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Software Banners

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These software programs run on your server and display and rotate advertisements on Web pages. They can also track and target ads and users based on various criteria.

WebReference Articles

Ad Software Shoot Out: Charlie Morris corrals all the ad software guns in town, and when their pistols stop a-blazin' and the smoke settles he'll show ya' the best one for your spread.

Ad Management Software

Ad Juggler: Advanced ad management software, multiple versions and price levels, for many different hardware and OS platforms.
Ad Server Solutions: Ad serving software with ad targetting and real time reporting.
BannerServer.com: BannerServer.com offers a central ad server solution to provide online banner serving, management, rotation and tracking services.
Central Ad: Support for serving HTML, text, form-enabled and other types of ads to multiple advertiser campaigns. Web-based management interface, with multiple security features.
DoubleClick AdServer: Sophisticated mission-critical ad management system. Multiple languages and server platforms supported. Used by the some of the busiest sites on the Web.
OrbitCycle: Practically free, advertising management system that is remotely hosted. Orbit Cycle reserves 10% of the banner space on your site for their ads leaving 90% of the space for your ads.
Origent.com - Makers of Adelage Ad Server: Adelage Ad Server is a comprehensive ad server, with built-in reporting, invoicing, keyword-based ad-targeting, impression-pacing, unsold inventory tracking, and multilingual ad support.
WebAdverts: Shareware ad rotation management system, written in Perl. Banners can be displayed on your pages either through SSI calls, so that each time a page is loaded, a new banner will appear, via standard IMG tags, or IFRAME tags.

Advertising Networks

2007-11-04T21:59:00.000-09:00

@dVenture Advertisers are offered a range of options and can target by site, by group of interest category or by targeted demographics across all of AdVernture's sites. Aaddzz Performance-based advertising network; features: pay per click-thru, automatic banner targeting, real-time reporting, support for standard banner sizes. Aaddzz takes a 20% commission, floating CPM, minimum $10 CPM.
AdAce Targeted advertising services for small businesses on the Net. Ad-Net

Offers web sites a choice to have centrally served ads or site hosted ads. ADSmart.net

An advertising network that represents inventory from Web sites who attract strong, targeted audiences. Commission rates are variable depending upon the number of impressions available and the range of services chosen by the Web site. BannerAdNetwork

Free banner ad exchange network BURST! Media

Focused on providing ads for special-interest and niche-focused Web sites, BURST! helps manage more than 700 million advertising impressions per month for over 3000 publisher members. DoubleClick

Selective advertising network that brings buyers and sellers together with an innovative program that requires only one line of standard HTML. Represents some of the busiest sites on the Web. IntelliClicks

The first banner exchange network to offer the ability to include sound effects with your banner ad. LinkExchange/BCentral

Advertise your site for free in this banner exchange service from Microsoft. ValueClick

Ad network, guarantees to buy 100% of advertising space on host sites, performance-based pricing for advertisers. Webconnect

Ad placement service. Delivers highly targeted advertising coverage in a variety of market areas on the World Wide Web.

Collections

About.com: Ad Network Listings

Listing of top Web ad networks from About.com. Ad-Guide.com: Advertising Networks

Lists and ratings (by user vote) of all the major ad networks available on the Net. Refer-it: Ad Networks

Directory of Ad Network referral programs.

Advertising Management Services

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ActiveAd A campaign management service which simplifies online media buying for advertising agencies. Agencies using ActiveAd Central can outsource trafficking, tracking, and report preparation using ActiveAd Central's database-driven online media buying system. AdForce A full-service, end-to-end advertising management solution for ad networks and large Web Sites. Without requiring the purchase of hardware or software, AdForce offers unique benefits to advertisers, Web publishers and ad sales organizations. Adometer Powerful and easy to use advertising management system. Use this system to manage your own website advertising or set up a network of your own. AdResource Meta-page of advertising and promotion resources. ASET Advertising, contact and sales management software. CyberFirst Offers a "turn-key" advertising sales and ad management service. It includes, not only advertising sales representation, but also the ability to manage scheduling, delivery, tracking, reporting and billing functions. CyberGold Watch and ad, take a quiz to make sure you actually read the ad and about the product and presto, earn CyberGold! Focalink (*) Offers SmartBanner, a centralized ad management service for sites and advertisers, which provides hassle-free web advertising, and MarketMatch, a web media planning tool. LinkExchange Microsoft-owned site focused on promotion and advertising tools and services geared towards the small business owner. Web Ad Management Services New Media Advertising Management Companies - Yahoo (Collection) MatchLogic Exclusively a service company, they do not buy or sell media, they don't represent web sites or sell software, nor do they compete with ad agencies on any level. OrbitCycle Practically free, advertising management system that is remotely hosted. Orbit Cycle reserves 10% of the banner space on your site for their ads leaving 90% of the space for your ads. The Silver Company An internet advertising sales service organization geared toward individual websites with traffic of higher than 150,000 impressions/month. In partnership with NetGravity.

