The Webmaster's Café

A Small Update On The Case Study!

Stephane — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:40:29 +0000

Damn it’s been so busy lately! Sorry for the lack of post guys. Anyway, I’ve found out that it’s a lot more difficult than it looks to post coupon codes on a regular basis! Damn! I’m already running 3 other blogs (that’s a total of four with CouponCodesVault.com) and it sucks a lot of my [...]

Being A Full Time Webmaster

Stephane — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:03:02 +0000

Up to this day, I worked part time as a webmaster and part time as a system administrator for a government branch. Well this is gonna change as I got the news today that we’ve got a new “client” who will require more of our web services which in return will make me a full [...]

Making Money Online Week 2: Installing OpenX On GoDaddy Account

Stephane — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:21:32 +0000

Errata: I have made a small error in the video tutorial. The CRON command to schedule the OpenX maintenance should’ve been: /web/cgi-bin/php5 /home/content/c/o/u/couponsvault/html/ox/maintenance/maintenance.php www.couponcodesvault.com The second week is almost over, I wish I had more time to work on this case study lately! I have now installed OpenX on my GoDaddy shared hosting account. OpenX [...]

Making Money Online Week 2: Selecting Merchants

Stephane — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:51:17 +0000

It’s now time to select some merchants for my make money online case study. The couponcodesvault.com blog is coming together nicely and I’m almost ready to add some content. To start this off I will stick with merchants from CommissionJunction.com to make things easier. The only exception will be Amazon’s Associate Program. Here are the [...]

Make Money Online Week 2: Customizing WordPress

Stephane — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:34:30 +0000

Before I go any further, I must say I am very pleased with GoDaddy’s support so far! I’ve had a DNS problem which Lauren (from GoDaddy) helped my solve within a few minutes. Wait time on the phone was approximately 6 minutes. I just wished they had a toll free number though. GoDaddy even got [...]

Making Money Online Week 1: Installing WordPress On GoDaddy Account

Stephane — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:00:53 +0000

While GoDaddy has an automated script installer, the latest WordPress version available is 2.3.3. So instead of using the installer, I’ll install WordPress 2.5 from scratch. To upload WordPress, I use Filezilla, a free FTP client. Watch this video to see how to install WordPress on your GoDaddy hosting account: Watch It On YouTube.com Note [...]

Making Money Online Week 1: GoDaddy Account Setup

Stephane — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:17:35 +0000

This is the first time I try GoDaddy and I gotta say that setting up the account is a little bit more complicated than with HostGator or HostPapa. 1and1 is a bit complicated too. The way GoDaddy hosting works is that once you’ve signed up, you must “setup a website” which will be made available [...]

Making Money Online Week 1: Web Hosting & Domain Name

Stephane — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:59:23 +0000

I thought I wouldn’t be able to post this until monday but here it goes! The sooner I make money, the better! So this is the first week into this case study and I gotta choose a domain name and get a web host. Remember that my budget is actually $100 at this point and [...]

Upgrade To WordPress 2.5 & Case Study Update

Stephane — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:29:55 +0000

I’ve just upgraded TheWebmastersCafe.net from WordPress 2.1 to version 2.5 and well let’s say, things didn’t went as smooth as I would’ve liked to. A lot of my plugins were outdated and the theme didn’t work well so I decided to change it. The current WordPress theme is the Blog Pixel Blue Edition SEO’ed by CourtneyTuttle. [...]

Making Money Online: The Game Plan

Stephane — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:49:50 +0000

As I’ve said earlier, this make money online case study will be more or less based on the one GoogleLady did lately. The website will focus on coupon codes but I’ll try my own techniques to get it working. Here’s the plan: Get a domain name (already done) and a web host Install WordPress 2.5 [...]