Creating custom block or widget areas throughout your site means easier management in the long run. It can also give you some great options for performance improvements.

Single & Multi Page Widget Designs

If you find yourself switching around widgets on your home page (or any page you desire) you can use PHP Code Widget in combination with the tutorial/techniques I’ve described here: Wordpress Custom Home Page Design - Widgetized Front Page.

Those individual widgets can be further enhanced by wrapping them with the same conditional code anywhere else in your site. For example:

if (is_front_page()) { widget_functions_or_any_code(); } Download this code: 0201widgetconditions.txt Design & Layout Planning

One of the important aspects of this is designing (sketching out) where you want predefined widgets to begin with. After that its just plug and play through the widget area. No need to be fancy.

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(adopted from a post seen at phdunay.gooruze.com)Discovering and connecting with the people who will help your business thrive in today’s social economy is vital especially when attention has become a precious commodity! As a PR and Marketing specialist it is becoming mandatory for businesses today to identify the communities that are actively defining and shaping the future of your business in places like blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, as well as traditional media.Much more than a Social Media monitoring solution, BuzzGain can help you reveal the influential voices and corresponding conversations that are happening about your product or service so that companies can listen, learn, and effectively engage in mutually beneficial relationships.BuzzGain is an ideal DIY solution for PR check out their white [+]

Every month, my wife and I track how much time and money we spend growing food. This is the report for January 2009. (Here are the results for 2008.)

Even with the other stuff going on in our lives, Kris and I found time to begin planning our summer garden this month. Soon the winter days will warm, teasing us with thoughts of working in the yard. But true gardening weather won’t arrive for about three months.

The fruit of our labor There may not be much gardening to do during the winter, but we still eat plenty of food we’ve grown ourselves. Last week, Kris made several fruit smoothies and a fantastic berry cobbler from blackberries she froze in August. (Just thinking about this cobbler again makes me drool!) We’ve also been consuming canned pasta sauce and salsa, cream of tomato soup, [+]

I got tagged. Normally my policy toward tagging is the same as the U.S. policy on not dealing with terrorists. When this stuff was really popular I was getting tagged every day. Then it died down, maybe because I wasn’t responding to people and they gave up. But if Michel Fortin tags you, you have to respond. It’s a rule somewhere. I can dig it up of you really need to see it in writing.

Anyway, here’s how this one works:

Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a post with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose five more people to be tagged. You also have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. To [+]

Do you use XML format for Google AdWords reports? Do you want to use it in the future? If the answer to one of these questions is YES, then pay attention to this new.

Through Search Engine Roundtable we got to know that people who use this feature are missing decimal values in the report.

This comes from confirmed reports at a Google AdWords Help thread.

The advertiser who reported this noticed the discrepancy when he generate duplicate reports, one in Excel format and one is XML format. The advertiser said:

"When I generate reports in excel format, I get the right number for avg cpc with decimals, and when I generate an xml format it gives me a different one without the decimal. e.g. In Excel it is avgcpc = 1.50 while in XML avgcpc = 1478393. I think there is a bug [+]

Self-Employed, Virtual Workers Are Exceptional Employees I know and work with mostly self-employed people. The parents in the bunch are often the most expertly skilled and creative; like the one mom, who held conferences in her closet so clients couldn’t hear her small children. I find parents to be tightly focused on their work and they’re willing to work odd hours, which makes them a good choice for co Go to Source [+]

This is an interview with Bill Morrow, Co-Founder of Angels Den - the site that connects entrepreneurs looking for funding and Angel Investors who have cash available to invest in companies that need funding. I knew they had a load of exciting things coming up (as I'm posting this Bill is in a meeting with possibly the most famous English person alive) so I'd thought I'd ask him a few questions (and for those of you who are wondering, Bills not going to talk about paid links or blog submissions!)1) Hi Bill, first off, what the heck made you start a web business? Angels Den was set up when we had trouble securing funding and wasted almost £15k on traditional angel networks co-founders. We wanted to [+]

After nationalizing most of the banking sector, the U.K. government has shifted its attention to the auto industry. The lifeline would be offered for producers developing low-emission vehicles and training programs for some workers. However, almost none of the major U.K. car manufacturers target such a market, yet. U.K. cars are usually stylish cars, with big petrol engines like the Bentleys, Range Rovers and Jaguars, all of which burn lots of petrol, some more than others, such as the Bentley. This decision shows the strong determination of the U.K. government to save the country for a prolonged recession. Estimates are now running as low as -2% for the 2009 GDP and this number will probably be revised lower, if the situation from the financial sector and the labor market continues to weaken. The British authorities have already committed to shore [+]

Back to some old school stuff today. Social Bookmarking is a nice way to get some “additional� Google juice (and traffic), particularly when you have a lot of backlinks and need that little bit of extra numbers.

Here are 60 social bookmarking sites that have dofollow links and do pass some Google juice one way or the other to the listed sites. Let me warn you that these are not effective if your link building campaigns ends with only these, but they are nevertheless worth a try.

Mind you, although these “might� work with extremely low competing keywords, they don’t stand a chance to substitute a proper healthy link building strategy/campaign.

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