If you run any kind of forum you probably will need to deal with this problem sooner or later. And sometimes this problem is not easily noticeable in an active forum such as the one I am responsible for with our free fansite hosting community.
Feb
12
Jan
15
Seems this new “PPP” revolution is starting to get some national press coverage.
Pay-Per-Play (PPP) is the web’s newest and fastest growing form of advertising. Those 5 second audio only ads by V2P Communications was recently mentioned in The Wall Street Journal in an article titled, New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue.
Jan
5
Since we are not earning as much as we use to from Google’s Adsense program, we decided to start experimenting by joining other advertising networks.
WidgetBucks had created a huge buzz among webmaster’s circles everywhere with their crazy ads and promises of a high cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and a $25 sign-up bonus and quickly became the “Internet’s fastest growing ad network.” These banners feature pay-per-click shopping widgets that instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers.
Jan
1
We just rang in the New Year… but what about our web sites ? Did they ?
Most sites have a little line at the bottom of each page displaying a copyright notice and year. We try to remember to update this line every year at this time. We are also all probably guilty of forgetting about that line sometimes.
PHP has nice built in date function which allows you to display dates in human readable formats. As long as your site is coded in PHP, which most of today’s content management and web scripts are, it should be very easy to add one small line of code in your site’s footer page.
Just replace the year with <?php echo date(Y) ?> and your pages will then automatically display the correct year and change at midnight like clockwork. You will no longer have to edit all you site’s templates like I just did.
Dec
30
Domain Owners Beware!
If you own any domains, please beware of any unexpected bills arriving by mail about your domain name expiring and expected a payment of three times the amount you would normally pay at legitimate registries, such as GoDaddy or Tucows. I get them all the time and toss them right into the garbage where they belong.
This particular deceptive letter I get comes from a shady company called Domain Registry of America (droa.com). They also use the names, Domain Registry of Canada, of Europe and of Australia and have been tricking technically challenged people since at least 2002.
Dec
21
I was swapping some hard drives around the other day and was reminded about an old portable USB drive that I had laying around. So while I had one of our family boxes open and its drives disconnected I figured that this would be as good a time as any to tinker around with that drive that was presumed dead for many years now.
My computer was not picking up any signs of life from this device and I had written those files off long ago. I figured maybe I could salvage the USB connection or possibly learn something else from this loss.