Advertising Resource Collections

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Adbility's Web Publisher Advertising Guide Comprehensive collection of links covering all aspects of internet advertising, including software, links, articles, advice on avoiding "Web Pirates", warnings on non-existant/Vaporware companies and more. Adresource.com A large collection of resources, links and articles for advertisers. Advertising Law Internet Site From Arent Fox, a thorough collection of articles and links covering advertising and Internet advertising law. Includes current FTC information.
Advertising World "Resources for advertising & marketing professionals, students, and teachers." Extensive collection of advertising-related links on the Web. A vast array of links organized across hundreds of ad subjects. Clickz.com Large collection of advertising, marketing and online business related links, articles and news. E-Commerce Guide News and links about online advertising, marketing and commerce. Internet Advertising Resource Guide An organized collection of links related to Net advertising. Surveys, legal news, industry-specific information, research and more. Online Advertising Discussion List Thousands of advertising professions use this mailing list to keep abreast of the latest developments in the Web advertising world. Website Promotion: Advertising and Banners DMOZ Open Directory Link Collection WWW Advertising ManagementYahoo Link Collection

Widget Initialization Using JSON, HTML Custom Tags and XML files

2007-11-04T21:34:00.000-09:00

Component reuse is a must in development. Reuse reduces development time, avoids coding errors, visual components will look identical, and so on... Code once, use anywhere! DHTML (Dynamic HTML) components or widgets are common nowadays; existing all over the Internet, from simple components such as calendars, toolbars, menus, etc., to more sophisticated frameworks like the Yahoo! UI Library. These components will behave in a different way according to some parameters or properties passed to them. This article will explain some ways to configure DHTML widgets, exposing its pros and cons, as well as programming techniques to avoid errors and speed up development time.

Properties declaration

Imagine a “List widget,” a common widget used to display, for example, tabular customer data. This kind of widget is also called a table or grid widget and will be used along the examples. To place a widget in a page, this example will retrieve widget properties, construct a widget object, then place it where the

reference is located. Properties give shape to our widget (height, weight, number of rows, etc.) including its behavior (such as the onclick event, onmouseover event, etc). Throughout this article, various ways to perform this task will be detailed:

a) Old style declarations with global variables

Global variables are defined and used as widget property values. This kind of declaration should not be used in order to avoid global scope issues.

b) Parameters to the constructor object

The properties of the widget are defined as passing parameters to the list widget constructor. This approach solves the global scope issue but the number of properties to pass is fixed. If we want to add a new property to the widget, the method signature must be changed, and thus, if we have a lot of properties in our widget, the method signature will become unreadable. This option is not recommended if we want to have an extensible widget Framework.

c) JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as a properties object.

This option uses JSON notation as a method to pass parameters, avoiding global scope issues, reducing the number of parameters and increasing code readability. This alternative is 100% pure JavaScript programming, as opposed to the use of Custom Tags and XML files (explained in following sections), which denotes simpler and easier notation.

By Nicolas Erlijman
source: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/widgets/index.html

Copy and Paste JavaScript with an Ajax Engine

2007-11-04T21:24:00.000-09:00

It's not necessary to understand the characteristics of Ajax in order to use it. This article provides copy and paste JavaScript with an Ajax engine. No modifications are necessary.

If you really want to get into the nitty-gritty of Ajax, here are a few pages with good information. Google "Ajax tutorial" for more.

Copy the following JavaScript and paste it into the HEAD area of your Web page source code.

The JavaScript could go pretty much anywhere, in the HEAD or BODY area, so long as it's not pasted within other JavaScript or inside an HTML tag. In the HEAD it's easier to manage, with less clutter in the BODY area where you'll be working with the examples.

Congratulations. You have completed placing JavaScript with an Ajax engine on your Web page.

Now, let's learn how to use it.

Three things are required to use the JavaScript Ajax engine:

The URL(s) of the content to be retrieved.
A place on your Web page to put the content.
A link to trigger the JavaScript, causing it to retrieve the content and put it where you want it.

The URLs of the Content To Be Retrieved

The content to be retrieved can be pretty much whatever you want it to be — text, images, forms, JavaScript, sound — any valid HTML source code.

It's important that the file with the content must be on the same domain as the Web page with the JavaScript Ajax engine. This is a restriction of the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function, the heart of Ajax. (Work-arounds require relay software on the server. This is addressed later.)

The examples in this article assume you have two files on your server, fileone.html and filetwo.html. They will contain content for the JavaScript Ajax engine to retrieve.

For use in the examples, let fileone.html contain:

And, let filetwo.html contain:

Upload files fileone.html and filetwo.html into the document root of your server (the directory where your domain's main or index Web page file is located). The files could be in other directories. The examples below assume they are in the document root.

By Will Bontrager

source: http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/w_b/index.html

Rotating Banner

2007-11-04T21:04:00.000-09:00

The JavaScript Source: Miscellaneous: Rotating Banner

Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as Note Pad or Simple Text) and save (Control-s or Command-s). The script is yours!!!

