Staying organized will help any website designer. As you grow in your website skills and as time passes by, it becomes very easy to forget what or why you might have coded a webpage a certain way 5 years ago.

One thing you can do to help you remember why you added a certain snippet of code is to add the comment tag. And the comment tag looks like this:

<!–This text is a comment–>

When you add the comment tag to your html code of your webpage it will not show up on the webpage as viewed in a browser such as Internet Explorer or Fire Fox.

Let me give you an example of how you might use the comment tag.

Imagine you are creating a webpage for an ebook. You want to get visitors to either purchase the ebook with your buy button or you would like to offer a free version of the ebook through a sign up opt-in form. In this case you might want to identify the opt-in form source and purpose…..so it would look like this.

<!–Aweber javascript code…name freeebook32 for creating a demo list on new gardening ebook–>

That’s a pretty long comment tag, however, rest assured that comment will only be visible in the source code of your webpage and will not be visible in the browser version of the webpage. So, in 5 years if you want to change the opt-in form, you will know exactly what it is. You will know it is the javascript code for aweber for your list named freeebook32 and it is your demo book for a gardening ebook.

Take it from me, I can’t remember what I did last week. So, I use the comment tag all the time and it has saved me countless hours and guess work.

Why don’t you use the comment tag when creating your websites, it doesn’t matter if you use a WYSIWYG editor because you always have access to the source code. Remember the comment tag is always added to your source code, otherwise you will see something like <!–This text is a comment–> in the middle of your webpage

Good luck to you and happy coding!

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I do a lot of work with Xsitepro. It’s a fantastic platform for creating websites….fast! Better yet, just about anybody can get online quickly if they use xsitepro. Surprisingly there is another way to get online quickly and easily…that’s by using a blog, in particular a Wordpress blog. In a perfect world I would use a wordpress blog and add it to a xsitepro website, however, there hasn’t been an easy way to create a seamless transition between the two…..that is until now! A friend of mine is working on a system called XsiteprotoWordpress which does exactly what we need, you can add a wordpress blog seamlessly to a xsitepro website. Below is an article which explains it a little further.

Did you ever want to install a wordpress blog in your xsitepro website?

Maybe you wanted to install the wp blog in your website but didn’t want to have the blog look differently than the Xsitepro website.

It’s a tall order to customize a wordpress theme to match the xsitepro website and a task much taller than the average webmaster can accomplish.

Well, I have some good news for you. I stumbled across a new product called XsiteprotoWordpress which promises to teach you to seamlessly integrate a wordpress blog into your xsitepro website.

This is straight from the Creators:

We have been building XSitePro websites and integrating WordPress blogs for our clients with great success. Our specialty has been to give our clients top notch sites with blogs that are seamlessly integrated into the main site. Through this we have learned the inner workings of both XSitePro and WordPress systems.

Keep an eye on this product if you want to learn how to create a blog and website that are seamlessly integrated.

If you purchased Xsitepro chances are that you purchased it because of the ease of creating websites. The other thing it does is create websites that have pages which are properly optimized for search engines. This is so very important if you want traffic to your website and Xsitepro does this automatically behind the scenes….to date no other website editor has been able to do this.

Enter Wordpress….although not a typical website editor or creator as you know wordpress creates blogs. The beauty behind a wordpress blog is that creates webpages that are optimized to an even greater degree than xsitepro and attracts the search engine spiders like a magnet. At this point, there simply isn’t a better way to create a webpage that is built for traffic generation.

This is where XsiteprotoWordpress comes in. You can take the effectiveness of Xsitepro and Wordpress and bring them together. I can tell you from experience that having an Xsitepro website with a Wordpress Blog will bring massive amounts of traffic and the addition of the two platforms is synergistic. By that, I mean, the sum is greater than the addition of the individual parts.

Check out XsiteprotoWordpress today….if it’s not live yet, do yourself a favor and join their mailing list!

Tags: wordpress, xsitepro, xsiteprotowordpress, wordpress blog, wordpress and xsitepro

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Well…I’m a Chicago Bears fan and I can’t say the first 3 games have been very encouraging!

