This isn’t a review, but rather a collection of my thoughts after deliberating on whether I should try out LightPress on one of my blogs. For those who are out of the loop, LightPress is a fast front-end for WordPress - our favourite PHP blog software. Basically, it’s installed as a WP plugin, but it […]

This post was not pre-written, but I am still on vacation in South Korea. As such, I might not be able to respond to any comments posted here. Thanks for understanding.
Just a short link post for a couple of interesting news pieces I just read over at JenSense:

Adsense Webmaster Guidelines Changed QuietlyGoogle has quietly added […]

The following was pre-written to ensure continuity while I’m on my trip to South Korea. As such, for the next few days, I might not be able to respond to any comments posted here. Thanks for understanding.
Ahh, another advertising network. Don’t get me wrong. Niche advertising networks can only help its publishers get maximum opportunities […]

For some reason or another, everybody loves looking at figures relating to online income. Yes, that definitely includes me. Every time a problogger (or more generally, a web entrepreneur) publishes his or her income information, a jolt of pure pleasure shoots up my spine.
So, when the ProBlogger, Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger.net fame published his […]

First up, I dislike inline advertising. I tolerate it for very, very few sites that I visit, e.g Investopedia. The only reason I even have them on any of my blogs (and only one at that) is because Clicksor pushes it with their standard contextual advertising service.
A couple of days back, Adbrite announced that […]

Much like how Google publishes their Adsense heat map over at their Help Center, Yahoo! has decided do come up with some YPN ad placement advice over at their blog.
For the most part, the advice from both contextual advertising giants are the same. Ads close to content are good, leaderboards between content and top navigation […]

I was studying up on moo.fx recently and came across some good tutorials, whether for beginners or intermediate web designers. For those that are unaware, moo.fx is a lightweight Javascript library that allows you to produce some really cool effects on your site/blog, e.g. real-time sliding content areas (i.e. drawers) or background-colour changing when someone […]

It seems that Yahoo! will be updating its web advertising offering, Yahoo! Publisher Network, in stages - hopefully meeting its stated third quarter deadline for a full introduction. Among the intended improvements are more visible “ad quality” scores through a new Quality Index, quicker ad testing by advertisers, geotargeting, and cross-network ad purchasing.
The first […]