<head> <script language="JavaScript">    </script> </head>  <body> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <p><center> <span style="font-family:arial, helvetica;">Free JavaScripts provided<br /> by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a></span> </center><p>

source: http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/rotating-banner.html

Free PHP Hosting Services

2007-09-22T07:19:00.000-08:00

The graph chart below shows a list of free PHP hosts that a custom PHP benchmark script has been run on which calculated the average execution times in milliseconds (ms) after 12 runs at 5-second intervals, and removing the highest and lowest completion times of the benchmarked hosts. The test results from the PHP performance benchmark script are sorted from best (fastest; lowest PHP execution times) to the worst (slowest; highest numbers). There are currently about 100 Free PHP Web Hosting sites listed with reviews in our database, but these are some of the more popular ones that I still have a free web hosting account on.

The Free PHP benchmark performance script (download free) that was used for benchmarking the free PHP web hosting services performs some simple math and string functions 20,000 times each, and measures how long it takes to complete the PHP execution (this speed calculation does not include MySQL database queries or page loading times). This was repeated 12 times via a Javascript redirect to the script again, with 5 second delays. Then the average completion time was computed after removing the highest and lowest script execution times (in other words, the benchmark score is the average of the middle 10 scores).

Note that several of these benchmarked free PHP hosts have free hosting accounts on multiple servers, so the benchmark test results / speeds may vary greatly on their other web servers. Also the results could vary depending on the site's peak hours and varying server load at the moment. The PHP benchmarks data below was gathered August 24, 2006, or later, for all freehosts listed. I was very surprised at the fastest free hosts listed. In fact, several of the fastest free web servers below were faster than a very expensive managed dedicated server I rent, and much faster than the dedicated web hosting server this website is hosted on.

Free PHP Host (Review Page)	Benchmark (ms) (Lowest = Best)	Benchmark Graph (Shortest = Best)
ByetHost	27
Best-Free-Webspace	32
FreeHostia	37
110mb	38
12GbFree	39
007iHost	41
4444mb	42
NewSit.es	44
ZendURL	44
Kwik-PHP	44
Joolo	48
Ipdz	48
Quotaless	49
Free-PHP-Webhosting	50
Synced	53
Free-Hosting-Now	55
FreeWeb-7	55
FreeHosting-Now	57
HomeBlock	58
iFastNet	59
AtbHost	60
X10Hosting	61
007WebPro	63
PhpNet	64
My-Place	64
Fr33Webhosting	69
AgilityHoster	69
LeadHoster	69
100Webspace	91
AwardSpace	92
1111mb	101
4000Webs	112
Php0h	119
275mb	123
NetFast	125
Xlphp	127
ProPHP	131
3000mb	139
Tripod_uk	141

source: www.free-webhosts.com

Free PHP Webhosting Servers

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General details about all free web hosts with PHP

