The problem is, when trying to make a sidebar, the sidebar would not extend all the way to the footer unless there was content in it. In order to fix this, you need to do two things in your CSS.

1st, you must define your body to have a height of 100%. Then, in your sidebar div you then define that with a height of 100%. YOU MUST BOTH OF THESE. Here is what it should look like:
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* Allow IE/Win to resize the document */
font-size: 80%;
color: black;
background: #ffffff;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: none;
height: 100%;
}
#sidebar {
width: 340px;
float: left;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 4em;
padding: 20px;
height: 100%;
}

Word to the wise: Keep secure, and keep an eye on your websites.

I’ve seen plenty of blogs that like to whip together a few posts and call themselves a web hosting blog, this site appears to go a lot further in putting together detailed information about many different web hosting outfits so that the user can determine which hosting firm will best suit their needs. Although not a site I will bookmark, or perhaps even ever visit again, I found it quite informative. I learned that the Best Ecommerce Hosting Company is not what I thought it would be.

I was surprised to see POWWEB listed as #2 in the Top 5 Budget Hosting companies. When I built my first website, I hosted it on POWWEB and thought they sucked. Maybe if you need a dedicated server, or only have one site you’re running.

There were other articles that stood out such as the one that talks about Top Small Business Web Hosting.

As for the layout of the blog, I found it easy to navigate and plenty of archives to read from. For a webmaster who may be in the market for a new web host, mybestratedwebhosting.com is an excellent blog to read through.

When I sold the site and attempted to transfer the license, I ran into trouble. I learned that even though I bought and paid for a full license, in order to transfer the license I had to be “current”. My active status expired 1 year after purchasing the license. I had to shell out more $$ to get the license active again, so that I could transfer the license.

A valuable lesson indeed, rather a costly one as I more or less gave the site away.

Last night I applied to Primary Ads, and after I applied I was sent an email from them that I’ll be approved within 24 hours, and that I should try out their sister affiliate, Kolimbo. I did. I applied to Kolimbo, and after I was automatically approved, (felt a little wierd) I started browsing through the merchants.

One of the first things I noticed with Kolimbo, what that every merchant that I browsed had a low payout limit of about $25. Does this mean that I have to generate $25 from that merchant in order to get paid anything? I think it does. Screw that. Oh-by the way – After I came back later I got an email from them, stating:

Welcome to the Kolimbo ‘I Need Help!’ email series. This is a series of 30
short emails which you’ll receive everyday. Each one contains a small
nugget of information to help you succeed in becoming an effective
affiliate and earn revenue from your web properties.

I’m not much for spam either, so I probably won’t mess with this one.

It amazes me how many people register a quick blogspot url, copy and paste a couple of articles, plaster it with tons of ads and call it a blog.

While dictionary.com describes a weblog as

(wÄ›b’lôg’, -lŏg’) n. A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings.

I think it should be taken a little bit further. Sure sites are technically blogs, but I like Dictionary.com’s other definition better.

Splog:

Definition: a fake web blog containing links to sites affiliated with the blogger, set up to boost the search engine rankings and ad impressions for those sitesExample: The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank.

Definition: a web blog created solely to spread spam; spam links added to the comments section of a blogExample: Report splog to help protect and clean up the blogosphere one splog at a time.

Please don’t get me wrong, I have written reviews for websites and software for hire, but I always write them myself. It just doesn’t seem right to do otherwise.

For a webmaster, two things rule – Money and content. In this case, the blog owner is getting both with no work on his/her own.

That is exactly what happened, and before long there were over 4000 links waiting to be accepted into this directory. I have been putting in a lot of time on it, and now I’m gaining on them. The list of pending sites is down around 3000. I have to work on them every day to keep narrowing the list down.

I have decided that I will be even more selective with the sites I permit. Some of the things that I have decided on, and have implemented are:
1. Site titles that are just keywords, will not be accepted.
2. Titles/descriptions all in caps will not be accepted.
3. I’ve become very picky with sites related to health care, as these generally turn quickly to MFA sites.
4. I’ve been working to market the featured links more. Now that most of the categories have a decent PR, is is not reasonable to shell out a few bucks for a good PR link. A featured link keeps you on the front page and gets you approved normally within 24 hours.

I will keep working hard on this, and I’ve decided I’m not going to stress out about catching up. It’s a free directory and provides a great service to those wishing to improve their website popularity. People shouldn’t expect a free directory to maintain high quality standards, and ultra-quick approval at the same time. Right?

Anyway, I downloaded this Mod, took ten minutes to go through the install and whoala! A new quick, easy, and best of all, FREE PR update mod for my directories!

$n = mt_rand(1, 5);

if ( $n % 5 )

$wpdb->query(”OPTIMIZE TABLE $wpdb->comments”);

Dreamhost will continue to monitor this and see if this fixes the problem.