Archive for August, 2006

Better Adsense Results with Ontok Highlighter

As I mention in this post - The Adsense Cleansing is Complete - I removed all of the Adsense from the template of my blog because it was ugly and really intrusive. Also I really was not making an money on it.
Well the same day that I removed the Adsense I came across Ontok Highlighter [...]


WordPress SunFlower Theme - 500 Downloads in 2 Weeks

Simply Amazing.
The Custom WordPress Theme named Sunflower that I made for my wife’s blog has been downloaded over 500 times since it was released 2 weeks ago.
This theme as you know is a rendition of my Beach House WordPress Theme that has been downloaded over 2000 times in the last 2 months (see my [...]


Windows Live Writer Flickr Plug-in Test

So there are already some plug-ins coming out which are nice.
The Technorati plug-in moved the Live Writer to a state that I can use it now - which I will.
This post though is to test this new Flickr plug-in.


Writely Starts Accepting User Registrations

Writely has finally begun to accept new user registration.
They had stopped accepting registrations shortly after being acquired by Google.
As soon as I heard I signed up because I had heard that you could post to blogs from Writely so I want to try it out.


Optimize Your CSS for Better SEO Results

Wow.
You know the SEO arena is getting competitive when people start optimizing their CSS for SEO purposes.
I was just really starting to understand the benefits of CSS over a table design.
Anyway this is a really good article that compares some different CSS optimizers and publishes the results.
The article is - CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites [...]


SEO Glossary - Brush Up on Your Search Engine Marketing Terminology

Recently I was given the opportunity to manage someones Google Adwords Account.
As I was getting more into looking at the different Campaigns and Adgroups I released that I did not know some of the terms that they were referencing.
I started searching and I found this SEO Glossary that was able to help me out.
Not only [...]


A Good PHP Tutorial Site

I am starting a new project at work that is requiring me to do some dynamic sites in PHP.
I have not really worked with PHP in the past but have become more and more familiar with it by using WordPress. I have mostly worked with ASP in the past but I cannot use that for [...]


40 Different CSS Page Layout Site

Here is another resource that will help will CSS layout for a standard site or even a WordPress Blog template.
It is Layout Gala and they have 40 different CSS layouts that are free to download.
Their site can be found at http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/

Technorati : CSS, Layout, Web Design


Mindcomet Web Design Interactive Agency

I have across one of the nicest and best laid out Web Design Company web sites that I have seen in a long time - Mindcomet.
They label themselves as an Interactive Agency which I think is very appropriate based on the presentation of their web site.
You can tell that they are very professional by the [...]


Trailfire - Have Your Say on Any Web Page

Another cool concept in the Social Web has come out from a company named Trailfire.
What Trailfire does is gives you a Firefox plug in that allows you to place your comments on any web site. With the plug in installed you are also able to view other people’s comments as well.