The Personal Site of Dan Masters

Month: December 2006

  • Live Writer Works with WordPress.com

    Ok, so I tried uploading an image to WordPress.com this morning and now it works – kind of weird. Maybe WordPress.com was having an issue. I am now testing Windows Live Writer with this blog and uploading images because I was having image upload issues here. This is my official…

  • Microsoft Responds to Windows Live Writer Issue

    I have received a response to my post – Windows Live Writer = Love / Hate – where I talked about the issues that I as having uploading images via xmlrpc to WordPress.com. I was really surprised and totally stoked that 1.) they are out there seeing what people say about WLR,…

  • Windows Live Writer = Love / Hate

    Microsoft, you either love them or hate them or both. For me it is both. They create Windows Live Writer which is one of the best Desktop Blog Editors that I have used but they have terrible support for it. The issues that I am having is that I cannot…

  • Getting Better Conversion Rates for Affiliates

    Wow, I just learned one of the most valuable lessons in improving the conversion rate of clickthroughs to affiliate sites. Stumbling Upon Traffic It all started when I started getting traffic for the “Hercules Hook” for a simple paid post that I did. I figured that there may be some…

  • The Wrath of a Bad Web Host

    Man, I am really starting to get irked with my web host – Jodo Host. They are going down on a regular basis and it is really starting to affect how I spend my time. The reason why I moved from my last host was exactly the same issues that…

  • Companies and Slow Releases

    Protopage just released their V3 of their customer start page. I started using Protopage as my start page near the beginning of the year as it was nice to have all me RSS feeds and links that I use daily all in one place. I would check their blog on…

  • Changes are Coming to This Site

    So as you may have noticed I really do not blog here very much. The main reason for that is that I am really not into Web Design that much any more. This mostly has to do with what I do for a living now. I still blog and am…