http://www.flukeit.com Weblog of a webmaster learning his trade Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:46:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an issue I've had some trouble with, and finally spent some time to figure it out. 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 ... http://www.flukeit.com/extending-a-sidebar-all-the-way-down/ It's happened before, and I'm certain it will happen again - one of my sites got hacked. This time it was a Wordpress blog, similar to this. I was wondering why I was getting ads for Viagra showing up and didn't have anything relevant to that posted. After viewing the ... http://www.flukeit.com/site-hacked/ I was recently approached to do a review of the web hosting related website - www.mybestratedwebhosting.com. At first I thought this was a web hosting website but it is actually a blog that dives into the best of web hosting companies. I've seen plenty of blogs that like to whip ... http://www.flukeit.com/website-review-mybestratedwebhostingcom/ I recently learned a valuable lesson regarding VBulletin forum script licensing. A couple of years ago, I started a forum using the VBulletin script. I paid for the license and everything was fine, then recently I decided to cut bait with the forum. I needed some cash so I unloaded ... http://www.flukeit.com/vbulletin-licensing/ Currently, I employ Maxbounty, Azoogle and CJ as my affiliates but decided that I should try to expand a little bit and see what else is out there. Instead of going by what everyone else says is good, I'll take a look see for myself. Last night I applied to Primary ... http://www.flukeit.com/choosing-a-new-cpa-affiliate-part-i/ As you may or may not know, I run a blog directory and receive thousands of requests for addition to the directory. I have some rules, and one of them is that it has to be an actual blog. It amazes me how many people register a quick blogspot url, copy ... http://www.flukeit.com/just-because-it%e2%80%99s-blogspot-or-wordpress-doesn%e2%80%99t-make-it-a-blog/ Quite often, I find myself reading the Links for Sale forums in DigitalPoint for a good deal and to keep up on market link pricing. Lately, I've been noticing more and more blog owners selling blog posts. These range from $5 to $25, and the shocking part of it is ... http://www.flukeit.com/pay-for-blog-posting-schemes/ As I've posted in the past, I maintain a couple of different directories. Some are more popular than others, just as some are more strict about the quality/type of sites that are submitted. I can expect several dozen website submissions a day, and if I let a few days go ... http://www.flukeit.com/maintaining-a-directory/ For well over a year I've been interested in a mod for PHPLD 3.0+ that will update the page rank values for all the links. I've looked into it in the past, and couldn't find anything I didn't have to pay for. My search ended today as I was reading ... http://www.flukeit.com/pr-update-plugin-for-phpld/ During the last several weeks, I've been experiencing problems with Bradsblog. Sometimes, the site simply won't resolve and the sands in the hourglass flow forever. Other times, I can get on but cannot access the back end to perform administrative functions. After a few back and forths with Dreamhost support, ... http://www.flukeit.com/akismet-plugin-causing-mysql-issues/