Check out this excellent site

stuart · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: Check out this excellent site

http://www.filmsonfreeview.com/
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pipedreambomb · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject:

I run filmsonfreeview.com, and I thought I'd drop a note saying this is now the official forum for the site, so please, any comments are most, most welcome. A surge in development is right around the corner and user input would be lovely. Especially replies in this thread, as I'll get an email notifying me. Registration is free and very quick, if you're just visiting from my site. Thanks, George
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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

chris6 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

Excellent addition in Jan = The list of all films for a week! Smile

ocelot · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:34 pm Post subject:

Hello there, I've just had a look around the site... it's fantastic! Easy and sensible to navigate and I really love the "Smart Views". It's gone straight into my bookmarks as I reckon this is essential reading for those with a PVR with some space left on it!

Well done.

pipedreambomb · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

Hi ocelot, thanks 'elot' for your comment............ I'll get me coat Smile

Glad you like the site, and yeah it's certainly helped me fill up my Thomson - I'm still clearing a backlog of excellent films on at xmas.

Chris6, glad you like it too - any suggestions for making the 'week at a glance' view better? It was a rush job but I'm finding it to be the first thing I go on now when I use the site.
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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

chris6 · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:

pipedreambomb · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

Can't really extend past a week at the present; would be good though, I agree.

About the larger text, I'll see about extending the width of the tables and maybe increasing the font size and generally improve the readability when I get a chance.

I wonder if maybe a Director column would be useful as well, but perhaps that's a lot of clutter without much benefit to most people.

The background seems to be broken at the moment, but so is my pc, so not sure I can fix it right now.
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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

pipedreambomb · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject:

Okay, I've changed the look of the At A Glance page, so if I'm as awesomely talented as I think I am, it should be a lot easier on the eyes. The text is bigger, the table is wider, the colour scheme is in keeping with the rest of the site, the headings are clearer and the text is centered to be easier to scan quickly. Thanks for the suggestions chaps.
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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

chris6 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:18 am Post subject:

very nice looking and useful too Very Happy

stuart · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:50 am Post subject:

such a good site.
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pipedreambomb · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:54 am Post subject:

Aw, bless you both!
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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

lstar337 · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:27 am Post subject:

Nice work!

I have used this many times for finding films.

Pipedreambomb, have you thought about optimising your site for iPhone/iPod touch users?
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pipedreambomb · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject:

lstar337, I'm glad you're finding filmsonfreeview helpful. I hadn''t thought about iPhone users specifically (I just checked and they make less than 1% of my visitors) but it does tie in with what I was reading yesterday about end usage of RSS feeds [mashable.com]. It's not so much that having a good RSS [wikipedia.org] feed means a lot of people of people will be checking it out in Google Reader, etc - they won't - but your content can find itself in lots of other places. A good example of this would be as a gadget on someone's iGoogle homepage, or their iPhone!

I'm going to be rolling out a much improved daily RSS feed that I created yesterday with the impressive Feed43 [feed43.com], which you'd be able to subscribe to and get daily film updates on your iPhone. There is one on there currently, but it barely works. I'm going to see about maybe turning the new feed into a widget people can also use on their personal web pages too. I don't know if iPhone users typically use their phone's feed reader or if they have something similar to a widget system or anything, but it's probably a lot less work than optimizing the site for a device I don't have access to Wink

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Don't pay to watch movies! Fill your pvr with Films on Freeview - tv listings with trailers, reviews, movie art and more, so you can make the most of all that free cinema coming your way. Let me know what you think!

lstar337 · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

kitchen whisk · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 9:41 pm Post subject:

The domain expired on 21st July.

Is this site likely to return? It was really good.

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