Do you remember all those passwords?
Posted on October 31, 2007
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Every day I am having to log in to various social netwoking system like FaceBook, Del.ico.us and many others online boomarking, blogging and email systems.
Unless I have not cleared my cookies on my computer or changed some setting, I have to manually log in my username and password to these sites.
What if I haven’t logged in to the site in months?
Creating an affiliate redirect page with PHP
Posted on October 24, 2007
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So you have joined an affiliate program and wish to drive traffic to the website without revealing your affiliate link, why not create a simple affiliate redirect page using PHP.
In this example, we’ll create a stand-alone PHP page which will contain your affiliate link. When the online user visits your new page, they will be automatically re-directed to the affiliate website. A database connection for this example is not required, you simply need for PHP to enabled on your web host.
FeedBurner is your WordPress friend
Posted on October 12, 2007
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So you’ve created your first post in your new WordPress blog. Excellent!
If you want to syndicate and share your blog posts, you will need to publicize to all you RSS feed URL.
By default within your WordPress blog, the RSS feed location is ‘www.yourblog.com/feed/’. Try it out right now!
Upgrading your WordPress to 2.3
Posted on October 10, 2007
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Yes there’s a new version of WordPress out.
Should you update your current version? Absolutely!
How long does the upgrade take? Roughly 10 minutes
Any fiddling or adjustments? No
Where is the new version located? On the WordPress download page …
What is the process?
- Review the Upgrading WordPress webpage
- Download the new verison
- Save to local drive and upload to your server.
- Maintain your ‘wp-contents’ folder (this is where your custom plugins and site templates are located)
Got time for 100+ cool generators?
Posted on October 8, 2007
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An interesting post for over 100 online generators that you can you for
your website!
CSS, generators, quick and simple domain name generators, emails
utilities, favicons, forms and more.
http://www.ifxplus.com/post/More-than-100-Web-20-Online-Generators.aspx
Have fun!
Start a Blogger Journal
Posted on October 5, 2007
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Part of the indexing strategy for your new website or any existing
website is creating a Blogger weblog.
Why another blog?
I thought I already created one back when I set up WordPress?
A number of reasons and you may not see the benefits immediately, but
believe it or not, good Blogger blogs get indexed in the search engines.
In a matter of minutes I created a new blog and with their default
templates I can add RSS feeds, Google Adsense, links and more!
Links?
Yes, part of the indexing strategy to have others links to you …
moderately. Too many link may cause flags to be raised and then you’re
in trouble.
Also, Blogger sits on a different server than your website. Links coming
in from a different server or location also help as well. To be
discussed further in detail.
Also, it’s part of the Google family. Ties in nicely with your gmail and
Adsense monetization account.
Lastly, with Blogger you can easily post to the blog via email, whereas
with WordPress.com it is not possible and with your custom Wordpress
blog it takes a bit to set up.
Explore Blogger, review their
templates, customize and add page elements to the templates, easily
insert Adsense code and you are off and running with an additional
source for external links coming in to your website.
Here is a simple example of development journal I created ages ago and
simply forgot about.
http://antonjamm.blogspot.com/
The purpose of the development journal in my case is to post items that
I find through the day in regards to PHP, web development and affiliate
programs. Nothing fancy, but it gives you an ideas of the simple
capabilities of blogger.
As you can see, I’ve imported the RSS feed from SimpleWebsiteGuide.com
to preview on the main page of the Blogger website.
All this was set up within 20 minutes.
Your comments greatly appreciated
Post to WordPress blog with Thunderbird email
Posted on October 4, 2007
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Well this will be my first test post to this blog via email - pretty
cool and hopefully much simpler.
I’ve tried out various 3rd party applications that help your post to
your various blogs via email, but some were clunky to set up, some
actually used up too much resources, etc. Too much to manage.
Why not set up an email address, write to the email address and have it
posted right away on your blog?
Indexing Step 4: Setting up Wordpress blog plugins
Posted on October 4, 2007
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Now that you have set up your blog from the ‘getting indexed step 3‘ post, we’ll need to add a few plugins that do not come standard with WordPress.
Plugins?
Yes, plugins are like add-ons to your WordPress blog. They’re really simple to download, install and configure. Plugins can be anything from adding custom widgets to your blog to adding simple image galleries to your site.
Why plugins for search engines?
Indexing Step 3: Create a blog
Posted on October 2, 2007
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A blog? What do I need a blog for?
