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Thesis Ups Its Game With New Design Options

10.31.09

This blog is designed using the Thesis Premium WordPress theme, and I am so in love with the product that I am an affiliate for the theme. (In a previous article, I tell you why I promote the HELL out of Thesis. The short answer: I love what Chris Pearson did for Copyblogger.com over the years, and this is my chance to have quality design and powerful SEO tools built into my blog.)

The new design options are spectacular. They answer a few people’s concerns that thesis can look pretty similar when just turned on and applied to your blog. There’s a video showing you some of the design options here:

Click here if you can’t see it.

This will give you a bit more design control. The thing is, MOST people use Thesis as a starting point and then use a designer to make it pretty. I can strongly recommend WeFixWP and Coffeehouse Ideas as two groups who can up your design.

Anyhow, if you want to pick up my vote for the best wordpress theme out there, and if you want to earn me three beers worth of loot for doing so, check out Thesis and get the best SEO boost your site’s had in a while mixed with flexible design and features that I feel improve the performance and the presentation of your site.

There are many other great WordPress themes out there. I’m supporting Thesis because I like the team, I like what it does for my blog, and I believe a quality theme goes a long way towards earning me more success.



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Begin To Earn Money From Domain Name Via Domain Cash Parking

10.31.09


Whether one has no money, a little or a lot in the bank, there is always the desire to earn more. Have you ever wondered how the Internet can help increase your earnings? If you are one who enjoys learning new trades, then you may actually earn money from name via cash parking.

The first step to cash parking is to have a to park. Second is to find a place where to park it. Now what is a ? It is the address to your . It is the name between the www, com and the two dots in the URL. The most common names would probably be yahoo and google.

You can own a name by either creating and registering one; or buying and transferring one to your name and then registering it. Registrations are done through official Internet registrars. There are a number of registrars available on line. You may need to pay something like ten dollars to register a . Once registered, nobody else will be able to use that name to create a .

One important thing to remember in buying a name is to check and make sure that it has not been banned due to spamming. Otherwise, search engines will not be able to locate your . These steps are easy to follow finding the data.

After you have registered your , choose a site that will you page. The , or service provider, supports your undeveloped . Advertisements are placed on your page. These advertisers who are looking for exposure will be paying on a per click basis. Therefore, it is important to choose a name really well as the success of your parked will depend on how often search engines can direct traffic to your site. Some service providers will charge you for parking. The others who will provide the service for free and will be earning solely from the profit sharing scheme that is common to all cash parking clients and hosts.

Although you will be sharing the income with your , the good thing is you do not have to spend time and money putting content or maintaining your site. In summary, cash parking benefits four sectors. First, the general public who is pointed to links and pages relevant to what was originally being searched for.

Second, the advertiser who is seeking exposure. Third, the site or the parking service provider which also earns from the clicks to the pages of the advertisers aside from the fee you pay. Last but not least: you.

Now you understand move about How to earn money from name via cash parking you can turn your undeveloped websites into money making investments. If you have never really gotten into registering any names, then perhaps it is time you consider doing so; and start parking them for limitless additional cash flow possibilities. Just remember, choosing the right name is very important. Everything will start there. Choose a name that search engines will easily find. If you need to, do some research.

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Teaching In The Next Way

10.31.09

laptop kids I love this interview that Shel Israel did with Howard Rheingold (a favorite author). Partway down the interview, Howard goes into some of what he does for teaching with modern tools. I ripped this part out. Check out what Howard does:

One strategy is to have only the student co-teaching team keep their laptops open while they are helping me lead the class; one member of the team makes notes on the wiki, sketching in top-level headings that the other students will fill in AFTER class, another member of the team identifies words for the lexicon and adds them to the wiki (and again the class, as a whole, fills in the definitions before the next class), and a third member of the team looks up sites online and projects them (I have three screens in my classroom at Stanford).

You can read the whole interview here. I’m grateful to Shel Israel for getting this out of Howard. Nicely done, sir.

Photo credit One Laptop Per Child



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What To Look For In A Web Host

10.31.09

Are you looking to build yourself a website? Trying to give yourself a presence on the internet? Then you would definitely be needing a web to your site on.

First thing to think about though when looking for a web is the sort of website you are thinking of creating. Is it going to be a just a personal site about yourself and your CV, Is it going to be a family site with lots of family pictures? Thinking of setting up a busy forum about your favourite hobby, or a game server to play your favourite games online with friends or are you even contemplating having multiple sites? All this questions would have to be answered before you embark on your search for a suitable .

