by Sapphire (August 14, 2008)
I’m not a great themer. I take other people’s themes that seem to work predictably and I doctor them. My themes have to comply with everything Mark lists here, and while some people don’t worry about having your content as close to the top of the source code as possible, I think it’s crucial. I’ve run the same site both ways, run two sites simultaneously both ways, and every time the theme with the … READ MORE
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by Sapphire (August 13, 2008)
After my recent surges of traffic to Project B-2 Bomber, Project Mai Tai got a delicious inbound that sent thousands of new visitors. A month ago, I had only one site that was above 10k and struggling to hit the 15k mark. Now I have Mai Tai over the 15k mark (up from around 8k) and B-2 closing in on… drumroll please… 50k uniques per month. These are not AwStats numbers, either. These … READ MORE
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by Sapphire (August 12, 2008)
I’ve had my doubts about Feedburner’s accuracy before, but this is ridiculous.
I know I’ve neglected you guys lately, but you’re not actively boycotting me, are you? Even bots register as 3-5 users on a site that sits untouched for years.
(All my sites are showing zeros, so there’s no way this is right. I’m miffed, too, because I had some big traffic yesterday and was hoping to see big feed numbers.)
Methinks we could use a … READ MORE
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by Sapphire (August 5, 2008)
I’m thinking about selling this site and/or ChillyCool. No, seriously.
The traffic for B-2 Bomber quadrupled last month, and it took up every minute I had, because suddenly there were such opportunities for striking while the iron was hot, and every one of those opportunities I took paid off. The traffic gains doubled the site’s monthly income - which is not much, but then that site isn’t destined to make money by selling ad space. … READ MORE
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by Sapphire (July 25, 2008)
I had some trouble getting the captions to look good in Wordpress 2.6. Here’s how I solved it.
First, I added this code from the default theme to my style sheet:
/* Captions */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}
.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}
.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
/* End captions */
That should have done the trick, but it didn’t. The problem … READ MORE
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