Typer Tappers

I found this amazing product its called USB Cell Batteries you can find it here at firebox.com the idea of it is you can plug it into a USB port by taking the male part of the battery top off which reveals a USB male connector which you can plug into any standard USB port which will then charge the battery.

Its a amazing little gadget all ‘Geeks’ must have this your out and about come across a small computer you can just plug it in or at college/school go in the IT room and plug it in, this product can save you so much money compared to actually buying standard AA batteries.

They also have a few others in the making such as Triple A (AAA) and also the 9V batteries.

You can buy it at firebox here USB Cell Batteries its a brilliant price and worth it!

Oh why Opera why can’t I use you so?

I’m starting to get a little annoyed at how I really like Opera and Firefox, recent reasons i haven’t been able to switch to Opera is the fact Firefox has its build in spell checker which I love because my spelling is a mess a lot of the time.

so that’s the first problem I have second is del.icio.us I love my plugins for it as I loose a lot of my bookmarks well to put it another way Firefox looses my bookmarks all the time, so in Opera I don’t have that plugin.

Opera the refreshing feature is fabulous my favourite feature if your posting on forums it is a life saver you can just enable it to refresh every 1 minute or something and then just flick your screen over to see if theirs anything new.

The sidebar with notes, mail etc… its a amazing feature saves so much time, your on a site want to jot some notes down while reading no need to open up notepad you have a pad next to your browser!

Overall I want Firefox mixed with Opera , we all know that Firefox is a mess (well if you read digg) but no one knows about Opera, its source is closed helping security, so lets all use Opera!

I’ve never looked at the stats properly at Christmas time but it went down quite low at Christmas which I wasn’t too surprised about I expected a fall in visitors, but it hasn’t harmed anything it just dropped to the amount of visitors I got last month.

What was everyone else’s stats like at Christmas?

This is a proud day for me, I have just noticed my first spammer on typer tappers!

Now how i see spammers is the idea that when you get one your website must be doing okay it means other people are getting your links and you could be ranking high in Google or Yahoo and surprisingly enough I’m happy to see my first comment spammer I shall be keeping his post up their but removing the links.

If you would like to see my Christmas spammer you can find it here on “A Messy Blog Is A Unpopular Blog”

I would love to hear some stories of your first spammers.

UPDATE: Over Xmas I received another 5 comment spams, on that one post alone.

Well I got my bank statement the other day looked at it and found I had £2.00 from 1&1 Hosting and Domains I used one of their affiliate links on one of my links pages which I put up a while ago now and it gets under 20 unique visitors every day.

So I got thinking about this as I haven’t had any success with Ad sense lately, I though I should try putting some adverts around the pages, so I used my 1&1 account to put a advert below the header and then joined Affiliate Future which allows me to add tonnes of adverts their is a massive database of clients you can use for example Firebox if you refer a user using your link you gave them once they order something you get a certain percentage of the profits.

Make 25 sales or more and receive 11%.
Make 50 sales or more and receive 12%.
Make 150 sales or more and receive 15%

Their is a overwhelming list of clients its really worth a go, I shall be trying it out for a couple of months to see how it goes, a lot of forums I’ve visited they have said use affiliate links instead of PPC (pay-per-click) advertising.

My first tag came from Kian Ann and now my second from Char so I think I’ll give it a go at writing about my self

1. My pet I have a cat called KitKat, nicest cat in the world and fattest cat in the world, but from what i hear the majority of web masters own cats .
2. I am a student at college taking a course that involves fixing computers, we shall be starting a business (i feel sorry for the customers ).
3. I’m a freelance website designer I’ve helped to design many websites and sometimes develop them their is a link in my side bar if you feel like checking out my site , or even contacting me.
4. As Kian Ann mentioned I think I would have to say damn right! “I sometimes very often stay up all night to blog. “
5. And I think I should really get around to doing some Xmas shopping Oh crap its like 2 days away!“I have not finished my Christmas shopping, wrapping or house cleaning! Yikes!”

Well I think I have to try and find someone to tag that I know else where first one would have to be Justin, Mike and Jolly Roger.

Sorry guys even if you don’t want to do a tag post at least you get a incoming link .

Well I got thinking today all about full layout’s Vs 800 pixels width, and thinking about it their are good things about both layouts.

Full Layout Designs.

1. They fit a wide variety of screen resolutions.
2. Allows you too add more content with out getting the cluttered feeling.
3. More complex to make a CSS layout using a full layout.

800 by 600 Layout Designs.

1. Its a fixed layout meaning it isn’t resized when the viewer changes the size of the browser.
2. You can create images easier for the layout as you would be using a fixed size for example I design with a image of 750px by 50px for the top curb of my site.
3. Faster to design, you can put a simple 800 by 600 layout in a couple of hours using a CSS layout.

My method of designing websites is to always use 800 by 600 layouts mainly as no one any more uses under that layout size as a screen resolution their for allowing me to build a fixed layout and that allows me to see what it will look like on everyone’s computer instead of having a full layout which could look really awful on a 1600 by 1200 screen resolution.

Comments are a good way of getting extra content yet blogs that I look at they don’t always encourage this in ways that will help.

1.Asking questions on your blog brilliant way to get people to comment.

2.Replying to your fellow commenter’s this is where most bloggers fall down I think, if i post a comment on someone’s blog and don’t get a reply that’s it I’m out of their, but when someone replies to me i click on the feed and add it to my Google homepage.

3.Keep them commenting on a article they post a comment try and squish in another question that they or another person will reply too this yet again means more content = more visitors.

Commenter’s are the best thing for your blog to hit success, if you talk to them in a good manner they will help you on your way to stardom so people lets get commenter’s!

I use RSS feeds all the time but I just started thinking that its taking visitors away from my site, yes their reading my feeds but their not looking at my site, and for some reason this is annoying me now I’ve thought about it I could make the RSS feed short so they have to come to my site to read the rest but will that not push people away completely?

And you can’t place and adsense adverts in your feeds, which is the main reason why we are here.

So I think the only solution is to start a campaign about this, it is possible to make dynamic images, but why isn’t anyone doing this it could revolutionise the web as we know it.

So I’m calling up on all you bloggers out their to blog about this matter WE NEED RSS ADVERTS, so that we don’t involve the tax man as much!

I have learned a lot from my blogging experience which was my main aim of opening up a blog, but rather than been a chore its turned into a hobby everyday I look forward to writing on my blog I don’t have a clue why this is but if someone asked me to do this back in school i would of done a crap job of it and left it their.

I have owned a lot of sites before that I really have failed at, my first ever website was one-thing.org which is closed now but I could hardly scrape together 10 hits a day but it was also fun competing with a friend of mine as we where new at all this, but this was the stage where i was just coming out of free html hosting websites so still learning the art of SHTML and PHP.

But over the past couple of sites my visitors haven’t really increased but my designs have come along way and my knowledge of web scripting, and here I am writing on a pre made script with a WYSIWYG editor and who would of guessed it could be this fun!

I would like to thank all the people that have helped me on my way to being a web design/developer, so thanks Justin (neutron2k), Web-Mastery.net, Darksats IT Security forum and not forgetting my top commenter Kian Ann.

Thanks guys and gals I hope you all have a very happy Christmas and a happy new year.