I’m sure you’ve seen them, those double underlined links from Kontera ContentLink, Vibrant Media, Snap. You rollover the link with your mouse, even accidentally, and you get small pop-up window showing you some advertising. I just found a site who has changed the link to a more regular looking single underline. And the word that […]
Archive of posts filed under the Web-design category.
Blogosphere News is in Beta
Yet another Digg-style, social networking site has been released, Blogosphere News as a beta. It’s under the management of Splashpress Media. It’s a good thing it’s in beta, it is still very unpolished. Dead links to the advertise page. And Mermberships (sic) are free. No contact form to reach a webmaster or designer or intern […]
Thoughts on the Project Wonderful ad system
I first stumbled across Project Wonderful in December 2006. Project Wonderful is a system that allows ads to be bought and sold as an auction, highest bidder gets the ad, and it changes in real time, so you can have an ad on a site in minutes. It started out as a way for publishers […]
Should I Move All of My Site’s Content into WordPress?
Right now PlanetMike.com is made up of several different technologies: WordPress, a lot of shtml pages (server side includes), a few php pages, and lots of photo galleries created with iPhoto and Gallerie. After the recent Google PageRank update, I’m thinking about basically starting over with the entire site. I think I want to move […]
Google Pagerank 6 to 4! and 0 to 3 or 4!
Wow, my Google PageRank for the PlanetMike.com home page has dropped to 4 from 6, down from 7 a year ago. Speculation elsewhere on the web says that Google is penalizing people for using Text-Link-Ads. Well, if that’s the cause, hmmm, fine I guess. Up until this month, I made much more money from Text-Link-Ads […]
Review of BlogRush.com (Syndicating your blog)
The hottest new widget on the web is BlogRush.com (yes, that’s an affiliate link). You put their widget on your site, then they syndicate your headlines out to other blogs in your same category. On your blog you’ll see five headlines from other blogs. You’ll get one of your headlines displayed on some other blog […]
Use mod_cband to manage apache, not mod_throttle
One of the discussions I found about monitoring my web server’s usage mentioned in passing mod_cband. So I got it installed on my CentOS box, and it looks like it is working. I’ll hammer on it this week to see how well it works. I found this article very useful: Manage Apache Download Speed And […]
mod_throttle is gone?
I need to install mod_throttle on my apache, and the author of the software has closed down his archive of it, and is refusing to respond to questions about it. That’s a very unfriendly thing to do, although I’m sure he has his reasons. Any other ideas for how to manage my apache system’s bandwidth […]
WordPress 2.2.3 Upgrade
I just upgraded all of my blogs to the latest and greatest WordPress, version 2.2.3. Whew! I’m glad that’s done. I won’t have to do it again until the next upgrade. Which is scheduled for Monday, September 24th.
Podcast Advertising
I’m wondering if anyone out there has any experience with advertising in their podcasts. My podcast over at ShowBizRadio.net had 2,785 downloads in July. I’m wondering if it is worth it to try to sell advertising around that size podcast. I’m thinking of embedded audio inside the podcast. I’m experimenting with scripting SoX – Sound […]