Free Web Host	Language	Web Space	Forced Ads	Upload	Scripting	Your URL	Notes
007WebPro	English	7 GB	Banner	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 7 GB/month. MySQL databases. LayeredPanel control panel. Automated PHP application installer. Website statistics. File size limit 250 KB. 31-days Inactivity limit. Instant activation. 007 Web Pro accepts only English language websites.
110mb	English	2 GB	No ads	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 100 GB/month. MySQL database (requires forum posting or fee). PHP script installers like Fantastico. File size limit 5 MB. Add-on domain name.
225 mb	English	225 MB	Banner-Top	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 10 GB/month. Cpanel, Fantastico. MySQL databases. Email. 30-days Inactivity limit. English web sites only allowed.
Atb Host	English	333 MB	No ads (text-links to be added later)	Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 30 GB/month. Xpanel control panel. MySQL database, PHPMyAdmin. 1-click phpBB, WordPress installers. Website statistics. File size limit 1 MB.
AwardSpace	English	200 MB	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Front Page Server Extensions, Perl	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 5 GB/month. MySQL database. POP3, Web-based Email. Autoresponders. Addon domains. File size limit 500 KB. Traffic Statistics. Password-protected files. Fantastico-like scripts installer. Instant activation.
Best Free WebSpace	English	20,000 MB	Banners	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 300 GB per month. MySQL databases. LayeredPanel. Add-on domain names. Instant free hosting activation.
ByetHost	English	100 MB - 250 MB	No ads (bannerless)	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	MySQL databases. POP3, Web-based Email, and Forwarding. Bandwidth limit 20000 - 30 GB/month. Free website statistics. Addon domains. No file size limit. VHCS control panel, Zantastico. 30-days Inactivity limit. Instant free webspace hosting activation.
Free Hostia	English	250 MB	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Front Page Server Extensions, Perl	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 5 GB/month. POP3, Forwarding, Web-based Email. Auto-responders. SpamAssassin. MySQL database. Addon domain names. Statistics. Elefante installer. Instant activation. File size limit 500 KB. 30-days Inactivity limit. Custom error pages.
Free PHP Web Hosting	English	1000 MB	No banners or ads	FTP, Browser	PHP5	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 10 GB/month. Awstats web site statistics. Layered Panel websitel panel (LayeredPanel control panel). MySQL databases.
Free WebHosting 360	English	3600 MB	Banner-Top	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 3.6 GB/month. LayeredPanel website hosting panel. MySQL databases. Multiple free webhosting accounts allowed. Host additional domains free.
FreeWeb 7	English	7000 MB	No ads	FTP, Browser	PHP5	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 65 GB/month. LayeredPanel control panel. MySQL databases and 1-click script auto-installers. Instant activation.
Free WebHosting Pro	English	5000 MB	No ads	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 20 GB/month. LayeredPanel. MySQL databases. Instant activation of FreeWebHosting accounts.
HelioHost	English	150+ MB	Banner-Top	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Front Page Server Extensions, Perl	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 1500+ MB/month. Cpanel, Fantastico. Unlimited addon domains. POP3 Email, Spam Assassin. Statistics, raw logs. Cron jobs allowed. Unlimited MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Custom error pages. SSL Secure server.
Joolo	English	1000 MB	Button-Bottom	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 10 GB/month. LayeredPanel control panel. MySQL databases. Host Add-on domain names. AWstats statistics.
Lead Hoster	English	250 MB	No adds	FTP, Browser	CGI, Perl, PHP, SSI, Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 6 GB/month. Custom control panel. POP3, IMAP, Web-based Email, Auto-responders, Spam e-mail filters. MySQL database. Addon domain names. Website statistics.
NewSit.es (New Sites)	English	20 GB	Banner	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 300 GB/month. Layered Panel control panel. MySQL databases, PHP 5.
ProfuseHost	English	2 GB	Banner-Top	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Front Page Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby	Domain or Subdomain	Cpanel. Bandwidth limit 100 GB/month. PostgreSQL, MySQL databases. PhpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin. Web-based Email, Forwarding, Auto-responders. Webalizer, Analog, AWStats web statistics. Password-protected files. Ruby on Rails. .htaccess. Addon domains. Backup.
Quotaless	English	Unlimited	Banners-Top	FTP, Browser	PHP	Domain or Subdomain	Virtually unlimited bandwidth. LayeredPanel control panel. Zantastico 1-click script installer for over 20 popular forums/CMS scripts. MySQL database, phpMyAdmin. Awstats website statistics.
RipWay	English	30 MB	No ads	FTP, Browser	PHP	/you	Bandwidth limit 750 MB/month (25 MB/day). Instant activation. Online file storage allowed. 30-days Inactivity limit. Filesize limit 10 MB.
Synced	English	300 MB	Banner	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, Front Page Extensions, Perl	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 35 GB/month. Cpanel, Fantastico. PSQL and MySQL databases. Custom error pages. No file sizelimit. POP3, Forwarding, Web-based Email. Free web site statistics. Addon domains. .htaccess files supported. English websites only.
T35	English	Unlimited	Popup	FTP, Browser	PHP, SSI	Subdomain	Unlimited bandwidth (unmetered). All file types allowed. File size limit 500 KB. No inactivity limit. Monthly backups of free websites.
Tripod.uk	English	1024 MB (1 GB)	Frame + Popup	FTP, Browser	PHP, SSI, Front Page Server Extensions	/you	MySQL database. Statistics. Unlimited bandwidth. Unlimited file size. Custom error pages. Web-based Email. Instant activation.
Ueuo	English	200 MB	Popunder once per user	FTP, Browser	PHP, SSI	Domain or Subdomain	Unmetered bandwidth. Xpanel. MySQL database, preinstalled phpMyAdmin. Custom error pages. File size limit 10 MB. Statistics. Php mail enabled. Email. Cron jobs. Addon domains. Multiple accounts allowed. Instant free webspace hosting activation.
X10Hosting	English	300+ MB	No banners or ads	FTP, Browser, SiteCopier	CGI, PHP, ASP, SSI, Front Page Server Extensions, Perl, Python	Domain or Subdomain	Bandwidth limit 10 GB/month, upgradeable. Cpanel, Fantastico del luxe. MySQL databases. AwStats Statistics. POP3, SMTP, Forwarding, Web-based Email, PHP Sendmail. Spam Assassin. Add-on domains. Cronjobs.

Directories of free web hosting providers:

Free Web Hosting - Has searchable database of free web space providers with user reviews & ratings. Also has webmaster tools, domain name registration price comparison chart, domain name tools, and directory and reviews of free image hosting services.
Free Webhosting - Directory guide of free website providers, and powerful database search; Also has reviews of cheap webhosting providers and useful webhosting tools.
Free Hosting - Searchable database with reviews of free webspace providers offering personal websites in English.
Free Web Space - Searchable database of free webspace hosting providers with reviews and details listing web space, bandwidth limit, and other webhosting features. Their website info is available in several languages/translations.
Free Web Hosts - Listing of free webspace providers with reviews. Also has detailed comparison charts of cheap webhosts and free web-based file storage services.
Free Websites - Directory and reviews of free web page hosting services and free website hosting companies, as well as online storage and webmaster resources for building and promoting websites.

Free PHP Hosting

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PHP environment details for tested free webhosts

The free PHP hosting comparison chart below was compiled from phpinfo() files on test accounts of the free webspace hosts, and are subject to change as the free website hosts update their PHP software configurations.

