Monday, February 2, 2009
How to: Create Floating Advertisements
Merging advertisements with web content is often referred to as “floating ads”, “embedding ads”, and “blending in ads”. FlatPress makes it easy to embed images with content. To accomplish this with advertisements will take some HTML magic.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
How to: Add Google AdSense Search Form
Google’s AdSense program offers search forms you can add to your website. These search forms can be for just your site, a group of sites, or the entire internet. The search results are provided by Google’s own search engine. AdSense provides the listed ads. When visitors click on these ads, they can generate revenue for you.
Using the group site option, you can provide your blog sites visitors a ready-made search of sites that relate to topics covered by your Blog site. This is a great time saver for your visitors. For example, the Google search form on my FlatPress blog site includes FlatPress related web sites. Using this search form, visitors can search the best sites for finding information on FlatPress.
Creating an AdSense search form can be challenging do to the many options provided. This post provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a Google AdSense Search Form on your FlatPress blog site.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
How to: Customize the Sidebar for FlatPress v.804
With the release of FlatPress v.804 customizing the sidebar had become much more user friendly. The old method of editing the widget file is still available. However, the new drag and drop approach is easier and quicker. I wrote several posts on adding PayPal and other custom features to the sidebar for the previous release of FlatPress. This post is not a rewrite of all those posts. It imparts general instructions for customizing the sidebar in FlatPress v.804.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Google Webmaster Site Verification
Google Webmaster Tools has a feature that allows you to add a “sitemaps.xml” file for each of your websites. To take advantage of all its features, Google requires you to verify the site is yours by either adding a specific file to your site or adding a Meta tag to your index.html.
The file verification option does not work for 110MB websites and I do not have an index.html on my FlatPress blog. I could create an index.html that contains the Meta tag and automatically forward visitors to “index.php”. However, this second option is not something I want my website visitors to endure.
After searching the FlatPress forum, I found the solution I needed. FlatPress has an easy to use user plugin named HeadStuff, which allows Meta tags to be defined. It is simple to setup and use.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
How to: Add Adsense Ads to the Footer of each Post
You have added advertisements to your sidebar but now you want to include them in the footer of each post. There are no sidebars for posts. So how to accomplish this?
It is not to difficult. You will need to update the theme itself. Yes, the theme. In addition, whenever you switch themes you will need to update the new theme as well.
