I’ve been checking my sites on Bad Neighborhood this morning. It’s a pretty useful tool. So far I’ve discovered that some of my theme designers’ home pages have hidden links to pharmaceutical and porn pages, which means I was indirectly linking to those. It tends to err on the side of caution – for example, [...]
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ETA: this method for blocking referral spammers may have caused my site some problems. Read about it here. The approach of blocking IPs to keep out the barrage of referral spammers hitting some of my sites lately had mixed results. So I found another method which I’m trying. It looks foolproof, but I’ll report in [...]
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I’ve been keeping all my webmaster notes in a WordPress blog for a while, and it’s getting to be a pain to find things. And, being database driven, it’s not the fastest-running thing on earth. None of the database-free Wikis I’ve found quite do what I want. TiddlyWiki rocks, but it’s for your PC, not [...]
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I asked the question a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m able to confirm that the latest update to FireFox blows. Oh, it’s not crashing or anything like that. It’s just caching sites when they go down, and then serving up the cached (down) version until you empty the cache or (in some cases) [...]
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Is it just me, or have the last few updates of FireFox sucked? I’m having extremely slow pageloads on a lot of sites, and I’m getting that old error message of doom about a script that’s screwing everything up, and you can hit “stop” or “continue” even though it doesn’t really make any difference. It’s [...]
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I just upgraded to Firefox 2 today, and I came across something very cool that works with it and IE7. It’s called the Open Search List, and it’s a maintained list of (I’m guessing) roll-your-own search engines. You know that top right hand corner search bar in both browsers? In Firefox, it’s Google (by default) [...]
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I’m horrible with screen captures. I hate doing them because I find the steps complicated. I mean, doing them isn’t too difficult, but then you have to save them locally, and then you have to FTP them to a server and all that. I just find it a pain in the ass. I found a [...]
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A pal of mine was kind enough to notify me that SiteSell is giving away two ebooks for free: Make Your Site Sell and Make Your Content Presell. I haven’t had much time to glance through them yet, but I think you’ll find good solid tips on making your copywriting pop and probably a lot [...]
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ETA: a fix (scroll down) If you want a really simple ad rotator, try this one from FlashHere.com. No ads, no control panel, no MySQL database. You just upload to your server a php file (the script) and a text file. Then you paste the ad code into that text file, one ad per line. [...]
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I know I talked about using Mambo on something, but I opted for Drupal instead. You can see it in action at my new directory/articles site, ChillyCool. My main reason was, I kept reading about how SEO-friendly Drupal was. And they’re right. Getting Drupal to generate static urls in place of dynamic ones is incredibly [...]
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