Some Scary Stuff

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Some Scary Stuff



Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sorry folks, I had to delete the last post with all comments

My apologies to EmmaCunnan, bluehands and sam444. While working on the new store I noticed that it had developed a bug in one of the plug in modules. The easiest solution was to delete the store and start again but unfortunately that course of action made all of the links in the last post dead. The... Sign in to see full entry.



Saturday, March 1, 2008

Tips for posting your email address online

I wince when I see someone who is a novice at authoring web pages utilize the old fashioned HTML "mailto" attribute to post their email address online. Email harvesting spiders don't have to do any work at all to index and record your email address in their data bases. On today's internet you will... Sign in to see full entry.



Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The dealer's store is almost complete

I'd like to tell you that I know what I am doing but that would be stretching the truth a bit. To take my simple osCommerce template a step further along the road of commercial viability, I have to find a way to make it suitable for a person with modest coding skills to quickly learn and produce... Sign in to see full entry.



Friday, February 22, 2008

A great free software program

I have a dream to write a script that I can incorporate into my osCommerce template to make it extremely useful for selling large ticket items online. To see large ticket items such as cars, equipment and other things that cost thousands of dollars you need lots of images. People put a lot of time... Sign in to see full entry.



Sunday, February 17, 2008

No one needs bad business

Quite often I will be approached by persons to set up an online store for them who know very little about what is involved and what they want or even need. These type of people must be treated with caution when entering into a contracting situation and for a number of reasons. All of which are the... Sign in to see full entry.



Friday, February 15, 2008

Anyone need an online store?

A few months ago, I set out to apply what I have learned about constructing templates to the real world. I started with a Wordpress theme, have a working copy that is used by a few people but realized that there is very little potential for an ongoing revenue stream from this so more or less... Sign in to see full entry.



Sunday, February 10, 2008

Free blogging software for serious bloggers

One of the things I have gotten from Blogit is a rudimentary understanding of the world of weblogs. From the word "weblog" we have derived the common vernacular to describe it as a "Blog" and subsequently those who would utilize a weblog for instantaneous internet publishing have come to be known as... Sign in to see full entry.



Wednesday, February 6, 2008

This blog is moving on

After completing the small sale of my website along with the rights to my eBook, I am one blog in the public blogasphere short. Not that I can't live with one less blog but I have this thing about my blogs being organized into general topics. So... my long running blog Web Raisins, which was closed... Sign in to see full entry.



Saturday, February 2, 2008

More developments for my public blog

One of the biggest things that using Wordpress as a blog publishing platform does for you is give you content management capability (CMS). Once it is understood that Wordpress is what it is, a great number of efficencies can be built into your online publishing efforts. The use of RSS feeds becomes... Sign in to see full entry.



Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Where does the blogging revenue come from?

I've had a number of people ask me this question pertaining to my new public sports blog LeafsRant.com Revenue is earned primarily through affiliate links leading site visitors to commercial sites selling everything from tickets to jerseys to collectibles. There are also a few other revenue streams... Sign in to see full entry.


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