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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Monday, June 9, 2008
Six Free Contact Page Providers
A contact page offers website visitors the opportunity to send the site owner an e-mail without the owner publishing their e-mail address. This help protects owners from being spammed.
The contact form that comes with FlatPress requires the function mail()/sendmail to be enabled. The function SMTP/FSocketOpen is not supported by FlatPress. If the mail() function is not an option, you can use a free contact page provider. These providers host your contact page on their site. All you have to do is add the link to your blog site.
This post identifies six free contact page providers. Each is different in their features and how they support multiple websites. They all seem to provide sufficient protection against SPAM. So far I have not received any spam from any of them.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Enhancing Your FlatPress RSS Feed with Feedburner
The FlatPress Blog Engine comes with an active RSS feed used to automatically publish new posts to subscribers of your web site. Many new browsers such as Firefox and Opera provide direct support for this feed. To view this sites feed, click on http://flatpress.110mb.com/rss.php. However, some visitors may wish to subscribe to your site using My Yahoo portal or another RSS reader. This maybe difficult for some potential subscribers.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
How to: Add a PayPal Donate Button
You’ve seen it on a few web sites, a PayPal donate button. If you ever click on one, you will see it provides a means to contribute $$$ to the web site owner from your PayPal account or credit card. It is optional and is intended as a means to show your appreciation for the benefit you have received from the software and web content of the web site.
Adding such a button to a Flatpress Blog site is simple.
