According to this article, “Texas based ISP Redmoon has implemented software that hijacks pages being visited by their customers by placing Redmoon’s own ads on these pages.”
Ugh! Aside from being evil and wrong, plastering your own ads on someone else’s website is like putting the words SUE ME on a giant billboard. I don’t think […]

We’re almost there. Our engineer has a crazy amount of work to do before we unveil the new Naperthrill.com in a little over a week… sucks to be you Patrick!!
Even though we’ll be going live, we won’t be going on any all-out advertising blitz because we want to kind of phase people into it. In other […]

Now that it’s almost summer (it doesn’t “officially” start until June 21), I feel compelled to take a break from talking about Thrill and focus on the #1 threat to America: BEARS.
Last night I was watching the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet or something, and it was a show about bears. Did you know they can run […]

The test version of our restaurant guide blows, which you probably already know if you read my last post. In the course of combing through all of the comments made by our testers, we had a long talk about what to do with this little conundrum and a couple of crappy ideas were tossed around. How are […]

We’ve gotten some more test results in, and here’s what we’ve learned so far:

Our homepage sucks. As of right now, our homepage has very little in the way of graphics and this doesn’t exactly excite the people who have seen it so far. We privately rationalized the text-heavy layout by pointing out that craigslist doesn’t have graphics and they’re […]

Well it’s been a while since this blog was born… frankly, there hasn’t been much that we could write about publically. We’ve been building the site, making decisions, fine tuning, yada yada yada. But we’re just about ready to release the next incarnation of Naperthrill.com! See my last post (yeah, the one from 9 months ago) for […]