Quite a few people have asked me about how I hide my affiliate links (eg. Text Links Ads, Review Me, Amazon). There are many techniques out there. Most tell you to create a php file in notepad then use a header function in PHP to redirect your files and then upload that php file through FTP. That means: more files, more directories, more unorganized information, and more headache. This is way too long, confusing, and useless.
There’s a simpler way.
Most hosting companies gives you the telnet access to your site. Please consult your hosting service for this. The other way to do it is to create a file called “.htaccess” in notepad and write all your redirects and then upload the file. CAUTION: Make sure you don’t replace your currently existing “.htaccess” file. So back up the current “.htaccess” file, and then download that file, make necessary changes, then upload it back.
Here’s how I do the redirects:
- Open “.htaccess” file through telnet.
- Insert this line: Redirect /dreamhost http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?257222
That’s it! What that does now is, once you type: http://deafmusician.com/dreamhost/, it will redirect it to the URL next to the directory name. Make sure you have a full understanding of “.htaccess” files before you proceed, I am not responsible for any mistakes you might make. Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions.
There’s also a plug-in that can do this.
When you’re designing a website, you really don’t have much space to put all the information. Sometimes not enough, sometimes too much. When the web designers don’t have enough to put on the site, they slap the header with a pretty picture, and when they have too much information, they cram everything on the first third of the page. Your job as a webmaster is to decide what things go where. Now, this concept isn’t new, but by the end of this article, you’ll have a better understanding of how to organize information. You have to find out the most important content vs the least important content, and then divide that information into 4 parts:
Continue Reading: Don’t Waste Space On Your Website
There’s a great amount of information transferred over in the Digg “tubes” every nanosecond. There were thousands of stories submitted on the new iPod line up. The most funny thing was that not a single entry made it to the front page about the release of Microsoft Silverlight. Entire Digg was full of Apple stories. Sometimes it just feels like Digg has so much information control, we only hear what we’re told. Take a look at this top 10 list for today, 70% of Top 10 was full of Apple stories:
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Do the websites of 2008 presidential candidates have a strong message to portray? Let’s examine the websites of our top presidential candidates. Things I look for are the most common things an average person is looking for on a potential presidential candidate. I look for things like, “Where / How can I contribute?”, “What are your views on different issues?”, “What’s new?”, “Where are you going next?” and things of that nature. So, I decided to run this analysis on the top six candidates (sorted by the total amount raised in donations and expenditures).
Continue Reading: The Websites of the 2008 Presidential Candidates
We’ve all been to one, your university’s website, or some government agency’s website, we’ve all been to .edu and .gov websites. And to simply put it, we can never find the information we’re looking for. It’s not as much as user’s fault as it is the webmaster’s fault. Here are three reasons why I think the EDU and GOV websites suck.
Continue Reading: Three Reasons Why EDU and GOV Websites Suck
