WordPress Theme of The Month: The Morning After

Yes, I know there are still a few days until November. I figured I’d publish the November theme a little ahead of schedule though. This month’s theme is called The Morning After.

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200th Post! Plus WordPress 2.3

Seeing as this is the 200th blog post on Webmaster-Source, I’m going to take this opportunity to fill you in on a little of WSC’s history. I bought the domain www.webmaster-source.com about a year and a half ago, and put up a static website…

Got .Web? Alternatives to .Com Domains

“All the good domains are taken!” is one of the most common exclamations among new bloggers. They’re partly right. You have to be real creative when you register a .com or .net domain these days. Domains are taken for legitamate reasons most of the…

The Battle Against Scraping

Yesterday (September 23), I logged into my WordPress Admin panel to tweak something in my theme. In the “Recent Links” area on the dashboard, I saw a link marked “Is Web Design an Art?” I knew I’d previously written a post by that name…

Overselling: Web Hosts’ Little “Secret”

You’ve probably seen the amazing web hosting deals offered by companies like BlueHost, HostMonster, and LunarPages. The claim to offer something like 300GB of storage, and 3000GB (3TB) of bandwidth for the low price of $7/month (or similar). Do you really think that’s possible?…

BlogBuzz September 22, 2007

NorthXEast Up For Sale

The blog NorthXEast (which I read) is, unfortunately, up for sale. It’s a great blog, with a cool layout, and some strong stats. It has 75,000+ unique visitors a month. 103,000+ pageviews per month. PageRank of 4 $175 current monthly revenue 2000+ RSS subscribers,…

Book Rotation: Randomly Display Your Favorite Books

This tutorial will teach you how to build a “Book Rotation.” On pageload, it picks a random book from a list of your favorites, and displays it’s title and cover, linking to it’s Amazon page with an affiliate link. You can see it in…

BlogRush Defends Their Program

People have been bashing BlogRush for the past couple of days, because they haven’t yet delivered their promised “rush of traffic.” After releasing statistics to their users, everyone started blogging about how they had x impressions of their headlines, but only a few clicks.…

Is AdBlock “Evil”?

Last month, some idiot decided that commercial websites should block the Firefox web browser because some Firefox users (read: 87% of Digg users) utilize the Adblock extension to block advertisements from being displayed. The arguements continue. Though most people (most sane people, anyway) agree…