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Comment on A midsummers blogging resolution by Russell

Russell — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:11:14 +0000

Yep, started brightly then went down hill due to the wedding, honeymoon and Christmas. Excuses out the way now though, will hopefully get some posts up soon. How are you getting on?

Comment on A midsummers blogging resolution by James Alexander

James Alexander — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:01:19 +0000

At least twice every month? FAIL

Comment on jQuery $(document).ready alternatives by Russell

Russell — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:09:14 +0000

I am encouraging the guys in our team to move all the js to external files, so yeah, I am deffo in favour of that.

I have always been in the school of thought that it is prudent to have a good separation of content, style and behaviour.

I am not over zealous about enforcing this as it makes sense in some situations, such as assigning data.

One big reason I like them in a separate file is that our javascript files are consolidated and minified on the live site. Any js code which is inline will therefore not get this benefit.

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by Russell

Russell — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:51:43 +0000

Hey James, thanks for your advice.

I am going to check out that smart passive income site & look into getting some more targeted ads. I have already noticed the quality of the google ads isn’t great.

Funny you should mention Dreamhost, the one thing I don’t like about their service is their coupon/referral scheme. As a customer I always like prices to be as transparent as possible and having to trawl the internet to find the best possible coupon before I sign up doesn’t appeal.

The e-book idea is interesting, I will give that some thought.

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by JamsAlx

JamsAlx — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:24:35 +0000

If you want to get some more ideas on making money from a blog this man is the daddy: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com

You should also look at more then just the Amazon affiliate there would probably be some better more targeted ones out there for your blog. For instance 123-Reg and DreamHost do affiliates. DreamHost in particular do a great scheme where you can tailor make your own packages to offer to your readers.

The other option I think would be for you is a eBook. I’m not talking Murder Mystery but more compiling and extending out a group of blog posts that have done you well. So you could do a great one on working with jQuery.

I have read a lot on making money online and the main point I have read is, you should always start with well written quality content. You have that covered…

Comment on jQuery $(document).ready alternatives by JamsAlx

JamsAlx — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:14:44 +0000

I have been playing around with this and found that a mix of both .ready declaration and the shorthand version work best for me.

I have found that nothing good comes from moving all you JS to the bottom, always seems to break or just act strange. But have persisted where I can.

What’s your take in having no JS on a page and just a link to an external file, something I’m getting pushed to do, but I find it looses a lot of the context, when interacting with HTML elements?

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by Russell

Russell — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:26:39 +0000

@Keith OK, so I have come up with a new ad format for this blog called the Super Sliding Take Underlay, it has a massive ROI and is a web first. I just need to find someone willing to snap up this exclusive new offer.

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by Russell

Russell — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:20:54 +0000

@ScoobyFru Yep, good point. I need to decide which charity. I could put a poll on the site and let people decide – or is that a bit 90′s?

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by Keith

Keith — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:18:14 +0000

From my limited experience the best way to make money is to build an audience, make your site 100% buzzword compliant and then sell it to a big company that doesn’t really understand what they are buying.

Just saying…

Comment on How do you make money from a personal blog? by ScoobyFru

ScoobyFru — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:13:12 +0000

I think a combination of all of the above is ulitimately going to generate the maximum amount of money for the charity. I also think you need to pick a charity and state why you’ve done so. If you want people just to donate along the lines of if you find something useful here or you use at work etc please donate anything you can to said charity, it would be better if it is something close to your heart.