Google’s Page Rank Update
Looks like Page Rank (PR) has been updated in the Google Toolbar, and I’m pretty happy with the results this time around. Personally I didn’t see too much jump in any of my sites. I had a couple of sites bounce from 3 to 4, and one from 4 to 5. I’m most happy that [...]
Removing Author Names from FeedBurner Feeds
Ever wanted to force the author name in your rss2 feed supplied to FeedBurner? The group blog I’m building gives authors anonymity, and that’s pretty easy to do on the site itself. But after a few test posts I noticed that the author name stilled showed up on the FeedBurner feed, which is [...]
Google AdSense Revenue Sharing
I’m working on a group blog project and I wanted to share AdSense revenue with my contributers. I quickly found Harley’s WordPress plugin for AdSense sharing and got it activated–it’s very easy to use and works nicely. The only problem is that the new style of AdSense ads cannot be assigned to another [...]
Free vs. Membership
We were (un)lucky enough to learn some very important information about our target market for the membership site we’re developing. Unfortunately, it seems like a very tough market to penetrate (not open to outsiders) and a group that really, really, really doesn’t like to pay for anything.
But that’s ok. We’re going to trim [...]
Test Driving bbPress
I have an installation of bbPress running on this site now. I haven’t themed it yet, and I’m not totally committed to bbPress as my new favorite message board, but I will say that the installation was very straightforward, and it was a snap to integrate with my WordPress installation. Feel free to [...]
Back to The Forums
I think I jumped the gun a little bit selecting a forum. After a lot of research I’m now leaning towards vBulletin. I got caught up in the “freeness” of other boards and didn’t consider the fact that vBulletin is relatively cheap–a couple of hundred bucks is nothing compared to the time I’d [...]
A Good CSS Plugin For Firefox
Over the weekend I spent a lot of time messing with WordPress themes. I’m definitely not an artist, and I’m barely literate at CSS, but I would have been lost without this nice little Firefox plugin that lets you see the CSS tags on a page live.
I used it mostly to check which tag [...]
Testing Some Changes Here
Obviously, I’m testing out a new theme here. I’m basing it off of BwDec2007, changing up the colors, adding the use of widgets, moving a few things around, and adding some logos and other things. I think the best way for those of us who aren’t artistic to come up with a new theme is [...]
Seminars and Survey Software
To kick off the actual content end of our membership site, we’re going to conduct a seminar for some local people who are in our target market. We’re doing this for free, by the way. The way we look at it, it’s the least we can do for the valuable service they’re providing us.
The attendants [...]
Narrowed Down Forum Choices?
The two options I’ve been looking at today are phpBB3 and bbPress, which is supposed to integrate well with WordPress, but still seems a little shaky. My other big issue with bbPress is that I’m going to need to be able to handle several different account levels.
Here’s what we were thinking as far as memberships…
Admins–obviously, [...]
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