Web Cash

Practically every site today has an RSS feed. Now, you could be like everyone else and simply use this as a way to read information as it’s published.

Or, you could use RSS for what’s intended for - content syndication. With Simple XML, it’s a piece of cake to use an RSS feed to add a list of links to relevant articles on your page.
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Ahh, the never ending quest for backlinks.

There are plenty of places to look for free backlinks - some of better quality than others. One trick you can use to build up a decent collection of backlinks is to regularly post on forums in your niche.
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If you write tutorials on your website or blog, then niche tutorial directories are a great source of traffic. I list most of my php tutorials with good-tutorials and get a nice burst of traffic with each new listing.

Another site I’ve found useful is Gimp Tutorials. They’re a great place to list any graphics tutorials that you write for the GIMP graphic design program.
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One of the most annoying things about working with images is getting them into the right size. Screenshots start out huge - and you need to resize them to an appropriate size for your website.

Some blogs automatically resize the pictures for you into a thumbnail - like the image to the right. What if you want the image a different size, though? You could allow the browser to resize it for you, or - better yet - write your own php script to resize the image dynamically.
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If you operate a website (like this blog), Google Adsense is probably one of your main streams of revenue. Although you may eventually outgrow Adsense, chances are you’ll have used it at some point.

While looking through my Adsense stats, I noticed an odd trend. This trend suggested a few things about monetizing a site through Adsense - questions that I don’t have an answer for yet, but that I will be looking for.

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An old web design adage is, “Content is king.” All the SEO and fancy design in the world won’t help you if you don’t have any content.

So how do you keep on writing? Where do all the new ideas come from?

Everybody’s got their own tricks, but here’s one that I love to use when I’m short on ideas. Go through your search engine logs and see what people are searching for - and not finding.
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You may have stumbled upon the section on writing for Associated Content - for money.

But even if you’re not interested in being published on someone else’s site, AC can be a great tool for you as a webmaster. You can use it to get optimized backlinks and targeted traffic.
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One of the most frustrating aspects of web design is trying to make your website look good in every browser. If you use some advanced css techniques, you never know how an older browser or a different platform is going to handle it.

You can test how your site displays in a few browsers - for example, I often check mine out in Windows IE, Ubuntu Firefox, and Ubuntu Opera. But how am I going to check it on Mac browsers like Safari?
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I added a new script to the “Tools” section yesterday, which should be of interest to anyone that authors a website about HTML.

I’m sure we’ve all faced this problem at one point or another - how do we get sample HTML to display properly, without being rendered, so that users can view it? Moreover, what’s the best method of doing this?
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The main two sites that I write at (besides my own) are Helium and Associated Content. Lately I’ve been looking around for other similar sites, so that I could test them out and review them.

The other day I came across something truly disturbing in the way of online writing. I stumbled on the website Senserely.

It was kind of like a train wreck - it was horrifying, but I had to keep looking around just to see if it could get any worse.
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