Comments for Web Development Blog http://www.web-development-blog.com Read about Website Development, Online Marketing and Web Hosting Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Hide Adsense Ads for specific countries by Olaf http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/hide-adsense-ads/#comment-147058 Olaf Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:41:39 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=2491#comment-147058 haha, you spent a day.... (I stopped trying after 1-2 hours) But you're right it's much better to use some hosted ad-server application that using some home-made solution. If you have several ad publishing partners DFP is the application you need. The reason that I published this tutorial was that there are a lot of people searching for this kind of solution (check how many people having problems to get access to DFP) Thanks for the link! haha, you spent a day…. (I stopped trying after 1-2 hours)

But you’re right it’s much better to use some hosted ad-server application that using some home-made solution. If you have several ad publishing partners DFP is the application you need.
The reason that I published this tutorial was that there are a lot of people searching for this kind of solution (check how many people having problems to get access to DFP)

Thanks for the link!

]]> Comment on Hide Adsense Ads for specific countries by Sarangan http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/hide-adsense-ads/#comment-147057 Sarangan Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:33:07 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=2491#comment-147057 Oh yes. Sorry, I didn't noticed that. :-) Yeah you're right that it takes some time to learn how DFP works, I think I spent a whole day to find it out. :-) GeoIP is may be easy but it uses our own server resources to find out which country every visitor comes from. Here are some usefull video tutorials by Google: http://www.youtube.com/dfp It takes sometime to understand what Ad unit, Placement and Orders are. If you understand those 3 terms, then everything will be easy. Oh yes. Sorry, I didn’t noticed that. :-)
Yeah you’re right that it takes some time to learn how DFP works, I think I spent a whole day to find it out. :-) GeoIP is may be easy but it uses our own server resources to find out which country every visitor comes from.

Here are some usefull video tutorials by Google:
http://www.youtube.com/dfp

It takes sometime to understand what Ad unit, Placement and Orders are. If you understand those 3 terms, then everything will be easy.

]]> Comment on Hide Adsense Ads for specific countries by Olaf http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/hide-adsense-ads/#comment-147055 Olaf Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:20:12 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=2491#comment-147055 Hi Sarangan, this is what I mentioned in my second paragraph ;) I don't think it's the easiest way because the setup is not so straight forward. For me as a web developer it's much easier to use a tool like GeoIP. Do you know a great resource which leads to the "target" in DFP? Hi Sarangan,
this is what I mentioned in my second paragraph ;)
I don’t think it’s the easiest way because the setup is not so straight forward. For me as a web developer it’s much easier to use a tool like GeoIP. Do you know a great resource which leads to the “target” in DFP?

]]> Comment on Hide Adsense Ads for specific countries by Sarangan http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/hide-adsense-ads/#comment-147054 Sarangan Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:57:11 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=2491#comment-147054 The easiest way to hide Adsense for some countries, is use Google Admanager for small business which is free hosted solution. :-) The easiest way to hide Adsense for some countries, is use Google Admanager for small business which is free hosted solution. :-)

]]> Comment on Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Olaf Lederer http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/customizing-the-yet-another-related-posts-plugin/#comment-147005 Olaf Lederer Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:51:11 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=1907#comment-147005 Hi Jim, great that it work for you. If you like to trace the "bullet" problem, inspect the code using Google Chrome. This browser has tools to show which CSS code is used for a specific element. Hi Jim, great that it work for you. If you like to trace the “bullet” problem, inspect the code using Google Chrome. This browser has tools to show which CSS code is used for a specific element.

]]> Comment on Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Jim http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/customizing-the-yet-another-related-posts-plugin/#comment-147004 Jim Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:42:29 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=1907#comment-147004 Well, it still doesn't look as good as yours, but it's good enough. I manged to get rid of the long post excerpts by adding your extra bit of code. And no matter what I did, I could not get rid of the bullets while using UL, but when I changed the code and CSS to OL rather than UL, it worked fine. Not sure what the heck was going on... probably some random conflict, but at least I got rid of the stupid bullets. Thanks! Well, it still doesn’t look as good as yours, but it’s good enough. I manged to get rid of the long post excerpts by adding your extra bit of code. And no matter what I did, I could not get rid of the bullets while using UL, but when I changed the code and CSS to OL rather than UL, it worked fine. Not sure what the heck was going on… probably some random conflict, but at least I got rid of the stupid bullets. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Jim http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/customizing-the-yet-another-related-posts-plugin/#comment-147003 Jim Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:08:14 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=1907#comment-147003 thanks a lot! I'll play around a bit more and let ya know how it goes! thanks a lot! I’ll play around a bit more and let ya know how it goes!

]]> Comment on Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Olaf http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/customizing-the-yet-another-related-posts-plugin/#comment-147001 Olaf Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:45:47 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=1907#comment-147001 Hi Jim, Check the stylesheet I'm using for my site, it's maybe a little bit "trial and run". For your bullets, I think you need to overrule previous styles (use an ID for the UL element). Right my snippet is a little bit different than the code used in my tutorial: http://pastebin.com/rXTakwyL Inside the code I'm using a custom function called "create_short_version()", you can find it <a href="http://www.finalwebsites.com/blog/php-code-snippets/shorten-text-values/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hi Jim,
Check the stylesheet I’m using for my site, it’s maybe a little bit “trial and run”. For your bullets, I think you need to overrule previous styles (use an ID for the UL element).
Right my snippet is a little bit different than the code used in my tutorial: http://pastebin.com/rXTakwyL
Inside the code I’m using a custom function called “create_short_version()”, you can find it here.

]]> Comment on Customizing the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin by Jim http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/customizing-the-yet-another-related-posts-plugin/#comment-146999 Jim Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:22:25 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/?p=1907#comment-146999 Thanks for such detailed instructions. It's really helped me out. I have a few questions though. I REALLY like how the related posts are displayed on this website, with it being 2 columns. Any chance of explaining how that's done? Also, for some reason I have 2 odd things happening when I follow the exact steps above. One, I'm seeing bullets next to each thumbnail. I added the "list-style-type:none" and every alternative I could find, but I can't manage to get rid of them. Also, the 15 word post excerpt is only working for the first post listing. After that, it shows full length. Any idea why that might be happening? Thanks for such detailed instructions. It’s really helped me out. I have a few questions though. I REALLY like how the related posts are displayed on this website, with it being 2 columns. Any chance of explaining how that’s done?
Also, for some reason I have 2 odd things happening when I follow the exact steps above. One, I’m seeing bullets next to each thumbnail. I added the “list-style-type:none” and every alternative I could find, but I can’t manage to get rid of them. Also, the 15 word post excerpt is only working for the first post listing. After that, it shows full length. Any idea why that might be happening?

]]> Comment on Dynamic thumbnails from websites by Olaf Lederer http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/dynamic-thumbnails-from-websites/#comment-146982 Olaf Lederer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:11:44 +0000 http://www.web-development-blog.com/archives/dynamic-thumbnails-from-websites/#comment-146982 Girafa has closed their doors in 2011, Try http://www.shrinktheweb.com/ They offer also free plans and provide also some API system. Girafa has closed their doors in 2011, Try http://www.shrinktheweb.com/
They offer also free plans and provide also some API system.

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