Adding a simple gallery to your wordpress post or page
August 15th, 2011
WordPress has an excellent admin user interface. One of the best features is support for uploading and inserting images into your blog post or page. But what if you want to add a gallery of multiple images to your page. What is the easiest way to do that in wordpress?
The cost of setting up a small business website
April 17th, 2009Few Pakistani small and medium sized businesses realize how easy and inexpensive it is to make your website. Lets consider what you need to build a website:
Multiple websites with drupal
December 4th, 2008
Drupal is a popular content management system that offers an excellent mix of ease of use and flexibility. If I were to rank drupal, wordpress and serendipity in terms of flexibility then drupal would be number one followed by serendipity and lastly wordpress.
Drupal allows you to use a single copy to power multiple sites. This saves you disk space because you have just a single copy of drupal files that are being used by multiple websites. It also makes maintanence easier since you only have to update a single copy of drupal. In this post I look at how you can get additional sites to work with your drupal installation.
A few things I have learned about Adsense
June 11th, 2007I am using google adsense on a few of my sites and I have learned a thing or two about how to make a decent amount from it:
- Blending in is key: This is a widely cited tip but it is worth repeating. It is important that your adsense ads blend in with the rest of your site. Among the things you can do are:
- Make the ad border colour the same as the page background colour. This way the ad doesn’t appear as a separate block but as part of your content.
- The links in the ad should have the same colour as the links on your site.
- Similarly the ad background and text colour should match those of your site
- Less is more: Google allows you to place multiple ad units on a single page but it is best if you stick to just one. This is because if there is just one ad unit Google will place the highest paying ads in it. This will improve your earnings per click or CPC.
- Location, Location, Location: Since you have just one ad unit to work with you should place it very carefully. The best way to do this is to wrap your content around your ad unit. I also find that positioning your ads in the middle of your webpage draws the most eyeballs and clicks.
I am still learning but I find that these steps help me earn more.
Yes WWW! No WWW!
April 10th, 2007Most websites on the Internet can be accessed using both just their domain name and the www subdomain and domain name. For ex: www.example.com and example.com may lead to the same website. Some search engines consider the www version and the non-www version to be seperate websites and assign different Search Engine Results Page (SERP) positions and or page rank to them. This often results in a split page rank where the non-www and www versions of a site have different page rank. To prevent something like this from happening it helps to canonicalize your website URL. This means that you should select one version as a standard and redirect from the other to it.
