Kinix - Webmaster tips, ideas, making money online + more

Hey guys I am glad to say that I have restored Kinix.net! I know it has taken a while to get back up and there are many reasons why. First of all you are probably wondering why this site and all my other sites were down for a period of time. To put it simply, my sites just outgrew my old host and I had to move on and get a better host.  Now with the hosting part solved its takiing a really long time to get everything back up and running due to not having very much time lately for personal reasons.

Updates will be returning shortly and more updates about siterose will follow as well. If you havent heard of site rose please visit our forum to find out more information. http://enaresh.com/forum!

Some people may be wondering what in the world Ihave been up to lately. I have sort of disappeared from the online scene a bit and have just been enjoying life. I have a new job, been going out to the beach and working on my house as well as hanging with friends and we can not forget weddings. This is more of a personal post so if you don’t care about reading it you don’t have to!

New Job

 I recently got promoted at work and my new position is accounts coordinator. Its basically like a supervisor’s position. I currently look after 3 people and its a pretty faced paced work environment. I work for a company call FAScore you can learn more about FAScore by googling it if you feel like it. Its kind of stressful as I always have to make sure my admins are doing something and we are getting the best productivity that we can out of them as well as keep them happy. I also have to check their work to make sure they are doing a good job.

 Beachin it

What have I been doing all summer is a question I get a lot. I work during the week and pretty much right after work I take the 45 minute drive from my house out to my parents cabin and enjoy the weekend out at the lake. Its nice to get out of the city and drink rye and cokehave good time while relaxing and enjoying the piece and quite.

House Renovations

Back in November 2006 I purchased a home with my girlfriend. Its a pretty decent size home but its not quite in the shape we would like it in. We are doing some major renovations and that takes up a lot of my time. Currently we are installing new windows, ripping off the stucco adding insulation on the exterior and new siding. That’s just the outside, inside we have gutted the basement and have started rebuilding it. Doing the work my self it is taking a lot of my free time up but it saves on cost and keeps me busy.

Hanging out with friends - weddings

Its been a busy summer and you definitely know your getting older when more and more of your friends and cousins are getting married. This summer I have had and have to attend approximately 5 weddings. If you want a bunch of free stuff just get married at least that’s what they tell me anyways.

Summery

That’s pretty much the low down on me for what I have been doing lately. I have some exciting new projects coming up in the near future and have formed a partnership on a website which I will release the details in the next few days.

What have you been up to lately? Feel free to leave a comment and let me know!

Hey,

Its time again for my bi monthly post and this time I just want to give a shout out to my good buddy Naresh. Check out his blog over at eNaresh.com.

For a while he was pretty busy and didn’t have to much time to post on his blog but lately that has all changed and he is doing one heck of a job. He has been kicking out great posts such as:

http://enaresh.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-released/

http://enaresh.com/2008/09/01/curl-tutorial-2-submit-a-form-with-curl/

http://enaresh.com/2008/08/30/code-snippit-introduction-to-curl/

As you can see in his Google Chrome Released post, he has put in quite a bit of time, taking screenshots laying it all out and just writing about the browser in general. He even links to pages where you can find out more information.

Naresh is taking a survey and you can fill out the survay here. Of course there is going to be prizes!

The surveyprizes have been changed! First prize is a $30 iTunes or Amazon gift Card. Second prize is a $10 gift card. Third prize is a $5 iTunes gift card. Three winners will be chosen on September 20th, so take the survey now

As you can see it may be worth while to fill out the survey as a $30 gift card would be nice!

I thought I would write a quick post letting everyone know that wordpress 2.6 has been released I suggest you download and install it asap as it has fixed a few bugs and security holes.

Sorry for the week effort of this post but time is limited these days!

Note: I wrote this post about 10 - 15 days ago but published it as a page by mistake! Naresh pointed it out to me today! Thanks Naresh! Be sure to check out his blog here

While browsing the web like I tend to do from time to time ( browsing the internet who would have thought?) I stumbled upon this question:

kim asks:

Why do you think traffic is dropping so fast to shoemoney.com I also noticed johnchow.com dropped fast, I dont think it’s due to summer being here.

