Living up to my promises

October 16, 2007 | 2 Responses

Earlier this month, I mentioned that I would be updating the look of the comments board and the tail of each post. Well I finally got around to doing it. You can now proudly display your MyBlogLog avatars alongside your comments. Feel free to try it out

I also added a similar posts widget and decided to push the RSS feed a little more and in a more aesthetic way.  I’m glad to have this stuff out of the way.

I also heard about a new plugin that attaches the latest blog post from the comment author’s blog to each comment, which I think is neat and I may decide to implement that later on.  For now I’m just happy to say I know about it.

I hope you like the changes.

Webfetti toolbar pimps your profiles

September 13, 2007 | 13 Responses

Sites like Myspace, Hi5, Blogger and Zwinky, are a fantastic way to promote your website and also a lot of fun even for those who don’t have a personal website. You make an account, begin adding friends and you’re off.

Many of these social networking sites allow your to tweak your profiles to your liking. This has lead to billions of sites that host Myspace generators, layout tweakers, page pimping, and whatever else can be thrown into the pot, all in exchange for the sacrifice of your profiles’ link juice, the sometimes even the functionality. Nearly all of the sites that host these services for you, are just looking to get free exposure from your profiles and, when you get there, the site has little to nothing to do with Myspace profiles.

The difference with pagefetti tools is that they have everything to do with profile pimping, and nothing else. No registration is required to use their page pimping and it is a free and safe, one time download.

All the tools you need to pimp your page in one download. Integrated into your browser, the Webfetti profile pimping toolbar makes it incredibly easy to customize your profile or spice up your page.

You can add glitter graffics, generate layouts and customize music players skins and pimp out frames for your photos and videos with the free pagefetti download. You will have your own unique presence on most of the profile site giants and your profile will stand out above the others. No matter what your reasons for wanting a profile page on Myspace, Hi5 or others, be it website promotion, group working, networking, dating or otherwise, you can easily see the benefit of having your own unique profile page like no others.

Some older stories

September 10, 2007 | 1 Response

Things have been a little hectic around here with school kicking off and everything else. I have had little time to get down to this stuff here. But, instead of doing something lazy, I thought I would do something lazy with a little twist.

I’m doing a roundup, but the stories are all mine. It is quite possible you missed a lot of these because they were from before we switched over to Wordpress.

 Holiday Horrors (starring me) - From this past Christmas break.

Myspace photos: Which is worse? - A very true tale of censorship. Generated a lot of traffic on the original version of this site, but since the URL changed… zip.

Man Vs. Beast -  Perils of living with nature. This story brought me my first big taste of the Google love. It kept turning up on the front page when people searched foolproof mousetraps.

Stop offering me hosting

August 30, 2007 | 2 Responses

I’m downright insulted when people offer me hosting. What can your host possibly offer that I don’t already have? Unmetered bandwidth, unlimited domain hosting, unlimited email address, subdomains, mySQL databases, ect.
Realistically theres only so far that a hosting company can push it. Don’t get me wrong. I like being able to host as many domains as I want. Its also nice knowing my bandwidth will never run out. But you might as well all stop offering me hosting because I get all that and more already.

I like that they hand out free text and pay-per-click advertising to each and every customer.The search engine submission is nice too. Its really great to have a host that will back you and help get your site started.

Support is also very important. We all like to think we are web professionals but everybody gets a case of the stupids every now and then. The support at my web host have seen me through many such cases and even helped me out with some issues that would baffle any pro.

People try to dazzle you with all these stats and extras. But the fat is, every hosting company with a decent arsenal of servers has the resource to offer that same thing. It is other stuff that makes my host outweigh the average Joe server-in-my-apartment Jr.

You can’t top a business that gives you free stuff, helps you out when the product isn’t working. Not to mention has one of the highest affiliate payouts of any web hosting company.

So who the frig do you host with?

I joined Midphase two years ago and never looked back.

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