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Title: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 16, 2018, 04:41:50 PM
Been a member here for 10 years and didn't even realize this subforum allows members to promote their alien/predator sites. . . doah!

So to see the alien/predator fanboy in me, I created the Alien and Predator Zone. I'll touch on the highlights later.....

http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avp01.shtml (http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avp01.shtml)

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scifimoviezone.com%2Fimageavp%2Faandplogo.png&hash=21799e3d9a1e1066f8196b4168636eba2bfeb729)

Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 27, 2018, 02:05:18 PM
Looks good. What are you mostly focusing on the site?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 27, 2018, 08:47:09 PM
Quote from: Wweyland on Feb 27, 2018, 02:05:18 PM
Looks good. What are you mostly focusing on the site?

Thanks. Enhanced script presentations are my main pastime. Not just for Alien / Predator, but also other SF film.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 27, 2018, 10:52:51 PM
So the whole scifimoviezone is your site along with all the sub sites?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 28, 2018, 12:58:10 AM
Correct.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 28, 2018, 09:45:42 AM
That is impressive. BTW the Forum link is giving a 404 error.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 28, 2018, 11:04:50 AM
Quote from: Wweyland on Feb 28, 2018, 09:45:42 AM
That is impressive. BTW the Forum link is giving a 404 error.

Thanks. I eliminated the forum quite some time ago due to too little activity. I thought I had wiped all links. Where are you seeing a forum link?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 28, 2018, 11:27:44 AM
It's in the bottom right (next to Time Travel) on this url:
http://www.scifimoviezone.com/
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 28, 2018, 11:48:58 AM
Thanks for pointing that out, fixed.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Feb 28, 2018, 02:45:10 PM
How long have you been working on the site? Does it get much traffic?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Feb 28, 2018, 11:00:14 PM
Quote from: Wweyland on Feb 28, 2018, 02:45:10 PM
How long have you been working on the site? Does it get much traffic?

For several years,  since 2008 I believe. Close to 900 pages of SF goodies now. Gets almost no traffic, I do very little to promote it. This is my hobby, some place for me to gather movie stuff. Kind of like those birds that gather a shrine of shiny stuff.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Mar 01, 2018, 03:44:01 PM
Good luck with it. I would be happy to exchange banners with your if you are interested but you don't seem to have a section for that.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Mar 01, 2018, 06:55:13 PM
I have AVPG's banner in my Alien section, would be easy enough to add yours also, just plop the banner image here. No need to reciprocate, this is really just a hobby more for me than anything.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Mar 01, 2018, 07:00:35 PM
On what URL is the AVPG banner? Can't seem to find it.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Mar 01, 2018, 07:11:33 PM
Here.....
http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien.shtml (http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien.shtml)

and here....
http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien03.shtml
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Mar 01, 2018, 07:41:08 PM
OK, here are my banners, you can see the url of my site in my footer:
https://www.avpcentral.com/images/avpcentral-small.png
https://www.avpcentral.com/images/avpcentral-medium.png

Looking from a technical viewpoint, I think the biggest problem your site has is that every page has the same title (the TITLE tag in your html). That is causing bad indexing by Google. Fixing that should give you better results and more traffic.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Mar 02, 2018, 12:11:21 AM
You link added here.... http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien10.shtml (http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien10.shtml)

Thanks for all your input!
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Mar 02, 2018, 09:10:33 PM
Quote from: Biomechanoid on Mar 02, 2018, 12:11:21 AM
You link added here.... http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien10.shtml (http://www.scifimoviezone.com/avpalien10.shtml)

Thanks for all your input!

