Welcome to Tweaked for your Pleasure – A website in which time just stops. Tweaked for your Pleasure was started way back in the year 2003 and was started up (and still owned and updated by) Matthew Ellis. Originally, it never used the domain "snat.co.uk" (read in the history section). This blog has articles about anything and everything, anyone and no one and isn’t afraid to say what we want and when we want too.
Currently, Tweaked for your Pleasure only has one regular author and that is the owner – Matthew Ellis. Tweaked for your Pleasure is written in both English and the Hebrew language. Should you be looking to issue a complaint with Tweaked for your Pleasure, I would advice that you e-mail at abuse @ this domain and you may get a reply back one day. If there is a problem with the actual website or illegal content, e-mail the owner of this website at matthew @ snat<DOT>co.uk and you will get a reply.
Interesting in writing an article or two ?. If so, e-mail Matthew at the above address.
History
Please be warned, this history may be incorrect due to having to do this from memory. If you notice it is wrong, please let me know.
About 5000 years ago, Jehovah created the heavens and the Earth …. wait, that is to far back. Lets go back to the year 2002. This history covers both Tweaked for your Pleasure & Just a Community. The history of the two websites still exist today and went on to form other websites such as Wrights Productions and Ultima Development Laboratories itself.
Snat’s Blog
Started: Jan 12, 2002 – Ended: Sometime in 2005
Snat’s Blog was opened on CJB.NET in the year 2002 and this was updated quite rarely at least one a month if that but it was done via just simple HTML. The design of Snat’s Blog never changed during the whole of it’s life. It was a simple orange layout that has a part on the left hand side for links and a main body for the text. This website was done in tables and was actually my first ever web design that I have ever done using just HTML alone with no software packages like Microsoft FrontPage.
This blog had a range of content but the later content of it during the year 2005 is pretty much the same as the basics of Tweaked for your Pleasure. Snat’s Blog from 2002-2005 was only updated by the owner – Matthew Ellis.
Due to the HTML version of Snat’s Blog couldn’t have comments (and the likes of IntenseDebate didn’t exist back then) so with Jacob Baker’s idea that a forum was opened up in order to allow people to comment about it. Which now leads us onto Ellisfamily.TK.
Succeeded by:
- Tweaked for your Pleasure (2005)
Ellisfamily.TK
Started: Some time in 2003 – Ended: Sometime in 2007
During the year 2003, a community board was made which was only known as Ellisfamily.TK. It never really had a name but it was finally known as All4All and Ultima Forums during the time of it’s life.
Ellisfamily.TK originally opened up using phpBB on the free forum host that CJB.NET offered at the time and this went on from the year 2003 to the year 2005 without any problems which the sole idea of allowing to have comments on Snat’s Blog. However during the start of the year 2005, it was brought offline for an unknown reason which was never exactly explained well but regardless it opened up again by this time using IPB 1.3.1 that Forumer offered on it’s free forum hosting service.
However the time on Forumer was short lived. Due to problems with the error 3 code on Forumer fDomain which was never solved. Sadly for this reason, it was decided to closed down the Forumer board before deciding to actually go much further with it. For the first time during Ellisfamily.TK history that it was opened up not on a free forum host but rather on a web host with a self hosted forum script.
So in the year 2005, Ellisfamily.TK was opened up on FastHost and after a few months, it was opened up on Shacow (no longer in business) and then finally, it was moved onto Ultima Development Laboratories itself. During these times, Ellisfamily.TK ran on Invision Power Board 2.0 and 2.1 and MkPortal. During this time, Ellisfamily.TK started to offer services such as web proxies and web hosting which formed the very basic of Ultima Development Laboratories online services and it was this that finally caused the death of Ellisfamily.TK. It was also in this year a massive change was made. During this time, Tweaked for your Pleasure was formed which used WordPress so thus had a working comment system and for the first time of Ellisfamily.TK life that it wasn’t no longer a part of Snat’s Blog / Tweaked for your Pleasure. It is also worth noting that at this time, the website was designed using an orange theme which went on to be the basic design of Tweaked for your Pleasure and future websites today.
During the year 2006, Adam Wright opened up the Ellisfamily.TK Fansite (Archive is now online) which was located on a subdomain of Ellisfamily.TK (archive coming soon). 
However due to big changes of Ellisfamily.TK that was coming, Adam Wright stopped developing the Ellisfamily.TK Fansite and in turn, formed Wrights Productions that you can see online today. It was during this time, that it was designed that the services from Ellisfamily.TK should be pulled away and be formed onto Ultima Development Laboratories and it was this time the IPB licence was moved over to Ultima Forums (Community of Ultima Development Laboratories which then moved onto udl.Community which exists today).
