A very quick update for now as I’m busy.

I’m working hard at the minute to get all the sites I’ve had in the pipeline for the last few months up and running. The reason for this is that I’ve got some ideas for a big project but I want everything out of the way before I make a proper start on it.

So expect bored, blastgaming, stockgamers to be up and running soon as well as all of my sites getting some new content and mabe a few new features.

I’ll post more on the big project and my other sites later on today when I’ve got a spare minute.

If you’re anything like me (and half the other web developers/entrepreneurs I know) then you’ve probabaly got a heap of domains sitting around, doing nothing. It seems silly paying the renewal fee every year when you’re getting nothing back.

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Lets work it out. Say you have 10 spare domains, each getting 10 hits a day, that’s 100 hits a day that are going to waste at the moment, which works out at about 3000 hits a month! Now, we’ll be pesemistic and say only 1 in every 100 people click an ad (it could be a lot higher than this as the ads will be related to what they’re looking for). That’s 30 clicks a month more than what you get now, that’s an increase in revenue of about $15-$30! Imagine if you had 100 spare domains, that’s $150-$300 a month for doing nothing! (and remember, that was only with a 1% click through rate!).

There are people that make a living just from doing this! So why miss out any longer?

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It’s the 12th of December already! This year seems to have flown by. It only seems like ten minutes ago that it was last Christmas and I was lying on a beach in the Tenerife sun. I’ll be spending Christmas this year in cold, old England, but it will be with my family so it’s not all bad :). On Friday it’s my works Christmas do so we’re going go-karting followed by a meal and then a night of (very drunken, I predict) clubbing in Newcastle so that should be a laugh.

I’m working right up ’til Christmas eve this year (only a half day on Christmas eve though, so it shouldn’t be too bad) so I won’t be having too long off, but a week off is a week off so I’ll be trying to make the most of it :D

I noticed today, I’ve managed to accumulate quite a large collection of website templates, either ones I’ve made myself or ones that I’ve saw, liked, bought and then never used. So I’ve decided I’m going to go throug and code every single one and then either put it to use or sell it. I’ve also found a really interesting script while I was surfing the net so I think I’ll buy that and integrate it into a few of my websites (what the script is exactly is a secret for now :P).

If you’ve been following my blog you might also have noticed I’ve been blabbing on about moving to a new host for the last week or so, and you may even have noticed all the down-time the site was suffering which was really p*****g me off. Well, all my sites are not hosted with EarnersHost, who I must admit have been fantastic so far. My old host tried to be as awkward as possible when I was trying to switch my sites across, even to the extent of disabling ssh on my old server so the sites couldn’t be moved easily. Nevertheless, Jamie from EarnersHost found a way to get all my sites across and they were all up and running in no time!

The new host is finally sorted and everything is transferred! We should be seeing a hell of a lot less downtime from now on.

As for what I’m up to, I’ve got a few more domains that I’m developing and I think FilmZone is just about ready to start packing with content so I’ll need some people to write film reviews for that (get in touch if you’re ineterested!).

I’m aiming to get another CSS tutorial done this weekend although I will be very busy so fitting in time to get that done will be a challenge!

I’ve also been thinking about some other things I can offer from this blog that the users would find useful, so if there’s anything you think would be good let me know!

Here’s a rather quick css tutorial, but in my opinion, a rather important one. Have you ever noticed when you code a website that uses floating div’s that IE6 does some really weird things with the margin widths?

I’ve came across this before, normally you can get away with a few extra pixels without having to worry, but when you’re coding sites that have large margins on a floating div it can really get messy. Anyway I decided enough was enough, I wasn’t going to leave it, I fiddled around for an hour or two with my CSS file and finally I came up with the reason IE6 doubles the margin on a floating div and that reason is…..(drum roll..)….there is no reason, it shouldn’t do it, it can only be described as a bug!

The Fix

Now to the important part, how to fix the weird margin problem in IE6, and the fix is just as weird as the problem you simply add:

display: inline;

Into the CSS code for the floating element.

Again there’s no reason why this should happen, it’s just one of those things!

I find if you use this technique with the essential css code from my other tutorial I can quickly create layouts that are very, very cross browser compatible.