Hide your Email Address from Spammers with a Simple JavaScript

Javascripts to hide email addresses from spammers have been around for a while but perhaps you missed this one. I have been using it more and more for my client’s HTML-based websites. If the email address is: joe@mydomain.com, most websites use: <a href=”mailto:joe@mydomain.com”>joe@mydomain.com</a> That line of basic HTML is easily harvested by spambots. Within a [...]

Make your own eBay widget!

eBay’s new affiliate program, eBay Partner Network, is an excellent source of income for product-related blogs and websites. It takes some skill, however, to integrate eBay links and images into content and templates. The program offers several creatives that can be pasted into sidebar widgets. However, I found them to be slow-loading as well as [...]

Squeeze More Income from your Blog with Slayer’s Custom Widget Plugin

The introduction of sidebar widgets in WordPress have resulted in a huge time savings. Gone are the days of pasting code into sidebar.php just see your layout go wacky. The capabilities of widgets in the basic WordPress installation are, however, very limited. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. [...]

Replace Askimet with Defensio

What’s up with Askimet these days? This well-known WordPress plugin has been letting foul comment spam through on two of my blogs including RL-Digital. To solve the problem, I ditched Askimet and replaced it with the Defensio plugin. Unlike Askimet, Defensio at least has some adjustments. And, it is an adaptive filter, which will improve [...]

Google Chrome Theme by Ericulous.com

Genkisan, the webmaster at Ericulous.com, has just released a free lightweight WordPress theme based on Google’s popular Chrome browser. There have been several Chrome themes released by other developers. However, this is the best one that I have seen so far. The combination of a full width header and fixed width body looks great without [...]

New Amazon Movie & TV Show Preview Widget

Amazon has added it’s new movie & TV streaming service to it’s Associates Program. Associates will earn a 10% referral fee on all movies, TV seasons, and TV episodes such as The Office, House and Law & Order. The widget shown below allows Associates to add movie trailers to their websites. The first two minutes [...]

Google launches AdSense for Feeds

After several years in beta test, Google has just launched the much anticipated ‘AdSense for Feeds’. When you next visit the Setup tab in your AdSense account, you’ll notice a new ‘AdSense for Feeds’ option. Features Optimized CPC and CPM ads Ads specifically design for RSS feeds Wide range of customization options Detailed stats on [...]