New Domain I has finally occurred to me that I should have gotten my own domain name a long time ago. Really, I don’t know what I was waiting for, but it was about time. Since my focus is Web 2.0, WebDevelopment2.com was an obvious choice. I’ve already written about moving wordpress to a different domain, so moving to this domain was walk in the park. I loaded up PhpMyAdmin and exported my database.

Here’s a quick tip for today: Interlink Your Posts: aLinks Plugin

After reading this post, I have come to the conclusion that Web Developers can learn a lot from this. I cannot over stress the importance of number seven (7) and eight (8): Everyone suggests researching webhosting companies, but for your first year, just use a web host that can get the job done. I use Dreamhost, and its fine except for the 20,000+ visit days … If youre serious about your site, get your own domain name that somewhat relates to your topic (obviously cleverdude.

OK, now this is really cool. If you ask me it’s a beautiful use of AJAX. Pick a category Search Click on an item and get a pop up with details Click and Drag items to the shopping cart on the right Yep, that’s it. The name fits great. There is absolutely none of the clutter that you get from Amazon’s main website. This site deserves a lot more than what it’s getting right now.

Now, I’m going to be deliberately vague because I don’t to give this blogger any traffic. This is what happened. I developed a new a interest lately. As a result, I was looking for a blog that I could use as a reference. All my searches returned this one blog. The name of the blog was specific to the actual topic. I went on the blog and to my dismay, I saw post after post which looked like emails from a mailing list.

Now there’s a lot of code involved and the menu created doesn’t really fit normal usability standards, but the end result is cool. Happy July 4th to all you guys. Source: Accessible expanding and collapsing menu [456 Berea Street]

We have another member of the Get Paid To Blog family: Bloggerwave. How does Bloggerwave differ? Well, not by much, but they are still a great service. You sign up and wait 72 hours until your blog is approved. After this, you log on and log for opportunities. Then you just blog your heart away as you usually do. Posts must stay up for at least 30 days, they have to be relevant, etc.

For WYSIWYG editing nothing is better than Dreamweaver. A lot of people will disagree but I don’t care :). Dreamweaver has served me well for a number of years. Every time I had a web project to do, I made sure to set apart a certain amount for development tools. These included Macromedia (haven’t upgraded since Adobe bought them) Dreamweaver, Flash and a very old version of Photoshop 7.0 that still does tons more than I need.

Almost two months ago I mentioned that I was looking into some PHP Frameworks I must say, that I’ve procrastinated with the whole thing. Since then I’ve caught up on a few. A friend of mine tried introducing me to Code Igniter framework. I didn’t really get a good feel for it. He mentioned that it was more powerful and flexible, but I’m lazy, so I was looking for a lazy man PHP Framework.

Ok, This weekend has been kind of rough in terms of information. I’ve been playing with a lot of new toys (CakePHP, AutoHotKey, ScriptALicious) so my brain is kind of fried right now. I promise, I’ll report when I sort things out.