OK, you really don’t care about football or the Chicago Bears….what does this have to do with internet marketing.

I could go on with a diatribe about motivation and some many corallaries about not quitting..winning losing…sticking in the game….don’t worry about this loss, there’s always a new game…and on and on…..I do believe in this though!

I wanted to share with you a new site I put up about Chicago Bears Gear, if features things like Bears News, Bears Tickets, Bears Jerseys, Bears Sweatshirts and Bears anything. The new website about the Chicago Bears is as www.BearGear.info

Football is a big market….lots of searches and I was really surprised on the low amount of competition.

It is a wordpress site with a ton of special features. In the next couple of days I’ll go through the site and itemized the specifics and show you how you can build a site just like my site the sells Chicago Bears Jerseys

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Mass article submission has been around for the last 2 or 3 years, it worked at one time and currently almost all of these programs do not work. With the search engine evolving each and every day, it’s absolutely critical to not fall into the trap of following the latest and greatest craze for ranking highly in the search engines. Things such as cloaking, keyword stuffing, blog spamming etc. are things that worked at one time, but are definitely not something that will last in the long run. There was a time when these techniques worked but now your website will probably get banned for the search engines or else you just won’t get any page rank or attract any of the popular search engines such as google.

If you believe this, then now is the time to start considering your online business as a real business. There are legitimate ways to increase your search engine ranking that will always be effective at not only increasing your search engine ranking, but also at building your credibility in your chosen niche, generating quality leads to your business, and not to mention, getting your name and business in front of lots of people around the world.

Free Article Submission Software Delivers a Huge Volume of 1-way Links!

Do you know about the method I’ speaking of? Article Submission. Yes, you heard me right… Article Submission definitely isn’t something new, but the problem up until now has been the fact that although submitting your articles to article directories was an incredible way to increase your search engine rankings, it really was a chore to find the directories, then register, and then fill in the proper information and then not all of them are the same….finally they constantly evolve.

I’ve got something new for you to solve this problem, free software program created by Brad Callen and Bryxen Software, Inc. Believe it or not this new software application will allow you to submit your articles to hundreds of the most popular article directories all over the world. Best of all it takes only a couple of mouse clicks and you’ll find yourself submitting articles in a flash. No more do you have to worry about the painful process of filling in submission forms…..and the process now is almost too fast to believe.

Click on Article Submitter to find out more about the program and you’ll learn how you can get a free copy.

Tags: article submitter, Callen, article marketing, article directories

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I found myself helping someone that needed a script the rotated content. In this case he needed a php script to rotate images. I gave him the below information for a php content rotator

Here is an example of the below php rotater script in action.

Hey Dave

I made some minor changes to a script Robert Plank posted on the warrior forum. You can use it to rotate anything but I use it to rotate images.

First use the below code and create a page called images.php

<?php

$hash = floor(time() / (60*60*24));
//srand($hash);

$images = array_map(“trim”, file(“images.txt”));

$image = $images[array_rand($images)];
echo $image;

?>

If you remove the two // before the line strand($hash); the images will rotate on a 24 hour basis, otherwise as it is, it will rotate images on page reload on a random basis.

Remember to upload the above file and save as images.php

Next create a text file called images.txt and add each image on a seperate line. It would look something like this:

<img src=”rightclick.jpg”>
<img src=”horse.jpg”>
<img src=”banner2.jpg”>
<a href=”http://www.spgraphic.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”rightclick.jpg” alt=”graphics”></a>

Note:

On the last line the image is linked to a website and set to open in a new page.

Remember—-> upload and and save the file as images.txt

Next you will want to get an individual image to show on your webpage:

You can use the below php include to bring the image into your webpage. Your pages must have a .php extension to make this work.

<?php require(“images.php”); ?>

OR

You can add a couple lines of code to your .htaccess file which will allow your pages to stay .htm or .html and still process the php code. If you don’t know how to do this you should contact your hosting provider and ask them what code you should use.