Free Web Host	PHP Version	Database Version	allow_url_ fopen	safe_ mode	max_ execution_ time	GD Support	Last Checked
100 Webspace	4.4.0	MySQL 3.23.56	Enabled	Off	30	2.0.15 compatible	8/22/2007
110 mb	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	Off	10	2.0.28 compatible	7/4/2007
12 Gb Free	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	9/21/2007
3000 mb	4.4.1	MySQL 4.1.22	Enabled	Off	20	-	6/15/2007
789 mb	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.41	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	9/21/2007
ATB Host	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Enabled	On	20	-	5/4/2007
Award Space	4.4.1	MySQL 4.0.24	Enabled	Off	30	2.0 or higher	4/12/2007
Best Free Web Space	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	9/11/2007
Byet Host	5.2.3	MySQL 5.0.38	Off	On	20	2.0 or higher	6/15/2007
Free Hostia	4.4.0	MySQL 3.23.56	Enabled	Off	30	2.0.28 compatible	5/7/2007
Free PHP Web Hosting	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	30	2.0.28 compatible	6/30/2007
Free WebHosting Pro	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	7/25/2007
FreeWeb 7	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	7/24/2007
Joolo	5.1.6	MySQL 5.0.27	Off	On	20	2.0.28 compatible	7/10/2007
Lead Hoster	4.4.2	MySQL 4.1.11	Enabled	Off	30	2.0 or higher	6/15/2007
Synced	4.4.4	MySQL 4.1.22	Enabled	Off	30	2.0.28 compatible	9/21/2007
Tripod.uk	4.4.6 phpinfo disabled now	MySQL ?	Off	On	10 ?	2.0 or higher	5/28/2007
X10 Hosting	5.2.3 phpinfo is disabled	MySQL 4.1.22	?	?	?	?	8/20/2007

Directories of free web hosting providers:

Free Web Hosting - Has searchable database of free webspace providers with user reviews & ratings. Also has sections for free PHP web hosting sites, webmaster tools, domain name registration price comparison chart, domain name tools, and directory and reviews of free image hosting websites.
Free Webspace - Searchable database of free hosting providers with reviews and details listing web space, bandwidth limit, and other features. Website info is available in several languages.
Best Free Webspace - Reviews and ratings of the 100 most recommended, best free web page hosting companies, with searchable database.
Free Hosting - Searchable database with reviews of free webspace providers and free homepage hosting servers offering personal websites in English, with chart of free PHP hosting services.
Free Webhosting - Directory guide of free website providers, and powerful database search; Also has reviews of cheap webhosting providers and useful webhosting tools.
Free Website - Directory and reviews of free website hosting companies, as well as online storage and webmaster resources for building and promoting websites.
Free Webhosts - Alphabetical listing of free webspace providers with reviews. Also has detailed comparison charts of cheap webhosts and free web-based file storage services.

PHP Random Text 1.1

2007-09-22T04:35:00.000-08:00

By: Nate Baldwin
For: PHP

Version 1.1 update changed to allow more than one instance of random content per page (up to 250 instances allowed).

This is a tutorial and free script to let you import random text of your choosing from a text file using PHP. You can import from an unlimited number of separate text blocks and can use either plain text, or HTML code. It requires that PHP be installed and running on your server. Below is a block of example text that uses this script (from 10 different text blocks). Refresh the page to see it load new text into the box...

Coming up with fun and exciting random text is, well, fun and exciting.

To get started download the script and example text files.

Download HERE (4K .zip file)

Decompress the .sit or .zip file, and you should find a GetRandomText.php and random.txt files. First, let's set up the random.txt file.

random.txt

This is a simple text file that you'll enter all you random text into. Open the example file, and you should see about ten lines of text separated by a *divider* string. Basically, you'll just want to open the file (in any text or HTML editor) and enter all the text you'd like to have imported randomly, and put a few characters in front of each line so the script knows where to separate them. It doesn't matter what character (or characters) you use as long as they don't appear anywhere else in the text. I like to use a string of characters so it's less likely to have an accidental match. For this example, I used *divider* (the word divider between to asterisks).

For this text file, you can either enter plain text or HTML code. You can even use HTML image tags if you want to import random images with the same script. Save the text file, and now we're ready to move on to the PHP script.

GetRandomText.php

You shouldn't need to make any changes to the PHP code in this file.

This file holds all the PHP code. There's very little you need to do to the file, except to tell it where the random.txt file is (in case you've moved it or changed its name), and tell it what the separation character (or characters) are that you used to divide your text blocks.

Open the GetRandomText.php file in any text or web editor (like Notepad, GoLive, Dreamweaver, etc.) and find line 5 of the script. It should by default look something like...

$MPTextFile = "random.txt";

By default, you don't have to change anything here, but if you changed the name of the random.txt file, you'll want to enter the new name of the file here inside double quotation marks. Next, enter the separation character(s) on line 6...

$MPSepString = "*divider*";

Make sure the character(s) are still inside double quote marks, and don't use double quotes anywhere in your separation string. Line 7 has one more editable option...

