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4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
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9. Wing Colors

 

SimplePie is the RSS module of choice for us when we're doing such things on large client websites; I have nothing against Magpie and use it for a couple of smaller things, but I have it on good authority that SP is more sustainable for large operations.

Could all be propaganda though...

Oli you're probably going to have to speak to smaller hosts on a one-to-one basis to see if they can cater to your fairly specific needs.

Large hosts don't lose much by turning your business away and as such thay can be quite rigid with their conditions. Smaller hosts may not have the massive infrastructure but they can be more negotiable with your requirements.

No examples I'm afraid >_<

Some good advice there sir and something I've certainly thought about. I think tagging the niche I operate in is hard, because I don't really discuss making money online (because I don't really make any), instead I focus on metablogging and marketing - two things I actually do and enjoy.

It's just finding content within this niche that has sufficient mainstream appeal to attract new readers... That's the trick.

I'd put "Your Ad Here, contact me@myemail.com"

Happy Birthday Mike! <3

I'm only 23 so can't offer any words of wisdom, apart from my strong disappointment in you not being a millionaire by the time you're 25.

LAZY

:p

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

Yeah it's part of the 'watch out for cyclists' campaign in this country, good piece of viral IMO.

I didn't see it either first time

The only thing with Yahoo pipes is that you're only allowed a certain number of requests to them per IP (in a set timescale).

It's not hard to get banned from them for a day for hitting it too hard with AJAX requests etc.

But for what you're talking about you should be fine :)

It just so happens that there are some excellent designers here at Wordpress who would be happy to discuss your requirements (obviously for a price).

Have a nose around a few of the 9rules members who are classified in design; if you like their stuff drop them an email. Or wait for someone to get to you o here :)

I felt nothing. I never feel that sort of thing because I'm always in a deep, deep sleep.

I wish I'd experienced it!

We get an inflated sense of importance, as well as an ego that people care about our opinion.

Or at least I do.

*giggles*

Cinderella Man makes me shed a tear sometimes. As does Shawshank Redemption.

Oh my god Techmeme is an ugly site. True I put up with Reddit but there's a difference between simplicity and that. Ugh!

/spreading joy wherever I go

I'll lay it down like this.

Paul, Mike, Tyme... if you show me I'll be your friend.

I work for a new media marketing agency too, and this sentence concerned me:

I think I've answered my own question. We earn 2/3 of what other agencies do, from 4x as many clients.

Increase your day-rate. If you've got more clients, up the day-rate you charge. This way the irritating clients who take too much of your time and don't spend enough will leave, allowing you to focus more on new pitches and delivering better work to the ones who stay.

Sonata Arctica did a ROCKING cover of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_PLimGeHk

Power metal ftw.

I've had a look in IE7, Firefox2 and Opera9 and they all like fine to me dude, dropcap looks fine :/

I work as a web developer so maths is a crucial part of that. I do enjoy it and find it very useful in day-to-day life.

Mmmm yeah my maths wasn't ideal but you get my point.

@subimage
you're probably right :)

Define "worthwhile".

If you have 5 visitors a day, every 50 days you might get a click, for $0.30. If that's worthwhile then 5 visitors a day is your answer.

If you have 50,000 visitors a day and you're netting 5,000 clicks, then $150 a day could be yours and there's your answer.

I've seen blogs without much traffic do well financially through CPA programmes because their readers were after specific information and the advertising suited that nicely.

Other sites that have lots of traffic but only run a small CPC network like Google Adsense have been known to make very little, it's really different horses for different courses.

Tyme: maybe it'd be worth having a "get started" page, outlining how it works, what you do, etc?

I don't find it a problem but I've been here a while now.

15,421 at the moment, all of it rockin.

I'd go straight for the database, although can't you write a post using Email? If so you could ping that address an email using PHP Mail ;)

Weekends are always a really low time for me, not sure why. My RSS dips a lot while visits remain about normal. Go figure.

Obama: "aaaah man I want to just SQUEEEEEEEEEZE your nipples"

Jesus christ, that gerbil inside my rectum is causing havoc!

In my opinion good content should be written using a suitable width of language, using synonyms and whatnot. So LSI seems like the best way to naturally assign relevance.

Unfortunately it seems that keyword density is still a massive factor.

lol karma, funny yet good advice.

I think it's worth mentioning that there is a point where you have to admit that you've taken on too much.

I have that problem when I have people paying me for reviews and wanting them done sooner rather than later. When work is busy it takes away my time, then any social commitments really absorb whatever I have left. A time machine is the only way to make it work without something suffering.

Just make sure you're not making the wrong things suffer.

Funnily enough I've just done another guest post for John Chow on how I manage my time, and how difficult I find it balancing everything in my life.

linky

Basically it's hard to manage. I have my duties as a home-owner, as a boyfriend, as a cat-owner, as a professional web developer, as a freelancer and as a human to manage, then when you add in blogging it becomes really busy!

Christina Scabbia, Sabine Weniger and Sharon den Adel.

Yeah, logo design is a really difficult and subjective thing. I think offering case studies and design tutorials would be good to help people get started.

I hate designing logos.

I recon the use of sIFR on "Where do I place my ads?" would make it stand out a bit more.

Nice clean design though, like it.

I join at like 9pm GMT so it's fine for me. Good to see you guys... Low attendance though...

Dugg it too, good stuff Paul.

I hate terms like this. Marketers love to use these "buzzwords" without any understanding of what they mean. I'd instinctively get them to give examples of Web3.0.

All too often people use bullshit terms like this in inteviews to sound impressive without "teh skillz to pay teh billz"

In my professional opinion as a web developer you're going to be caught in catch-22 land for quite some time.

Quality = Price

My hourly rate is quite high because I'm good at what I do and work for one of the UK's biggest marketing agencies. To get good quality work you need to pay for it.

Places that turn PSD's into XHTML will give results that correlate to their price. Pay a lot and it'll be good, pay very little and it'll be poor. If they're too expensive for you then you might be in a spot of bother.

I personally charge like £25-30 per hour for work like this and a lot of my collegues charge similar amounts or more. Like I said, Quality = Price.