ANOTHER WAY

Another way to keep your page extensions as .htm or .html is to use an iframe to bring your images in. You must make sure you change the iframe dimensions to match your image dimensions. For instance if you had a 468 x 60 banner you would want to change to iframe dimensions to 470 x 62…..you might need to experiment to ensure the scroll bar doesn’t show up in the iframe.

PHP INCLUDE

<?php require(“images.php”); ?>

IFRAME

<iframe src=”images.php” width=”300″ height=”100″></iframe>

Don’t be afraid to use php includes or experiment with php code. If you can get it to work it becomes addicting! I’ve learned a lot from Robert Plank, you can check out his blog at PlanksBlog ….it’s packed with good stuff

Hope this php content rotator helps you with your client.

You can see how this script rotates content by clicking on that link, there are 3 images that are linked and rotated, the script is configured to rotate random images.

Good luck

Scott

Tags: rotate images, php content rotator, php image rotator

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I hate a title with that kind of hype, but I thought it was important that you know Internet Marketing and Article Marketing are two different things, internet marketing covers a broad spectrum of marketing types and article marketing is just on small possible aspect of internet marketing. You have to understand that these two ideas are a perfect match for marketing online because to some degree internet marketing is dependent or composed of article marketing. The concept of using article marketing and internet marketing creates the perfect internet marketing solution because the premise is based on using articles to market affiliate products, your website or some service.

Article Marketing and Internet Marketing for Instant Cash

As mentioned there are many ways to market a product or service online and that process is appropriately called internet marketing. Many of the different methods of marketing your product or service on the internet have a cost associated to it….in most cases, you have to pay for advertising on the internet just as you have to pay for advertising a brick and mortar business. That’s why article marketing has exploded in the last year or so…because article marketing won’t cost you a penny. This free form of marketing has been in existence for a while and only a handfull of smart internet marketer’s have been using it until lately. Actually, almost since the printing press, business owners have sold their goods and services by writing articles, basically writing an article of good content, that is , usable information that solves a problem and then they insert a small advertisement or byline at the end of the article. Article marketing…a form of internet marketing is a beautiful thing, when it comes to internet marketing or e-commerce because your information is disseminated throughout the internet building a name for your self while creating the ever elusive network of backlinks to the products or services you want to sell or promote.

Let’s take a look at some of the benefits and features of article marketing:

- Article Marketing will bring you those needed backlinks from the article directories to your affiliate products or website. This is important because Google will place more value on your website when it notices that there are many links pointing back to your website.

- By using keywords correctly in your articles you will position yourself as an authority for the subjects or niches that you write about. If you write good information, problem solving articles….readers will come to depend upon you for the information you write about.

- The all powerful resource box can make you a lot of money by including a link back to your website or affiliate product, the more articles the more traffic. These traffic sucking backlinks will bring a surge of traffic to the products, website or service you are trying to sell, might even get you to page one of google.

- If you focus on creating articles that have been properly optimized, using search engine optimization techniques, your website traffic will increase greatly and if you submit your articles to directories where everyone can use them, the backlinks and pagerank will increase greatly.

If you understand the ramifications of the above facts, you’ll quickly see that article marketing should be a vital part of any internet marketing scheme you decide to implement. As I mentioned, there are many different ways to market and promote your web site, however, I’ve disclosed one of the most important methods…that of internet marketing with article marketing which presents a call to action for the readers of of your articles, encouraging them to click the link to your website for more information on the products, services, websites and even affiliate products that you are attempting to market!

Shh… Don’t tell anybody, but this is the secret software program that I use to get tons of quality, 1 way links to my new websites, with very little effort…Callens’s Newest Article Tool Creation

How writing a simple ezine article can bring more traffic to your site for FREE. Super Article Marketing Treatise

You must understand one key aspect if you are an internet marketer or article marketer….Are you Targeting the wrong keywords? Find out in Josh Spaulding’s Article Marketing Domination

Tags: article marketing and internet marketing, article marketing domination, internet marketing, affiliate marketing, article marketing

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