Our Allies affirmed, Contest prices updated! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
April 22, 2008
Our Allies has affirmed their magnanimous support and are benevolent enough to upgrade our prices with the following:
- Revolution Pro Media (Single Use Package) from the Godfather of all Magazine Style Wordpress Themes, Brian Gardner (1 winner)
- Peel Away Scripts from the creators of the non-intrusive advertising scripts, Lords Harris and Richard. (3 winners)
In case you don’t know what these things are, let us introduce them fairly for you. Blog Almighty will not let you get left behind with your abominable ignorance. So lo and behold!
Thou shall not hasten your domain transfer
April 4, 2008
As I have mentioned in my previous post, I have moved my domains from one host to another not just once but twice. So I am now confident to say that I’m an experienced domain mover. Want to hire me?
Moving a site from host to host could be a very tedious job but there are pointers that you should consider to make the migration process a lot easier. Remember that pointing your DNS to your new host or change of registrars doesn’t mean you have moved your site complete. It does not follow and if you’ll allow me to speak in French, I’d say “Non Sequitur.”
So based from my experience, I’ll be pointing out some pitfalls that I had encountered in the past so you won’t have to experience them. Bad for me that I learn from bad experience but good for you that you don’t have to traverse those paths.
So here goes: Pointers for moving domains
What panic bloggers need to consider for Web Hosting Solutions
March 27, 2008
I am maintaining several domains under one hosting account with Dreamhost and I haven’t got any problem with that until yesterday.
As I start to browse one of my blogs, I got a “Forbidden Access” error on the index page. I checked my other blogs and the same error message shows. I thought it was only due to my browser or my current location that causes the error until some of my loyal readers informed me that they’re receiving the same error. I logged on to my hosting control panel to submit a ticket to my hosting provider when I noticed this flash notice on their site:
In a way, I felt relieved that there really was a known general server issue and not just something particular to my account (Read: Hacking!). Fortunately the problem only lasted a few minutes in the morning and another few minutes in the evening.
Use of textarea for quick code sharing
March 2, 2008
Sometimes, when you want to build a link empire or a link train, you may want to consider giving your followers’ lives easier by giving them a little spoon-feeding. Like for an instance, I have a very creative logo here that I want your readers to post on their blogs to pester everyone until they notice what you’re saying. You may want to make it easier for them to follow suit. You know, click-copy-paste.
Like this. Click on the text below, it will be highlighted automatically and when embedded on your blog pages, it will display the Kubix Cube logo below with a link to this blog. Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted text.
The form uses the textarea HTML tag. And what does the codes inside it do is what we’re going to elaborate next.
1. textarea tag – this creates the entire form containing the codes to display.
2. onClick – this is an javascript behavior wherein the use of “this.select()” attribute will allow the entire text to be highlight on mouse click.
3. readonly – an attribute that prevents the embedded text to be modified
4. the rest are self explanatory.
So here’s the complete codes:
<textarea onClick=”this.select();” style=”width:350px;height:100px;font-family:tahoma;font-size:12px;” readonly><a href=”insert the target link here” title=”insert the mouse over text here“><img border=”0″ src=”insert the image source here“/></a></textarea>
www vs. www-less URLs
February 17, 2008
Once upon a time, Bluepanjeet complained why he can’t see the latest incoming links and comments on his dashboard. Then later he realized it was because some of the linkers are linking him using http://www.bluepanjeet.net instead of his Wordpress registered http://bluepanjeet.net. Truth is, as far as the internet, cyberspace and internet browsers are concerned, keying-in either www or www-less URLs will lead you to the same place.
According to an SEO theory, as far as search engine optimization is concerned the two URLs are of different value because each will be indexed by search engines separately. And worst, there is a possibility that you’ll get penalized by Google because Google bots are bots and bots are meant to be stupid. Why? Because Google bots would think your www and www-less URLs are different domains and having 100% same content will be dubbed as duplications. Stupid, too stupid yes!
So how do you resolve this?
Fortunately for me because my hosting provider provides me an option to either (1) add “www.” if somebody goes to http://domain.com/; (2) remove “www.” if somebody goes to http://www.domain.com/; or (3) allow both http://www.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/ work.
But what if you’re not as fortunate with your hosting providers as I am? Will you just sit around and hate the Google bots for all eternity for being stupid? Hell, no!