Thanks, looks good.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on May 01, 2018, 08:06:22 PM
Predator Roll Call
http://scifimoviezone.com/avppredatorrollcall.shtml (http://scifimoviezone.com/avppredatorrollcall.shtml)
One of those quickie projects. Looking forward to adding The Predator to the inventory.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fscifimoviezone.com%2Fimageavp%2Fpredatorrollcalllogo.png&hash=b563a3095ae88b88e43de260517176adb373b4fa)
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on May 02, 2018, 11:59:17 AM
Nice list. I actually thought there would be more Predators from the movies but that is accurate. Any plans on including game and comic Predators?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on May 02, 2018, 01:56:48 PM
No, I'm strictly all about the movies. Other than a few/rare exceptions, I don't include any game/literature in most of the movies I feature on my site. I just don't participate in those media enough to be sounding off on them. Read comics as a kid. Never read them now, though I have a large collection stored in the basement, decades old. Game play is few and far between.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Local Trouble on May 07, 2018, 04:14:05 AM
Go play A:CM.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on May 07, 2018, 04:34:28 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 07, 2018, 04:14:05 AM
Go play A:CM.

Last console game I played was Halo...the first one! The interest is just not there other than a few building civilization pc games.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Local Trouble on May 07, 2018, 04:44:18 AM
How can you be an authority without intimate knowledge of such a critical piece of Alien lore?
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on May 07, 2018, 05:40:22 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 07, 2018, 04:44:18 AM
How can you be an authority without intimate knowledge of such a critical piece of Alien lore?

My site an authority? lol, no it's just fandom stuff I collect for a hobby site. I just like to horde movie stuff to one spot for various SF, horror, and fantasy films. There is zero content on my site that wasn't already on the internet.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Oct 17, 2018, 09:55:33 PM
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fscifimoviezone.com%2Fimageavp%2Fa1s502.jpg&hash=96fa7b7f2e68c8137a11e14cb6beb42503a0da97)

Been a long time since I did a show and tell for my Alien Predator Zone. Here is the Alien 79 Enhanced Script Presentation.
http://scifimoviezone.com/avpalienscript.shtml (http://scifimoviezone.com/avpalienscript.shtml)

Alien 79 was the very first enhanced script presentation I did. It was pretty rough. Years later, I gave it a significant makeover. A few of the screenshots, I used javascript to display limited motion...like an animated gif....but it's not an animated gif. If you scroll past screenshots too fast, you might miss them. Some came out pretty good, others not so much.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Jan 06, 2019, 11:34:23 PM
Quote from: Biomechanoid on May 01, 2018, 08:06:22 PM
Predator Roll Call
http://scifimoviezone.com/avppredatorrollcall.shtml (http://scifimoviezone.com/avppredatorrollcall.shtml)
One of those quickie projects. Looking forward to adding The Predator to the inventory.

http://scifimoviezone.com/imageavp/predatorrollcalllogo.png

I rarely update my hobby site anymore, but I guess I will add the two creatures of The Predator to the Roll Call. Have nicknames been firmly established for those two predators, for example Scar, Urban Predator, Jungle Predator, Wolf, etc.? I don't know, I haven't kept up.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Jan 08, 2019, 01:06:32 AM
Okay, it looks like the small one is called Fugitive Predator, the big one called Ultimate Predator. I guess I will go will those.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Voodoo Magic on Jan 08, 2019, 02:50:49 AM
Quote from: Biomechanoid on Jan 08, 2019, 01:06:32 AM
Okay, it looks like the small one is called Fugitive Predator, the big one called Ultimate Predator. I guess I will go will those.

The big boy upgraded Yautja from "The Predator" is the "Assassin".
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Jan 08, 2019, 10:46:41 PM
Okay, thanks, VM.





An amusing tidbit......
When I do a story/screencap presentation for my site for a given film, I first check the web for an inventory of screencaps. If I prefer screencaps more suited to the presentation, I just do my own. But most of the time there's a treasure trove of screencaps already available. I thought I would add The Predator story/screenshots to my Predator section.

I have no love for the film, but my Predator section seems incomplete without it. Actually I have several film presentations where I didn't like the movie, but added it anyway for collection sake and other various reasons. There's plenty of screencap inventory of The Predator trailers on numerous sites, but none of the feature film.

Not a good sign when the movie webmasters can't even muster the interest to do a screencap presentation for the feature film. So I will do my own....but I only rented the movie. I will have to buy it on VUDU to get screencaps, but they want 20 bucks for it. I would pay 20 for Predator 87, but not The Predator. So I will wait till it's on sale....at least 50%.

