Forum: Growing an Online Community Apr 27th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 4,095 You can find a few scripts at www.hotscripts.com or you could work with a core package like vbulletin (www.vbulletin.com) and add/modify it to suit your exact needs. |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Apr 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 15,321 As well as who? I am certainly not ultra-liberal, neither is Bush. Again, as far as I know, the republican party stands behind open trade and a free market and opposes almost every regulation placed... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Apr 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 15,321 It is not the job of a democratic government to insure that a contract works in the way you would like it to. The power is left to you to accept or decline the contract. If you don't like the terms... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Apr 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 15,321 If you feel that upholding a contractual obligation is "naive" then you have clearly never been in a contract dispute. It is rather irrelevant what someone else told a magazine (especially when what... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Apr 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 15,321 Disclosing your CTR is against the adsense terms of service which you agreed to when you signed up. I recommend you remove this information from your post immediately. |
Forum: eCommerce Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 6,096 Regardless of what solution you find nothing, and I do mean nothing, beats scanning your orders yourself. Since every store has different customers the flags that software tools may put on orders... |
Forum: eCommerce Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,932 As Corey Bryant said, fraud is more an issue of being greedy then of being tricky. If you keep your eye out for simple things like fast shipping, mismatched avs or cvv codes, billing and shipping... |
Forum: eCommerce Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 8,988 It's a pretty simple problem -- paypal has limitations and to get something better, you need to use another service which will charge you setup and monthly fees. If you can not afford these fees or... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 5,583 Are you actually using BidVertiser? If so, can you comment on the pay-per-click rates and ad variety? I've tried a few alternative contextual programs but found them to have a poor advertisers... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,108 vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com) is a professional grade forum program as explained on their website (see http://www.vbulletin.com/features.php). vBulletin powers many of the largest forums... |
Forum: eCommerce Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 8,988 You've posted this message on pretty much every webmaster forum out there but in all that time have you considered contacting PayPal support for assistance? Paypal has numerous account verrification... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Apr 8th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,938 Lots of questions, so lots of answers...
Ask your friend how much he charges for woodworking and you will get the same sort of response this question brings here. Every site is different, every... |
Forum: Ad Space for Sale Apr 7th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,670 What niche does the site fall into? |
Forum: eCommerce Apr 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,521 You can purchase an SSL certificate with many companies. For the most part they all work on the same number of browsers, the difference tends to be with any warranty or protection they give you,... |
Forum: Website Reviews Apr 5th, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 34,481 Horrible. Simply horrible. Even assuming you sell high tech products and thus have sophisticated, computer savvy users, flash only still equates to poor performance and low SEO results. With no text... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Apr 5th, 2005 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 15,321 For the most part, nothing compares to Adsense in terms of ad variety, ctr and click rates. With that said you may want to try SearchFeed's service or Kanoodle's BrightAds. Brightads is very similar... |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization Apr 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 9,011 1gig of space vs unlimited... even if every email you get is 100k you'd have to save a whole lot of spam to fill up that inbox. |
Forum: Existing Scripts Mar 27th, 2005 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 7,544 Here are a few choices for ppc management programs.
mROI from www.moderninsider.com/mroi/ new to the market, perl based, free.
AdWatcher from www.adwatcher.com hosted service, nice system,... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 24th, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 4,154 If you allow bickering and fighting you will soon find that that's all you have. People who do not wish to engage in that sort of activity are generally driven away, decreasing community size and... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 19th, 2005 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,832 1. Jelsoft has thousands of customers -- it's more likely that an open source project would close or cease development (lead developer has a kid, they get sick of supporting the program, etc...).... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,142 As Dani said, allowing spam is a huge no-no. Allowing self promotion in a limited way is the way forums work and should not be limited because a site may or may not compete with yours. If someone... |
Forum: Post your Resume Feb 28th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,835 If you intend to spam your services you should at least take the time to use proper english. Pathetic. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Feb 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 3,922 Tracking an offline campaign is very, very hard to do. I've seen people employee all types of tricks but mostly it comes down to special urls and people simply don't always use those. The most... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 22,616 nathanaus - You're right, there is a big differance betweeen a for profit business that happens to be a website and a fan site or not-for-profit site. If you aren't making money you probably don't... |
Forum: Pay-Per-Click Advertising Feb 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 12,592 I say more is better! For ScubaBoard I use only a small amount of ppc advertising and not all the time but our most effective campaigns are always from less than major terms with low bids. ... |
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Feb 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,947 Call me blind but I can not, for the life of me, find the "mark all threads read" link with the current daniweb style (restated: it's on the homepage but not any subpage). I tend to use this feature... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 3,854 In vbulletin changing emails is very simple, just pull up the phrase manager and change the drop down to "Email Body", this will pull up all of the email phrases. The main ones to change are... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 3,592 In order to do a backwards "downgrade" (even if there are more features, going back is still a downgrade) requires you to compare the database structure. Find the fields that 2.0.11 has and compare... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 22,616 In our 4 years ScubaBoard has rarely done any direct advertising (ppcs, banners, magazine ads), however, we do a lot of indirect promotion using stickers, tshirts, banners at events and anything else... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 22,616 Although my forums have mostly been built up by search engine listings and word of mouth I still believe paid promotion is an important piece of the puzzel, espcially for a new forum in the current... |
Forum: PHP Sep 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 It looks like you missed the party by keith... $thread['url'] = ereg_replace("[/?!.$%£()~*@]+", "", $thread['url']); (I believe thats on page 5 of the thread) |
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Aug 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 0 Views: 2,692 Some time yesterday I tried to access a password protected folder of a website (htaccess) and it never loaded up. A day later and about 10 different websites and I seem to have a real problem... any... |
Forum: PHP Aug 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 If you are using the quick style chooser as I am you will want to change the modrewrite flags [R] and [L] to [QSA,L] which will append the query strings as needed. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,724 It is indeed possible to get a free ipod through this sytem, you will of course need to generate 5 referrals to friends and you will obviously get put on a lot of mailing lists. If these costs are... |
Forum: PHP Aug 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 To help make this hack easier to understand I have combined my changes along with the changes from KeithMcL (http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26705&postcount=24) into one post. ... |
Forum: PHP Aug 16th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 The quickstyle chooser is run via javascript using the following code:
function switch_styleid(selectobj)
{
var styleid = selectobj.options[selectobj.selectedIndex].value;
if (styleid ==... |
Forum: Web Development Job Offers Aug 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 10,340 www.vbdesign.co.uk does the styles for my forums, they offer a few nice premade templates which are rather cheap. |
Forum: PHP Aug 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 Since I can't seem to edit my post, I have a little update... if you use my code please change [L] to [R] in your htaccess file which redirect to a url instead of naming the page to that url. This... |
Forum: PHP Aug 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 I really liked the idea of the titles in the url so I played aroung with modrewite and came up with this:
RewriteRule ^/f([0-9]+)-(.*)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L]
This tells... |
Forum: PHP Aug 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 88,289 My site has well over 300 forums and subforums so the idea of making an entry for each one is no good...
Wouldn't it be easier just to give the forums numeric ids and use modrewrite to redirect... |