While working on one of our many websites a day or two ago, I found a really cool image magnification effect that I’d not seen before.
Eager to track it down, my first port of call was my favourite site for this type of script, Dynamic Drive, and lo and behold, I found it instantly.
It’s called jQuery Image Magnify v1.1, and it’s dead easy to install (and it works on IE, Firefox and Opera).
Give it a try - you’ll love it!
I’ve used PHP redirects to cloak things like affiliate links for a long time now, and I’m therefore a bit rusty on the other techniques (e.g. JavaScript and Meta Refresh).
So, when a guy I’m collaborating with on a project or two asked me how to cloak his affiliate links, I started by setting up a sample PHP script for him, but then when I tried to remember exactly how to use the other non-PHP methods, I ran into a wall of amnesia.
As always in this situation, I turned to Google, and happened upon a brilliant website where you enter the URL you want to redirect to, and it instantly gives you copy-and-paste code you can use in all three formats (i.e. JavaScript, Meta Refresh and PHP).
It’s quick, simple, and means you need to know or understand practically no code at all.
The site is called My Redirect Code, and I highly recommend it.
(BTW, my friend has written an excellent short report called Unlimited Profit Streams that’s well worth a read, and it’s only $7 USD. If you can’t make that back after reading and applying what he teaches, then I suspect Internet Marketing isn’t for you.)
Well, we took the plunge a few days ago and signed up for our very first VPS hosting account, after spending a day or two researching suitable candidates.
Our requirements were quite specific, for reasons that are not relevant here, and the sign-up process and post-sales set-up were not without their problems.
However, I should make it clear that none of these were the company’s fault - it was more to do with our lack of understanding about VPS.
You see, I have a fair bit of experience in managing websites using the standard cPanel, as offered by what’s probably our favourite hosting company, Host Gator, but VPS is a whole new world, as we recently discovered - the learning curve appears to be steep.
Firstly, the O/S we chose, ubuntu 8.04, only comes with a thing called Virtuozzo Power Panel, which is fine for one of the reasons we wanted this server, but it apparently meant (more…)
I came across a great tool today that you can add to your website in minutes – and the best bit is, it’s 100% free!
It’s called the Mini Search Automator Widget, and you simply need to configure a few options, copy the code that’s generated for you, and then paste it into your website.
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1. You can type in any search term you want.
2. You can search across a wide range of sources including Google Web, Yahoo Answers, Google Images, Yahoo Images/Flickr, Google Video/YouTube, Truveo Video, Google News, Digg, Wikipedia, Seeqpod (music), Last.fm, and Amazon.com - all of them are a click away!
3. You can earn money by referring people to SearchAutomator.com.
4. You can also earn money from Amazon.com too.
5. And you can search your own domain (although your site will already need to be indexed by Google).
You can pre-configure up to six recommended searches (e.g. terms that are related to your website), every feature of the widget has a tooltip to tell you all you need to know about using it, and it won’t slow your page down as it’s only 8KB in size.
You can use this widget just about anywhere too – on your site, your blog and even on forums.
So, grab up your free copy of the Mini Search Automator Widget now!
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Being a bit of a geek (or is that nerd?), I’ve installed no end of supposedly useful tools and applications on my various PCs over the years.
Most of them turn out to be nothing more than a novelty that gets tired very quickly, and so they get unceremoniously dumped soon afterwards.
But there is one free tool that I’ve had installed on my PC for a few years now, I use it every single day, and it really does save me loads of time, not to mention mouse-clicks!
It’s called (more…)
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