Upgraded to WP 2.7 and Have Problems With Weird Characters?
I just upgraded my blog to WP 2.7 and had all sorts of weird characters everywhere. I searched around and found a fix. The problem can be fixed on your wp-config file. Here’s a picture to illustrate:
When I opened up the config file the line that says define (’DB_Collate’, ‘ utf8′); was left blank I changed it o utf8. I got the answer from reading this post.
Gimp Rocks!
I’ve always been the penny pinching type. If you are like me, you wouldn’t pay$700+ for Photo Shop even if you have the money to throw at it. I do most if not all of my website designing with a free program called Gimp. For me, Gimp gets the job done. I recently figured out that the newest version of Gimp allows you to use Photo Shop brushes as long as they are in an abr format. This has opened up a huge window of opportunity. Before, you could only use brushes that people converted over to Gimp brushes. I would see brush sets and wish someone would convert them over to Gimp. Now I can grab just about any Photo Shop brush and use it. Here’s a sample header (Feel free to use it if you like it.) that I slapped together real quick using Gimp with Photo Shop brushes.
You can find Gimp and Photo Shop brushes at Diviantart.com. I would recommend all low budget designers to give Gimp a whirl.
I Sold My Baby
You might have read the headline and thought I was the scum of the earth. I sold my website that was making me $xx,xxx a year. You may be asking why in the world did you sell a site that was making you a 5 figure income?
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It’s Been Forever and Ever
It has been a long time since I posted. Here’s an update of what I’ve been doing:
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Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook Review
The more that I play this internet game the more I see affiliate marketing is the way to go. With affiliate marketing, you don’t have to deal with customers. You don’t have to make quotes, email receipts, or answer phones. The thing about having an ecommerce type site is you really become slave to your customer. I’m very service oriented so if a customer calls in and needs a quote, I hop to it right away. If your business is open from 9 to 5, then you have to be ready and willing to serve your customers from 9 to 5. You can’t just tell a customer, “Can I call you back in about two hours? My friends and I are trying to finish a round of golf at the moment.”
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Color Coordinating Challenging to You?
I really hope none of you are like me. I have to ask my wife a million times what pants go with what shirts. My two year old son can pick out what clothes he wants to wear, and guess what? It matches. My two year old son knows what colors coordinate and I still can’t seem to figure it out.
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I Made $50 Today Off Ebay
I have a BANS site that I started that sells big ticket items. I didn’t do any link building at all for the site. And I’m using one of the default BANS templates. Some how search engines found me. I was quite surprised when I saw which site sale came from.
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CS Cart Review
In my last post I gave a review of the open source Magento cart. CS Cart is a paid cart. It costs $200. In my opinion, it worth a lot more than $200. I have an ecommerce site that has been in bad need of an upgrade. One of my greatest fears, was if I upgraded to a different cart, my urls would change and then I would lose traffic. Well, I found CS Cart.
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My Magento Commerce Review
I’ve been looking around for a shopping cart that fits my needs. I like free stuff so I generally search for open source products before I search for paid products. I’ve played around a lot with OScommerce and stumbled across Magento Commerce a while back. This is what I think about Magento:
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Don’t You Hate It When You Can’t Sleep?
I was sleeping just fine tonight until my son woke up crying. He’s two years old. He woke up because he was cold. I went in his room and put a sweat shirt on him and then covered him back up. I tried to go back to sleep, then my mind started working like it does. I lose so much sleep just because my mind won’t shut off! Does anyone else have this problem? What do you do to go sleep? I’ve found that if I listen to my ipod that it usually puts me to sleep, but sometimes that doesn’t even help. 
