Google Adsense has been in the development site for a few weeks now, and is developing well. In fact almost seems to be slowly learning more about the site and refining the ads that it serves.
At first I kept getting banner ads served for Wordpress, the platfom used to create the site, but now I am getting quite good ads appear for Battle of Britain model kits and of course lots for film rentals. Still getting the River Kwai Thai restaurant advertising on the 'Bridge on the River Kwai' page though - I guess at least it's not a Thai massage parlour!
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Introduction to the War Film Reviews Project
By way of introduction to this blog, I thought I'd better explain what it's all about! This is the development blog to accompany the creation and launch of a new website at www.warfilmreviews.co.uk, which as the name suggests is a site aiming to review as many war films as possible.
Each film review will include a brief synopsis, most memorable moments, ratings and so on, and will be categorised under a number of headings. I'm hoping users will contribute their own comments on the reviews and suggest films I've missed.
Why has the project come about? Simple because my wife is always telling me "why are you bothering to watch that rubbish war film, how many times have you seen it by now?" I came to realise that I had indeed seen every war film I come across at least once before, and had an opinion on every one. And the rest, as they say, is history...
Each film review will include a brief synopsis, most memorable moments, ratings and so on, and will be categorised under a number of headings. I'm hoping users will contribute their own comments on the reviews and suggest films I've missed.
Why has the project come about? Simple because my wife is always telling me "why are you bothering to watch that rubbish war film, how many times have you seen it by now?" I came to realise that I had indeed seen every war film I come across at least once before, and had an opinion on every one. And the rest, as they say, is history...
Gladiator: War Film or Not?
Tricky one this - I had Gladiator on the original list of films to include in the website, but now I'm just not so sure.
It could be worth including just for the opening sequence alone - "on my command, unleash hell" and so on. After all, how many other war films feature flaming fireballs, hordes of bearded Goths and packs of trained war dogs? But then I really can't remember much more action after that.
I think I'll leave it out just for now then maybe come back come back to it in a new category of 'partial war movies'.
Adding Film Names
We are currently adding empty pages to the site for each film title, ready to start working on reviews and content. Currently up to G in the alphabet; Glory, Guns of Navarone etc., and probably about one third of the way through the initial list.
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