Webmaster
Aquired a new domain
Mar 14th
I figured it was time to give Wars4free a 2nd chance. Got a new domain name which was alot better. At least in my opinion. The GamerG8.com is the new domain and now I’m converting from vBulletin to Invisionboard.
Making your own website
Mar 10th
I will try write a series of easy articles which will show the new ones out there how to set up their own website in a few easy steps. I will provide you with the way I register domains, and also recommend a host which is good for small and medium websites and also not very pricey.
Publish your RSS feeds
Mar 10th
I found this nice service called Twitterfeed that makes it possible for you to post your RSS feeds into your Facebook pages and groups. A nice way to get a little more traffic and backlinks.
When you signup you can add your feed(s) and choose where to post it. Each feed can be posted to several social groups similarly. Groups like Facebook, Twitter, Laconica, Hellotxt and Ping.fm.
Pro Banners
Mar 7th
I’m starting to wonder whether I should go for a pro made banner for Librarium Online or not. I have been pretty satisfied with the current banners at LO, but lately the competition between the Warhammer forums have tightened and I feel its time to improve fast. I might go ask Bannaz for help.
Template Update
Mar 7th
I updated my template today. Grabbed the header from Thaiairways and edited it slightly in photoshop. Done after 5minutes. Then changed the link colors and the sidebar headers to purple. Also changed the background to grey. I think it looks pretty cool and I like the look of the thai airway women celebrating Loy Krathong in the header
Autoblogs for blogging networks
Mar 5th
A few other sites have started something they call “blogging network” with pretty good success. I would like to try out the same thing, but what kind of autoblogging software should I use ?
Since I’m on Wordpress there are a few I can choose between, but the next question is, paid or free ? I did try two free autobloggers today at this blog and they seemed to work very well both of them.
The first one was the WP-o-Matic which was pretty good. It could upload the pictures to your own server from the source, but it didn’t create the blog author. The 2nd one was the FeedWordpress which did create the author, but didn’t upload the pictures. I’m currently using the FeedWordpress. I liked that one best out of these two free ones.
There are also a few paid autobloggers; WpRobot, Autoblogged, Sitemile. At this point I’m not going to buy any auto-bloggers so the winner this time is FeedWordpress which is free.
Color info made easy
Jan 30th
This great tool from ColorSchemer.com is pretty good if you want to find out more about some specific colors on a website or any other place on your computer. Maybe you saw a pretty nice website with some nice colors you want to use too. Just start it up and when you see a color you want to know more about, just hover your mouse on the color and click any key on your keyboard to lock the color. Now you have the values for HEX, RGB, CMYK and HSB as seen in the photo.
Its also free and available for download here
Make your ribbons easy
Jan 30th
With this cool tool from Quickribbon.com you can make ribbons easy with just a few clicks. It also generate gradient effects on your ribbon. It have 4 different templates to start from.
When finished with your ribbon it creates some javacode so you can insert the ribbon to your site and also make it work as a link. Personally I’m not a fan of inserting this with javascript, but at least you got the picture made up quickly.
vBulletin pisses me off
Jan 27th
What really start to piss me off is when you upgrade vbulletin or apply a patch you must manually go into every adspot you have set up to “edit” it then save each and one of them. This takes alot of time. I also loose money because of this. Its when you see threads like “yeah, the ads are gone” you know you have to get back into the admin cp and reactive them.
vBulletin 4.01
Jan 25th
Starting the upgrade of the forum at Librarium Online soon. I hope they fixed the bug with invalig urls to the social group from the sidebar. I read in the announcement they should fix more than 200 of bug in this release.
WooThemes
Jan 24th
I
recently just found out that Woothemes.com have some pretty good templates for Wordpress. Most of them you need to pay for which is okay, but I also found some really great free ones too.
Check out more fo their templates here
Woopra
Jun 11th
Woopra is a new tool for webmasters with live analytics tracking of your website. You can check it out in details at their website woopra.com
Get a poll on your website
Mar 31st
My latest discovery was just now when I answered a poll on a website. I noticed that they were using a free poll from polldaddy, it looked great and was inserted seamlessly into their website design. More >
Enhancing pictures on your site
Mar 25th
When having pictures showed as thumbnails on your site its pretty boring and not very goodlooking to make them open in the same window or a new window when you click them for a fullsize. With these three tools you can have them open in the same window without leaving the page
Turn your wordpress into a review site
Mar 20th
It all started two days ago when I was reading a complain about a webshop on my forum and he wanted to warn about this site when the idea struck me. Why not make a review site section on my site so people can rate and comment those webshops and serve as a guideline for people who wanna shop online. After searching google I found Dan Grossman’s review plugin…
Want to improve your site’s rank in search engines ?
Mar 17th
With TNX.net this is easy done, with a great user-interface you can improve your site’s ranking in search engines. You might wonder what TNX is ? Well lets find out!
Photos to Cartoons
Mar 15th
When stumbling around on the net today, something I always do when I’m off from work I found this cool service
Great shoutbox, good look and no cost
Mar 14th
Shoutmix.com is a great place to visit if your looking for a free and hosted shoutbox for your site. With its advanced control panel you can change the styles on the layout as well as the colors and a whole lot more
3 Great Topsite Scripts
Feb 24th
In this post we are going to look for some good topsite scripts. After some research I quickly realized that its not many good topsite scripts out there. A few years back I bought the EvoTopsite scripts, a very good topsite that reminded a little about the monster toplist. The Evotopsite’s seems to be gone now so we will have a look something else.
35 Online Payment Services
Feb 19th
Do you run your own online store, maybe you are selling digital products or services ? If yes, then you need a way to let your customers pay. Using credit cards is being more and more usual on the internet and every online store should be able to accept credit cards. In this post I will give you a list of online payment services you can use for your store.
Top 15 free web editors
Feb 16th
Welcome back to another list of free and great resources for webmasters. We are always fixing, updating or adding code in our websites from time to time to stay updated. We also create our own plugins and all this works get so much better with some good editors with syntax highlighting and maybe a WYSIWYG option to make sure everything looks ok. I will introduce you to 15 free/open source editors with syntax highlighting and/or WYSIWYG options here.
25 Great Wordpress templates
Feb 16th
Its a lot of Wordpress themes out there, but finding the right one can still be difficult. I looked for hours until I found something for many of my sites, I even bought some as well then customized them, but if you dont wanna pay, its still a lot of great stuff out there for you. Lets look on some great free Wordpress templates I found..
Firefox 3 beta 3
Feb 15th
Firefox 3.0b3 was released February 12th this week. Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 30 months and includes nearly 2 million lines of code changes, fixing more than 12,000 issues. The Firefox 3 is still recommended for testing purposes only.
Great open source webshops
Feb 15th
Ever wanted your own online store and not sure whether to go for a paid script or an open source ? Well this list is gonna give you some great examples on open source webshop scripts. Its gonna be all you need to start running your own online store, but first you better get yourself a domain name and a webhost..
Top 10 keyword tools
Feb 13th
Today I will show you a list of 10 great keyword tracker tools. Keyword tracking is an important factor in SEO and will help you get more information about your chosen keywords.
Below we will list 10 keyword tracking tools and tell you a little about each of them
