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Check out the trailer for Adam Sandler's new movie "You Don't Mess With The Zohan". It's hilarious; “smell it, smell it, smell it, now take it”
1. Make sure it’s professional looking
No one likes looking at website that reminds them of a book report they wrote back in school. Invest in learning a good web design program (Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Frontpage are good picks), and let your creative juices flow. Make sure it’s compelling, well-designed, and organized. People don’t exactly find it fun to weed through haystacks of cyberfiles to get the information that they want. On that note, don’t make it a heavy site. Putting up some flash intros may be great eye candy, but the average internet surfer only waits 10 seconds for a page to load, and then they’re off to the next.
1. Set your goals
As with any business you need to set goals. Goals help you visualize where you want to go, and keep you motivated when you get up in the morning. You goal may be to earn $500 or $10000 a month, it may be to take that dream vacation, or it may be to give up your job. These are all great goals. It is imperative that you write them down and reread them often. You need a short term goal - e.g monthly goal, to keep you motivated from day to day and a longer term goal 1-2 years - to keep you on track and prevent you from chucking it in. I am confident that if you adopt a positive attitude and embrace your goals then you will soon be making money online.
05/03: The Love Guru Trailer
Check out this trailer of The Love Guru, it slap silly amusing.
Featuring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Meagan Good, John Oliver, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco, Jim Gaffigan.
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Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival athlete (Timberlake).Featuring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Meagan Good, John Oliver, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco, Jim Gaffigan.
Lately I have been seeing a lot of websites which you can use to retrieve the flv url of a YouTube video. If you are browsing in a safari browser of apple it's actually very easy to get this url of the video file without using such a retrieval website. Because the addresses of everything which is downloaded to see an internet page is stored temporarily in the Activity monitor. Just click "window" in the upper menu of safari and choose "Activity monitor". Now a window will open, something like this:
Now just select the flv url, copy it, enter it in your browser url box and there you go. You can use this method on almost every flash video website for that matter.
Now just select the flv url, copy it, enter it in your browser url box and there you go. You can use this method on almost every flash video website for that matter.
04/03: What is PageRank?
As you go through the first 10 links on the page, WHAM! The information you needed to find was in the first or second in order of PageRank. You wonder how did they get such a high rank on Google? You may think it was very expensive to get that site at the top of the heap. The funny thing is, with a little know how and about $75 you too can go for the top.
I look at a lot of sites on a daily basis. There are a lot of common problems I see on sites. Some people may have tags set-up improperly or use tags that have no real purpose. I have compiled a list of the 5 top do-it-yourself SEO errors. It's safe to say that many do-it-yourselfers may have at least one of these errors on their sites. These should help you omit these often costly mistakes and pull you up in the ranks.
1) Keyword tag – A keyword tag is for keywords, but not for any keywords. You can’t just stuff this tag with keywords that your entire site is related to. The tags should reflect keywords only on that particular page; not the entire site and not every keyword you think your site might be searched on. Also, you should have no more then 20 words in the tag. You should not repeat any word more than 3 times. If you sell tickets, for example, don't write: Broadway tickets, circus tickets, hockey tickets, boxing tickets and so on. Do use Broadway, circus, hockey, boxing, tickets and so on.
1) Keyword tag – A keyword tag is for keywords, but not for any keywords. You can’t just stuff this tag with keywords that your entire site is related to. The tags should reflect keywords only on that particular page; not the entire site and not every keyword you think your site might be searched on. Also, you should have no more then 20 words in the tag. You should not repeat any word more than 3 times. If you sell tickets, for example, don't write: Broadway tickets, circus tickets, hockey tickets, boxing tickets and so on. Do use Broadway, circus, hockey, boxing, tickets and so on.
A while back I was searching on the internet for a decent photo popup script but I didn't find the one I was looking for. I started to code one of my own using bits and peaces of other scripts. This is the code I ended up with and I'm pretty satisfied with it. It is pretty simple and does the things I want it to do.
