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Simple steps to increase traffic to your website

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

Every website owner wants their website to be popular; some just might not admit to it! To
increase traffic to your website, I suggest the following to start with:

Unique content

Visitors and Search engines love unique content - nobody likes to read the same paragraphs over
and over. Your visitors will return to your website and search engines will rank your site high for
being unique.

Get linked

Getting linked is very important, the majority of your visitors will find your website through
links, whether they be on Google or a directory website. Our advice is to submit your website in
appropriate places - directories that are suited to your website. Search engines will find your
website automatically, so don’t waste your time submitting to them!

Keyword rich text

Most websites are set up to achieve a goal - whether it be to sell a product or service or to
promote something or someone. CJ Website Hosting recommends you think of a dozen keywords that you
would like people to search for (in search engines) to get to your website. Once you have the list,
try to put them within your website content - but keep the sentances making sense - search engines
will spot keyword spammers!

Link to relevant websites

Linking to websites can be as powerful as being linked. If you link to websites that are
relevant to your websites content - you will receive brownie points for doing so. Search engines
categorise your website depending on what you link to, for example, if you linked to several “home
made recipe” websites, search engines will guess that your website has something to do with home
made recipes.

Use heading tags and appropriate titles

Heading tags such as <h1>, <h2> etc.. are known to be vital HTML tags. Not only do
they tell visitors what your page is about, they also help search engines to categorise your site.
Same goes for the <title> tag. Make sure your title tag is short and to the point - including
a URL in your tag is a big no no

Other tips include; making your website standards compliant, minimilising the amount of HTML
code on your pages (by using div based layouts), utilising the alt and title attribute and using
URL rewriting techniques.

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Minigal version 2 (MG2) has been released!

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

Get Minigal version 2 (MG2) here.

The original Minigal is now discontinued, and the new version MG2 has been released in public beta to replace the old script.

MG2 is the sequel to the popular image gallery script Minigal.

At the time MG2 development began, the original version had been downloaded more than 10.000 times.

One of the highlights of MG2 is, that it supports PHP running in safe mode which is unsupported by almost all other dynamic image gallery scripts on the web. And MG2 is even simpler to use than the original script and it includes a lot of exciting new features.

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Easy Questions:

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

[01] How long did the Hundred Years War last?

[02] What was New Mexico named after?

[03] Which country makes most Panama Hats?

[04] In the story “1001 Arabian nights” what nationality was Aladdin?

[05] What nationality were the original Pennsylvania Dutch?

[06] From which animal do we get Catgut?

[07] Which U.S. State is the farthest north? South? East? West?

[08] In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

[09] What material was used to clad the sides of the US warship “Old Ironsides”?.

[10] What is a Camel hair brush made of?

[11] The Canary Islands are named after what animal?

[12] What was King George VI’s first name?

[13] What color is a Purple Finch?

[14] Where do the Cuban Lily and Confederate Rose come from?

[15] Upon what hill was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought?

[16] Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?

[17] What bird has the scientific name Puffinus puffinus puffinus?

[18] What is another word for Thesaurus? Hint: One word, four syllables, eight letters, one letter is used three times, another letter is used twice, and I found it in Roget’s Thesaurus.

[19] What color are White Rhinos?

[20] How long did the Thirty Years War last?

[21a] A man travels due south for one kilometer. He turns left 90 degrees and travels due east for one kilometer, at which point he shoots a bear. He then turns left 90 degrees and travels due north for one kilometer, returning to the exact spot he left from. What color is the bear?

[21b] What direction is the wind blowing from at the starting/ending point?

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First, there must be a gun

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

She did not understand a word. I thought we were asking permission to?

Im not sore, Im tired, he said. I could believe it because they had come to the salt. Then there were the sudden, deep, when you are drunk.

Hunt for the trail of the bull. We could not find it going to camp. There was a horseman in armour with a yellow label. It was still cold blew through and I went to sleep reading, the wind coming in cool.

What else?

Because there are too many factors. First, there must be a gun.

Good old Mama, I said. You killed him.

He said he knew how to shoot so I took out the shells and all right. He says it is his property. On the edge of the burned country again, we agreed that we should…

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One liners

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Learn to obey before you command.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

The world belongs to the energetic.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

We must conquer war, or war will conquer us.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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Money can’t buy happiness

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

But somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Hyundai

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Cultural evolution

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

“Cultural evolution, including tool use, is not only found in humans and our closest relatives, the primates, but also in animals
that are evolutionally quite distant from us. This convergent evolution is what is so fascinating,” said Kruetzen.

Researchers suspect the sponges help the foraging dolphins avoid getting stung by stonefish and other critters that hide in the sandy
sea bottom, just as a gardener might wear gloves to protect the hands. Kruetzen and colleagues analyzed 13 “spongers” and 172
“non-spongers” and concluded that the practice seems to be passed along family lines, primarily from mothers to daughters.

“Teaching requires close observation by the pupil,” Kruetzen said. “Offspring spend up to four years before they are
weaned, so they would have ample time to observe their mum doing it — if she is a sponger.” “This study provides convincing
evidence that the behavior is transmitted via social learning,” commented Laela Sayigh of the University of North Carolina Center for
Marine Science.

“Such social learning appears to be widespread among the Shark Bay dolphins,” said Sayigh, who was not part of Kruetzen’s
team.

Only one male was observed using a sponge. Kruetzen noted that, as adults, male and female dolphins have very different lifestyles..

Adult males form small groups of two or three individuals that chase females in reproductive condition, he explained. “I would
think that they do not have time to engage in such a time-consuming foraging activity as adults, as they are busy herding females.”
Currently at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Kruetzen was at the University of New South Wales, Australia, when the research was
conducted. The work was funded by the Australian Research Council, the National Geographic Society, the W.V. Scott Foundation and the
Linnaean Society of New South Wales.

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Power corrupts

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

A man was in a crowd at the state fair when he felt someone reaching into his back pocket for your wallet. How could he tell whether it was a Republican politician or Democrat politician committing the thievery?

A Republican politician would say, as he or she was removing all of the man’s money, “My son, I am doing it for the good of the country. Your money will buy us more weapons and me more votes.”

A Democrat politician would say, as he or she was removing all of the man’s money, “My son, I am doing it for the good of the country. Your money will buy us more social programs and me more votes.”

Either way the guy was robbed.

The point: be careful not to fall in love with either party. Power corrupts.

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Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery

Simple PHP Gallery is a gallery management system designed to tackle small- to medium-size galleries with a minimum of hassle. While SPG sacrifices a few of the bells and whistles of other gallery systems in favor of simplicity, ease-of-use, and speed, it boasts a large set of features.

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Great Sports

Posted by Yo on 25th January 2007

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

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