Blogs Record

Amazon Bring Out Some Widgets

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:44:00 +0000

Just had notice about Amazon Widgets , which looks like it is tring to go down the route of auctionads . On first look you get quite a few options for what you want to do

There is quite a selection and you are sure to find something you like. After you have chosen what you want to show on your site you can move onto the next stage.

You can do a search what what products you want to feature, for example if you are using it on a blog about bloggind you could search for 'wordpress, blogger' and then you will see a selection of items you may want to add.

As you can see above you see a list of items and you add them to the selected items. You can add your own comments to try to talk people into buying the items.

After you have finished you will arrive at the content and layout screen all of the views explain themselves well and can add some extra visual feel to the widget.

After choosing the layout you then have a screen with a long list of places you may want to add the script, you could also add the script manually by cutting and pasting the script.

Once you have it pasted or added to your blog/website you will have a nice visual widget that could earn you money through referrals and sales from amazon.

I like the look and the way you have so many options for the layout and what you want.

You can find an example of the widget here and have a look in the sidebar

Link Back Buttons

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:52:00 +0000

Still not sure how to do any fancy ones but try this one

Kukuh over at Graphic Identity has created some graphics and logos for me and you can see them here.

The Buttons above are logo1, logo2 e.t.c from to top as if you are reading normally so if you

 wanted logo4

you would add the following

Which would show like this

 Any problems just ask

So if you are after quality graphics, why not pop over there and see what they can do for you

A huge, huge thanks for these and long may they last

Auctionads.com

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:41:00 +0000

Now I am a big fan of Auctionads as its where I have made most of my money on other blogs that I have had.

As you can see they have a simple site layout with clear instructions on how what to do.

Plus with their new web 2.0 style ads the look and feel is very modern.

Signing up is simple and straight forward, and its straight into setting up your ads. The plus side of auctionads is you dont have to have your blog checked to see if they will allow you to use them or not.

As you can see from they layout of the setup its quite straight forward, it asks you for keywords which will target the ads to specific areas of items for sale. My tip is to add a little something extra that isnt related to your blog like motors or cameras, I have had the bigest payouts from these extra keywords that are non-related

Obvously match the colours as close as you can to your blog colours and keep it within the feel of your blog layout.

You will be best of adding little campaigns like blog top left e.t.c. so you can see where you are getting the most clicks and which are just wasting space.

Select which campaign you want to use and then choose what sort of ad type you want, no need for anything really big as it could viewers eyes away from the content and just make them feel like its a blog for adverts.

You can choose from the old style or the new fresh feeling style, I would take the old style if it will match your blog.

After you have done all that you can see the finished layout at the bottom of the screen so you can preview what it will look like, alter it if it doesnt look right rather than thinking that will do.

Try AuctionAds

A few sites that can offer a bit more information and some tricks you may use:

Using page title as keywords

A bit more on the new look

Crispads.com

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:51:00 +0000

I dont normally have advertising in fact if you have a look at Blogsrecord there is no advertising on there whatsoever.

But I thought I would look into advertising for this little blog and see if you can earn money from networks and advertising. Note I am a total beginner at this so I may make a dollar.

Crispads.com has a web 2.0 look about it and gets of to a good impression to start with.

Signup was simple enough, username, password, email address, paypal address and blog address.

Takes 24-48 hours for them to review your blog, but you can access the backend straight away. Another plus side is not having to verify your email address, which really winds me up on some sites.

All seems simple enough, and please note they will ban your account for fraudulent clicks.

Onto the setup, first thing I notice is a very limited amount of categories and some may find it hard to find one that fits.

After going through the process of setting up the ad, Im still not sure what somethings mean.

I also note ads will only be displayed in the following areas

United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland
Spain, Austria, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France
Virgin Islands (U.S. & British)

Not quite sure why, may be due to laws in other countrys

Altering the code they give you will result in your account getting banned.

The code you end up with is quite lengthy and you can choose from javascript or a frame which will load faster.