$MPTextToHTML = false;

If your random.txt file has HTML code in it at all, you'll want to leave this set to false. If your random.txt file has just plain text, then you'll want to change it to true (no quotation marks) so it can convert special HTML characters (such as " quotes, & ampersands, etc.) to their HTML equivalents.

If this options is set to false, then the script assumes you'll be supplying your own HTML code and will go ahead and strip any HTML, HEAD and BODY tags for you automatically and just bring in the blocks of code by themselves.

Using the Script

Now we're ready to use the script in our page. For best results, upload both the GetRandomText.php and random.txt file to the same folder as the page that you're importing the random text into. Then, make sure that your main page that imports the text has a .php extension (or whatever other extension your server required to run embedded PHP scripts).

Next, insert the following PHP code into your page (in HTML source code view) anywhere that you want to import random content:

include_once("GetRandomText.php"); $MPTextFile = "random.txt"; $MPSepString = "*divider*"; $MPTextToHTML = false; MPPrintRandomText($MPTextFile, $MPSepString, $MPTextToHTML); ?>

The "include_once()" line imports the PHP from the GetRandomText.php file. If this file is not in the same folder as your page that's doing the importing, this will need to show the true path from the import page to your GetRandomText.php page instead of just the file name.

The next three lines are variables that control the script options. If you aren't using the default settings and file names, you will need to change the values of these variables as follows:

$MPTextFile = "random.txt";

$MPSepString = "*divider*";

Make sure the character(s) are still inside double quote marks, and don't use double quotes anywhere in your separation string.

$MPTextToHTML = false;

Since PHP is a server-side language, the script will more than likely not work on your local machine until you upload the files to your server and test from there in your web browser. If you run into any problems, you're welcome to post a question in our Support Forum.

Good luck!

source: www.mindpalette.com

How to create a favicon ico file

2007-09-06T03:17:00.000-08:00

Posted by roslimh as tips

What Is favicon Icon?

Favicon is short for ‘Favorite Icon.’ Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. To be recognized immediately, favicons have to be visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page. In fact, if you use Favicons for your sites, users can easily find your URL in their bookmarks - in this way you create some kind of a visual connection between your web-site and your sites’ visitors. Often, the Favicon reflects the look and feel of the web site or the organization’s logo matching its colors and general feel.

My site favicon as example:

Every webmaster or webowner should always create favicons for everysite they are building. It is consider an act of professionalism and it also gives a personal touch to one’s website. The favicon file is very small in size (16×16 pixels) and should contain some small text or image. Webmasters usualy use the website’s logo or its main name. Like mine I use my own picture for my www.roslihanip.com website.

Easy to use on-line favicon generator

In my search for a favicon generator I found several ways/methods of building/creating one. The fastest one is building a text favicon. This website antifavicon offers a really nice and fast way for creating a really simple favicon. You only need to enter small text, chose your colors and the software creates your favicon on the fly. This is one route you can use and it is very fast and easy to use.

Favicon Tools

* Favicon Generator
* Favicon Generator 2
* Even More Favicon Generators
* Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop

How to use a favicon in your site

Now that you have created your final favicon.ico file you should add it to your sites functionality.

The original way of defining a favicon was by placing it in the root directory of your site. Later a more flexible system was created, using HTML, it is now possible to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is achieved using the link element in the section of the document.

In this way, any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the .ico format, other browsers now also support the GIF and PNG image formats.

So now all you have to do is upload the favicon.ico file on your webserver and add the HTML code posted up in the section of your site. Note that you could also use PNG or GIF formats for your favicon but ICO is a standard format accepted by all browsers. Also note that you can also specify the location of the favicon but the standard is keeping it in your website root directory.

If you are running out of ideeas when creating the small image document have a look through this nice collection of favicons. Also look at the nice categorized list of 50 remarkable favicons at Smashing Magazine.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and build beautiful FAVICONS.

Technorati Tags: bookmarks, favicon, graphics, icons

Blogger tag adder user script

2007-08-24T08:01:00.000-08:00

Blogger tag adder user script

Yes, another tag adder for Blogger. So, no credit for the idea. In my opinion there were small things missing in existing scripts. That's why I created my own script. Editing and styling tags where the most important to me.

Features of my Blogger tag adder (0.3.1) user script for Greasemonkey:

Tags can easily be modified on existing or draft posts as they are read back into the tag input field!
Tags are placed in a unordered list, which make them easy to style!
You can easily add sites to tag.
Separate tags using a comma.

Example of the generated HTML (in case of Technorati tags):

Example of CSS to use to get the tags next to each other:

.tags * { display: inline; margin: 0; padding: 0; }

0.3.1

Update it to work on the restyled BlogThis!.

0.3

You can use this on BlogThis! as well now.

0.2.5

Added support for compose mode editing.

0.2.4

Fixed it to work with Greasemonkey 0.6.4.

0.2.3

Updated to work with my form data rescue script.

0.2.2

Fixed it to work with Greasemonkey 0.5.1. The fix in version 0.2.1 was no good.

0.2

Added tabindex.

