Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

January 2006 Chitika Payment

I’m not sure about other Chitika publishers, but I’ve just received payment by Chitika for January 2006’s ad revenue through PayPal. Moreover, my Audited vs. Unaudited Revenue differed relatively mildly, at around 20%.
Those requesting payment by check will probably have to wait another month or so. At least, that’s what has been happening lately.

Edit: There […]

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Local WordPress Installs

A local WordPress install provides a fully functional testing bed for themes, plugins and hacks - with the convenience and safety of your own personal computer. But given that WordPress is a PHP application that traditionally runs under Apache-powered servers, you will need to simulate this server environment on your own desktop.
And how do […]

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Google PageRank Update Is Here

It’s been a few months since the previous Google PageRank (PR) update, so it’s great to have it happening now. To check how your blog’s PR is going to change, use SEO Chat’s Future PageRank tool to see if there are any PR differences between the various Google datacenters:

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Saturday, February 18th, 2006

WordPress Plugin: Movable Anything?

Ever thought of what AJAX can really do? If not, let Movable Anything - a new WordPress plugin - mesmerize you. Movable Anything allows you to make anything on your page enclosed by certain segments of PHP code movable - allowing you to drag anything from comment forms to sidebars around the page.
What it […]

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

9rules: FineFools Mark II?

If you’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention at the blogosphere and the forever interesting news that pops out of it, you would have noticed the Paul Scrivens-launched “jihad” against 9rules members that don’t meet specific uhh… requirements. Now, to me, it does look like very tasty link-bait just a little like the […]

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Self-Explanatory Banner Design @ pc4media

I just had to link to this. There’s a very short post over at pc4media on designing banner ads and how some have taken extreme measures to the extent of making banner ads misleading.
The conclusion given is a very simple text banner ad on: Fight Breast Cancer. The banner animation, of course, changes everything. That […]

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Drupal Theme Garden: More Drupal Themes?

Unlike many other Content Management Systems (CMS) - whether blog-specific or not - Drupal has a very comprehensive section of its official website dedicated to themes. But, besides the obvious reason of Drupal having a very strong developer community, this is possible only because there are a manageable number of publicly available Drupal themes - […]

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Increasing Search Engine Crawlability in Wordpress

Making our blogs easier to crawl by the various search engine bots is the main reason why we put up with so much crap, from permalinks (nice ones too), categorisation to sitemaps. But there’s one more thing you can do to improve your crawlability - which is to ensure that every page is within two […]