Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan’s least populous prefecture.
Having run with Adsense for over a year, I’m well on my way to meeting half my web hosting costs for a year. I’m sure there’s plenty I can do to improve this. It’s little surprise that gardening isn’t amongst the more lucrative subjects.
The other day I was accepted to join the Rubicon Project’s beta. It claims to automagically optimize your ad space. At present with the tiniest snippet of javascript, one of nine ad networks is picked. It’s incredibly easy to setup and offers plenty of scope to tweak if required. Although it’s early days it looks rather special.
On the other foot, please have look at the first comment. It’s the recent dialog between a text link peddler with his good offer and myself. If you want to make a quick buck at least type text link pr into Google beforehand.
In an effort to regain control and later integrate the blog it into my site, I have made the switch from Blogger to Wordpress. I like Blogger, but miss out on the new functionality since I publish on my own domain. The main reason is having the data stored in a database rather than static html files.
So today was the day, Friday the 13th. The famous five minute install, took a couple of minutes. There were a few hitches importing my posts and comments. I couldn’t authorise Wordpress to access my Blogger account – something to do with SSL.
After creating a dummy Wordpress blog, I was able to import it to their servers, export it and then import back onto mine.
Once done, the permalinks and redirects were sorted, CSS tampered with and the sundries added. It seems to be working fine and will tidy up when I have more time.
After a few emails and a phone call, got the beginnings of a website.
Tip: Expect trouble if you use a credit card on the internet overseas - guess they check your ip address?
Now I’ve got a web host, plan is to script in PHP to serve content from a database. Probably look into AJAX afterwards.
I hope it will provide something for people in a similar position to myself and perhaps some useful information to anyone else.
http://www.adekun.com
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