ShoeMoney: I cant speak for John Chow but our traffic is up about 30% since the first of the year.

This question is pretty basic I am assuming the questioner looked at Shoemoney’s alexa rating and assumed that the traffic went down same with John Chows blog.

If people would take a little bit if time to read they would realize that a few months ago alexa changed its aglotheram and no longer ranks based on traffic by users with the alexa tool bar only and they combine many other things. What could the be using? Its really up in the air could be search engine rankings or how many link backs to a number of other things.

I just wanted to make a quick post to say hey ALEXA has changed and they are not like they used to be!

Mike

Site point has just released a coupon code for buying credits to post a ad in their market place. If you do not know what sitepoint is I suggest you check it out!

Here is what sitepoint had to say:

You’ve hung out in the SitePoint forums, so you’re probably aware that the SitePoint Marketplace is now one of the leading online destinations to buy and sell established websites…

 

There’s never a better time to sell your site — last month we saw over $1 million dollars transacted between buyers and sellers in the SitePoint Marketplace alone!

 

We’re so convinced that now is the best time to sell that we’re offering you 50% OFF SitePoint credits, which are used to list websites for sale. Just use the link below before May 26th to claim your 50% discount:

 

https://sitepoint.com/bookstore/go/59×40/ff5236/9f49ebb451

 

Get your own piece of the action by listing your site for sale on the SitePoint Marketplace today. Thousands of buyers are waiting to hear from you!

Thats a pretty sweet deal and I may just take it up on them!

If you are like me who is starting to spend more and more time coding and using firefox, then you will find this plugin ReminderFox 1.7 very useful. It’s a to-do (and reminder) manager. It sits silently at the status bar of your firefox and lets you know of the latest to-do’s and reminders that you have set. Never forget anything you can even get it to tell you to go to the bathroom, you can also set a quick alarm to go off when ever incase you need to send a email or just need to go somewhere. 

When you mouse over on the status bar it will show you your reminders for today, upcoming ones + your to-do lists (see screenshot). You can also chose to be reminded through small pop-up windows if you wish.

Personally, I like the plugin very much and have found it very handy so far. I hope to utilize it more in the near future however since its new I havent put to much information into it.

The idea of never missing an appointment or forgeting something should be very appealing ot you! I know for my self I like to keep a list of what I am doing on certian projects and this will certianly help out.

Today wordpress 2.5.1 was released I suggest if you run a blog you should update as soon as possible! Here is some more information:

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly.

Wordpress also goes on to say:

you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. Here are some highlights:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

As you can see you are definately going to to want to upgrade so head on over to wordpress download it and follow the upgrade instructions its pretty simple!

 

I have installed a new plugin today its called Genki Announcement basiclly it is a wp plugin that makes it easy to put announcements on the top of your blog. You may also post the anouncments as a widget or even put the code somewhere else for example if you wanted an anouncement on your comments section its pretty neat. Here is a screen shot if the admin control panel!

 

 

As you can see from the above screen shot announcements can be toggled on and off and you can even have them set to expire at a certian time. The announcment mod works with any wordpress blog that is running the software of at least 2.0 or higher.

I will be testing this mod over the next few days with a big anouncement coming in that time period! Have a look for it what could it be?

I have decided to have a new category called webmaster tips sometimes there will be one tip a week but there could be up to 2 or 3 the only way you will get to read them while they are hot is if you subscribe to the rss feed!

With out further adieu here is the tip for today!

Webmaster Tip #1

Do not procrastinate! Basically do not say I will do it later because you wont how do I know this? Probably because I am one of the worst procrastinators in the world. I can do anything other then work but you have to sit back and say why isn’t stuff getting done? Why am I not making money online and why is insert name here doing so much better then me.

If you looked at any of the above statements and said wow thats me how did he know? Then you have a problem that you need to fix. If you find stuff isnt getting done ask your self this. How many hours of tv do I watch a day or how long do I browse reading stuff on the internet? If you really think about it you probably waste 2 hours a day and in those 2 hours you could be doing something really productive to get ahead of the next guy but if you are doing nothing you are just procrastinating and shouldnt even be making websites!

Remember do not procrastinate take charge and be a go-getter!