The old Ellisfamily.TK boards finally died in the year 2007 due to lack of interest. In the year 2010, Just a Community went to using IP.Board and the Ellisfamily.TK domain once again pointed to the forum. As of today, Ellisfamily.TK now points back to the forum that it once used to be. Marketing also started on Just a Community saying that Just a Community is the new Ellisfamily.TK.
Succeeded by:
- Ultima Development Laboratories (2005)
- Wrights Productions (2006)
- Just a Community (2009/2010)
Tweaked for your Pleasure
Started: Sometime in 2005
So, the year 2005 came and it was re -opened using WordPress and on the domain Snat.co.uk. However, due to lack of interest by myself and others, it wasn’t actually updated until the year 2007. During the year 2007, it was updated often (and still is updated to this very day) by Matthew, Patrick, Ricko Mann, Richard Lawrence, Carl Lenton, Adam Wright and a few guest authors from time to time.
During the year 2008, Snat.co.uk was renamed to Tweaked for your Pleasure and will be staying like for for years to com During the year 2009, Tweaked for your Viewing Pleasure was started as a community based video series in which the community is able to submit requests to the series. It was also in the year 2009 that Just a Community was re-opened and still exist today.
On the 8th of June, 2009 that Tweaked for your Pleasure was started to be translated into the Hebrew language under the domain Snat.co.il. The Hebrew version of Tweaked for your Pleasure was launched with the name דפק על ההנאה שלך which is a loose translation of the same name in English. As this website is just the Hebrew version, it is not seen as a different site but rather as a part of Tweaked for your Pleasure and thus is listed under the same history.
While the website started off with success, a massive problem with qTranslate caused issue with the content management system and due to this the Hebrew version of the website was removed and since then the domain Snat.co.il has been parked on Google Adsense and currently still there to this very day.
On the 24th of Jan, 2010 a very important change was made to the back end of Tweaked for your Pleasure which not only affects the blog but to all current and future websites that relates to the Tweaked for your Pleasure Network. It was on this day, IP.Converge was installed to serve as the back end for all the websites relating to Tweaked for your Pleasure. For the first time, a single unite user name could be used on any website that is a part of Tweaked for your Pleasure.
On Thursday 11th March, 2010 that the Hebrew Version of Tweaked for your Pleasure (known as דפק על ההנאה שלך) was re-opened however unless past tries at this website, that the Hebrew website will not be back dated with articles from Tweaked for your Pleasure and it will no longer be a directly translated version of Tweaked for your Pleasure but it will have it’s own articles which are unique. However that being said that a lot of the articles will be re-written into Hebrew and published on there. On the same day that דפק על ההנאה שלך was added to IP.Converge and a Hebrew version of Just a Community (will be known as רק קהילה) is currently in the planning stages which will also use IP.Board or bbPress like the original Just a Community.
It is also worth noting that during this re-launch, that the Hebrew version of the website now follows a blue design rather then an orange design. This design is based on the Israel flag and will be a common theme for all websites that is apart of the Hebrew website.
Author Spin Off
Due to the success some authors have on Tweaked for your Pleasure, they decide to open their own website based on their own styles that they have posted on Tweaked for your Pleasure.
- Richard Lawrence (Universal Games – 2008)
- Patrick Merritt (Ferritt’s Rambling’s – 2010)
- Matthew Quinn (Blackstar’s Carven – 2010)
Just a Community
Started: Sometime in 2009/2010
Just a Community was started up in the year 2009 using bbPress and was started with the same idea in mind as Ellisfamily.TK which was – Just to create a community which you can see from the name. Just a Community was closed down during the middle of 2009 but was reopened at the end of 2009.
During the end of Jan, 2010 that bbPress was decided to be replaced by IP.Board. While there was a member or so that did voice their views saying that bbPress was useless – it did suit what was needed but was ultimately decided by Matthew Ellis and Adam Wright to move over to IP.Board as in to bring back the "Ellisfamily.TK" feel and thus it was decided. A donation drive was started ti raise up the money for an IP.Board licence and the goal was raised within days and one of the major donor was Matthew Quinn.
On the 24th of Jan, 2010 the convertion to IP.Board was started to be carried out and the release date is unknown at this time.
Another important change at this time was that IP.Converge was setup to unite the different websites that belongs to Tweaked for your Pleasure.
Random Facts
- Pretty much from Ellisfamily.TK onwards, Ricko Mann has done at least some design work for the websites.
- The community from Ellisfamily.TK never infact died, it just moved from Ellisfamily.TK to UDL, UDL to Tweaked for your Pleasure.
- For the first time in any of these websites history, Adam Wright took an active development into the web design of Just a Community, 2010.
On the 20 of Jan, 2010 that Snat’s vBlog has been started. It is a video series which is based on Tweaked for your Pleasure ideas and rants but on a more personal level of the owner of Tweaked for your Pleasure. Basically, it is pretty much the same as the articles but on a more personal level with the author.
