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- Ad Revenue Driven Websites - Step 1 - Brainstorming
The Ad Revenue Driven Websites series will be a series of articles detailing the steps towards creating a website that’s being put up solely for the purpose of making money from ads (or affiliate programs). This series coincides with a project of mine of the same nature. I’ll try my best to make the info [...]
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:28:45 +0000 - When to Open Links in New Windows
I’m hoping to make the Web Usability Tip a weekly feature. Each week, I’ll shed insight on a different topic related Web Usability. This week, I’ll be discussing links and links opening in new windows. Internal Links Everyone has a different take on links and where they should open. I think we can all agree that most internal [...]
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:58:52 +0000 - Difference Between an OK Backlink and a Great Backlink
What is a Backlink? Simply put, a backlink is a link from an external website to your website. When the Google Search Engine bot spiders a website, it factors in how many and how good links that are pointing towards your site. Google sees this as credibility and this is likely to influence your Search Engine [...]
Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:24:38 +0000 - Flash Sites Need Spiderable Content
Imagine this, you’re a Web Designer or Graphic Designer straight out of college, you’ve bought yourself a domain (with your name in it of course) and some hosting. You’ve been taught quite a bit of Adobe Flash and put together a gorgeous portfolio site. You search yourself on Google a few weeks later, your page [...]
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:11:20 +0000 - Building an Online Game Community - The Right Way
This is a follow-up to the last article where Fury was used as an example of a game where it’s trying to build an online game community, but ends up doing a poor job. You’ll find that the game I’m about to describe and Fury had a lot of the same initial attributes. Instead of [...]
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:22:25 +0000 - What is my Domain Name Worth?
No, I’m not talking about MY domain name, I’m talking about what yours can possibly be worth and where you can find information and where you can find a pretty good idea at what your Domain Name is worth. Please note that I’m speaking about Domain Names and not fully designed established money making sites. A [...]
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:43:27 +0000 - Everyone Should Have iGoogle as Their Homepage
Just a quick tidbit, for those that may find the name unfamiliar, iGoogle was recently (April 2007) renamed from its original project name: the Google personalized homepage. The best description I can give of iGoogle is that it’s a personalized homepage. It can do everything you can ever want from a homepage and can do [...]
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:51:17 +0000 - Harry Potter Spoiler Creates a Web Marketing Opportunity
I actually stumbled across this find by mistake. I almost wish I would have thought of it sooner, because I imagine there’s a market there for people buying shirts to ruin someone else’s reading experience. I remember back when the previous book came out that people were running around with Snape kills Dumbledore t-shirts. What the [...]
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:02:17 +0000 - Why Won’t My FLV’s Display?
This is possibly the hardest problem to troubleshoot, because without knowing the reason why it’s not working, you can’t really pin-point a solution, troubleshoot or explain your problem on a web forum. So tell me why: Why won’t my Flash Player load my FLV online? Here’s what you probably did: You created an new SWF file You inserted the [...]
Sun, 15 Jul 2007 20:30:50 +0000 - Making a Favicon.ico
What is a Favicon.ico? A Favicon.ico is an icon file used to replace the default website icon in the browser. Favicon is short for Favorites Icon. In Firefox, the default icon is a blank page, as seen in the following picture: A customized Favicon.ico will appear in the browser’s window beside the address, in addition to in [...]
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:41:01 +0000
