Archive for August, 2008

Improve Google Adsense Earnings – Disable Section Targeting

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

While browsing my site, www.bloopdiary.com, I noticed an ad that just kept re-appearing. It was for NIKE trainers, allowing you to customise your own pair with your country’s flag (at least that’s the impression I got, I’d nevert click my own ad guv’ner!) I wondered if somebody was targeting the channel given its location at [...]

Leaseweb Review – A Bad Experience

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Picking a host for your website is probably one of the most important things you’ll ever do. And fate forbid that host goes down, you’ll need all the support you can get. Actually, all you really need is somebody that is willing to investigate the issue in a timely manner, and timely is the category [...]

9 Tips On Running Your Online Community Successfully

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The web is dominated by social networking websites, and if there’s one thing that keeps somebody coming back to your website, it just has to be the community aspect. It’s what makesĀ a website a home and anchors oneself to the sea of domain names. But sometimes we forget the basics. More often than not you [...]

It’s Steve’s first weblog about website design, development and community maintenance.

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

My first blog post.