0.1

Initial version.

source: blogger tag adder user script

New AdSense earnings tool software

2007-08-23T06:30:00.000-08:00

Here is a brand new AdSense tool that can drive your AdSense earnings through the roof…helping you discover the hidden high-paying clicks, locking in on the best traffic-pulling links, and instantly eliminating money-making errors.

The owner of the site, Matt Callen, just gave me permission to give you the link directly to the software page so you can get access to this software at the insanely low introductory price.

==> CLICK HERE for adspy

It is no secret that there is a lot of money to be made with AdSense - but there is also a lot of money to be lost…IF you do not know which ads are generating you the most money!

I do not want to waste too much time with this message, explaining all of the awesome details about this software, but you should know that you can now drop all the guesswork and discover the exact secrets to cracking the AdSense secrets.

With AdSpyTracker, you can track every single click, where they came from, what ad was clicked…and tons more!

And the best part…the price is so low you can't afford NOT to try it out.

==> CLICK HERE for adspy

This site will explain more of the details. Trust me, this software is great!

I really love this and cannot say enough about it. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Enjoy!
Bob

==> CLICK HERE for adspy

source: new adsense earnings tool software

Google Adsence Banner "Exclude Private Forums"

2007-08-23T06:19:00.000-08:00

This adsence box if placed below the $navbar code in the FORUMHOME, SHOWTHREAD and FORUMDISPLAY templates. Will show your adsence banners on multiple pages all across your forum.

With this though, you can exclude certain categorys and forum ID's. So the adsence banners will not be displayed in them and get indexed in Google. If you have configured a certain category and forum boards in it to be private for staff viewing only. And have configured them to not be listed in the forums search and jump menu. You can use this code below to exclude banners from them.

The numbers you see highlighted in RED are the category and forum ID's that you exclude the adsence banners from being displayed in.

For example, I have a private category that contains 3 forums in it. So the example above shows how I exclude the adsence banner from being displayed in that category and the forums in it.

source: vbulletin.com

SVG + JavaScript

2007-08-23T05:42:00.000-08:00

SVG is way to describe graphics in XML format. I have been playing around with it lately hoping to use it to add graphs to Adsense Notifier. But graphs, as useful as they can be, are terribly boring. So I have started to see just how far I can push SVG and what it will let me do.

In order to view the files, you will either need an SVG plug-in for IE, or versions of Firefox 1.5 and above have native support (another excuse to try the browser everyone is talking about!).
Both examples below use JavaScript and the SVG DOM to create the XML on the fly. I don’t think that either of these are what the intended use of SVG is for, but then what fun things are? Another neat thing to note, is that the text with the SVG and JavaScript is about 1/3 the size of the thumbnails.

“3d” SVG Example. - This example makes a faux 3d field of cubes and shows off using onmouseover effects and transparency.

Animated Fire Example - Recreates the Fire effect used in many BBS Demos way back when. Creates both the field of boxes, as well as the animated Fire effect on the fly.

Feel free to view the source and play around with them, even though they are only snippets I have released them under the GPL license. Let me know if you make anything fun with them!

Further resources:
Croczilla SVG Samples
Mozilla SVG Project

source: mincus.com

More SVG Fun

2007-08-23T04:40:00.000-08:00

I have been playing around with SVG a bit more, and here is my latest test.

When Google Finance came out, I was really impressed by the interface and graphing and wanted to try to replicate that in SVG (for eventual inclusion in Adsense Notifier.

As in my last SVG Demos I have only tested this inside of Firefox, so it may or may not work with the Adobe plug-in.

SVG Example Graphing Demo - The top blue box is draggable and expandable - although currently you have to grab it on the exact last pixel of either side to do the expansion, but this is just a test so you can’t complain

source: mincus.com

Adsense Notifier

2007-08-23T04:21:00.000-08:00

Displays your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar.

UPDATE Dec 02, 2006: An updated version that fixes the recent Google stats display error has be uploaded.

Install Adsense Notifier (version 0.9.3)
Release Date: 2006/12/02

Adsense Notifier simply shows your adsense stats on the status bar and updates the stats automatically. This is wonderful for anyone with OCD ( or GAD as some have called it ) who needs to check their stats every three seconds to see if they have gotten any more clicks :-p

Version Notes:
- Google updated how money is displayed for Arabic, Finnish, French, and Russian causing stats to display incorrectly for those languages.
- Moved around the options to better fit on smaller screens

Thank you to all the users of Adsense Notifier for the praise and feedback that you have given me. Please consider linking to http://code.mincus.com if you do use this extension. Also, I am also looking for users to help translate Adsense Notifier to the languages supported by Google for Adsense. Please contact me if you are interested in providing a translation of Adsense Notifier.

Adsense Notifier is highly configurable and should be useful for everyone that uses adsense.

source: mincus.com

Displaying different images according to time

2007-08-21T06:23:00.001-08:00

Displaying different images according to time
Credit: By George Chiang, host

Description: The following script will display a different image onto your webpage, depending on whether it's mourning or night. (Note: Mourning is from 12 am to 12 pm)

Directions: Simply cut and paste the following script anywhere with the tags. Please remember to change the gifs to yours.

