What can you learn from the guys and girls at Joomlart
I must say from the start this is not a paid post. No, is just a post were i praise one of the best design and JS slideshows inspiration sources on the web: joomlart.com .
This site offers themes and extensions for Joomla. There’s a membership involved, but it’s pretty cheap: around $100 a year or around $500 for developers (you can use and modify the themes and the code inside). I haven’t used Joomla for more than 2 years now, but i still subscribe to this membership in order to get the new themes. Why?
Wii sales – the best places to find Nintendo Wiis for sale
I’m looking for a Nintendo Wii for quite a while now but i haven’t managed to get one. Why? Mainly because i couldn’t afford it or i couldn’t find it in stock. That’s why earlier today i went online to search for some of the best online deals on Nintendo Wiis and accessories.
It was kind of hard at first, cause most stores had no consoles left after Black Friday. But i found a nice collection of accessories for great prices (some even discounted). You can see them in the slide show below:
Blogging guide: What does blogging mean?
You’re venturing on a road that will teach you how to become a good blogger and how to get a couple of money out of this. But first, let’s see what a blog is.
According to Wikipedia, "a blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order ".
What does this mean? A blog is just a site, where the owner posts whatever he or she wants: text, pictures, videos, etc. Each thing written is called a post, and the posts are displayed in reverse-chronological order – the latest post is the first in the list.
Adsense test – blended ads go better than emphasized
I conducted these days a small Adsense test on a couple of my sites in order to find a better color scheme that would ensure me a better CTR. These schemes differs from site to site, but here is the main conclusion after the first stage of the test: blended ads are a lot better than emphasized ones.
On 3 sites i used to have the following color schemes:
Background: white
Title: blue
Url: blue
and i had the following CTR:
Site1: 4.15
Site2: 1.47
Site3: 4.34
What keeps you from starting a start up?
Start-up. What does this term mean? According to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a start-up is "a new small company or business, especially one whose work involves computers or the Internet". Examples? Well… Youtube, Joost, Kazaa, Facebook , they all we’re start-ups a couple of time ago, until they got sold for tons of money or became traffic magnets. For more recent start-ups you can check Killerstartups.com .
Anyway, i was wondering the other night how hard can it be to create a successful start-up? And then something stroke me: Why don’t you plan your own start-up? Why don’t people start more start-ups? Is it too difficult or nobody loves adventure anymore? So let’s think about that and make a list of possible problems you might meet if you plan your own start-up.
The idea