One thing you would notice straight away is most hosts have plans providing you with gigabytes of space and bandwidth. This could lead you to believe your site would take that much space which could then lead you into comparing hosts by comparing the amount of space made available to you going for the company that offers the largest space. (I have seen a company offering 100Gigabyte of space once). The truth is most websites don’t even use anywhere close to that amount of space. Majority of sites don’t even use up to 1Gb of space. The average website on the internet today uses less than 50MB of space (yes you read that correctly 50MB). Even an album based website for example a family website with family pictures would still use less than 500MB of space. But don’t take my word for it, If you can, build your website offline first of all using a site building software such as dreamweaver or nVU, exactly how you want it to be online with all the images and you would discover how very little space it uses up. It is therefore possible to have several websites on just 500MB of online space.

So I here you ask, why do offer as much as 5-100Gb of space in their plans? Well the truth is because they all want to appear competitive.

They know your site wouldn’t use that much space and they know you most likely don’t know that, so they try and prey on the natural human trait known as GREED. Out of greed, people would always want to get the most of something they can even though they wouldn’t use all of it. I have even seen some companies offering Unlimited disk space which is just laughable.

So do these companies have so much space to offer everyone? As you guessed it, the answer is no. What happens is they oversell! Because they know you most likely wouldn’t use anywhere near your allocated space, they oversell to make as much money from you as they can before you finally transfer to someone else.

And if a client comes along with an extremely heavy website and does use even 75% of the space allocated to him, he would most likely get kicked off by the provider with the reason that he’s using too many server resources.

Another trick of the trade is the amount of sites you can have on your accounts also known as ‘add-on domains’ on your account. One could assume that if you cannot fill 5Gb with a single website, then maybe perhaps you could fill it with several websites. Well these ‘overselling’ companies have thought about this too and what they do is limit the amount of websites you can have per account. So on say a 5Gb account, you may only be allowed to have 2 websites or add-on domains.

Bandwidth is another thing to look out for. But like disk space, you usually don’t use close to what is being offered, and this is also grossly oversold. Bandwidth is basically the amount of data that is transferred from and to your account everymonth. Technically you can work out the amount of bandwidth you are going to need by using this formula:

[Average size of your webpages + any graphics used] x [The number of visitors you expect each day x Number of pages each visitor would view] x [30 days] = Total Bandwidth for the month.

For example for a 30 page website averaging 8kb per page, and 50kb worth of images on each page. If you get 50 visitors a day viewing an average of 4 pages each, the total bandwidth for the month would be [8 KB + 50 KB] * [50 visitors * 4 pages] * [30 days in a month] = 348,000 KB. Therefore this site would use a bandwidth of approximately 348Mb per month which is well within limitations of any company.

Therefore what should you look for when choosing a company? The most important thing to look at is the server specs the company uses, and just as important the support they provide to their clients. By seeing how much effort a company has put into to develop their support department would tell you the sort of experience you would have with them. Is their support just an email address? If so then you probably wouln’t want to be with them. Does their support have a knowledge base? Ready made questions and answers, video tutorials to show you visually how to solve the most common problems? An email ticketing system so if you do email them, responses can be tracked? Live chat so a quick question can be answered instantly? A good that is not just worried about their profits would invest the time and energy into making all these available for their current and potential clients.

So when next you are out shopping for a webhost, don’t just look at the amount of space and bandwidth you get, also look at the support available to you if a problem arises as it almost always does.

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Here’s How You Make the Most Money With $5 and 2 Hours

10.31.09

Via Hacker News we have this video out of the Stanford technology venture program.

****** Spoiler (also from hacker news) ******

She teaches a class at Stanford and offers each team $5 of ‘funding’ in an envelope. She tells them that once they open the envelope, they have 2 hours to make as much money as they can.

She cites three teams’ approaches:

1) First team opens a free stand that offers to check peoples bike tire pressure for free, then charges $1 to inflate if necessary. This team changes midstream to accepting donations instead of charging, and makes more money. Lauded for rapid iteration.

2) Second team makes lots of reservations at local restaurants, and then sells them to people waiting in line for same restaurant. Didn’t use the $5 at all. Lauded for realizing that the $5 constraint was artificial, and that using it constrained their thinking.

3) Third team skipped the exercise, and sold their 3 minute class presentation time as a advertisement to a local company. Made the most money. Instead of presenting, they recruited. Lauded for realizing that the 2 hours was also artificially hampering their thinking.

She hands out two artificial constraints, and then praises the teams who ignore the constraints. “Thinking outside the box” is a great skill and all, but basically all these teams are doing is finding creative ways of breaking the rules. It means the puzzle isn’t “make the most money in 2 hours with $5″, it means the puzzle is “find out how far you can stretch these rules without being disqualified”.

Ignore the rules that don’t matter. Is that something holding you back real? or is it just in your head?

What artificial constraints will you chose to ignore today?

Our only limits are in our minds.

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