The end result looks like the following after it has been added

To try crispads for yourself please use the button on the right

CrispAds Blog Ads
&amp;lt;a href='http://crispads.com/spinner/adclick.php?n=aa1d3852' target='_blank'&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src='http://crispads.com/spinner/adview.php?what=zone:10955&amp;amp;amp;resize=1&amp;amp;amp;n=aa1d3852' border='0' alt=''&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

Someone Is Stealing My Letters

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:38:00 +0000

Heres a fun site Ive found, the object of the game is to write words by moving the fridge magnets around the board, but there is only a limited amount of letters on the board.

The biggest problem is there is other players who have great joy in taking your letters to make their own words.

Heres a challenge for you, try to spell your sites name before someone snatches your letters.

The site can be found here

Optical Illusions A bit of Fun

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:27:00 +0000

Ive always been a fan of optical illusions and how they work, you will find quite a few on this page, which is your favourite.

The original can be found here

On the next one Stare at the dots in the middle for a few seconds, then stare at a wall and blink your eyes really fast, what can you see. The original is here

The next is a man and a bottle the original can be found here

What about still images that appear to move

Stare at the next images cross for about a minute and see what happens

10 Firefox Addons For Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:35:00 +0000

I like to use firefox and I find it has some of the best add ons for helping how I blog and view other blogs.

This is my top ten

1 Scribefire

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.

2: Monster Blog Sack

The Monster Blog Sack toolbar allows users to surf blogs (according to your categories of interest,) sack (a MBS rating system,) tag, search, share, and add blogs to favorites.

3: Blogger Bar

Brings the power of Blogger into a single toolbar.

4: Submit'em now

Blog and RSS Feed Submitter. It already have build in database, so you can submit your blog to 100 blog and rss directories!

5: Snap Shots

With Snap Shots™ Add-On for Firefox, you can bring the functionality of Snap Shots to the websites you surf every day, enhancing Firefox with the right content at the right place and time. * When in you search in Google or Yahoo!, mouse over the links and get videos for YouTube, summaries for Wikipedia articles, product descriptions from Amazon and more * Mouse over profiles in MySpace and see pictures and descriptions without clicking away from the page you're on * Online encyclopedias like Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database become even more useful as links turn into summaries * Plus upgraded functionality on the major blog platforms, Xanga, Boing Boing, The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, and many other sites.

6: Deepest Sender

Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Note that the actual Deepest Sender website will always have the most up to date version.

7: Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs is a personal search engine for your browser. Breadcrumbs saves your visited pages and allows you to search your pages from the search toolbar. It stores data locally to protect your privacy. Breadcrumbs also allows permanent offline browsing.

8: OneClick Installer for Wordpress

OneClick is a companion extension for the OneClick plugin for wordpress. It allows you to install any wordpress theme or plugin from the context menu of firefox. This extension requires the OneClick plugin installed on your wordpress blog.

9: Adsense Notifier

Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

10: Adsense Preview

Preview the Google ads that may show on any web page.

Blogsrecords First Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:52:00 +0000

We thought it was time, we have a few members, we like what we are doing.

But we would like a few more, I am offering a copy of Windows Ultimate Vista to a randomly drawn member, all current members receive one ticket in the hat and all new members will receive one ticket in the hat.

But the best part is you can receive more tickets:

Write a review about blogsrecord (you can put anything)

Refer new users (these are monitored from the backend)

Link to us with one of the buttons you can find in the news section

So you could end having lots of tickets and a better chance of winning.

If you don't require or need the prize you can have another prize of the same value or a cash alternative of 150 dollars

Rules

You must be a member

Contest ends 1st October 2007

Any one found to be cheating will be banned and deleted from the site

http://blogsrecord.com/

Adverts gone From Blogsrecord

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:53:00 +0000

As you can see all the adverts are gone, and as a way for me to draw some income into the site I am offering reviews from this site about your blog.