Anyway, I just found it amusing that there's zero feature film screencap interest for The Predator on the web.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: The Old One on Apr 27, 2019, 06:25:26 AM
It is amusing, and telling.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Nov 04, 2019, 05:34:13 PM
I wasn't ignoring your reply, fiendish, I just haven't checked back in this thread.

Anyway, my domain renewal is coming up. I have maintained this site for over ten years and i am done with it. I had my fun with it, time for it to R.I.P.

For those of you who run fan sites, I have over 800 pages of sci-fi content,if you see a section you would like to adopt let me know. Please no credit comment tags. If you adopt one or more sections, it's 100 percent yours, as if you created it yourself.

Much of it is just repeat of what is already on the web, but there is lot of work put into the enhanced script presentations that might interest a fan site, not to mention that's a resource you just can't find elsewhere on the web. So it would be a unique resource.

Of course "unique" does not necessarily equate to "valued," but I will say I get more visits for my enhanced script section than any other section.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Wweyland on Nov 04, 2019, 07:11:10 PM
Sad to hear you close down. I will take a look if there is something to lift to my site.
As I understand you don't want to pay for the hosting anymore? Domain renewal should be quite cheap.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Nov 05, 2019, 12:32:32 AM
Has nothing to do with cost, that's super cheap. I just don't see any point in keeping it up when I never update it anymore.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Corporal Hicks on Nov 05, 2019, 09:22:08 AM
I'm sorry to hear. It's always a sad day whenever fan-site disappears.  :'(
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Nov 05, 2019, 04:29:15 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Nov 05, 2019, 09:22:08 AM
I'm sorry to hear. It's always a sad day whenever fan-site disappears.  :'(

Nothing to be sad about. It was a hobby project that lasted over 10 years, and enough sponsorship revenue that paid for itself. Can't ask for much more satisfaction than that from a hobby - longevity and financially self supporting.

Those interested in any sections, just pm me to keep the details off this public forum. If you might be interested, I will send you an email document stating I relinquish all rights to content including text, coding, and visuals, and my request of no courtesy link back. (there would be nothing to link back to, anyway, ha)
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Nov 18, 2019, 06:55:49 PM
Update: heh, no takers. Little to no surprise there, most everything I have has already been thoroughly exhausted elsewhere on the web. When it came time to yank it, I just couldn't pull the trigger. So for now it will remain up, but dormant. Not to mention I have literally thousands of images hotlinked from that site to numerous forums, including over 10 years of hotlinking images in AVPG. All those 10 years of images would go broken link.

However, I've decided to strip it down to only features I really want to keep - large projects like the enhanced script presentations, sci-fi history research projects, etc. I've already stripped out a couple hundred pages and will continue wiping out a few more hundred pages. I think that's why I lost interest in updating it, it just got too large. Over 900 pages made the task of updates insurmountable, so I just quit updating it.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on May 27, 2020, 12:31:10 PM
Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk, by Rodanthi Tzanelli

Wow, this author references my website in his book. My 15 seconds of fame.....kinda.....
sorta.
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: [cancerblack] on Jun 04, 2020, 09:26:21 AM
That is an esoteric book to be cited in my man :D
Title: Re: SFMZ's Alien Predator Zone
Post by: Biomechanoid on Jun 04, 2020, 09:16:04 PM
I never heard of thanatourism until I stumbled across this book reference. Apparently touring the Chernobyl nuke plant disaster would be considered thanatourism, according to the definition found online - touring sites of death.

I guess I could have provided a courtesy link....
https://books.google.com/books?id=ukr7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=scifimoviezone.com+thanatourism+and+cinematic+representations+of+risk,+by+rodanthi+tzanelli&source=bl&ots=CBuh5FdxgC&sig=ACfU3U3aT4BFnIG8zEVYFGnE2klVl4XODg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimuprJhunpAhUbJTQIHXTpCF8Q6AEwAHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=scifimoviezone.com%20thanatourism%20and%20cinematic%20representations%20of%20risk%2C%20by%20rodanthi%20tzanelli&f=false

I didn't get or read the book, so I have no idea what the refence is other than it has something to do with the movie District 9.