Look around, they’re everywhere now. Many multi-national companies have blogs, Google has had a blog for ages (in internet terms), a relative of yours may already have a blog, people are blogging.
Well what is a blog?
According to WikiPedia Blog entry:
A blog is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; others function as more personal online diaries.
Indexing Step 2: Get links pointed to your site
Posted on September 28, 2007
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Step 2 in the ‘getting indexed‘ process is having links placed on other websites link to your website.
How?
- If you have other websites built, place a link there for the search engines to follow. What’s even better, if other site is related in content to your site: a real estate website linking to another real estate site, a geothermal site linking to another geothermal website, etc.
- Email or call your friends and ask them to link to your site.
The 3-day index challenge
Posted on September 27, 2007
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You’re so excited! You’ve built your website, uploaded it to your web host provider and now you await traffic from the web! Life is good.
People will visit your site, get to know you or your business, request information, persue your site, purchase things, contact you, click on your ads, participate in your blog or forums and more … life is good!
Hold on one second.
If it’s a new website, let alone a recently registered domain name, you perform a search in Google and whoa … nothing!
Test it before you post it
Posted on August 24, 2007
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So you have completed working on your beloved new website and you feel relieved because it may be 3 in the morning and you’ve already had too much coffee and sleep is the last thing you want to do now. Right now you want to tell your friends, post it to your favorate forums, add it to Facebook and more.
But wait!!!!
Although it may look great in your browser, have you tested it in an alternative browser?
Create an internal backup policy
Posted on July 30, 2007
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My weekend started off with a hard drive crash!
In the world of creating websites, things do happen with sites, hardware, clients and just about anything imaginable. Computers are not perfect, expect things to go wrong and have a back-up policy in place.
Advise to anyone wanting to build websites for a living - exhibit lot’s of patience, back-up and don’t give up.
My trusty laptop was due for an upgrade and I did buy a ‘My Book’ external hard drive with tons of space over the weekend.
The goods on copyright
Posted on July 18, 2007
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Building your website based on someone else’s images and content is a big no-no! Yes it is simple to copy and paste content from another website, but in time, you may be found out!
When thinking of content for your website, keep it original is the golden rule. This applies to images and content. Someone else’s animated banner will not work on your site, it’s their colors, it’s their message.
Questions for creating a new web site
Posted on July 12, 2007
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The following are questions website developer or webmasters will ask when planning on building your website. Reviewing these simple questions will assist you and the web developer in putting together a solid website quote.
- Who is the website for?
- Is it for personal or business use?
- Who is the target market and what are their demographics?
- Will you be targetting teens, adults, seniors, males under 30, small business community, academics, local market, nationwide?
- Tell us about your business
- What type of business
Considering a blog for your website
Posted on June 29, 2007
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I had a discussion today with a billing service provider in regards to their products and services. Towards the end of the conversation, they invited me to visit their website to find out more about their company, their clients, their offerings and more. One thing they did mention was “Please don’t pay attention to our blog, it has not been updated in a while”.
Create a favicon for your website
Posted on June 25, 2007
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Favicons are those cool little website icons associated with a particular website. This custom icon appears next to the website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser.
Common examples include: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo
How to add a favicon to your site
You will need a Windows Icon file (.ico) that is uploaded to the main directory of your website.
By default, name your custom ico file ‘favicon.ico’
How to create a favicon
$10 Website Logo Update
Posted on June 8, 2007
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To add to the website logo tips post, I ended up trying a $10 web 2.0 logo service and ended up with the new current logo on this site.
There are literally tons of talented graphic designers out there who are willing to produce material for your website at a very low cost. Mine in particular is from Australia and by the sounds of his emails, sounds like he is still in school. Great job!
Tell the world for under 12.5K
Posted on June 5, 2007
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Some numbers outlining that a site can be built for under $12.5K
In total, I spent $12,107.09 to launch Truemors. During the dotcom days, entrepreneurs had to raise $5 million to try stupid ideas. Now I’ve proven that you can do it for $12,107.09.
A website experiment by Guy Kawasaki built under 7.5 weeks that generated over 14,000 visitors on the first day
Thinking about your new website logo
Posted on June 5, 2007
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When building a new website for a client I like to ask for a business card or company letterhead to see if a company logo or a certain type of branding exists.
In most cases, if the company has been around for a while and has spent money on marketing, they will in effect have had a professional design a logo for them already made.
In other cases, the company is starting out and is looking for an identity to represent themseleves with online.
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