Archive for July, 2008
· July 30, 2008 at 5:49 am · Online Tools
Tags: crowd sound, feedback, opinions, suggestions, tools, votes, web-dev, widgets
Always looking for a better way to get the thoughts of the crowd, I ran across crowd sound. What is this web site all about? It is less of a web site and more of a tool to help you uniquely gather ideas and suggestions from your followers.
We all like feedback right? Here is how crowd sound works. All you do is sign up for your free account, and then login. Once you do, you can embed the widget into your web site. Just copy and paste some simple JavaScript into your own design.
Now with the web site widget, you can add some entries. and then have other visitors vote up the idea or vote down the idea. So this separates things into the people who want to give you good suggestions and the people who just like to vote for things. You can also via the widget browse through the most recent or the most popular.
I think crowd sound is delivering a very unique way of looking at feedback gathering from your base. Those could be customers, they could be readers. The thing that is important is that you get their views to make your content better.
· July 29, 2008 at 6:05 am · Desktop
Tags: customize, hardwood, lights, wallpaper, widescreen
Usually the more creative wallpaper is what gets me going, but for some reason this vanilla version of a hardwood flood with lights is very appealing to me. Well, the fact that I didn’t need Home Depot to get it laid down across my desktop is a green checkmark in the win column.
If your looking for a simple work space, this wallpaper selection should do the trick for you. Check it out over at DeviantArt, where you can also pick up the 1680×1050 and 2560×1600 versions.
· July 28, 2008 at 5:02 am · Web Development
Tags: clone, design, Digg, easy, free, news, online, quick, RSS, social
Always said you would like to have a social news site like digg, but didn’t have the time to develop or work on it? Thanks to slinkset.com, you don’t have to. They promise to deliver you your own social news site that you can customize, user your own domain on and auto-post links via RSS for free. Here are a few examples:
One more cool feature is it looks like you can create a private site too, that would only be accessible to the people you invite. Give slinkset.com a shot, and if you create one yourself feel free to share it here with us.
· July 28, 2008 at 4:00 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: help, Lunarpages, mediawiki, support, Web Hosting, wiki
One of my most recent project I have been put in charge of for Lunarpages is building up a support site wiki for all of their customers to use. Now as somebody who uses WordPress for just about everything - I was skeptical about moving over to the wiki format.
I do have to say I think I am getting a grasp on how to move around, edit and customize a wiki. Thankfully, there is a lot of good help and resource information on MediaWiki’s web site. If you ever find yourself building a wiki this is one nice resource your going to be using over and over again for sure.
One of the most helpful have been the post about categories, think I have that about mastered by now. I haven’t even started looking at all the extensions though. Have any other wiki advice for me as I tackle this new project of mine?
· July 27, 2008 at 11:24 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: contest, database, design, free, Lunarpages, themes, WordPress
I’m proud to say that Lunarpages (via several design contests) has done a lot to perk up the WordPress theme design area of the Web. Between two contests they are now highlighting 229 different themes that are all available for download.
Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Design Contest - Series 1 Entries
Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Design Contest - Series 2 Entries
So if your looking for a little insperation on your next WordPress theme design or your stressing over finding a great one to use, check ‘em out. Lunarpages is also currently holding it’s third WordPress design contest right now - so if your a designer you got to check that out too.
· July 25, 2008 at 8:01 am · Personal, Web Hosting
Tags: 158, domains, hosting, mp3, podcast, tease, web-hosts
Loads of hosting fun from this week’s past show. Did you check it out?
If not here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
- HostingCon Sold Off to iNet Interactive? - iNET Interactive, those darlings of the web hosting world who brought us such things as webhostingtalk.com, hostvoice.com, and hostingtech.com have acquired the HostingCon conference.
- Interesting Tool to See if Your Site is Up or Down! - Previously I told you about an awesome web site status tool that could help you tell if your web site was up or not. Down for everyone or just me looks to have become a real success. I have one better though, thanks to a suggestion from a Web Hosting Show listener named John.
- The Mess That Was .ME Domain Name Registrations? - You may have caught wind of some of the .me buzz last week, as GoDaddy started taking registrations for them for $20 a year (and you have to sign up for two years, so that should really be $40)… If eight people say they registered it, that will leave seven people really unhappy about the whole ordeal.
- The Simplest FTP Program Ever!?! - I often hear complaints from people that FTP programs are too hard to use. There are too many options, too many buttons and too many configurations you have to learn about. For those people out there looking for a simpler FTP program I offer to you DropUpLoad.
Interested? Then go download and listen to the Web Hosting Show, episode 158! Also be sure to grab the RSS feed, and pick it up on iTunes too.
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