Travis Smith, a sophomore at the Savannah College of Art and Design, is trying to create the world's longest Internet page with postings from a broad array of people and companies. If Smith accomplishes his goal, the site will stretch for a mile horizontally. Though he has attracted many advertisers, Smith is trying to distinguish his site, the Mile Wall, from www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ and similar sites, virtual billboards of advertisements that sell a pixel for $1.
Smith is also offering features like searches and flash. Several Flash designers are working on movies for yet another aspect of the wall: a competition that lets Internet visitors decide which Flash movie is best. Smith said that if he accomplishes his goal of a mile, he'll give the Flash movie winner $1,000.
Entries of all kinds are $1 per inch and can contain still images, text and mixed media featuring anything except offers for "free" products and services, gambling sites, pornography and "anything else which will make the wall look dull and cliché."
Smith said he saw a television interview of the college student who created milliondollarhomepage.com and decided to change the concept a little and try it himself.
In the three weeks since Smith took milliondollarhomepage.com's inspiration and put it to work for himself with a new twist, it has grown to about 8 feet. If it goes the full mile, he'll collect $450,000, enough to cover the $35,000 tuition he pays. He said he would use the remainder to help his mother, feed himself and to feed his entrepreneurial spirit.
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