Archive for November, 2006

Firefox 2 Easter Egg

If you type in about:mozilla in the Firefox address bar and hit enter, you will be surprised to see a mysterious verse from the Book of Mozilla.
Here’s what you will find:
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The [...]

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Tips To Increase Your Blog Subscribers

Copyblogger has some interesting tips on how to get more Blog Subscribers. Some of the tips that I liked and implemented are
1. offer an email alternative to RSS (as you can see on my sidebar)
2. create a dedicated subscription landing page, like this
3. ask for Subscription at the end of each post, like this “If [...]

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How many posts on the Homepage?

This question has kept me thinking for a while now. If you are using WordPress, the default number of posts that will be shown on the homepage is 10.
I left it at the default value for 1 year, but now I feel I should lower the value to about 5, so that the homepage downloads [...]

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How To Prevent Your URL From Getting Banned On Digg

Neil Patel has given a few tips on how not to get your URL banned from Digg. He states that some of the things that the Digg community considers as Spam are
* Old news
* Repeated stories that keep on getting submitted, such as “iPod Spoof Commercials”.
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Switched to 2 Column

When designing the new theme, I had in mind a fast loading and neat looking design. After completing the theme, the site still looked cluttered to me and I figured out that the best way to make the site look neater was to switch to 2 columns
So I removed the right sidebar and [...]

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Do You Apologize to Your Readers For Not Blogging?

Every blogger stops blogging once in a while, it could be because they wanted a break or maybe because they fell sick or was too busy. My question to you is - Do you apologize to your readers for not posting?
I know I have. I did a quick search and found 3 posts where I [...]

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Draw Face Sketches in Minutes

Ultimate Flash Face is a great tool that allows you to create Face Sketches very easily. You can start designing from scratch or use an existing sketch from their database designed by other users.
Face elements like hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, etc can be brought to the canvas or ‘face area’ by just clicking on [...]

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A Simple Tip to Improve Your RSS Readership

A few weeks back I had checked on a few popular blogs having 1000+ RSS readers and one thing that caught my eye was a big RSS icon that they used to attract subscribers.

The trick is simple, just download the above RSS icon, place it somewhere on top of your blog’s sidebar (or wherever your [...]

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AdsBlackList v2 did not work for me

AdsBlackList version 1 was fine, but after using version 2 my AdSense revenue reduced down to 50% ! After removing all the URL’s, that AdsBlackList had generated for my site, from the AdSense Competitive Filter List, I now get the same earnings as I used to get before I used AdsBlackList v2
Has your [...]

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New Design

After a few days of work, I managed to finish designing the new theme and made it compatible in IE 6 this time. I have optimized it for AdSense and tried to make the theme fast loading too.

I removed a few unnecessary images and also disabled Gravatars plugin as I noticed that most of the [...]

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Most Popular in November, 2006


  1. Free Web 2.0 Icons
  2. Draw Face Sketches in Minutes
  3. Another IM Virus?
  4. Tips To Increase Your Blog Subscribers
  5. 2 Column Theme with 3 Column Footer
  6. How to Position AdSense Ads on a Blog
  7. Firefox Extension: Fastererfox
  8. Beware of this IM Virus
  9. Video: Funny Cats
  10. JohnTP.com is now 1 Year old