Archive for August, 2007

Choosing a good affiliate program

Affiliate programs are schemes whereby you sell the products of a merchant, and get people to sign up with, or buy from the merchant. The merchant in return offers you a commission for every successful referral that buys from the merchant. The activity of selling other people’s products on the Web is called online affiliate [...]

Can you make money with Second Life?

If you watched the movie Total Recall (1991) before, you’d know what I’m going into. Virtual reality takes on a larger meaning with Second Life or SL. The signs were all there, that the Web would eventually get into making the concept of animated avatars real and playable. Never mind if you don’t look anything [...]

Making Internet Explorer safer

Since switching from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox two years ago, I’ve had better surf speeds and less trouble with spyware. It’s not that Firefox is the best Web browser; but overall, Firefox is relatively better in most aspects except for the resource usage part. If you want to use Internet Explorer, you can try [...]

Getting a website designed and built by outsourcing

These days, everyone including their grandma wants a website. Never mind if it is technically a blog or just something high tech like a forum or directory. But, let’s call all of them websites for convenience sake. I know a lot of people would like to have their own website, or are thinking of getting [...]

Replicate your blog on XAMPP in Windows XP

Those who have self hosted blogs may from time to time decide that they want to tweak the sidebars, adjust the layout, add a widget, or just try out a new theme and see how their blog looks like. Especially for CSS issues, you will likely need a lot of testing and previews to get [...]

Widgets spice up sites

From the get go, I think the Web was made for widgets. Or maybe to be more precise, widgets were made for the Web. Widget = A hypothetical, or real-life mechanical gadget or device. Perhaps one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0, although they have been around before that, widgets (on the Web) are small [...]