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For those of you who are tired of bickering around with Excel, come along and learn some PHP.

http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/627

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A new kind of link can be found over at http://www.scrollovers.com/

Needs Javascript, but might be a nice eyecatcher for some sites.

Enjoy.
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Wordpress is not necessarily a secure system. A lot of factors can make a WP blog insecure and vulnerable to attacks.

But help is at hand: over at blogsecurity lies a small plugin that will scan your WordPress installation for known issues.

Usage is simple:
Install the plugin, activate, deactivate. Read the report.

Enjoy,
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Over at Layout Gala.

Enjoy.

Privacy and secrecy issues aside, here are 2 new domain name services for you to try out next to the old favorite www.instantdomainsearch.com

http://www.bustaname.com/

http://www.domaincavern.com/

The old simian likes the interface and concept of bustaname, although the domaincavern does churn out pretty good results. Both seem to be pretty useful.

Enjoy.

In the field of computer science, I often try to help newbies or people without programming experience.
Even a lot of affiliate marketing can be done without “real” programming experience.

Yes, you will fare better once you get your head around a programming language or two, but one can do a lot with the clever use of available tools.

 One such tool is iMacros, which allows you to automate any task done in a browser.

Go read a good article about iMacros over at Earner$blog.

Get iMacros here.

(To be true, using tools like this is often just programming in disguise, and I do hope it will raise some interest and ease the transition for some people.)

So… this is a project that has been simmering for a long time now and still has not come to fruition. Partly because I do not have time for this, partly because the problem space seems to be very confusing. In the spirit of the lazy web, I am offering my description of the problem space in the hopes someone wants to code this beast and share.

Goal
An application (web based or desktop) that allows for easy to use affiliate statistics.

Description of problem space
Affiliate commisions are very varied in their form and habitus. The application needas to keep track of both realized (payments received) and unrealized profits (payments pending)

Payouts
Payouts vary in time, payment methods and qualification for payment. 

Qualification for payment A threshold is imposed upon which payments will be made. Threshold vary from $10 to $100. A problem more of the smaller publishers, profits below the threshold also need to be tracked.

Payment method Paypal, wire transfer, check 

Time Net 30, 60, 90.

Investments and costs

These also vary in size and shape, from one-time investments to recurring payments.

Recurring payments
Hosting, domains, etc.. Interstitial and one-time payments PPC,new hardware, programming assignments… Amongst all those, time can also vary.

Hosting and domains can be paid for (or demanded) monthly, bi-monthly, yearly, 2 year contract…

So far for now.. if you want to add to this or offer a solution that goes further than the simian’s Affiliate tracking Excel sheet, please comment. ::emp::

Some of these are beautiful.

Colorlovers seems to be a site to watch.

Butterfly colors

Enjoy.

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After kuler.adobe.com has generated some buzz, here are some more nice color resources.

http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/web-2.0-colour-palette
This blog post gives an overview of pretty web2.0 colors.

http://www.colourlovers.com/
Similar to kuler, you will find user submitted and rated color schemes at colourlovers.

Enjoy.

My eyes glaze over when I look at this.

Definitely a great CSS menu, get it here, see it in action here.