Via Code and Coffee, I found a little freeware app that is seriously reducing my eyestrain: ClearType. There’s an online tool and a downloadable version. I downloaded.
It’s a very easy install. Then there’s a wizard that’s a lot like a trip to the eye doctor: you choose which print sample looks best to you out [...]

Via Code and Coffee, I found a little freeware app that is seriously reducing my eyestrain: ClearType. There’s an online tool and a downloadable version. I downloaded.

It’s a very easy install. Then there’s a wizard that’s a lot like a trip to the eye doctor: you choose which print sample looks best to you out of a couple of groups, and then you’re all set.

This is the one thing I really missed from my days on a Mac - those beautiful, crisp fonts that look just as good as the type in a novel.

Well, here’s something you need if you don’t want to (or can’t) actually check it in IE: Netrenderer.
I do have IE installed on my machines, and I check it manually. That hasn’t stopped the very same version of it from rendering very differently on a visitor’s computer. This tool may or may not catch the [...]

Well, here’s something you need if you don’t want to (or can’t) actually check it in IE: Netrenderer.

I do have IE installed on my machines, and I check it manually. That hasn’t stopped the very same version of it from rendering very differently on a visitor’s computer. This tool may or may not catch the next weird glitch like that, but it’s one more weapon in the arsenal.

SuperAff has found a simple solution for cloaking affiliate links and gotten the designer to write some more code to make tracking the clicks simpler. This is something a lot of us have been looking for for a long time, so - nice job, guys! Thanks.

SuperAff has found a simple solution for cloaking affiliate links and gotten the designer to write some more code to make tracking the clicks simpler. This is something a lot of us have been looking for for a long time, so - nice job, guys! Thanks.

I wouldn’t go nuts if my newest sites don’t quite make the cut on this list, but it’s still great to keep in mind. It’s 10 questions you should ask yourself about your sites to determine if they really have legs or they’re just coasting along on elements that might desert them at some point [...]

I wouldn’t go nuts if my newest sites don’t quite make the cut on this list, but it’s still great to keep in mind. It’s 10 questions you should ask yourself about your sites to determine if they really have legs or they’re just coasting along on elements that might desert them at some point (like Google love).

The quiz covers a variety of elements that can keep your sites going and profitable. For example, do you have subscribers? If so, those people are coming back whether your rankings in Google take a dive or not. Do you rank in other engines? Do you have real natural links sending you traffic?

Once you get the point of the 10 questions, you can start to look at your sites in a whole new way. What if Google tanks you? Are you prepared? Have you made relationships outside of Google, or has your every effort been spent on figuring out how to game the big SE?

Via Superaff.

If you have an RSS feed on your site, there are a number of ways to let people sign up for email updates. But there’s a potential for spam issues if you handle it yourself. RssFwd is a third party service that lets people sign up on their own. To promote your feed, just go [...]

If you have an RSS feed on your site, there are a number of ways to let people sign up for email updates. But there’s a potential for spam issues if you handle it yourself. RssFwd is a third party service that lets people sign up on their own. To promote your feed, just go to this page and grab the code you like. Or if you prefer a simple link you could go to their main page, punch in your URL and then get the URL of the subscription page out of your browser’s URL window and create a link on your site to take people there.

If you use their code (I chose the version where they can enter their email address right there on the site), it takes them to a nice little confirmation page that redirects back to your site. It’s a sweet setup.

And don’t forget to track subscriptions to your site, using a link like this:

http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd/subscribers_count?url=[your rss url]

Or a bookrmarklet you can download from the publisher page.

Have you ever made a change on your website only to have it not show up when you load the refreshed pages? If it’s not your browser, it could be your ISP. But failing that, it could be at the server level.
In Cpanel, there’s a harmless way to make sure this isn’t the problem. Go [...]

Have you ever made a change on your website only to have it not show up when you load the refreshed pages? If it’s not your browser, it could be your ISP. But failing that, it could be at the server level.

In Cpanel, there’s a harmless way to make sure this isn’t the problem. Go into "disk usage viewer" and select "Clear File Usage Cache".