Updates tonight:

Added labels for Edit/Save/Undo/Delete buttons on Bills and People lists. Thanks to Vy for the suggestion.

Added a "Click to add Bill/Person" note on Bills and People lists to make it more obvious how to add a new person. Thanks to Holden for the suggestion.

Major thanks to Kal-EL on EFnet #ASP.NET for the tip to set the LABEL text instead of CELL text.  On re-draws, the blank label text was writing over the cell text and causing the "click to add" to disappear. I was baffled and spent hours trying to get past this.  There were so many variables ... poorly formated CSS styles? Bug with AJAX? I tried everything before Kal-EL had a great suggestion to try setting Label text instead of Cell text.

I do this at the risk of being mistaken for a sleezy Multi-Level-Marketing salesperson offering "A once-in-a-lifetime, ground-level business opportunity" ....

I just went to www.vistaprint.com and ordered a free set of 250 business cards to promote www.BillSplit.com.  They won't be arriving for another 2 weeks, since I selected the standard processing (14 days).  After shipping and "processing" the total came out to $8.95.  How are they able to offer this for "free?"  There's an ad for vistaprint.com on the back of every card.

 

Now, don't mistake me for a cheapskate (even though I am in some ways).  I've already spent HOURS/DAYS/WEEKS on the website and programming.  This is a FREE site, for the good of the Internet/Mankind/World.  I should get some sort of anti-cheapskate points for that.  Money-wise I want to spend as little as possible to get the word out about www.BillSplit.com -- I'll do it as a one-man-show, one person at a time... otherwise how are people supposed to find out?

So my plan is to take these business cards and distribute them onto campus post boards, onto people's cars, near dorms, apartments with student roomates etc.  I'm not asking for any money, and I haven't even implemented Google Ads yet.  I equate Google Ads to playing the penny slots in Vegas.  I won't make much money, and the money I get probably won't even be enough to buy lunch.  But it'll still be fun to see the numbers, however small they may be.

Someone asked me about www.BillSplit.com, "How's this going to make money?"  My answer was, "I don't care if it makes money or not. As long as people use it and appreciate it I'll be happy"

 

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Groovy.

Dean :)

Hey Folks,

I've never done this blog thing before, but how's it looking for my first try?  I modifed a dasBlog template (Elegante) to fit the layout of BillSplit.com ... not too shabby for a blog newb huh?

Dean :)