Different background image according to time of day

2007-08-21T06:19:00.000-08:00

Different background image according to time of day

Credit: Steve Thompson

Description: A simple script that changes the background image of the document four times a day, depending on the time period. The periods are : 12pm to 4am, 4am to 12am, 12am to 6pm, and 6pm to 12pm.

Directions: Insert the below into the

<script language="JavaScript">  </script>

"Depressible" image links

2007-08-21T06:14:00.001-08:00

"Depressible" image links
By George Chiang, host

Description: This script will make any image link depressible. Note that you will need an alternate image to display when the image is depressed.

Directions: Step 1: Copy these two images onto your hd by "right clicking" them, and choosing "save as".

Step 2: Insert this into the tags, changing the parts in red, if you're using your own images.

<script language="javascript1.2">  </script>

Step 3: Finally, insert this into your tags, changing the parts in red, if you wish.

<a href="whatever.htm" onmousedown="document.images['example'].src=img2.src" onmouseup="document.images['example'].src=img1.src"> </a>

If you want multiple depressible images within one page, simply repeat steps 2 and 3 for each depressible image. When repeating step 3, be sure to change the part in blue ('example') to another unique name each time.

Day-of-the-week image displayer

2007-08-21T06:06:00.000-08:00

Day-of-the-week image displayer

Credit: JavaScript Kit

Description: A script that displays a different image according to the day of the week (ie: one image for Monday, one image for Tuesday etc).

Example: (For the sake of simplicity, bullets are used).

Directions: Simply insert the below into the of your page: Simply change the path of the images in "mondayimg", tuesdayimg" etc to your own.

<script>  var mondayimg="../m1.gif" var tuesdayimg="../m2.gif" var wednesdayimg="../m3.gif" var thursdayimg="../m4.gif" var fridayimg="../m5.gif" var saturdayimg="../m6.gif" var sundayimg="../m7.gif" var mydate=new Date() var today=mydate.getDay() if (today==1) document.write('<img src="'+mondayimg+'">') else if (today==2) document.write('<img src="'+tuesdayimg+'">') else if (today==3) document.write('<img src="'+wednesdayimg+'">') else if (today==4) document.write('<img src="'+thursdayimg+'">') else if (today==5) document.write('<img src="'+fridayimg+'">') else if (today==6) document.write('<img src="'+saturdayimg+'">') else document.write('<img src="'+sundayimg+'">') //--> </script> <p align="center"><font face="arial" size="-2">This free script provided by</font><br> <font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2"><a href="http://javascriptkit.com">JavaScript Kit</a></font></p>

Many large sites on the internet use similar scripts to display an image that spells out the current day of the week, ie Cnet.

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Click banner enticer script

2007-08-21T05:55:00.001-08:00

Click banner enticer script

Credit: JavaScript Kit

Description: Use this script on your advertising banner to increase click thru rate! It randomly chooses from a pool of "motivational" messages to show in the status bar when the surfer moves her mouse over the banner. This script can also be used if you wish to "hide" the URL of the ad banner...

Directions

Step 1: Paste the below code into the section of your page. Change the messages to your own:

<script> /* Click banner enticer script By JavaScript Kit (http://javascriptkit.com) Over 200+ free scripts here! */ var entices=new Array() entices[0]="Click here to support our sponsors!" entices[1]="Keep this site free! Click here!" entices[2]="Please visit this banner" entices[3]="Visit Freewarejava.com for FREE Java applets!" entices[4]="Please take a second out to visit this sponsor" entices[5]="Click here!" //extend this list as desired function generate_entices(toggle){ if (toggle==1) window.status=entices[Math.round(Math.random()*(entices.length-1))] else window.status='' } </script>

Step 2: Finally, add the following onMouseover and onMouseout command to your ad banner, as shown in the below code:

<a href="http://freewarejava.com" onmouseover="generate_entices(1);return true" onmouseout="generate_entices(0)"></a>

Background Music Script

2007-08-21T05:50:00.000-08:00

Background Music Script

Credit: JK

Description: Liven up your webpage with music, using this cross browser background music script. Note that the visitor's browser must have the appropriate midi plugin installed in order to hear it (default download with full install of both NS and IE).

Example:

Directions: Simply insert the below into the section of your page. Be sure to configure the URL to the music file inside the script:

<script>  </script>

Arrow onMouseover

2007-08-21T05:37:00.000-08:00

Description: This script displays an arrow image alongside the link when you move your cursor over the link. Furthermore, the arrow blinks while the mouse is over it. Nice visual effect.

Example:
Dynamic Drive
Freewarejava.com
CodingForums.com

Directions

Step 1: The following code is to be placed between .

<script language="JavaScript">  </script>

Step 2: Here is the code for a link using the array´s. If you want more than one link, then copy this code and change all IMAGE01 to IMAGE02 Then just add one number for additional links (eg. IMAGE03, IMAGE04 etc.)

<a href="http://www.altavista.com" onmouseover="imgover(IMAGE01)" onmouseout="imgout(IMAGE01)">Altavista</a>

You'll also want to download the two arrow images, on.gif and off.gif (right click and choose "save as").