Back in action

Well its taken a few days but I am back in action.

Although I didn’t see eye to eye with the hosting company on every issue they have, in my eyes, done a decent job of resolving the issue and getting the account back active. Asked me what they were like while my site was still down and I’d have probably had a different opinion of them.

Water under the bridge now, and I guess the very basic look means two things -

  • I need to write a blog post about how to back up a wordpress blog (after I have found out how to, properly).
  • I get to look at loading up a different template.

Its good to be back!

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Rate your web hosting

Finding a great web host is one of the most important parts of having a web site up on the internet. Whether this be a personal site or a business site, the hosting of the site is the more crucial part. If something goes wrong there then things are only going to get worse.

Hosting companies can be judged on % up time, but for me getting a review or comments from people using the service is the best way to go. Over at webhostingrating.com they have given hosting rating’s to a number of hosts and these can be seen on the site. They also have a top 10 table which compares the price (a very important part for most of us), space given and traffic capacity to is it easy to see which ones meet your requirements. There are also links to reviews which are very handy indeed.


Not only does the site offer fantastic reviews of the different web hosting services but their article section is crammed with useful information like the Understanding Ruby on Rails article I found whilst browsing through.

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Earning as a blogger

Initially this blog was set up as a sort of side project to my studies in web design and my uni course. I adapted the blog to be a sort of self resource of material I covered in different module in uni and used it to advance my skills and learn more about blogging and the wordpress cms. As I spent time on the internet looking into different things to do with blogging, one theme was always not far away. Earning money from blogging. This combined with a little SEO and Internet Marketing caught my attention. I am a student at the end of the day.

In the past few months since breaking up from Uni I have been trying a few different ways to earn money on this blog and a couple of others I have. One thing I thought would be a huge problem was not having google page rank. Although this mind have hindered the amount slightly I found that it is still possible to earn money from a PR 0 blog. So here’s how I’ve done:

Money Earned from my blogs: $523.18
Money Earned Online (not from sites): $200+ (round about $200)

That’s over $700. I started my blog in February which makes an average of over $100 per month. Less was obviously earned at the beginning and more in the more recent months. Now this is no amount to get overly excited about, I would need more than that per month before I could even consider doing it full time. But there is hope.

I have a few other new ideas that I’m hoping will start to earn money in a more unconventional way and will look to try new ideas. If you have any suggestions or questions just ask below.

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Sproutwell anyone?





I’ve just found this clip that is hosted on youtube. I will have to learn some animation or at least a little more about creating videos and get some stuff up myself as it is a great method to attract potential customers to your web site. Anyway I enjoyed this episode of the spoutwells, I loved the dog, Fido I think it is. I really like the look of the dog and it was this that got me to watch the video. I also liked the “human control” comment. I can think of plenty of people I know they could have a word with.

The sproutwells look like your average fruit and veg family but something is a miss, packages keep turning up at their door. Something to do with Freshfunds.com

Sponsored by Fresh Funds

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Great contest!

Following the success of my last contest win and the free advertising from I want a Volkswagen Bus I have come across the following competition at one of my regular daily visits - Geek Mom Mashup. The prize this time is advertising on all of the following sites.



Now thats one great prize, why not head on over and enter the contest yourself?

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