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Have you ever wanted to create your very own Digg site? Of course you have! And with Pligg you can.

Pligg is free and requires PHP (4.3.0 or higher) and MySQL. It’s easy to install and pretty easy to maintain as well.

You can see a live version here and over at Green Seed.

WordPress 2.5 has been released! Of course I am typing this post in 2.5..

Check it out (they have even released a new website design): http://wordpress.org

And here is the upgrade guide…

Spottt is AdBrite’s new 125×125 banner exchange. It got released to the public last week after a time of beta testing.

Interested in joining? If you are be sure to check out this promotion code that will get you 1000 free Spottt credits when signing up.

You need to be registered on the AdBrite forum to be able to view the promotion code.

Here is a simple way to put an AdSense ad, or any other ad for that matter, after the first post in your WordPress blog. This will only work on your main page, not on an individual post page.

Okay, let’s get started. Open up your index.php file or go into the WordPress control panel > Presentation > Theme Editor and choose Main Index Template on the right

Find the line that starts with:

<?php if (have_posts())

Add this line of code above it:

<?php $count = 1; ?>

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It seems like the dollar reaches new bottom lows each and every day. Has the time come for us international webmasters and bloggers to ditch the dollar ($) in favour of the euro (€)?

With all the talk that is going around, from politicians to economists about the grim future that awaits US economy and its currency it might be time to consider how you can change currency as smoothly as possible.

What do you think? For me personally, if no dramatic changes occur, I am planning on slowly changing currency from the dollar to the euro starting next year.

The bug that changed your predefined text colour settings to blue on the AdBrite banners has finally been fixed.

After about two weeks with this awful bug I decided to send a message asking AdBrite what the heck was going on. After a few replies and a day gone by I got this message:

The technical issue causing this problem has since been resolved. Please let us know if the problem reoccurs.

They fixed the blue bug and even made some minor changes on how the banners would display the text ads. So everything ended well but you got to ask yourself how could this go on without the AdBrite team noticing anything or other AdBrite publishers not(?) complaining?

AdBrite Forum Topic: Adbrite adtext color changed to blue

AsktheCSSguy.com and Hunlock.com shows you how to add small icons next to your links that will show where that link will take you. Everything is managed by your CSS file and it’s pretty nifty!

a[href $='.pdf'] {
padding-right: 18px;
background: transparent url(icon_pdf.gif) no-repeat center right;
}

These days it seems every blog does paid blog posts in some way. The top blogs and down to the low traffic blog does it. Yes, even Easy Webbers does paid blog posts now and then.

I will not discuss paid blog posts in general or its downside and upsides. No, I rather want to discuss the need to tell your readers about the very fact that they are reading an advertisement and not one of your “regular” posts.

Your readers expect you to be honest to them. It’s really just common sense. If your readers caught you doing paid blog posts with out a proper disclosure you will experience a downside that is far greater that telling in your posts properly that this is a paid blog post.

But how do you disclose in a proper way then? Well, the easiest way is to do like we do on Easy Webbers. We tell the readers at the end of every paid blog posts that this is actually not an ordinary post but a paid blog post. If they want more information we link them to our disclosure policy that is located on the advertise page.

If you need help with creating a proper disclosure policy there is help to get! Disclosurepolicy.org let’s you easily generate a disclosure policy that fits your needs.

The ix web hosting is currently providing good package of web hosting services at market competitive rates. It’s difficult to compare the services of IX and powweb to find out which one is currently providing best web hosting service to their clients. Both are trying to lead in providing best webhosting domain name registration and other services to their clients.

Here are my ten favourite AJAX scripts! They are not ordered in any specific way because I love them all. Please tell us all about your own favourite AJAX scripts. The more the merrier.

Ajax Tabs Content script
Fetch and display an external page inside a container when a tab is clicked on.

Really Easy Field validation with Prototype
Here’s a form validation script that is very easy to use.

Advanced RSS Ticker
RSS ticker script to display any RSS content on your site in a ticker fashion.

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The famous John Chow shares some ways to get more traffic to your blog in “Lab with Leo“. Most of the “ideas” are pretty much common sense but it’s still a good video to watch with useful information.

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