].   There's "Licks-All", a parody on Lysol which kills 99.9 percent of bugs.  Unfortunately the .1 percent fights back.  And then there's the guy who sets his Car "Alarm" when he goes to take a nap in the drivers seat - just to make sure he wakes up.

They guys had a lot of imagination, but no resources.   They lacked the budget, camera and production facilities to edit, produce and publish them (that was back in the days before YouTube and WebCams.)  

Ever since then Joe has been wanting to do it,  and a lot has changed since then, with video editing being available as a "standard" option of Windows and YouTube being the publishing center of the internet world.  (The vidiots united.)

Finally about a month ago Joe bellied up to the bar and put money down on the domain names DicedLife.com, .mobi, .tv and .net,  and the last couple of weeks I've been creating a web site for him and Jeremy.

Working with a monthly budget of zip, limited time, and hosting them on my hosting platform, we have pieced together a decent site.   I even learned CSS for this one.   And we went live on "August 30, 2008 . . . a day that will live in infamy . . . " 

One of the developmental challenges has been to ingegrate other services into the site, such things as forum, store and a news feed.   I love getting into a new thing and learning it, but it takes so much time and I can't always afford that, so I keep my eye open for solutions that are easier, but still full featured.

Recently I think I found a "canned" solution to the forum that will work for us.  Lefora.com is a new forum hosting company which is offering free forum hosting (with minor ads) and they are running a promotion so that we can set up a sub-domain as forum.dicedlife.com and have it redirect to Lefora.  I hope it all works, as the forum is easy, simple and actually looks good along side the site design for DicedLife.  Also, you can tweak the CSS, so I can go in and make changes there as I make changes to the DicedLife CSS.  Here's the "publicity" post for DicedLife.com:

 

DICEDLIFE.com - OUT TO SMASH INTO EVERY FUNNY BONE IN SIGHT!

DicedLife.com is really coming at you now.  We've got all the skits and clips together in one place, we've got the regular LoTechTV shows in production and we've done our first Live Broadcast!   Things are moving and changing daily, and give us a month and we will be sneaking up there on the charts.  Look out all you comedy sites!  We're on the move.

Soon we will be announcing our new forum for people who visit our site.  Watch for it in the news.  We're using a relatively new forum hosting company called Lefora.  They got fed up with all the "sameness" of the other forum software out there and started their own fresh approach. (Sound familiar? DicedLife?)   We wanted a place where we could administer it without spending hours setting up the forum and where our friends could come and post without all the hassles and signing up like most forums.  They have a great fresh look for forums that's different, and we can customize it easier than silly old phpbb and vBulletin.  Besides they host it for free!  

You can get free forum hosting by lefora by visiting their site. 

Other things in the works are more graphics, and preview pictures of the skits.   As we add new features to the site, the site will evolve also so it's more snazzy and easy to use.  But watch out - - it'll never stay the same long.

DicedLife . . . smashing into your funny bone since 1995 . . . now with a .com version! 

I really hope that Joe and Jeremy do well and keep on it and keep improving.  I'm meeting with them on Tuesday to show them how to encode video and get better results on the web.  They have worked so hard for so long.