Hurray! I have been able to do some stuff that wasn’t directly related to the API or backend code for the ComLuv database! This Monday has been an awesome day for productivity.

I have fixed the errant phpmyadmin on my plesk server so I can view my massive innoDB database. (and make backups)

I added a plugin to make adding youtube videos much easier to a ComLuv blog post.

I implemented a site wide footer text links box on the network.

I added a new widget to allow Comluv blog owners to become an affiliate to sell those ads.

I edited every single themes footer to make sure it all worked hunky dorey.

I wrote a “spoonfed” tutorial to show people how to make money with their comluv blog.

I answered ALL support tickets and resolved them.

I got fiddyp back up and running!! Some DNS issues were making it a bit invisible but a quick change of my DNS A records means I’ve got a place to ramble again.

Yey for me. I feel awesome enough to take the rest of the day off

I was stumbling today and I found this really great post about 101 Writing tips.

It has gems like,

#9 Don’t use commas, to separate text unnecessarily.

#10 It can be shown that you shouldn’t miss out too many details.

#46 To qualify is to weaken, in most cases.

#74 Sporting analogies won’t even get you to first base.

It was hilarious, I must have been guilty of most of them since I started blogging, especially, commas, how about you?

The post is 101 Writing Tips

oh, btw… I just finished coding the WordPress version of CommentLuv 2.0b and it’s working! The commentluv site will be finished soon too and beta testers will be needed…..

I have some exciting plans for a commentluv site where you’ll be able to do much more with your commentluv plugin such as define a default post for your site url so it shows that instead of your latest post when you comment on a CL site or choose a cache time for your last post or see a list of the last 10 blogs you commented on etc etc.

This will be possible when I’ve made the site and learned all thats needed to play with a database, I’m on holiday next week so the coding will probably have to wait until I come back so to keep you busy, I encourage you to register your commentluv enabled blog or site at the Top CommentLuv Sites, you’ll get some small exposure and get a pretty little badge for your blog that shows your rank based on your unique hits and you get the chance for your glorious 468×80 banner to be seen by the 10′s (at least!) of people that visit the directory.

Seriously though, it is well known that CommentLuv has increased the quantity of comments made on many (if not all) of the blogs that use it so having a directory of sites that people know link back to them if they comment could have a positive effect for bringing new visitors and commentators to your site.

The template for the site is being developed but all the gubbins are there and it’s working fine already, only the asthetics need to be taken care of so there’s no time to lose! get yourself registered !

Please note that only CommentLuv enabled sites will be allowed to remain in the directory so please make sure you have it installed and working before you register or I’ll send some poodles round to gnaw at your toes

Simply visit Top CommentLuv Sites and register your site for immediate commentluv gratification

http://www.jamieharrop.com is a very informative blog with some excellent resources, tips and articles on how to improve your blog/business/life. Check out his article on how to get more blog comments

http://wendyknits.net/ is one for the knitters among you (and my missus!). This is a site that attracts an awful lot of comments so it’s really nice to see it using commentluv

http://www.empiredotcom.com is an excellent resource site for those wanting to make a bit of money from blogging. Great advice too, check out his post about the advantages of using CommentLuv

http://keithjameslock.com/ is a great affiliate marketing tips blog with good original articles. He wrote a great piece on how to take advantage of CommentLuv for targeted traffic. Another article to take note of is this video tutorial for your first time using Google analytics.

CommentLuv has been updated to 1.92 now, be sure to get the latest version and install it today!

OMGG! (oh my golly gosh) I have had the most tremendously hard week. I’ve had 2 different web sites to produce, an hour long power point presentation for a shop display. Make a barcode program that can create a barcode from a product name, build 2 systems that can talk to each other but still be protected against outside intrusion and finally, design and print a variety of business cards for clients.

I couldn’t have done half of the coding and designing if it wasn’t for the wonderfulness of the internet!

Some sites that were instrumental to me learning new things were:

ErracticWisdom where I (finally) learned how to create a layout from scratch using css (no tables!). I used to make websites with photoshop, slice them up and save for web which would make some ugly table based pages that for lack of any other way of creating the site, had to do. The problem with table based layouts is that they are ugly, it all takes a long time to load and they don’t always behave nicely when you want to add extra content.

That problem is now solved, I took what I learned from Tom Fadial and experimented like crazy and now I am super stoked that I can create some pretty snazzy looking websites that load in a split second and are xhtml compliant. yey! thanks Tom!

Trevor Davis.net had an excellent tutorial on how to make an AJAX contact form which was absorbed, modified and implemented into my new .css based site and it turned out to be shockingly good. Enough to get me another project! Nice one Trevor!

There’s also jquery which I have been using for some experimentation lately, it’s a fantastic AJAX library which takes an awful lot of the pain out of coding AJAX pages. It’s so fantastic that you can create really simple effects and AJAX loadings in seconds.

I’ve even managed to sell a few iMaingo speakers direct from this site via Google Checkout!

Everything else has been put on hold while all these projects get completed so apologies to those wanting to see part 6 of the AJAX tutorial series, it’ll be here soon and it’ll be worth the wait!

uVme has now launched, it’s been a wait but hopefully all the kinks have been worked out and we’ll all be ready to make some money with it soon (although the site was performing poorly today). Come on VWD! get your act together, you’ve had over a year to get this right and I still can’t edit my profile. pah!