What you get

$5 Review

A simple review including a general outline of your site, a couple of pictures and a thumbnail of your home page which will all link to your site. There will be at least 3 other links to your site with keywords of your choosing. You will be in the categories that I will be adding on the left for reviews/recommended sites.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE AND CONTAIN AT LEAST 150 WORDS

$10 Review

A complete review including a general outline of your site, some details on posts contained within your site, a couple of pictures and a thumbnail of your home page which will all link to your site. There will be at least 5 other links to your site with keywords of your choosing.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE AND HAVE AT LEAST 250 WORDS

$25 Special Review

All of the above, but will have its own page with at least 500 words on your site containing information on links, good points, graphical analysis on content and growth, links to technorati, alexa, feedburner and others that will help to produce a bit of extra traffic and awareness around your site.

WILL BE RANDOM ON THE FRONT PAGE

To pay use the button at the bottom of the page or send payment via paypal to carkian [at] aol.com

I will contact you regarding the review

100 Internet Browsers

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:16:00 +0000

Its long been the talk of webmasters, bloggers and designers about which browsers are used and what should you use for optimizing websites.

I personally think you should try to make your site appear as near to what you intend for all of them (well the popular ones), but this is not always possible.

The following is a list of the browsers that I can find.

You may find something in here you like, or you may laugh at some of the attempts that companies have made.

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Opera

Safari

Flock

Maxthon

3b

Amaya

Arachne

Aweb

Browsex

Check&Get

Charon

Chimera

Dillo

Deepnet Explorer

Dreamkey

Emacs W3

Enigma

Gollum

Hv3

Ibrowse

Icab

Kidz CD

Links 2

Links Hacked

Netpositive

Netsurf

Netsurfer

Nintendo DS Browser

Offline Downloader

Oregan

Planetweb

Minefield

Right Web Monitor

Sleipnir

Spin

Superbot

VMS Mosaic

Voyager

X-Smiles

Lynx

Lynx

There are plenty of others besides the ones shown

The following is from evolt.org and can all be downloaded from there, most of the ones I listed above can be downloaded from here as well.

1x
Science Traveller International

Air Mosaic Demo
Sprynet

AllWorld Explorer
G.O. International Air Service

Amaya
W3C

Arachne
xChaos

ArcWeb
Stewart Brodie

Ariadna
Advanced Multimedia System Design

AtomNet
Change 7

AWeb
AmiTrix

Beonex
Ben Bucksch

Bobby
Center for Applied Special Technology

Bohemian Net Browser
BohemianNet

BrownIE
Compunet

Browse2000
1st Choice Software

CAB
Alexander Clauss

Cello
Thomas Bruce

Charlie
Mundial Avenue

ChiBrow
KCS & Associates

Chimera
University of Nevada Las Vegas

Contiki
Adam Dunkels

Custom Browser
LION

Cyberdog
Apple Computer, inc.

CyberGate
BlackSun Interactive

Cyber Passage
Sony

DigiCams
DigiBand

DOSLynx
University of Kansas

DR-WebSpyder
Caldera

ELinks
Mikulas Patocka, the ELinks team

Emacs-W3
William M. Perry

Emissary
Attachmate

Flock
Flock

FreeWebBrowser
Yellow Tree Services

Galahad
Jean van Waterschoot

goAnywhere!
Mikey LeBeau

Grail
Corporation for National Research Initiatives

GrassHopper MDI Explorer
Santrim Software

HandWeb
Smartcode Software

HexaBit Junior
HexaBit

Home Page Reader
IBM

HotJava
Sun Microsystems

I-comm
Talent Communications

I-O-D-4 - The Web Stalker
Escape

I-View
EnReach Technology

iBrowse
Omnipresence International

iCab
Alexander Clauss & iCab Company

Internet Explorer
Sprynet

Internet Explorer
Microsoft

Internet Plus
Dean Software Design

Internet WorkHorse
MarketNet

KidNet Explorer
Resource Communications

KidSafe Explorer
Arlington Technology

LIS Web Browser
Lahman Internet Services

Links
Mikulas Patocka

Lynx
Distributed Computing Group

MacLynx
Olivier Gutknecht

MacWeb
TradeWave (EINet)

