Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

Digitalx’s Blog posts about Google Adsense

Ok so the other day I’m browsing my Microsoft Discussion Forums as usual just to check up on new posts and I come across a post which has only just been posted by a new user called Digitalx, here’s what it said: Well good news to second gen(invited) beta testers. Visit my blog to download latest version and i can confirm

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Add photos to your site or blog with Flickr Photo Album Maker

Flickr is a wonderful web service with an opened API. This album maker can help you to build an album and slideshow with your favorite photos. It can output HTML code for you to embed to your blog or homepage with fully style controls by yourself.       Flickr Album Maker

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New website design for February 2006

Hey everyone as you may know, in the last couple of days or so I’ve been working on a new template design for my main homepage: (http://www.darrenstraight.com/) And well what can I say it’s been a fun experience experimenting with all the different designs I kept on coming up with that I could implement but it wasn’t until I found

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IE7 classifies my blog as a suspicious phishing website

Well it seems as IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) has classified my Blog as a suspicious phishing website! Somehow I don’t think this sound’s right at all and well it didn’t take long to find out what the problem was, I figured out it would be something that I have in my Blog’s sidebar, probably the shout box as it collects

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Sign up for the Yahoo! Publisher Network Beta Program

I got this email today! Dear Darren, Thank you for applying to participate in the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program. We’re excited to let you know that your application has been accepted and you can now proceed with creating your account using the link below: [Link removed]  This link is your unique access key. It is non-transferable and may be

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WordPress 2.0.1 Released

I have just noticed that WordPress 2.0.1 was released 2 days ago, I’ll be installing it very soon, but for now here’s what WordPress.org has to say about this release. It’s been exactly one month since we released the well-received WordPress 2.0 release. In the past 4 weeks we’ve been listening closely to feedback, squashing bugs wherever we find them,

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Search Keyphrases January 2006 (Top 10)

246 different keyphrases where used to find my site in January 2006, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. flyakite osx 3 32 7.6 % link pfgo_npqpeuj www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 13 3.1 % thatvistablog 13 3.1 % link www.milliondollarhomepage.com 12 2.8 % pplparty 9 2.1 % link http //www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 7 1.6 % blg

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Making some changes to this blog

Just thought that I’d let you all know that over the next couple or weeks or so I’ll be changing a couple of things on my Sites and Blog’s, these changes will hopefully make it easier for you the visitor to find the information you need quicker, I will also be making it easier for you all to contact me.

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What are alternatives to Google AdSense?

I’ve  just found a great article which as a whole list of alternatives to Google AdSense, here’s an extract from it: Google AdSense is the leader in web-based content-sensitive marketing. Webmasters place Google AdSense JavaScript code on their web pages and Google AdSense serves advertisements based upon the content of the web page. There should be a Google AdSense skyscraper

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Search Keyphrases November/December 2005 (Top 10)

207 different keyphrases where used to find my site in December 2005, here are the top 10 with the amount of time they were used and their percentage. pplparty 19 5.4 % thatvistablog 16 4.5 % combine wall lithograph 8 2.2 % weemee promo code 8 2.2 % darren straight 7 1.9 % link http //www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ 7 1.9 % link