To use this script save this code in a file called popup.js or click here to download it and upload it to your server with your favorite ftp client. The next step is to add a small piece of code to your head part of your page, something like this:
Now you can add popup links to your pictures by using a link format like the following:
Notice the href attribute just points to the image url not a javascript function, so when a visitor who has javascript disabled clicks the link or thumbnail he will still go to the big image in the same window. This is also the case with the crawlers of search engines, so your images will still get indexed.
function Foto(img,txt,width,height) {
foto1 = document.createElement('img');
foto1.src = img;
if(!txt) {txt=img}
vars="width="+width+",height="+height+",left="+((screen.width-width)/2)+",top="+((screen.height-height)/2);
newwindow=window.open("","newwindow",vars);
newwindow.document.clear();
newwindow.document.write("<html>\n<head>\n<title>"+txt+"</title>\n");
newwindow.document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"imagetoolbar\" content=\"no\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("</head>\n\n<body style=\"margin:0px; padding:0px; cursor:pointer;\" onblur=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("<img src=\""+img+"\" border=\"0\" onclick=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("</body>\n</html>\n");
if(newwindow.document.focus) {newwindow.document.focus();}
newwindow.document.close();
}
foto1 = document.createElement('img');
foto1.src = img;
if(!txt) {txt=img}
vars="width="+width+",height="+height+",left="+((screen.width-width)/2)+",top="+((screen.height-height)/2);
newwindow=window.open("","newwindow",vars);
newwindow.document.clear();
newwindow.document.write("<html>\n<head>\n<title>"+txt+"</title>\n");
newwindow.document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"imagetoolbar\" content=\"no\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("</head>\n\n<body style=\"margin:0px; padding:0px; cursor:pointer;\" onblur=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("<img src=\""+img+"\" border=\"0\" onclick=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
newwindow.document.write("</body>\n</html>\n");
if(newwindow.document.focus) {newwindow.document.focus();}
newwindow.document.close();
}
To use this script save this code in a file called popup.js or click here to download it and upload it to your server with your favorite ftp client. The next step is to add a small piece of code to your head part of your page, something like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/popup.js"></script>
Now you can add popup links to your pictures by using a link format like the following:
<a href="/img/bigimage.jpg" onclick="Foto(this.href, 'My Photo Title', '800', '600'); return false;">Link</a>
Notice the href attribute just points to the image url not a javascript function, so when a visitor who has javascript disabled clicks the link or thumbnail he will still go to the big image in the same window. This is also the case with the crawlers of search engines, so your images will still get indexed.
1. Determine if your visitors are “in the mood”
Like I mentioned at the top of this article, some web sites just don’t work with pay-per-click programs. The best performing sites fall into one of these categories:
• Sites where users go and expect to buy something while they are there. E-commerce sites fit the bill here..
• Sites where users go to find specific information on something that they want to buy now. Music and video review sites, vacation information sites, resume building sites, etc. You don’t have to actually be selling these types of things; your site can just be a mecca for information pertaining to these things. Then, when the visitor comes to read your content, they are more likely to click on your ads.
• Sites where people who have disposable income and a credit card like to visit. This includes sites with money management, investing and lifestyle content.
• Sites that draw a large amount of new users every day. Free coupon sites and “How to” sites are good examples.
• Sites where people go who expect to read ads. Classified ads and shopping comparison sites fit into this category.
03/03: CSS Zebra Effect in Nucleus
Last month I wanted to make a zebra effect for the headlines list on my nucleus site bmxaction.net. I didn't find a plugin or something for it so I wrote a little script for it. It's actually really easy to get this effect.
First I made a little zebra.php file with the following code:
To add the this in the iteration of my items I went to the my headline template and added this in a phpinclude tag like so:
The last step is to add some css to make a difference in background:
That's it! Now you have a cool zebra effect.
First I made a little zebra.php file with the following code:
To add the this in the iteration of my items I went to the my headline template and added this in a phpinclude tag like so:
<li<%phpinclude(zebra.php)%>>
<div class="date"><%date%></div>
<h2><a href="<%itemlink%>" title="Read entry: <%title(attribute)%>"><%syndicate_title(50)%></a></h2>
</li>
<div class="date"><%date%></div>
<h2><a href="<%itemlink%>" title="Read entry: <%title(attribute)%>"><%syndicate_title(50)%></a></h2>
</li>
The last step is to add some css to make a difference in background:
.zebra
{
background:#CCC;
}
{
background:#CCC;
}
That's it! Now you have a cool zebra effect.
