I have a fairly high volume site. It gets about 65,000 uniques and 220,000 page views a month, but it makes no money ($83 in click through ads in April). This site used to make 5 times this before the economy tanked. I need to do a major redesign on the site. You can see [...]

I discovered something disturbing about several Facebook Like Plugins for WordPress. Since Facebook announced the Open Graph API last week there have been two dozen facebook plugins that provide ways to put a “Like” button on a blog page or sidebar. One of them is mine. I’ve been fixing bugs and and adding features since [...]

I’ve been writing WordPress Plugins for a while now. I like that they are short and sweet. I can write a plugin in a few hundred lines of code and move on to the next one. My problem has been how to market the plugins. I am beginning to realize that you need a great [...]

I went to bed last night and the widget was working and woke up to find it was broken. I think it is on the Facebook end. Unfortunately I found out about the problem by trying to test the next version of the widget. I made changes to do all the styling of the widget. [...]

I finished my Facebook Like widget. All the good names were taken and I had to use the name Facebook Open Graph Widget. At last look there were more than a dozen plugins that do just about the same thing. Mine, of course, is the best of the lot. You can also roll your own. [...]

If you look over in the sidebar at the bottom there is a facebook like button. Please click on it to test it. I will be deleting pages in facebook so you may see the page hang around for a while and test status update or two, but don’t worry too much about it. As [...]

Facebook is evil, but only in the sense that Wall Street, Big Business, Elected Officials, Gun Lobbyists and Organized Religion are evil. Facebook is so large and powerful that its decisions, for good or bad, effect millions of people. Its responsibilities, as is true in the aforementioned, are not to the people it serves, but [...]

Note: About 1,000 people read this article in less than an hour, and it seems that they all thought it was about graphics. What I am talking about is markup and css to arrange html tags in a 3d space. I also discuss making some html objects such as tables into 3d objects. Someone will [...]

I watch the Guru.com website. I hardly ever get jobs there, but it is interesting to see the kinds of things that people want programmers to do. Most of the get rich schemes are idiotic, especially since that if there was a way to make money the way these guys want to, the programmers they [...]

I have written a couple of new WordPress widgets that I haven’t put out on the WordPress Repository. I wrote a Google keywords type plugin that only appears to users who arrive by search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo). Searchers see a widget that shows the posts that are related to their search terms. Rather than [...]