HomeBlend Administration

We start off May finally as a Limited Company. No longer just a website, but a full fetched entity in the eyes of the law.

We pulled our old ads because of the affect they were having on HomeBlend’s performance and have instead placed much less demanding google ads on our pages. Feedback would be great!

We’ve reached 28,000 downloads since we opened the download service at the end of march! What a record. All media is free to be downloaded and redistributed. I feel like a re-write of our terms of agreement is in order, so stay tuned. Hopefully the re-write will act to benefit and protect HomeBlend’s Population (i.e you the user).

All toons now have credits, in the form of a link back to the creators website, where available, and this seems to have been successful. We have no plans to do the same for games, as they have substantial crediting within the content its self.

Stay Tuned,

Luke Appleton CEO

On the Request of our users we’ve changed where you find some of our games… the following games have changed…

Onslaught 2 - Action ==> Strategy
Storm Winds - Action ==> Strategy
Storm - Action ==> Strategy
Storm Astrum Defence - Action ==> Strategy
Storm Winds 1.5 - Action ==> Strategy
Strategy Defence - Action ==> Strategy
Toy Town Tower Defence - Action ==> Strategy
Undefined Protector - Action ==> Strategy

Please Note: this will not affect searches

Here’s a rough Guide to the games category system on HomeBlend.net

Action - Direct Combat - Weapon /fighting /combat related

Arcade - High Score Driven

Adventure - Exploration, platformers, RPGs etc.

Driving - Games based around vehicles - Racing, Parking, Motor Cross etc.

Strategy - Indirect planned combat and game play

Sport - sport related games

Puzzle - brain puzzling games

Being only human sometimes we get it wrong… if there’s a game in the wrong place… let us know… click contact at the bottom of every one of our pages

Current bug fixes we’re working on…

1) Game de-selection in Internet Explorer

2) Content Glitches (mainly in firefox)

3) Bloated Rotating Ads

Some of our regular users may have noticed degraded performance and downtime over the past few weeks! This is because, like many of our competitors we don’t use in house hosting - far to expensive - so we outsource it to a dedicated hosting company. Our previous hosting company have caused me nothing but trouble this year so far, and last weekend’s downtime has pushed me over the edge! After over a year and a quarter we’ve decided to move to a different host! In fact that’s where we are now! So hopefully there will be no more downtime - no more degraded service and no more CPU errors that have plagued us since the autumn!

Moving to a new host is a difficult process, especially with a beast the size of HomeBlend.net. Switching over the domains has been the biggest problem! The domains may point to the new server in the UK but the old one in the USA! By Wednesday it will be all sorted though! However if you still get a little downtime, try a different domain… one of these three homeblend.net, gamesfridge.com and thestudentsite.co.uk they all point to the same server!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you have as much fun using HomeBlend as we do running it! Any hints, tips, queries or questions please click ‘contact’ at the bottom of our homepage, and we’ll be happy to answer them for you!

Ta for now,

Luke C.E.O

Some news about the GAMESfridge re-brand! The decision was made by us to re-brand everything on HomeBlend Media, under the HomeBlend.net brand, thus replacing the year old GAMESfridge! This was to stop the building confusion! Gamesfridge.com can still be used to access the site, and we still have all the same great content (and more)! Feedback on this would be great!