This article I recently wrote for Ezinearticles.com admittedly hits the surface of a very large topic, but it might serve as an introduction to marketing with pay-per-click advertising for someone.
Read the article: 5 Easy Steps to Test a Business Idea for Under $1000
October 28th, 2006
Sometimes there’s a piece of CSS you just have to use for one browser and hide from the rest. In a case like that, you will need a hack or filter. Today, I found an interesting chart that shows various filter hacks and which browsers they target. Take a look: http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/
October 25th, 2006
Yesterday, I needed to select a list of albums from a database searching on a list of instruments the artists played. This worked fine as long as there were not multiple artists playing the same instrument, in which case, the album was repeated in my list for each instance of the selected instrument.
To fix the problem, I needed to select that album as DISTINCT even though my search string was repeated. I found a code snippet that I modified to achieve this on the MySQL site here:
the whole query for retrieving an array of rows with one field distinct (no repeats) is:
select *, count(FIELD) from TABLE group by FIELD having count(FIELD)>=1;
October 24th, 2006
There is a new breed of Web designers learning CSS web design techniques instead of transitioning from table based Web design. For them, tools like the Yahoo! UI Library CSS Grids page will be very valuable. There is an active support community which should offer an environment where a beginner can navigate some of the difficulties of learning CSS.
The library shows how to create multiple Web layouts from a single CSS file, enabling newcomers and old-timers alike to harness more of the power and efficiency of Cascading Style Sheets.
Update: Nate Koechley has written an informative tutorial on using the Yahoo! UI Library to create CSS grids. There are several functioning examples provided. I found this tidbit thanks of Stylegala.
October 16th, 2006
A client contacted me a few days ago and requested that I add a few additional SPAM impediments to his Wordpress blog. These improvements were based on a post over at Shoe Money that has some excellent pointers.
Based on my quick investigation, it seems that suggestions 5 and 1 offer the most promise and the least complication.
Suggestion #5 is to block No Referrer Requests. Depending on your server configuration, you may need to play with the suggested .htaccess rule. I changed it from the original:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L]
The following rule is my modification, because the whereyouwanttosendthem.com url was not working correctly … simply appending to the end of the blog url instead of redirecting the page.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*myblog.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.myblog.com [R=301,L]
Suggestion #1 is excellent and simple. Rename your wp-comments-post.php file to anything you choose. Change the links that refer to this file in your comments.php template file and away you go. If you’ve implemented suggestion #5, you’ll need to change your .htaccess rule to reflect the new wp-comments-post.php file.
This is an excellent post by Shoe Money and the whole thing is worth a read!
October 3rd, 2006
Big news in August slipped below my radar. What’s the fuss? There’s now a fix for a small but frustrating problem that has plagued CSS designers ever since the release if Internet Explorer 6.
When a mouse rolls over a link that the designer has styled with a background Image, IE6 shows a flicker as it changes states. Though there were cumbersome fixes, nothing was available that worked simply and elegantly.
Enter Dan Popa’s IE6 Image Flicker solution. A simple Javascript snippet placed in your HTML document’s head element fixes the caching problem completely!
Here’s the code:
javascript:void(document.
execCommand("BackgroundImageCache",false,true))
Thanks Dan!
1 comment September 29th, 2006
It’s that special time of year again, when the first plush Santas, singing snow men and blown-glass Christmas ornaments begin to appear on store shelves.
You know. August.
What, you find it hard to muster yuletide spirit when you’re wearing a bathing suit?
Well, too bad.
September 7th, 2006
Having presented the other side of the coin, I thought I would also publish this post presenting some good reasons to adopt the Wordpress Engine as a CMS.
If you are an experienced user of WordPress and want to setup a non-blog website - perhaps a portfolio site, news/magazine site or even an e-commerce site - you might just want to skip the more robust content management systems most people tend to suggest, like Drupal and XOOPS, and consider using WordPress for your CMS-oriented task instead.
August 31st, 2006
Though Wordpress can be used as a simple CMS, it is not specifically designed to function as a content management system. Some limitations that should be considered before you choose Wordpress as your CMS include an overly simple post and user management system and a rigid permalink structure.
1 comment August 27th, 2006
Over the past few months, the range of behaviors available via the JQuery library has grown rapidly. Initially, it was fast way to hide and show divs and change CSS classes on the fly with very little hand coding. Now, it has matured into a library of behaviors that can empower Web designers with high quality animation and interactivity.
view some additions to JQuery | digg story
August 23rd, 2006
CSS Web design, e-commerce Web design, and internet marketing issues from the desk of Harvey A. Ramer at Design Delineations.
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