People who monetize their websites know that the first thing an advertiser is going to want to know is how heavy their traffic is. Not everyone gets thousands of hits every day but a good blog should be in the one thousand range most days. An excellent blog will be in the five to ten…
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The New Theme
‘Well, here it is, my new theme.It still has a few wrinkles in it but I was ready for something new. This is a learning experience for me as this is the first theme I have designed. There are some things I like about this theme and some things I do not.Over the course of…
New theme sneak peak
Here is a quick (cropped) screen cap of my work on the new theme.Click on the image to see it full size.The color scheme will be red/black and there will be rounded corners (among other things). I’m also going to use excerpts on the front page and utilize my footer space better than I do…
BENEFITS, PARADES, & A WEIRD AL CONCERT:STORMTROOPERS DO ‘EM ALL IN SEPTEMBER
Hi Folks,Just as the title says, The 501st Legion will be making MANY appearances during the month of September. Some are benefits, some are promos, ALL ARE FUN. Come join us, won’t you?EMPIRE CITY GARRISON EVENT: Invisible Children/ Project: RestorationDate: 9/8/07Time: eveningPlace:New York City’s Columbus Park ,between Mulberry and Baxter This gig benefits TWO organizations:Â Invisible…
Notes on the pending theme change
‘A few days ago I wrote about my desire to put a new face on this blog. I am in the middle of designing a new wordpress theme just for me and I’d like to tell you a few things about it before I change over.One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to…
When designing a new theme don’t forget your visitors!
A few blogs I read recently went under the knife and came out with new Themes. One such blog is John Chow dot com who has a much improved appearance thanks to the work of Nate Whitehill of Unique Blog Design. As nice as John’s new theme is I have to say that on my…
The Vista move: Day 1, Easy Transfer
I know many of you are wondering how our first day with Vista went, well, it was not so good. The computers themselves are good and Vista on it’s own looks nice but we needed something done right away; we needed our files.Because we have a 100Mb home network I did not buy the overpriced…
The Vista move: Day 2, Where are my Mozilla settings?
Here it is, day two. Last night I let the Transfer Agent run all night long on my laptop yet some of my settings did not transfer over. I am talking about Firefox, the browser I prefer to use.After a little bit of work I manually transfered over my Firefox data and now I’m going…
Hasta la VISTA, baby!
This weekend I finally broke down and replaced two of the aging computers in my home. One was my wife’s Athlon 950MHz desktop and the other was my old Celeron 1.33GHz laptop. I replaced hers with a desktop from Acer and mine with a notebook from Compaq. It is amazing how different these two machines…
YouLicense – the Online Music Licensing Marketplace
When most people think of music licensing they think of the RIAA, lawsuits and poor little old ladies being sued for all they own because someone downloaded a terrible song. What if there was an alternative? What if artists did not have to go the way of the RIAA to get their music out there?There…
Google Assumes 10% click fraud rate
I was just reading an interesting article over on Marketing Pilgrim about Google and click fraud. The essence of the article is that Google automatically discounts about 10% of all AdSense clicks as fraudulent. These “false positive” clicks are just thrown out and the advertiser is not charged and the publisher is not paid.Google makes…
Blogging Friend: Grimjesta
One of my blogging friends is a guy who goes by the name of Grimjesta. I’ve known him for several years now and he recently moved his blogging efforts from MySpace to his own domain over at Grimjesta.com.Grim is a punk, mohawk and all. He’s also a gamer. He recently acquired a Nintendo Wii and…