Untethered Dreams

We recently moved over from OpenX to OIO Publisher as our ad platform but before we did, I did some research into what the affordable options were (aka free!). It quickly came down to two (2) platforms: OIO Publisher and Google’s DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers) Small Business. I wrote a guest post over at Famous [...]

A detailed review of O’Reilly’s Head First Wordpress book, a technical in-depth introduction to the popular blogging and CMS platform.

If you’re a blogger, then you probably do a lot of copying and pasting and sometimes it’s the same stuff over and over. I had been using ClipX pretty successfully for a long time, but recently had major issues with it, probably due to some recent Windows XP update. That meant I had to go [...]

In all likelihood, you’ve seen where you perform a search on a website and the results look just very much like what you get when you do a search on Google. Well, in case you’re wondering how that works, Google has a product called Google Custom Search that lets you do just that. There are [...]

We recently decided to replace the built-in commenting system that comes with WordPress on Gizmos for Geeks due to its limitations and that we were spending too much time dealing with spam comments. We looked at the 4 most popular/capable comment replacement systems available now: IntenseDebate, Disqus, Backtype and JS-Kit’s ECHO. We briefly considered Facebook [...]

In case you’re not familiar with Google’s Sitelinks, it’s those ‘additional’ links that (up to recently only) show up for the 1st result in Google’s search results if the site in question had distinctive categorized content. Ok, that was a mouthful. Here’s a concrete example. One of the sites that we run, MvixCommunity, which is [...]

While working on special projects for Felthos Foundry that will be revealed in the near future, I found developing only on the QA Server a bit cumbersome as the connection was not always quick and I could not completely modify the QA site as needed. Realizing the limitations, I brought the code back to my [...]

Twitter is one more way in which you can promote your blog, and if you use WordPress as your blogging platform, then one very useful plugin is one that automatically publishes your latest posts to your Twitter account.

Ah, it’s about time that Alexa upgraded the methodology they use to calculate their website rankings. Folks in the business of website promotion in any shape or form know about Alexa and use it as one of many metrics to determine at least if they’re on the right upward track. But they’ve also known for [...]

A simple concept, but such an important one. As we’ve learned the hard way, particularly if you’re starting out your online business as a side gig, focusing on 1 product or service is a critical factor in your success. Try not to get carried away with trying to implement all of your ideas at once. [...]