I guess this post isn't really about Search Engine Optimization, more about Adsense optimization. But I don't have a category for Adsense, and I'm not going to create one (yet) for just one post. So there is a lot of advice out there on Adsense format best practices. One of the most important tips to achieving the highest Adsense revenue is to test different ad formats. You have options to doing this. You could try one ad format for a month, then test another, and so on. But that takes a lot of time! It would take a year just to test all of the different formats! Well, I have come up with a way to test as many ad formats as you want concurrently, through random ad format displaying. (more…)

The new Google Search Appliance integrates Google's OneBox technology that will allows enterprise business users to search across their business applications, such as SAS, SalesForce.com, Cognos, and Exchange. I can't say that I saw this one coming! (more…)

If you are building an image gallery with PHP, or any sort of web application that takes user-supplied images (such as an e-commerce shopping cart in which you upload product photos), it's vital to be able to generate thumbnails of each image. This script will enable you to get the Jpeg image width and height, and create a thumbnail by resizing the image with the same ratio. (more…)

Create beautiful Joomla websites with a flexible layout from iJoomla.com

This is a free Joomla/Mambo module that allows you to put an email subscription form on each page of your website. The subscription list works with Constant Contact, an affordable email service provider. You can sign up now for free, and if your list is under 100 subscribers the service is free. (more…)

Parsing text in ASP is not the easiest task. If you only want to extract text from the right or left side of a string, it's no problem. But if you need to extract from the middle of the string - or parse HTML or XML tags or attributes - it can be quite difficult if you don't know the exact location. So I built this function to take a string, and two other strings as the left and right markers to parse between. (more…)