MacWWW (Samba)
CERN

MathBrowser
MathSoft

Microviet First Explorer
Microviet

Minuet
University of Minnesota

Mosaic
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Mosaic

Mosaic
SpryNet

Mosaic
Spyglass

Mozilla, incl. Firefox
The Mozilla Foundation

Multilingual Mosaic
Accent Software

MultiWeb Viewer
MultiSource

MyBrowser
Softorange

Navigator
Netscape Communications Corporation

NCompass
ExCITE

NeoPlanet
NeoPlanet

Net-Tamer
Net-Tamer

NetCaptor
Stilesoft

NetCruiser
Netcom

NetForKids
WebData Communications

Net M@anager
Virtual Innovations

Netomat
Maciej Wisniewski

NetPositive
Be, Inc.

NetSentry
Natdat

NetShark
InterCon

NetShift
NetShift Software

Nuthin' But Net
PAKSoft Productions

Off By One
Home Page Software

OmniWeb
OmniGroup

Opera
Opera Software

PowerBrowser
Oracle

ProStream Browser
PS Group

pwWebSpeak Plus
The Productivity Works

Pythia
Appian Interactive

QuickScape
Quickscape

Safari
Apple Computer, Inc.

Santa's Browser
Branded Browser Technologies

SimulBrowse
Seaglass Software

SiteKiosk
ProVisio GmbH

SlipKnot
MicroMind

Softerm Plus
Softronics

SuperHighway Browser
Frontier Technologies

Surfin' Annette
SpyCatcher

SurfMonkey
MediaLive

Talking Browser
WeMedia

Talva Document Explorer
Talva

Tango Multilingual
Alis Technologies

The Other Browser-Emailer
Pixelogic

UdiWWW
Bernd Richter

Video On Line Browser
Video On Line

Voyager
VaporWare

WannaBe
David T. Pierson

Web-O-Matic Digital Browser
Circle Group Internet, Inc.

Web SurfACE
ToolPool

Web-Talkit
Grover Industries

WebExplorer
IBM

WebProwler
MacroByte

WebRacer
Software Savvy

Websurfer
NetManage

WebTV Viewer
WebTV Networks

WebView
South Pacific Information Services

WebWhacker
Blue Squirrel

Wildcat Navigator
Harmony International

WinWEB
TradeWave (EINet)

WorldWideWeb (Nexus)
Tim Berners

Try the following as well most of them are cast offs from firefox

Iceweasel
Swiftfox
Songbird
Epiphany
Kazehakase
Salamander
SeaMonkey
Skipstone

Cymru66.com Review

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:35:00 +0000

Cymru66.com

Cymru66 is one of those blogs that started out as one thing and has ended up as a must visit site for information on everything from making money to marathans and minis

The sites look and feel is very modern, as you can see from the screen shot of the sidebars buttons they have a very web 2.0 feel about them, the blogger has gone along way to make these so you cant miss them and I am sure alot of bloggers could take ideas from the layout and add them to their own blog

As you can see all the important things a blogger uses are added to the buttons, the rss buttons being so large are a must and will help to build readership.

Wales is a big part of the blog as that is where the owner was originally from, and you can see his stories about wales, mini car clubs and other odds & ends that the owner finds from around the internet and while he is on his travels on the blog. All are laid out nicely and are easy to read, no adverts seem to get in the way and the sidebar below the buttons is neat and easy to follow.

Overall a great visit and well worth a look, while you are there have a look iin the top right at the neat little corner advertising, very nice looking and doesnt get in the way like some adverts do

If you want your own review, you can visit Blogsrecord Your review will appear here and on Blogsrecord

Welcome

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:15:00 +0000

As a little of shoot from Blogsrecord we have started this little blog to shwcase some things you could be using to monitize your blog, or show of some designs and tools you may find interesting.

From adsense to widgets, templates to websites, you will find them all here.