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After some twittering with Gio over at TheOvernightSite.com , I’ve agreed to participate in his Adsense Challenge.

In an effort to help out my readers and potential clients, I’ve recently set up a new page with information about some of the best hosting companies out there. You can see it here: Hosting Information.
There is a link to it on the top nav-bar.

Writing Pillar articles is an important part of building good unique content for your blog, and getting some traffic. Pillar Articles are posts you write that are designed to be ‘evergreen’ or always relevant, and should be some of your best work.

In my previous post about the Options Wordpress Theme, I mentioned how I always thought Fret Feed would work better in a magazine-style format, and I was considering using Options as a basis for the re-design. Well, it’s been done. Now I’d like to talk a little a bit my thoughts & processes for the [...]

Developers and Designers have an old saying: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. People shouldn’t waste their time re-coding things that have already been done. I toyed around with the idea of making a “Press++” theme for Wordpress, which would be a theme that would turn Wordpress into a more robust CMS, and add a lot of [...]

Today I finally decided to dive into the wild world that is JavaScript. I had finally read enough about this spiffy JavaScript frame called JQuery to give it  a shot. JQ is more a replacement for JavaScript that it is a an add-on, and provides quite a bit of functionality.

Magazine style looking blogs have been all the rage lately, and one of the best ways to enchance the look of your blog and give it this look is by adding thumbnails to your posts.  As you can see, I’ve added the functionality to this blog, and now I’ll show how you can make a [...]

John Cow just started a new contest on his site, to promote the release of a new product called StoreStacker.  StoreStacker seems pretty cool. It’s a piece of software that will automatically set up an affiliate store for you, using offers from several different affiliates.

Everyone who blogs talk about how much they want to get links to help them climb up the SERPs.  One way of doing this is by giving out links generously to other bloggers you like. Sometimes you get a link back.  If you don’t, it’s still good karma.

Whenever you have a form on your website, and you are putting that data into a MySQL database, you have to take some precautions.  People can inject SQL queries from the form, and you can’t let people do that. Just imagine if someone injected a DROP TABLE statement.